‘Fang Bo’ series (or ‘Bo’ series) is named after Fang Bo whos is the member of Chinese Men’s Nationa Team. The blades in this series are provided in lower cost than the blade whose name includes ‘Hurricane’. (Some people are calling this series as ‘Hurricane Bo’ series.) ‘Fang Bo’ series which boasts excellent cost-performance includes one type of pure wood blade and two types of fiber blades. Among those three, the pure wood blade is ‘Fang Bo B’ which is a 7-ply wood blade. It is called also as ‘Bo 7-ply’, ‘Fang Bo B’ or ‘Fang Bo 7-ply’. Unlike two fiber blades called ‘Fang Bo B2’ and ‘Fang Bo B2X’ are lower cost version of ‘Hurricane Long 5’ and ‘Hurricane Long 5X’, ‘Fang Bo B’ has a unique 7-ply wood construction. Although it is a seven ply wood blade, it doesn’t fit for fast attack but for modern topspin. ‘Fang Bo’ can especially be recommended for players who want to replace their 5-ply wood offensive blade with more powerful blade but don’t like the feeling of fiber blade.

‘Fang Bo B (7-ply)’ is the ‘Fang Bo’ series. At the beginning, it was a single model, and there wasn’t a blade family with the name ‘Fang Bo’. Afterwards as the ALC version appeared, the existing 7-ply wood version came to be called ‘Fang Bo B’, and the new fiber blade came to be called ‘Fang Bo B2’.

Although ‘Fang Bo B’ is a 7-ply wood blade, its construction doesn’t follow the classic 7-ply wood construction of ‘Clipper’ type. The layer under its middle layer isn’t thick like that of classic construction. Instead it has additional thin layer between the middle layer and the center layer.

The shakehand handle of ‘Fang Bo B (7-ply)’ is available only in FL (flared) type. The width of FL (flared) handle is around 25mm (at head side) ~ 26mm (at bulge and at the middle of handle) ~ 35mm (at the end), and the thickness of FL handle is round 21.5mm (at thumb) ~ 25.5mm (at the end). The length is around 101mm. FL handle is quite slim at the middle of handle but not slim at the end. That is one of common characteristics of the FL handle of DHS.

The rounded lens at the end of handle shows the picture of Fang Bo.

Printing isn’t applied at the backside of head, like the foreside. However, at the backside of handle, there is the lens whose shape is same as that of the lens at foreside of handle.

Foreside lens shows the logo of DHS, and the backside lens shows logo ‘博(Bo)’. Under the Bo logo in backside lens it is written as ‘纯木(pure wood)’.

The head size is around 158mm x 150mm.

Left if ‘Fang Bo B2 (ALC)’ which is an inner ALC blade, and right is ‘Fang Bo B (7-ply)’. The graphic design of those two basically identical to each other, and we can distinguish those two only by the kind of top layer woods when we can see only the foresides of those two blades. Another model which isn’t shown in this picture is ‘Fang Bo B2X’, and it can be easily distinguished by the point color in the handle. The point color of ‘Fang Bo B2X’ isn’t light blue but light gray.

Left if the backside lens of ‘Fang Bo B2 (ALC)’ which is an inner ALC blade, and right is the backside lens ‘Fang Bo B (7-ply)’. It is written as ‘芳碳(ALC)’ in the backside lens of ‘Fang Bo B2 (ALC)’, and as ‘纯木(pure wood)’ in the backside lens of ‘Fang Bo B (7-ply)’.

‘Fang Bo’ series is a blade family that provides high performance and high quality of ‘Hurricane’ series in much lower cost. Especially its seven ply wood version – ‘Fang Bo B (7-ply)’ – can be considered as one of the representative 7-ply blades in this age, and can be recommended for the players who like pure wood blades.

Following are the performance indices of Fang Bo B (7-ply) (avg.weight = 88.4g) :

– Ep = 1.69

– Ec = 1.42 (Ec/Ep = 0.84)

– Vp = 1.14

– Vl = 1.29 (Vl/Vp = 1.13)

Please note that above are average values and can be updated by further measurement.

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