Reviews by teddie

I've used lots of 40+ balls for trainings and competition, but for me this is the only ball that is really good in QUALITY like good old celluloid balls. If you take other balls box of 6, you can throw off half of them because they're unplayable (not round and soft) at a higher level, like topspin to topspin. These are all perfect round and hard. They are more expensive, but it's worth to pay extra money, because it breaks 2-3x less. For example if you take Xushaofa - it's enough to hit harder one time with corner of the blade to break it. This premium ball will break only after 3-4 corners. Also lots of world top players (Ovtcharov, Boll, Samsonov) said they would like to play all competitions with these balls. I can say the same.

I use this rubber for more than a year now on my FH. On BH I'm still using softer rubber (M3), but after some time I'll switch to JP01Turbo aswell. First I'm not that equipment freak that thinks that blade and rubber should do everything for you. I think technique is always first. If you have proper technique - you could play almost any manufacturer rubber. I've tried a lot of them (tenergy, evolution, bluefire, airoc, maxxx, rhyzm), didn't had any problems with either of them, but I use bluefire because I can get them for best possible price. I played with tenergy for quite some time also, but don't find something much better in it than bluefire rubbers.

As for these JP01Turbos - lots of players plays with them in my country, nobody have any problems with it. What I would exclude - it's controll. Controll with this rubber is really good as for 47.5 hardness rubber. Maybe it's because it's a little bit slower (if you compare to tenergy 05), but not much, speed is still more than enough to finish the point, but as I said you have superb controll. I even can't think of any cons for it.

Weight in max is same as for any 47.5 hardness rubber - about 50g cut (depends on your blade size)

So if you like 47.5 hardness rubbers - try it, it's really good.

Well balanced blade. You can really feel that huge sweet spot, it's really not a marketing trick and it helps to place more balls on the table. Also why I like it more than all ALC blades - because of the feedback/feeling, you can feel blade better.

Some comparisons with popular Butterfly blades:
Zhang Jike Super ZLC (also huge sweet spot blade): Carbonado gives more feedback to your hand and price is 2x less.
Viscaria: Carbonado gives more feedback to your hand and has bigger sweet spot. If someone using viscaria is thinking about upgrade - I would suggest Carbonado 145. Speed is a little bit slower than Viscaria (just a tiny bit), but better control (you'll really feel it).

Actually I really like Carbonado very much, but there's one bad thing - Stiga quality.. It's full of forums, also I experienced this myself and few of my training partners - outer layer starts to recoil after some time, some wood chips comes off, some coloring on handle logo goes off.. And it's only after using the blade for 1 year. This almost never happens with Butterfly blades. This is the reason why I'm thinking to switch to Butterfly blades - durability. I hope Stiga reads this and tries to fix those quality issues in some time, because technology-wise their blades plays really good.