Palio Expert 3.0 Table Tennis Bat & Case | ITTF Approved High-Performance Ping Pong Racket for Beginners | Maximum Spin & Control

No proper finising as gluing is not properly done. Particularly the edges of the rubber not properly glued...

I bought these as a gift for my husband and he absolutely loves them! They have the right amount of grip to learn how to spin the ball well. The weight and thickness makes them really nice to play with. I feel like I have more control with these paddles than our cheaper paddles that we have. These are great beginners paddles for the price! My husband and I use them every day!

Excellent, not too fast, good choice for a beginner.

Fast delivery and also the racket itself is amazing!

I am a table tennis player with a 1300 rating (after 9 months of play, out of 3000) at USATT, and I bought this racket for when I play with beginners, and also for me to practice technique. I usually play with a Yasaka Battle Balsa racket with Rakza 7 Soft / Rakza PO rubbers. I was very impressed with the quality of this Palio racket. It came with protective plastic sheets over the rubbers. The handle is very comfortable (flared). As I do with all my rackets, I used grade 50 sandpaper to round off the edges of the blade to accomodate my sensitive office worker hands. I then used grade 400 sandpaper to smooth the handle and then I used Walmart MINWAX polyurethane clear satin varnish to make the racket look beautiful even after playing with my usually sweaty hands (see photo). Most table tennis rackets come with sharp(er) edges so I just give this option for people who like more comfort. The "speed" or hardness of the wood blade is usually expressed using a scale of 0-100, or the DEF/DEF+/ALL-/ALL/ALL+/OFF-/OFF/OFF+ scale where "DEF" is a racket for defensive players (softer wood, slower bounce) up to OFF+ which is a racket for offensive players (hard top wood, fast bounce, difficult to control shots). On this scale I would rate this racket an ALL-. The rubbers on both sides are fairly "spinny", so one can impart a lot of rotation in addition to speed to the ball. They are not too different from the Rakza 7 Soft I am usually playing (both having a soft sponge), i.e., serves look the same with respect to the curve of the ball which changes with rotation (spin) on the ball. This racket makes it easy to control the ball which is good for beginners. I could easily do all the strokes even against strong top spin. Note that ALL- doesn't mean the shots are slow, with the correct technique one can do loop kill shots just like with an aggressive paddle, with a bit more effort. Conversely, doing defensive strokes such as push or block is very easy with this racket. In summary, this is a surprisingly great racket for the $40 price for beginners for the first year. In addition, watch the Youtube videos from yangyang TT to start with the correct technique and you will be a table tennis pro in no time.

Soy de nivel principiante y elegí esta raqueta después de leer las muchas y buenas críticas que tiene . Lo primero que llama la atención es lo "pegajosa" que es la goma lo que hace que los efectos salgan sin demasiado esfuerzo. Si tu gesto técnico es adecuado la raqueta responde bien. Además no anda sobrada de velocidad lo que ayuda a controlar el golpe en situaciones más comprometidas. Esta falta de velocidad es lo que hará que la cambie en cuanto domine mejor la técnica. Muy recomendable como raqueta de iniciación.