The Cybershape family welcomes a new member! It’s the new Cybershape Carbon CWT Truls Edition – a blade with the same superior characteristics as the Cybershape Carbon CWT, but this time, it’s been developed in cooperation with Truls Möregårdh. The result is an upgraded design and specific weights of 3, 6, and 9 grams that are named for Truls’s three favourite shots: his chop block, backhand push, and forehand slap. The weights are easily attached to the bottom of your bat thanks to magnets inside the handle. This allows you to tailor your bat and find the perfect characteristics for your own play.

The Cybershape Carbon CWT Truls Edition is a 5+2-ply blade based on CCF technology (Close Core Fibre), which means that the carbon-fibre layer is applied directly on top of the wood core. This gives you more control while you also benefit from the carbon-fibre speed. The lightweight, technologically advanced carbon fibre also gives the blade more speed without sacrificing balance.

Research has shown that the optimal hitting surface is located on the upper half of the blade. As with our other Cybershape blades, therefore, the hitting surface and sweet spot are larger on the upper half and somewhat smaller on the lower half, thus maintaining the blade’s balance. This innovation has two advantages: the optimal hitting surface is now larger, but the centre of gravity has not shifted upward on the blade. The higher sweet spot also provides a more stable impact and more powerful shots without loss of control. In other words, this unique shape is not just a matter of looks – it gives the player specific advantages that can’t be achieved with traditionally shaped blades.

Adjust the balance point to your playing needs

Playing style, previous experience, and weight of the rubbers mean that preferences vary greatly from player to player. In addition, rubber weights vary, so it’s possible to adapt the blade weight with magnetic weights – thus allowing you to adjust and find the perfect balance. A lower total weight is suitable for players who stay close to the table and prefer faster play. Increased weight brings more kinetic energy, resulting in more powerful shots.

Top quality wood gives you a stable handle

Cybershape Carbon CWT is available in three different handles: Master/Concave, Classic/Straight and Pen/Penhold.

The handles for Cybershape Carbon CWT Truls Edition are made of top-quality wood and have a surface roughness that ensures an optimal gripping surface without the handle feeling slippery.   

Unique carbon fibre composite & CCF technology

Cybershape is a 5+2-ply blade based on CCF (Close Core Fibre) technology, which means that the carbon layer sits directly on top of the wood core. The result is more control and speed in your game.

By means of the lightweight and technologically advanced, German-made carbon fibre composite, we were able to offset its weight, so although Cyberspace has a larger surface area than a regular blade, it is not heavier.

Truls on the Truls Edition Cybershape Carbon CWT

For me, it’s important to be able to adjust the blade weight to different playing environments. This lets me influence the mass of the blade, and combined with the blade size and power in my shots, this creates kinetic energy.

The heavier the bat, the more power and energy that’s generated at a certain speed. The 9-gram weight (named after my slap shot) is perfect, for example, because more weight means increased speed. The heavier weight also works well when I’m playing in a large arena, which is often experienced as a “slow” environment. The lowest weight, 3 grams, is great for smaller training venues or other environments that are perceived as “faster”. With STIGA CWT, it’s easy for me to adjust the blade to perfection, according to my unique playing preferences.

Born in 2002 in the Swedish village of Hovmantorp, Truls Möregårdh has risen in record time to become Sweden’s brightest star in table tennis. At 17, Truls made his way to Japan’s top league, and during the 2021 world championships in Houston, he used his Cybershape blade to win the silver medal in the finals against Fan Zhendong.

Stiga Cybershape:

Optimized hitting area and larger sweet spot

Our research has shown that for the majority of players their optimal hitting area is on the top half of the blade. So we’ve optimized the hitting area so that it is larger in comparison to the traditional shape of the blade’s upper half and slightly smaller on the lower half to maintain the blade’s balance. 

In collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), we have also tested the vibration properties of Cybershape, i.e. how the blade moves. The tests have shown that Cybershape has a larger sweet spot placed higher up on the blade than a standard shape which gives more power in your strokes without losing control of the ball.

Optimized hitting area closer to the table surface 

Since the ball usually strikes the top half of the racket (both backhand and forehand), that's exactly where Cybershape really stands out. One of the distinctive features of the Cybershape design is that in your return and short game you get closer to the surface of the table by all of 6.5 cm of the hitting area, compared to 2.5 cm for a round blade. This gives you more of a chance of getting to short serves and returns. 

With Cybershape's unique shape, it is also easier to get the ball placement on the hitting area you desire while serving. Thanks to Cybershape’s angles, you automatically have six corners as a basis to aim for, depending on how much and what type of spin you want.  

Stiga C.W.T.:

Customize the balance according to your personal preferences

Depending on where the center of gravity of the blade is located, one speaks of a high-center of gravity, low-center of gravity, or a neutral balanced blade. If the center of gravity is towards the top of the blade, it is called high-center of gravity – if, on the other hand, it’s at the bottom, it’s low-center of gravity. What different players prefer is highly individual and depends on their playing style, previous experience, and the weight of the rubber. The weight of different rubbers also varies, so being able to adjust the weight of the blade gives you the opportunity to adjust and find just the perfect balance for you.

• A lower overall weight is suitable for players who stay close to the table and prefer a fast-paced game.
• Increased weight generates greater kinetic energy, resulting in more powerful strokes.

The revolutionary STIGA CWT - Custom Weight Technology is patent-pending.