TIBHAR · DEF
Defense Plus
5W · All wood
Specifications
- Playing style
- DEF
- Price
- $58
- Weight
- 75 g
- Thickness
- Not published
- Plies
- 5
- Composition
- 5W · All wood
- Outer ply
- Balsa
- Core wood
- Ayous
- Carbon type
- Not published
- Fibre placement
- None
- Blade size
- Not published
- Handle types
- Concave · Straight
- Made in
- Not published
- Release year
- Not published
Metadata confidence: Secondary sources
Blade construction
Estimated5W · All wood
5 plies · Balsa surface · all-wood · Ayous core
One blade, drawn as technical linework at real shakehand proportions. The laminated edge along the crown and right rim exposes every ply boundary in the stack. Edge depth is illustrative because physical veneer thickness is not published.
Stack order · outer face to outer face
1 · Outer ply
Balsa
2 · Medial ply
Ayous
3 · Core
Ayous
4 · Medial ply
Ayous
5 · Outer ply
Balsa
Balsa
Outer ply · layers 1 and 5
Very low weight · Soft, muted impact
Ayous
Medial ply · Core · layers 2, 3 and 4
Lower weight · Wider sweet spot
Stack order — face A to face B
- 01BalsaOuter ply
Ultra-light core — big sweet spot, very low blade weight and a soft, muted impact.
- 02AyousMedial ply
Very light medial or core wood — keeps the blade low in weight and widens the sweet spot.
- 03Ayous — coreCore
Very light medial or core wood — keeps the blade low in weight and widens the sweet spot.
- 04AyousMedial ply
Very light medial or core wood — keeps the blade low in weight and widens the sweet spot.
- 05BalsaOuter ply
Ultra-light core — big sweet spot, very low blade weight and a soft, muted impact.
Secondary sources · 5 of 5 plies with published material
Note: An unusual build: a blade database places the two balsa plies on the outside rather than in the core, with three ayous plies between them. TIBHAR confirms the two balsa layers only.
About this blade
TIBHAR Defense Plus is a 5-ply blade built around an all-wood stack, with Balsa on the playing surface and a Ayous core. Balsa in the outer layer: Ultra-light core — big sweet spot, very low blade weight and a soft, muted impact. Ayous in the medial layer: Very light medial or core wood — keeps the blade low in weight and widens the sweet spot. Ayous in the core: Very light medial or core wood — keeps the blade low in weight and widens the sweet spot. Physically it measures around 75 g. TIBHAR positions it for def play.
TTDNA ratings
NormalizedPerformance
Construction
Material properties
Playing profile
A TTDNA blade rating measures how much of the named characteristic a blade has. For descriptive rows — flex, stiffness, vibration, head heaviness, weight, thickness, carbon feel, softness, technique requirement, spin sensitivity — a higher number means more, not better.
TTDNA ratings are normalized comparison values, not laboratory measurements. They are built from published specifications, technical sources and structured product evidence, converted to one 0–100 scale. Where a directly comparable measurement is unavailable, the value is an evidence-based estimate. Overall-style scores are composites of several characteristics. Methodology