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The donic bluefire m2 is a very good rubber. At first when i got the rubber, i had a very hard time to play with it. But when i got use to it, that rubber was a killing one. Spin is incredible, speed is good, not too fast and control and feel was great.

I used it as my FH on a Donic waldner senso ultra carbon and i found the combination was working well. I used the rubber for 6 months and still using it now, durability is very good and still very grippy and slighty tacky topsheet.

Very good rubber, very spinny, very good speed and amazingly very good control. But it is not that durable. Overall very good rubber for offensive play.

The soft sponge of the rubber makes it difficult to play if not a trained player. The blade also should be well considered, i use a carbon blade and the combination does work very well.

The Boll spirit is in my opinion a very good blade with the following characteristics:
- good power for your own attack
- good feeling and control for the serve recieve
- less vibration due to carbon layer

This is my first post on this forum. Hope you like it and useful to you.

Airoc Astro S red max 2.1 on Intensity NCT and the other side is Evolution El-p.
This combination doesn't feel head heavy and it is well balance even the blade is about 87g.
This is my second stiga rubber in 20 years after Almana sound! which it doesn't let me down at all.
The first look of AAS has caught my eye as the rubber seems to have some glitter in it. The sponge is blue color and it's not with many big pores like other makers are trying to copy spring sponge from TG05 or whatever.

Here comes to the points which I will compare directly with Rakza 7 soft and Evolution El-p which I used it on Intensity Carbon.

Spin: about 30% better than R7S but a bitless than El-p.
Speed :about 20-30% faster than both R7S and El-p
Control and block : about 20% better than R7S and 30% better than El-p.

When I play R7S I use it on forehand as I don't like the mushy feel of soft spong on back hand side. But in case of AASis different, I can use both backhand and forehand and don't have that mushy feel. The feeling is greater than both R7S and El-p.
The placement of the ball is also great and more powerful than R7S.
The AAS is very forgiving rubber with easy to use and not that sensitive to incoming spin.
If you want any question, and if I can answer, I will respond.

I played with this blade for a year. It is a classic beginners' blade in Sweden. Controllable with good feel. Slow and light. The main drawback is the difference between two blades. Some are softer and some have a more direct feel.

So I tried this ball recently and was impressed with it actually. It did not break and it felt a lot better than other plastic balls I have tried.

I use these for multiball. They are of low quality with regards to roundness. I think the might be the ones that does not pass quality control for the 3-star version. Be aware of strange bounces. None of the 30 balls I've tested is suitable for match play.

This is a very expensive shoe. It is quite narrow so people with wide feet might have to try another shoe. I have used mine for a year, and it was fully functional, but I decided to buy a new pair and keep the old ones for the gym. I play about 8 hours a week, which means they are very durable. They have Asics Gel techology which is used in running shoes for cushioning. They are quite cushioned compared to many other shoes. The grip is excellent. A mesh net in the bottom of the shoe should provide breathability but I have not felt any difference compared to other shoes. A good thing is that they do not smell bad after one year of heavy use! Quite incredible.

I have always been a fan of the Stiga allround Classic which was one of my first blades that I started out with. I have actually never had the chance to try out the Stiga Offensive Classic before yesterday. I used it together with Airoc M on backhand and Tenergy 05 on forehand.

First of all I think this blade also got a nice feel, you can really feel the ball hitting the blade. The control was great and of course it was a little faster compared to the Allround classic. It was fast but not to fast, I would say off to off-. I liked it very much in my returns where I got a good connection with the ball and could together with the rubbers get really good controlled returns. I felt stabile in my block and I got a good pressure on my opponent.

I tried it with both the old and the new ball. This blade should work fine if you like the Allround classic but want a little more speed. Even if this blade suited my game style I'm still to happy with my Carbonado 190 so I won't do any changes. Someone knows when the Allround classic was released?

Pretty good blade, but don't drop it on the ground, it's going to be broken. Otherwise, it's a blade that gives a lot of speed. If you want that blade, I recommend you to buy it twice so you have another one if you break it. It costs around 45$ so it is not that expensive.

Pretty expensive just like all the Tenergys, but I love the control I get with it on my backhand. In my opinion, compared to the Tenergy 05, the Tenergy 64 has less spin and speed, but more control and that's what I like for my backhand. I especially love the counter attacking I get with that rubber.

I use that rubber on my forehand and it is just amazing ! If you are an offensive player, the Tenergy 05 should fit you well, but it is pretty expensive.

As you can see from my ratings i really like this rubber.
It is fairly fast enough if you ovecome the tackyness, but it's not bouncy like e.g
T05. Also from mid distance the tempo was fast enough to make opponents sweat with counterloops. (that could be, cause i used it on a pretty fast carbon blade.)

It´s got a pretty long lasting topsheet, if you keep it clean after playing and put on a protection sheet after every play. (After two league seasons it still behaves almost like fresh out of the box on day 1...)

The sponge is a little harder than t05, its density seems to be equal and it also uses the spring sponge tech, which (in my case) didn´t wear off after nearly 2 years of constant play.
But it recquires a different technique than typical japanese or european rubbers. I would highly recommend a full arm swing while looping.
Now that's when this rubber shows its real potential and allows you to make fast and pretty spinny loops with beautiful arcs.

Great control at short game and serves cause it´s not bouncy at all. Also good for very spinful pushes.
Looping from table and mid distance is best, but also ok from a little further (if you use it on a fast blade) and the loops have a real nice arc.

The price is a bit high but worth it, ´cause of the long durability.

This rubber is definitely one of my favourites.

In general behaviour i find it is closer to factory tuned chinese tacky rubbers like e.g. DHS H3 neo, Yinhe Sun, etc. than to tenergy or tensor rubbaz.

I have tried many of the new balls but the andro ball is my favourite because the ball doesn't break as easily as some of the other new balls and the ball is nice and round unlike some of the other balls

I have used these shoes for 2 months now and they are the comfiest table tennis shoe I have ever used, these shoes are very grippy and don't lose grip quickly and they are also very light, the shoe is very stylish but would be nice if there was more selection in the colour

The carbonado 190 is the best blade I have ever played with as it has an amazing feeling when striking the ball and even though the carbonado is a very fast blade you keep the control in to the table and away from the table, I currently play with carbonado 190 and airoc astro m on both sides and I recommend them both they are both incredible to play with

Airoc astro m is a great rubber as it has a great feeling when striking the ball and you can generate a massive amount of spin and speed while keeping the control, it also has a great touch round the net for short game, the rubber is really good for counter looping and even from back from the table it keeps the control and arks well over the net

This is truly an excellent rubber. I use it in the softest sponge available though I have tried the harder sponges and believe those will appeal to people looking for something more on the hard sponged Chinese end of the spectrum. It's an interesting mix of a soft tacky/sticky Chinese topspheet on an Eurojap type tensor sponge with modest catapult. The idea is to create great control and brush spin on slower loops and serves, though not as linear as harder sponged non-catapult Chinese rubbers. The payoff is that on harder shots away from the table, you don't have to swing as hard to get good pace and spin. This is most apparent in the 38 and 39 deg sponges, especially the 38 deg.

It also comes tuned but plays decently when the tuning wears off. There are also protective sheets if you like them. The rubber has a tuning layer, so you only need glue for your blade and not for the rubber itself. Yinhe seems to be giving the latest batches Provincial level Quality Assurance.

No rubber quite plays like this - maybe Tibhar Evolution MX-S, though that is more tilted towards the Euro side of things and I would consider this rubber even more towards the Chinese short game and quick attack style.

I have used it on a variety of blades, including composites and all wood blades. What blade you decide to use it on depends on your style - I like it on all wood blades, but it played decently on Xiom Vega blades (the whole series) as well.

Hi all,

So heres my thoughts on the free butterfly balls and also first review.






As like many others I Entered the butterfly easy ball competition, after a period of waiting they arrived!

So here are photos of what I received in the UK. I Compared them with some poly balls I bought this week as well.
There was a definite difference in appearance which some might argue are the quality of the balls... The balls are more dull looking and don't seem to have much of a matt finish to them which is very noticeable compared to the xushaofa balls.
As others have mentioned probably this is because there club practice balls not competition balls.

I heard that butterfly were doing a new batch of poly balls as the original ones weren't very good... Hoped these might be something along the lines of the new ones. (bit early to say but if the durability of these are the same level or better on the newly developed balls id say butterfly are onto a winner!)

In the pictures I also compared them alongside to an 40mm tsp ball as well as a xushaofa brand poly ball.

First impressions bouncing the ball on the table and a few brushes against my rubber, it felt like the balls are more "Lively" than the XSF polyball, so bouncier, but not giving off as much spin on the ball as the old 40mm balls do.
It felt like this would mean a slightly quicker game on the table with the BTY balls compared to the XSF balls or even Joola balls for example.

Joola balls I felt about the same weight (id have thought they all are the same weight though) as the BTY balls but are slow on the table during hits.
XSF balls always fell to me heavier/more dense than the BTY and Joola balls.

when playing with them maybe it was the hall that day, but it sounded like these balls had more of a 40mm ball sound to them. Much less plastic sound that was very noticeable when first switching to polyballs. It felt like the speed of play was faster than when playing with a XSF ball, but still not as fast as the old 40mm. It felt like the ball bounced higher off the table counter looping but also longer across the table too.

Last picture is after say 2-3 minutes knock up of forehands. So we had managed to scuff the ball surface quite easily from hitting the surroundings or edge of blades etc. Its visible (arguably not in the photo - my bad!) that the creases from stress when hitting the edge of the blade, a wall, edge of the table or something else look to be very much "internal to the ball", hard to describe but the old 40 mm balls you could kind of feel the crease on the outside of the ball. Also this did not feel like this "crease mark" effected the play of the ball at all - definitely a bonus!

Joola balls i found went soft spots and warped,
XSF balls on the other hand ive found get soft spots or shatter,
Stiga balls seemed to warp or crack,
Donic balls... never had any luck with these, maybe just a bad batch but they shattered very quickly...

After only a light hit with theses, They do seem better than the Joola ones and definitely other brands with exception to XSF, that said though I think it would be good to see how they get on over time and more play...

Compared to the training polyballs id say i think i probably prefer these,
its hard to make the comparison properly against a 3* ball but id say BTY are definitely onto something here if they let these lead onto new BTY competition balls.

This rubber is simply on a league of its own, not because it is the best rubber but because there's nothing out there that is quite the same. Yes there are many that are similar but trust me its not the same. This is a very fast and bouncy rubber with a lot of spin. No matter where you hit the ball from whether its short or far from the table, it will go in the way you want it to. It goes well with all sorts of blades, all wood, ALC, ZLC, any other fibres out there. This rubber is suitable for both backhand and forehand looping as it has quite a high arc to it (which compromises its short game when paired with faster blades such as ZLC blades) leading to a good short to mid-far game. going too far from the table will purely depend on the player as i dont believe that the rubber itself can give that much power. Hence overall this seems like a perfect rubber.
There are DOWNSIDES however and these are very important. The most important thing about this rubber is its lack of gears. trust me when i say this, no matter who hits the ball with a tenergy it will go on. You do not need much power at all to get the ball on the table producing a fair paced spinny shot by just hitting the ball. This is a very bad sign for beginners and those who want to develop their shot. this rubber pretty much plays the game for you hence you will not improve much starting off with it. So for those who are just starting off and want to improve the game i recommend stepping away from Tenergy to develop appropriate power, spin and shots before using this even though this rubber will feel like the holy grail of table tennis rubbers.
Also the rubber itself does not last very long - id say about 6 months of playing once a week therefore a very expensive choice indeed