11 Reviews for Donic Alligator Combi

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on August 2, 2024

My current blade. I use Butterfly Impartial XS short pips (2.1mm) on forehand and Donic Piranja long pips (1.2mm) on backhand. Control and feeling on forehand are both nothing to complain about, they fit the short pips very well. Same with the long pips on backhand. Hence it's a combi blade the speed differs on the two sides, so that's hard to rate but so far no complaints. This blade fits my current playstyle very well. This blade is extremely light, as is the usual case with balsa blades. It's great price/quality ratio (I got it for 40).

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on May 16, 2023

Very fast blade, it says it's defensive/allround but for me it seems offensive with medium control.
I play with stiga allroud classic, and Donic Alligator is much faster even on the backhand side.
Good back up blade to effort the control ahd accuracy! Good price for it's quality of combi blade!

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on November 25, 2019

Great blade at a good price. Lightweight blade with small vibrations, allows you too make controllable loops and topspins. The difference between both sides is slightly noticeable. The only thing i didn't like was both outer plies are very thin but i guess that makes it controllable. I suggest always use a fast high quality rubber on the ALL+ side, and experiment all you like with the DEF+ side.

edit: the quality is not good since the balsa core is flimsy and snapped easily (verified by a couple of users in other forums)

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on February 4, 2018

Great blade i have bluefire m1with and spinlord dornenglanz ox.Good for flat hit or smash Great control and when you miss you know that is your fault.Good balsa for long pips is not too fast, on forehand you must have fast rubber and combination will be great

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on December 24, 2016

I am a modern defense player who likes to chop backhand and loop/drive forehand. This is a very light blade and the forehand side is pretty fast for a defensive blade as long as you throw some fast rubber on it(Faster than Donic Defplay Senso). The backhand side just feels like any other defensive blade and it is easy to control. Overall it is a pretty solid modern defensive weapon if you want to play with a lighter blade.

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on September 17, 2016

My best table tennis friend over the last five years. Versatile blade with tremendous control. Backhand side is great for long pips, anti or thin inverted for cutting. Forehand side has enough speed, great for flat hitting and blocking but only decent for looping. Straight handle is too thick. I had four blades till now and noticed significant difference (in speed) between them which is not a good thing for Donic. Otherwise the blade is great.

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on August 2, 2016

Very control and very slow defensive blade.
FH side slightly faster then BH side, but anyway, its classic DEF blade, not for modern defenders.
For example, Tibhar STRATUS POWER DEFENSE or Butterfly JSH blades are much faster.

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on November 1, 2014

The best blade to play modern defense by far! The DEF side is pure control with high consistency. With the ALL+ side you can get a lot of variations (chop, loop, smash, etc.) and very .
good control
This blade is my dream come true. I always wanted to get a Donic Carvokev and had to wait 10 years to get a Combi Blade!

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on November 9, 2013

Almost the same characteristics as the Hallmark Aurora, but a bit slower. Aurora has, however, a bit better control. All in all a good bat but prefers Hallmark Aurora.
Speed BH 4/10 Forehand 6,5/10

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on November 3, 2013

Great bat! I twiddle with Nittaku Best anti-spin on the defensive side and Xiom Vega Europa on the offensive side.
Previously I had used defensive bats and sacrificed some hitting power with the Xiom. This bat solved that trade-off. The defensive side of the Alligator is a little faster than the defensive bats I used, so I switched from Butterfly Super Anti to Nittaku Best Anti and now the world is a bright happy place.

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External Review for Donic Alligator Combi on June 13, 2012

hard to rate this blade in terms of speed and control since it is different on each side of the blade. i play modern defence with this and i am pleasantly surprised by the combination of the blade, faster on one side and slower on the other. much cheaper than Dr N's combination blades

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