About me
Canoki table tennis paddle
Ed Schum
Canoki table tennis paddle
I started playing table tennis as a boy in Austria over 60 years ago. I am a skilled craftsman (at least some people say so) and have devoted most of my life and businesses to serving sports and fitness. I came to Canada in 1965 and live now in Courtenay, BC I play and coach table tennis and have designed and hand-crafted more than 1500 specialized table tennis 5blades.
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CANOKI
Canadian Hinoki
Blades can be 3-ply, 5-ply, and 7-ply, but the most popular and highly recommended is single-ply. I can use Pine, Fir and Yellow Cedar for single-ply blades but Canadian Red Cedar – CANOKI (Canadian Hinoki – similar to the very rare and expensive Japanese Hinoki wood) is the most versatile and popular. The reasons for this are mentioned on the front page of this flyer.
I believe that too many players spend too much money on table tennis equipment that does not really help their game.
My single-ply (SP) blades suit most players well. The SP Red Cedar blade is light compared with most other blades. The softness of this wood provides excellent control. While, when swinging fast, the ball will penetrate through the rubber slightly into the blade and the elasticity of the wood acts like a trampoline shooting the ball off at high speed. The faster you swing, the higher the speed. The softness of the wood also gives the ball slightly more dwell time on the rubber, making it very effective for spinning and looping.
I make blades for Shake Hand, C-pen or J-pen players. Handles can be flared or straight. They can be made of a single piece of wood or several layers of different woods. Cork handles are also getting popular with many players as they feel soft to the hand and are quite light.
My passion is to make high quality table tennis blades available at reasonable cost to all who want to improve their game.
When players try my demo blades, most of them prefer the single-ply over the multi-ply, and the Red Cedar is by far the most popular. I found, and most of my customers agree, that these blades make relatively inexpensive rubbers play much better than they would on multi-ply blades. Multi-ply blades are made fast with several layers of wood, carbon or titanium. All these layers and particularly the glue that holds them together make the blade fast but also very hard and stiff which reduces control and it takes expensive rubbers to get some control back.
