Friendship/729 Crazy Victory 2
Blade description
The Friendship/729 Crazy Victory 2 is a highly regarded table tennis blade known for its exceptional performance and versatility. Designed for players who prioritize speed and control, this blade features a unique combination of materials that cater to aggressive play styles while maintaining ease of use for advanced techniques. It has garnered praise for its ability to balance offensive gameplay with defensive capabilities, making it a suitable option for various styles of play.
Blade Composition: The Crazy Victory 2 is constructed using a high-quality wooden core, primarily featuring a combination of several layers of different woods, which enhances both its feel and performance. This wooden composition provides a fantastic touch and feedback on hits, ideal for players who like to engage in spins and tricks. The blade also incorporates some strategic layering to achieve a satisfying balance between rigidity and flex.
The weight of the Crazy Victory 2 is considered medium, making it easy to maneuver during fast exchanges while still providing sufficient mass for powerful shots. The thickness of this blade is cleverly designed to maintain both control and agility, enhancing your ability to respond to opponents’ plays efficiently. In terms of flexibility, it possesses a medium-firm flex, allowing for strong offensive strokes without losing intimacy on delicate plays, like spins and drops.
For those looking for alternatives, the Crazy Victory 2 competes strongly with other well-known blades designed for a similar playing style, such as the Butterfly Timo Boll series or the Stiga Infinity series. However, the Crazy Victory 2 stands out for its affordability and value, granting players at different levels access to high-performance characteristics without a hefty price tag.
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Recent Reviews
#1 — August 2025
Quality, thickness, and consistency are very good.
#2 — February 2025
So, it’s a Friendship version of DHS’s Long 5x, thicker core with inner carbon.
101 grams! Quality is good, the handle is good, big and thick enough. As with any Friendship blade I’ve seen, the edges are sharp and need to be sanded off. The surface is not sealed, I lacquered it.
Rubbers: Rxton III on both sides.
Speed & power: Off blade, not super fast, but not slow either.
Control: Very good!
Arc: Medium high, medium long. Great for me. I dislike very long arcs.
Drives: Average. The ball slips on the surface a bit like with any ALC blade I’ve tried. But not too bad.
Looping: Actually cool! Especially from mid-distance and far away. Easy and controlled. I think this is the strongest aspect of the blade.
Flicks (update 2025): Average. BH flicks are tiring, probably due to the blade’s weight.
Pushes: Good. I had some pushes that were higher than expected initially. But that went away as I was getting used to the blade.
Other peculiarities: It requires a more closed racket angle when countering topspins. With a more open racket, the incoming ball too easily jumps off the racket edge.
Final thoughts (update 2025): A training blade for me due to weight.
P.S. The Rage series from Friendship/729 has an outer carbon blade. Because of this blade, I’m now very tempted to try the outer carbon version. (Update 2025) The outer carbon blade won for me.
P.S.1 (2025) I now have H3Neo on both sides, and the blade becomes heavy, slow, and more difficult to use. It has power and spin on bigger swings. But I don’t have that much energy to swing that hard all the time, and I struggle quite a lot with slow or no-spin balls. Overall, it’s just too heavy a setup for me.
I conclude that the blade works better with hybrid or tensor rubbers; it then has a pleasant slingshot effect on counter-looping and offers better speed on medium strokes.
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