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I'm using this blade with Skyline TG3-60 on FH and Xiom Vega pro on BH. The blade has good feeling, it is not too stiff and hard, and has longer dwell time, and good control, nice for blocking but fast enough when used for attack and looping. so it is suitable for my playing style, attacking, looping and topspin in close to mid distane from table. It's weight is 88 gram and with rubbers attached on both side to be 194 gram. It's weight is not so light nor heavy. I recommend this blade for topspin players at close to mid distance from table. But according to my a month trial it has disadvantage when used for touch play, my return ball usually high, so I have to train more to return serve and drop shot or short play on the table.

General: I am using this rubber in 2.0mm red on my backhand. Prior to this I was using the EL-S in max. This rubber has a soft topsheet on a medium-soft sponge, lightweight (44g?). Very soft spongy feel.The Acuda Blue series has been described as “feel good“ rubbers. That's very true. Trajectory is fairly low. The Acuda Blue P2 however is not made for the dangerous, modern offensive player. It is amazing for “returning the ball“. I really have a love-hate relationship with this one.


Negatives:
1. This rubber was and still is grossly overrated on spin on tabletennisdb. It is a spinny rubber compared toa large portion of rubbers that is out there, but the topsheet is not superbly grippy. Hence this is NOT a rubber for brush loops – the ball will simply slip and fall down. You need to engage the sponge to generate decent spin. It is very challenging to banana flip on the table and lifting moderate to heavy backspin even off the table is very straining. You really have to rip through with your whole arm – while then you have to make sure the ball doesn't fly off the end of the table. The medium throw (definitely not above 4.5 intabletennisdb terms) does its part in that equation. In comparison it feels like the EL-S can lift backspin just by flicking the wrist. If I do the same strokes with my Hurricane 3 NEO, the ball just shoots off vertically into the roof. This rubber has crippled my game in the sense of opening backspin and my opponents frequently lock me down in my backhand because my forehand is very strong and aggressive in comparison.


2. This rubber lacks power when away from the table. Catapult on lower side, base speed ok. Base speed is comparable to EL-S, but catapult feels less. This is interesting, because it's also not good for “making things happen“ close to the table either.


3. It's simply quite harmless. Not a killer.


Positives:
1. This rubber has outstanding, fantastic, amazing control. It's difficult to stress enough the feeling of safety this rubber grants you. Due to the topsheet being far from being on par with MX-S EL-S T05 and the likes, it is also fairly unreceptive to incoming spin. The medium (maybe even medium tolow) throw angle just brings the ball back onto the other side of thetable with ease.


1a. Blocking: Passive blocking is great – even against heavy rotation topspins that come in crushing onyour side of the table, you just have to close the bat angle a little bit and this rubber provides very flat and annoying blocks. Active blocking is equally great. Not a rubber for spinblocking though because of aforementioned characteristics.


1b. Driving/Smashing: Extremely reliable, feels very linear. Nothing funny ever happens. Just hold the bat at the right angle and swing away. Of course it lacks speed, but you know, you can always just swing a little harder. When drive-looping you also develop some decent spin, because you're engaging the sponge more.


2. The catapult is not strong, but it is easy to active even with your backhand. Due to the softness of the composition of the P2, you don't have to hit hard to get some potential out of this rubber. In comparison the EL-S feels very dead close up but easily overshoots due to sudden activation of the catapult effect. This one is very controllable.


3. Quite light in weight. If you're looking to save a few grams on your setup, this is great.


Dont know:
Chopping, lobbing, serving – I don't do those (with backhand).

The new Butterfly Rozena rubber uses a slighty softer sponge than normal Tenergy rubbers. Beside the pink colour, the sponge is similar to the other springe sponge rubbers. If I would make a blind test, I would guess another Tenergy rubber would be in my hands.

The Rozena has a little bit more catapult and dynamic than the harder Tenergy rubbers, even though the sponge is more soft. This helps when playing fast topspins, both from the table or from halfdistance. The rubber has a good pace, but is not as fast as rubbers like Tibhar Evolution MX-P for example.
The strength of the Rozena rubber is the variability when attacking. Also the rubber is forgiving when hitting the ball not perfectly. Other than with Tenergy 05, when the angle of the stroke is not 100% right, the ball finds its way to the other side of the table. I guess the softer sponge and the new topsheet help both with this characteristic.
The throw angle is medium high and between Tenergy 80 and 64. The Spin level is also between those rubbers. A spinny topspin rubber, but not as dangerous as Tenergy 05.
Though the feeling and technology are the same, Rozena is a little softer, more forgiving, less sensitive to the incoming spin, with better dynamics/catapult and more lively feel than the normal Tenergy rubbers 05, 80 and 64.

In my opinion, the Rozena rubber targets topspin players, who need a high performance rubber, which has good control and forgiving abilities as well. It has the Tenergy Gen, but also standalone and unique characteristics.

you can get whale 1 or whale 2 tuned training version for as low as USD 10
the thing with training version is the performance of the rubber varies a lot.
IF you pick a good one , it will be good as the national or provincial one. ( I was lucky )

whale is tacky but not tacky like other chinese rubber, its fast and spinny almost like 64 or 05. (german rubber)
only big difference is that the whale sponge creates a cracking sound when you hit the ball and its heavy.

if you are using tacky chinese rubber and at some point feel like you dont have enough impact or power to drive , try this and it will be easier transition than to european rubbers.

okay the best modern defensive racket is Joo Se Hyuk blade but the thing is that its so heavy (above 100g)

So I found this, Koji Matsushita - lighter, easier to control and not as offensive as JSH but good enough.

My review is based on Matsushita Special. there is an normal Matsushita blade , defensive and offensive

off : offensive>special>normal>=defensive
control : special > normal >=defensive >= offensive

if you think this is fast, try national neo h3...
this rubber is slightly faster than average h3 but the speed glue effect fades out within few weeks.
very light rubber and cheap, I used to use this when I was in the army and I had no money to buy proper rubber.
Good for a broke beginner who wanna try basic skills

an of or of- blade with great filing and very god for spiny game

good ruber with blue sponge.....great durability whan put plastic protector....great spin and control

very inconsistent long pip
if you start off with this and move on to something like curl p1r or spectol, you will easily control them.
cheap and play-able

'God Se Hyuk's long pimple'

whether its 0.5 1.1 or 1.6mm its the best long pimple for a beginner or even a pro.
Everything is perfect but definitely not the best OX long pip. the rubber is too 'Honest' to be used for a close to the table OX defender.

Thicker the sponge gets, more spin and require more control
thinner the sponge easier to control but less spin.

Dont bother buying this rubber. Spend extra and go with something from DHS if you like tacky rubber or just buy a quality ESN made rubber.

I am using mine for my desktop mouse. Thanks yinhe

Hi TTD members.
I just received the new Yasaka Alnade blade. My initial thoughts is that the blade has a nice finish and looks great! Comparing the pitch of the blade vs. M.Maze ALC and Viscaria the blade has a higher pitch and feels stiffer than the blades from Butterfly.


I will make a review as soon is have tried the blade.

[EDIT] Updated with review!

























The Yasaka Alnade is a signature blade of Liang Jingkun and it should be similar to the Viscaria. My initial thoughts about the Alnade blade by bouncing the ball I could hear the pitch is higher than my Viscaria. The design is very nice and the finish is high quality. Edges is nicely sanded of the one I have received and it comes in a nice presentation box.

Composition: Koto-PA Carbon-?-?-?-PA Carbon-Koto
Handle: Flared
Head size: 157x150mm
Thickness: 5.8mm
Weight: 91g

Test setup: DHS Hurricane NEO 2.1mm and Butterfly Tenergy 05 2.1mm

Drive
When driving with the Alnade I could initial feel that the blade was fast. The sweet spot is huge and this was obvious with the consistency no matter where I hit the ball on the racket.
Setup felt a bit head heavy, but this was due to I was too lazy to remove the old layer of glue before putting it on the blade.

Loop
Looping with the Yasaka Alnade I could feel the full potential of the blade. I did not have to add too much power before over hitting the ball pass the table. The feeling of the blade is better than the Viscaria. It is not that numb as the Viscaria. The trajectory was medium on both wings and the blade is very consistent. It feels like the blade has a bit more flex than my Viscaria and that could be the reason I needed to adjust not hitting pass the table.

Block
In the blocking game the Alnade is showing its force. Control, feel and stability is the words to describe about how the Alnade performs. Due to the large sweet spot it has massive control even though you try to punch ball. This is one awesome feature it has.

Flick/short game
With the Alnade it was nice flicking on both sides. Without a huge effort I could get good grip with the ball. With that said I struggled a bit in the short game aspect. I had problems keeping the balls low to the net. Could be me being tired or my technique .
Funny enough the GZLC has a soft touch although the blade is fast.

Conclusion
Yasaka has made a fantastic competitor to Butterfly’s Viscaria FL. The retail price is notable lower than the Viscaria and quality wise the Alnade is up in the same league as
Butterfly. The Alnade blade is definitely not for beginners or for players that want to develop their technique.

I would recommend the blade to players who rely on their passive game and plays close to mid from the table. Also the player that is a hitter more than a looper and/or emphasizes the to go behind the table to make powerful loops away from the table.

A great blade by yasaka good speed for offensive player but a little too hard to control need alitlle bit more of the control and surface hardness part

I have played with this rubber on my forehand for 1/2 year now and feel that this rubber provides me with the right amount of speed to complement my game. However when serving backspin this rubber just will not do! I tried serving with this rubber, my coach tried serving with this rubber but we both came to no avail when trying to create a decent amount of backspin.

I agree with the majority of the past reviews for MX-P. Being a pre-plastic ball rubber, you'd think that all the new stuff coming out would be better. But like T05, this rubber just has that perfect balance. The speed and spin are just enormous. MX-P is a dream for players that have used T05 or use compact strokes. Being a long time user of Hurricane 3 rubber and its ilk, MX-P is absolutely lethal with full body strokes and brush techniques. The only part of my game that suffers a bit is the short game. You can serve short, but when pushing, the high catapult of MX-P requires really deft touch. MX-P is an attackers paradise.

The rubber is not very sensitive to spin which makes it easy to block and return serves,however, it has low dwell time.It is very fast which can be good for counter attacking but gives a low margin for error.I feel the rubber is suited to the backhand because of the lack of spin.If you block,punch and counter on the backhand this is the rubber for you!

This blade is great for a first time carbon user.It's not too fast or too slow.Spiny open ups are at ease with this blade due to the dwell time,short touches are also very easy.The blade is not too fast which helps with blocking and controlling the play,however,some may argue that it is too slow especially compared to other carbon blades such as the Timo Boll ALC.

Very easy to control,due to the soft sponge.I found it was very suited to the backhand and was easy to block and punch with.Short game is also very good with this rubber;serves are good due to the spin produced.Overall,this provides an alternative to the standard Rhyzm for players who are looking to control the game rather than all out power.This rubber is still pretty fast though!

I changed my VISCARIA blade to CARBONADO 145, it give me more sensitivity in my forehand spin and my backhand block, it's very good for control and speed with heavy spin, I think it will be future blad but I hope more durability

So I finally bought myself the DHS rubber. Full of excitement I put it on my BTY ZJK ALC and went straight into a match. Warming up I felt a big difference to my old T05:

Speed: Since I'm not boosting the rubber is very slow (expected that) so more effort was needed to bring the ball over the net

Control: I had a lot of control while looping, blocking and smashing. It was very easy to block the ball.

Spin: Playing topspin against backspin was quite easy, I was waiting for the ball a bit longer than with the T05, important is the right acceleration and timing

Serve: I had major problems with serving, I couldn't get the feel for it and needed a lot of practice to get near of my old serves with the T05. I struggled to do short serves so they often were long or went into the net

Counterloops: I surprisingly noticed that counter looping close to the table is very easy and controlled. After some adjustments I felt quite safe.

Mid-range: It is okay but a lot effort is needed to bring the ball over the net, I wouldn't suggest to get this rubber if you want to play from mid-range only!

Durability: This is the main reason I will be switching to another rubber. After 2 weeks the rubber started to decrease, sometimes the ball touched the rubber but the ball fell down. This is also a result of the tacky surface, it is magnetic to dust You started to see the pimples and I couldn't generate much spin anymore ( 4-5 trainings a week).

Summary: In the first week I was stunned by this rubber and thought this might be a opponent to my tenergy even if the rubbers are very different. But after 2 weeks the rubber showed his real face. It was an interesting experiment but I will be switching back to something else. If you have the money to get a new one after a short time go for it since the price is not that high. But for me the DHS Hurricane 3-50 is definitely not an option!

This is my first long review so be kind with me, sorry for any mistakes because english is not my mother tongue!

Thanks for taking your time and reading my review!