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Butterfly created a hybrid between Tenergy 64 and 05, and this rubber is precisely this. It has more spin and a higher throw compared to Tenergy 64 and also a bit slower. For blocking, Tenergy 64 still rules with a lower throw. I wanted more spin and changed to Tenergy 80, while still being less sensitive to incoming spin compared to Tenergy 05.

I got lucky and bought my Holy Grail in China from Bora Wang, the Chinese player who played for Turkey. It was expensive, even in China. 650 RMB which equals around 70 EUR at the time.

I opened the vacuum sealed rubber and added three thin layers of Haifu Seamoon booster. This might not be required, but I wanted to feel the true experience. The rubber is rated at 41 degrees, which is quite hard, even for Chinese rubbers. That is why I added the booster.

If you have played with any other national versions of the Hurricane 3 rubber, you will feel right at home. At first, this rubber had a distinct "ping" sound. After around 5 hours of play, this sound faded and the rubber became softer and came to life. There are two reasons to use this rubber.

1. Spin. This rubber has ridiculous amounts of spin. This gives a very characteristic arc when looping. Tossing spinny serves is easy.

2. Control. What you play, the rubber answers. There is a linear function of input and output. If you touch the ball softly, service returns will be short. If you swing at full power, the ball will explode from the racket. It is very difficult to do flat hits. You have to really work with every stroke. Counterlooping is much easier compared to tensor rubbers, since the rubber will grip the ball and reverse the spin.

The rubber is slow when using incoming speed, everything has to come from your stroke. This is a direct consequence of the control that this rubber has. For me, the advantages overcomes the disadvantages. This rubber is very similar to a 41 degrees regular Hurricane 3 national orange sponge. The main difference is a bit more bounce and a less tacky topsheet.

Rakza 7 is a fast rubber with a nice top sheet, which Yazaka claims has a higher amount of natural rubber. When executed properly, this rubber will really shine. It is not very forgiving, but instead demands good quality shots. This rubber has a medium throw. This rubber has built-in glue effect which is one source of the power. When the glue effect runs out, the rubber becomes quite dead.

The T-2 is my first blade. The first rubbers to be on that blade were the Globe 999 on both sides. After I have put some older Acuda S1/S2 on it.

Speed

The T-2 is a very fast blade, not as fast as T-11+, but still a very fast blade. It'll reveal it's speed with some fast rubbers that will also make the racket heavier, because the blade itself is very light.

Control

This blade has little control, it is quite hard to make some fine precise shots.

Hardness

Hardest blade I have ever played. It is rock hard, has almost zero dwell time and gives a low arc. Definitely not for a looper. I don't recommend to put on it chinese hard tacky rubbers, like Globe 999, because it will have a completely dead feel, and the racket won't be good for anything - it will become slower, with even less dwell time, unefficient for blocks/hits/smashes, and it will require a massive effort to make a good loop.

Sound

This blade has a very funny and unpleasant loud sound, it sounds somehow like hollow.

Handle

A large, comfortable handle, after measurements, it seems identical to OSP flared handle and Stiga Legend handle.

Durability

After some hits in the table, there are some bumps on it, so it's definitely not a Panzer.

Strategy

This blade definitely isn't for loopers nor defenders or allrounders. It is for a hard hitter/smasher that likes to play close to the table without too much spin.

Conclusion

The Yinhe/Galaxy T-2 is a cheap(less than 25$) and light fast blade that is good for hits/smashes/blocks. It lacks control, and it is very-very hard. It gives an unpleasant sound, but you will get used to it. A big plus of this blade is its large and comfortable handle.

good balls, much better than dhs 3 star or nittaku sha+

I have played with the XSF +40 for several weeks now and the ball is easy to change to from the cell ball. The quality of the balls are quite consistent, but there may be some balls that are oval. One thing I've noticed about the XSF seamless ball was that it was slower than many if the other balls. Also an edge ball from the blade can easily break the ball. It happened a couple of times for me. Overall the XSF ball is one of the best of the poly balls in terms of durability and roundness for the buck, but it's speed kills the thrill of the game.

Spinny, relatively fast rubber suitable for the first shot attack and counter spins. It is also very good in service and receives. I like this rubber a lot, it would be good if the durability was better, but all in all a good rubber.

I have just tested a new Acuda p1 blue rubber on my fh with my Michael Maze blade and I have to say that I have a bit mixed feels about it.It´s not a rocket but with correct stroke it is fast enough. It´spinny but not over sensitive to incoming spin. Here are my observations.

Serving:
Acuda p1 has very grippy and softish top sheet. Grippyness with hard sponge makes this rubber really good for serving. It´s easy to get lots of spin to my short serves and fast serves are controllable. Serving is really one of the areas where Acuda p1 really shines!

Opening from underspin:
Acuda p1 has a lowish throw so I had to execute my opening loops from heavy under spin with thicker contact than my JP02 which has been my fh rubber for last year. If I wanted brush loop the ball I had to lift the ball really heavily and when I did that the ball was loaded with spin. However brush looping with this rubber requires really good contact to ball and it was not easy to execute if I was out of position.

Loop and drives:
Acuda p1 has a harder sponge than my normal rubber and I felt that I needed to loop and drive with thicker contact than with JP02. Loops and drives were very accurate with low arc. Looping from middle distance required quite heavy racket movement upwards due to low throw of Ap1.

Counter looping:
Counter looping if the bounce is the best thing of Acuda p1. If I was in good position for counter attack of the bounce my counter loops were really secured and precise. Out of position I still felt quite comfortable and was able to get most of the counter loops to the table. When I stepped couple meters of the table situation became very different. I wasn´t able to get good contact to the ball and the rubber felt really unstable. I think that might be because I haven´t use a rubber this hard before. But anyway this was a major thing that made me stick to JP02 for next season.

Blocking:
Acuda p1 is not really sensitive to incoming spin in blocking so I think that blocking with Ap1 was really easy.

Service return and short game:
As mentioned earlier the Acuda p1 has really grippy top sheet and this really shows in service returns. If I read the spin correctly I was able to execute an excellent return. If I miss read the spin... well the outcome wasn´t really that good. In short game Ap1 worked great for me. It was easy to keep the ball short and equally easy toput lots of spin to the ball. I don´t really do flipping on my fh sono comment in this section.


Conclusion:
If you like to play aggressive topspin game near to table and your footwork keeps you in good position most of the time Acuda p1 could be THE rubber for you. It´s not the easiest rubber to play with but it rewards your good shots.

Well, the only plus of these balls is their roundness. I didn't have any major roundness issues with them. And now comes the bad part. These balls are slow. It is more difficult to spin them. And they do break fast. I mean really fast. I broke 2 of them in my last match, even if I am a player that give priority to spin over power/speed. The only ones who liked these balls were the choppers. And let's not forget about the price of these balls. So, I will continue to play the old balls, but if I have to choose a plastic ball, I have no reason to choose DHS balls over the Xushaofa ones.

The XSF 3-star ball is, for me, the best plastic ball until now. It is faster and way more durable than the DHS 3-star 40+ ball, but sometimes XSF balls are not round. They come as a significant improvement over the DHS 40+ balls, but still are worse and more expensive than the old 40mm balls.

I would say it is a good Blade for Beginners. It is not very fast and easy to control. Furthermore it is not very expensive and it is a nice feeling, holding it.

It is very fast and spinny... exactly what i like to play. The only problem in my eyes is, that its not as easy to control as the # Manufacturer Stats say.

Very nice to look at and the Tibhar Blue Spirit shoes are very comfortable, especially when playing 4er-Tisch / Ultimate!

We will be using this plastic Tibhar ball at the upcoming 4er-Tisch World Championships 2015 in Germany. This will be the first time the event will use the plastic ball. We find the Tibhar 3* plastic ball to have great durability which is important.

This is a very good blade to be used at playing 4er-Tisch / Ultimate ping. We really like it's speed and it is very durable. We recommend this in combination with TIBHAR Aurus rubbers.

The TIBHAR Aurus rubber is very good, it is very fast yet controllable. We really like this rubber as it suits playing 4er-Tisch very well!

Excellent, I give it 5 stars!

After the first four hours of playing, i finally get to write my review. (my first one, so please be gentle)
;-)
After takin' them out of the box, my first impression was: gee, they look a bit fragile. Almost as if i could see through 'em.
Totally different than my XSF Balls. (But those are not training balls, so hey...)
And the second surprise was: they're not seamless(!!), which gives me another good point to test.
The sound from bouncing on my racket is sounding completely different than any other ball i've heard before. But these are just first impressions, so next i'm heading to our practice hall...
I gave two balls to my teammates for testing and two for me and my practice partner. One of my teammates is more a hitter with mid pips on his backhand. The other one is a spinner. Both of 'em playing more than 30 years. So they know pretty much what they're doing.
My partner is also more of a hitter and driver and myself i would consider myself as a both winged spinner. So we were also able to test durability (after 4 hours of play maybe a bit early, but still...)
Well, my first impressions seemed to be wrong, 'cause the balls seemed to be selected. The roundness was close to perfect, as far as one can tell by eye-sight)
They also seemed pretty spin reactive. And when i say spin reactive i mean spin reactive. My black rubber left marks on one ball. I never had that before, but it was real hot in the hall today...
(The hall doesn't have aircondition)
I'll post some pics of those marks in the thread, so you can see what i mean.

http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?10200-Win-a-new-batch-of-Butterfly-Easy-Ball-40/page4

Also the seam didn't seem to have ANY influence on the ball's bounce behaviour.
The bounce was pretty close to my XSF. Maybe not exactly that high, but still very constant. The arc they made while looping was pretty close to my C-Balls, and even closer to my XSF Balls.
Only irritating thing was the sound, but after 3 minutes, i didn't even think about that anymore..
The balls used by my teammates, didn't have any marks on 'em and the one guy's spin contains also a lot of rotation, but still no marks on the ball.
Well, both of 'em said they could hardly tell any difference to the XSF Balls we use every second training session.
But what one could see after they played, the ball was lookin' as if it had a little crack underneath the surface. It wasn't on it's outside, but more on it's inside. (I guess i have to post a pic of this in the thread as well.)
But that absolutely didn't seem to be having any influence on the ball's bounce. My teammates kept on playing with it for at least another hour.

So finding 4 hours is a bit short for a more objective review, i might update this review after some more hours of play.

Since i gonna rate them now, i'm gonna rate them 4 out of 5 stars.

They are almost comparable to competition balls, and seem to be pretty good for training balls.
I actually had competition p-balls that played much worse.


Thanks a lot for your attention.

The Petr Korbel is a great blade. I bought it as a replacement for the Timo Boll Spirit as I was looking for a slightly slower and more controllable blade, the korbel seems to deliver on all counts, I use tenergy with this blade and found this to be a great combination. My serving and receive seems to have improved as a result of the use of the korbel, it allows good feeling and is good for touch play. However the blade can also be used for aggressive topspin shots off both wings including drives. The price of the blade is excellent at around 40 pounds , much cheaper than many carbon blades but in my opinion it's better than many fast blades on the market . I would recommend this blade to any offensive players that strive for control/consistency in their game .

This rubber is nice and quick, can generate lots of spin when required and for the pace of it has very good control when touching or pushing. The only downfall would be that its a little bit inconsistent however i havnt used it much yet so i will assume it will improve (Or it might just be me doing bad shots)