Donic ‘Whiper’ series, released in 2024, is the fiber blade family with the concept of providing professional-level performance at a reasonable price. It consists of two variations using a new artificial material called ‘Hyramid Carbon’. The two products are distinguished by the location of the artificial material – outer and inner. The outer version which has artificial material placed directly under the top layer is ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’, and the inner version which has artificial material placed between the middle layer and the center layer is ‘Whiper Inner Carbon’.

Between two variations, ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ which is an outer-type fiber blade is faster than the inner version – ‘Whiper Inner Carbon’. But it still provides sufficient control. ‘Whipper Outer Carbon’ fits for active playing styles, and Donic is recommending ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ for the aggressive players who want to take the initiative as quickly as possible and attack with force.

As its name expresses, ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ is the ‘outer version’ of ‘Whipper’ series. Between two models of ‘Whiper’ series, ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ is more biased to power.

The construction of ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ is an ‘outer-type’ construction. The top layer is Limba, the middle layer is Ayous, and the center layer is Kiri. Hyramid Carbon, which is the mixed woven of Hyramid fiber (= a kind of aramid fiber0 and carbon fiber, is inserted directly under the top layer. Overall thickness is around 5.7mm. (It is actually measured value. The official thickness is also 5.7 mm.)

The size of head is around 157mm x 150mm which is the common head size of most of recent offensive blades.

The shape of FL (flared) handle is close to semi-wide type, but it doesn’t feel wide in the hand. The width of FL (flared) handle is around 24mm (at head side) ~ 27.5 mm (at bulge) ~ 26mm (at narrowest point) ~ 33mm (at the end). And, the thickness of FL handle is around 22.5mm (at thumb) ~ 25mm (at the end). The size of ST hasn’t been measured yet.

On the foreside of head, the product name is printed at the center. Below that the name of artificial material, the construction and the recommended playing styles (= OFF/OFF+) are indicated. Donic doesn’t use the signs such as ALL+ or OFF- for expressing speed level but for indicating the recommended playing style. ‘ALL-‘ means the all-round style which is more aggressive than classic all-round style, ‘OFF-‘ means continuous offensive style which lays emphasis on the safety, and ‘OFF’ means ordinary offensive play which is more aggressive than OFF-. If the blade fits for very aggressive playing style, it is indicated as ‘OFF+’.

At the foreside of handle, transparent plastic lens of ordinary shape is applied. Donic logo and the product name are printed in the lens. This type of lens and the layout of inside printing have been applied for most of Donic blades since late 1990’s.

Squared aluminum plate with Donic logo is applied at the end of handle. The text in the end plate is current slogan of Donic – “Donic create(s) success.”

Nothing is printed on the backside of head, other than the country of origin (= Taiwan) notation at the bottom.

Donic ‘Whiper’ series is the high cost-performance blade family with the concept of providing professional-level performance at a reasonable price. Two variations –outer-type and inner-type – are available. Left is ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ which has artificial material directly under its top layer, and right is ‘Whiper Inner Carbon’ which has artificial material between its middle layer and center layer.

‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ (left) and ‘Whiper Inner Carbon’ (right) share the basic plywood construction (before inserting artificial material), and are distinguished by each other just by the position of artificial fibers.

The theme colors are blue for ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ and red for ‘Whiper Inner Carbon’.

The base color of handle of ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ is dark gray, and lines with yellow color and theme color (= sky blue) makes soft contrast.

‘Whiper Inner Carbon’ is the blade developed in Germany and produced in Taiwan.

Donic is a top European maker which has provided rubber and blades to many top players for long time, winning many big titles including 17 WTTC titles. The box of ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ displays the slogan ‘DONIC CREATE SUCCESS’ along with the number of big titles won by players who have used Donic products.

‘Whiper Outer Carbon’ is an outer-type fiber blade which is developed for power-oriented players. Its elasticity level is very high, and it doesn’t hug the ball deeply when the player hits the ball strongly. Therefore, it exhibits high speed of ball both in the topspin from mid-range area and in the smash at close-to-table area. The players who want to play with powerful attack from all positions of court will like ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’. It can be recommended for all players who lay emphasis on power and speed. (But, TTGearLab doesn’t recommend it for the players who play with very aggressive topspin that aims at the early timing after the bounce.) Reasonable price is another advantage of ‘Whiper Outer Carbon’. .

Following are the performance indices of Whiper Outer Carbon (avg.weight = 84.1) :

– Ep = 2.03

– Ec = 1.97 (Ec/Ep = 0.97)

– Vp = 1.37

– Vl = 1.36 (Vl/Vp = 0.99)

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


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