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Innerforce ALC is an amazing off- to off blade.
Limba outer ply with arylate composite are making this blade one of the spinniest I ever tried.
I've tested this blade with various rubbers, and it only works well with spingy rubbers like Calibra's, if you want to use a Tenergy on this blade, you should tune it, else it will be deadly slow and inert.

The blade have very good balance and his very confortable in ST handle, the weight is also controlled, usually between 80 and 85 gramms.
One of the "easiest" offensive blade on the market, and will suit most players far better than the usual ALC blades like viscaria or Timo Boll Spirit/ALC :
Easy topspins (off- with high throw angle), easy blocks (Arylate absorbing power of incomming shots in passive play), easy short game (very good feeling and feedback)......this balde makes everything easier.

If you are looking for a light and balanced offensive blade which tends to forgive your technical errors, go for it if you can afford this premium blade.

Feel free to ask specific questions

This rubber is the best forehand rubber for me. I played Acuda S2 and Tenergy 05 before I tried the Xiom Omega V Europe rubber ( max ).
The rubber has a medium sponge and a medium arc.

Serving: The rubber looks like anti spin rubber but it has so much spin. It is insane. My service is one of my strengths but with this rubber my short service is so good. I have not recognized it at the beginning but after a few Training- and Tournament-games my enemies made so many mistakes and couldn't return my serve.

Blocking: No problem with that but i like to counter topspin if it is possible.

Chop: FH rubber = only topspin, flip or take the return short

Short short: was a bit difficult at the beginning but i am totally statisfied now. Problem was the lower arc compared to Acuda S2 and Tenergy 05. Now flicks are easy 4 me.

Tospin: Spin is very good. Easy to lift underspin. The medium sponge can do everything. A soft Topspin with a lot spin and a hard topspin. No Problems here. The ball is hard to block for ur opponent because with this rubber u have always a descent length.

Topspin Topspin: The rubber shines here. I have a good technique i think and i won a lot of rallies in the past with Tenergy or Acuda but now... It feels so good. The catapult comes into play when u hit the ball harder. The medium arc makes it so easy

Durability: Changed it after 4 months but the rubber wasn't dead or something. It lost a bit spin and speed but i think it happens to every rubber. I would say the durability is a bit better than Acuda S2 and similar to the Tenergy 05.


Conclusion:
It is a very good rubber for attacking-minded players. It has a medium sponge and it is more forgiving than other rubbers but it isn't worse. The speed is really high und the Arc is medium too.
U should really try it. It looks so beautiful . Swam strength is max. and my blade is Stiga Infinity VPS.

Just ask if u have any questions. I must apologize for my bad english

Regards Chris

Similar feeling to the Tenergy 80, just a slightly softer feeling. Excellent on brush shots. Great for slow, spinny opening loops. Nice curly arc to provide large margin of error. Good spin and control for short, spinny pushes and serves.

Used this for 2 years.
Works really well with Tenergy rubbers. I have used the 05, 80, 80fx and 64.
This blade is really good for making slow, spinny, brush loops. Although it is a carbon blade, it has sufficient dwell time to create lots of spin.

Speed 9.2
Spin 9.4
Control 9.3
Tackiness Slightly Tacky
Weight Medium
Sponge Hardness Medium – Softer than MX-P, harder than FX-P
Overall 9.7

Thanks to all those who commented and got in touch with me after last week’s review – lots of requests coming in for different equipment, sorry my time is limited but I’ll keep doing my best to do one a week. I’m flying to China today for the WTTC, but yesterday after a relatively light training session I managed to test out the TIBHAR Evolution EL-P rubber on my spare blade to see how it felt.

The information I’d seen on this rubber was that it was basically the ‘middle’ option for those players who wanted the ‘in between’ rubber when compared to the harder Evolution MX-P and the softer Evolution FX-P. It makes sense that a lot of players of all levels would like a rubber that sits in between these two as some people want the best of both worlds, or as close to it as possible!

This rubber is currently available from my UK sponsors Bribar Table Tennis at a special offer, first 100 sheets sold price of £34.99, reduced from £46.99. You can view and buy it here:

http://shop.bribartt.co.uk/tibhar-evolution-el-p.html

The sheets I have are both maximum sponge thickness and the surface is not dissimilar to the TIBHAR Evolution MX-P, It’s slightly tacky, but not like a Chinese rubber and not as tacky as the Evolution MX-S. When I bounce the ball onto my bat and spin with the rubber, I still get plenty of ‘bite’ and a nice contact on the ball, it sounds great and feels spinny!

My first impression is that the rubber is as described – it is very obviously harder and faster than Evolution FX-P, but slightly slower and with more control than Evolution MX-P. Objective achieved on that score! When I’m topspinning the ball, the contact feels great and the rubber feels quick. The arc of the ball is not quite as straight as the Evolution MX-S, this is more of a traditional European style rubber and I get a good arc depending on how much topspin I impart with my stroke. The more I try to get a good contact the more arc I’m getting, and the grip here surprises me for a rubber that does not feel that tacky.

When I’m away from the table and in a topspin rally, the rubber feels safe. I don’t have to hit it on the ‘sweetspot’ every time, it’s very forgiving. If my timing point is slightly away from being ideal, I can still produce a good amount of spin and in this sense the Evolution EL-P feels very reliable.

When I’m blocking for my opponent, the Evolution EL-P offers a really superb amount of control when compared to the speed and spin levels. I feel like I can either do a safe, steady block, a soft block or even a hard punch block from my opponents top spin with ease, and again it is the contact that really stands out, the rubbers offers really good feeling. If I try to re-loop close to the table from my opponents attacking shot, the rubber is again very ‘forgiving’ – I do not need a perfect contact every time to generate a good return.

When I’m serving, the spin I can generate is really good but not as high as when I played with the Evolution MX-S last week. The ‘balance’ feels better, but the bite is not quite the same. I have to give my service action a little more wrist in order to generate this level of spin. On my follow up 3rd ball attacking shot, I am able to topspin my opponents heavy backspin push return quite easily, thought again the difference between the Evolution EL-P and the Evolution MX-S is that the arc of the ball signifies the amount of topspin on the ball – it feels very safe, and the more I try to spin heavily the more the arc, like a traditional style Tensor rubber.

When I’m receiving from my opponents serve, I can receive with confidence. Although I can’t generate quite as much backspin with such a short action (this was something I could do when I tested the Evolution MX-S), I can still touch short with confidence and flicking is also very controlled. To generate a lot of backspin on my long push, I need to use my wrist more and really try to get a good contact, but when I do it’s still heavy.

For speed, I have rated the Evolution EL-P as 9.3. This is a fast, attacking rubber, especially when combined with the maximum sponge thickness. The rubber feels best for me personally when I’m just a couple of feet away from the table, not quite mid distance but in between mid distance and close to the table. From here I can topspin the ball quickly and with a good level of spin with confidence. The speed I can produce when I’m trying to hit the ball hard is really good!

For spin, I have rated the Evolution EL-P as 9.4. It doesn’t grip the ball as well as the more tacky Evolution MX-S, but the surface is still very good when trying to produce heavy spin on serves, heavy push receives or when playing the first opening topspin. The reaction is as you would ‘expect’ from a rubber like this – the arc increases when you improve the contact and really try to spin the ball up. The sponge is slightly softer than the Evolution MX-P, so that slight extra dwell time allows you to generate a touch more spin with a little less effort.

For control, I have rated the Evolution EL-P as 9.3. The key to this rubber is the combination of the three factors – speed, spin and control. When I’m playing quickly I still feel like I have great control. Again, the slightly softer sponge allows me that. When I’m moving from blocking to re-looping the rubbers feels so reliable and consistent, and it seems to be more forgiving and have a better margin for error than the spinier MX-S or the faster MX-P.

To sum this up, this rubber is totally ideal for those attacking players who want some variation in their attacking game. It’s meant to be an allround attacking rubber, and in this respect it does totally offer some great characteristics. The balance between speed, spin and control is brilliant. I could serve, receive, loop close to the table, loop at mid distance and also far away from the table and the feeling on all of these shots felt really good. Blocking and then turning to attack felt great as the control I was able to execute on the shots was superb.

If you are an attacking player who likes to play quick top spin shots combined with good blocking and a good all round game, this is a rubber you should check out – particularly if you do not enjoy the ‘tacky’ feeling of the MX-S or if you feel the MX-P is slightly to hard for you. The key is the sponge – with it being slightly softer, I think this rubber will suit a lot of players out there who need to add a a little bit more control to their attacking shots.

good rubber, very good choice for allround players, beginners
good choice for backhand
as forhend rubber it will be good on primorac, violin (off- or soft blades)
i not like it as forhand rubber on maze off, viscaria. soft rubber going to be uncontrollable on hard strokes, hard to make heavy topspin
rubber are very durable, after playing 2 months it still in good condition
price less than tenergy it is good, but it still too high

Very good shoes, perfect on teraflex, not so good on hard surface
durable, very light, comfortable
if u have normal weight and play on teraflex - i recommend it

i have played with this ball for some practices now and this is one of the new balls that I think I like the most. the most of the ball feels round with a good bounce and this ball feels much harder compared to other poly balls i have tried. in some way it also feels heavier when playing and i also got the impression that there is less spin in the ball but that goes in general for all the plasticballs on the market, the quality is good but some breaks a bit too easy when hitting the edge of the racket but it’s very durable compared to for example donic’s new ball that i had to change three times in one match. the nittaku 40+ is definitely a step in the right direction.

This balde is absolutely amazing for the price. I haven't tried tens of blades only a select few from yasake and nittaku. But by god this blade is so good. I use Hurricane III NEO and it compliments that rubber, like a condom in a whore house. It has great speed, control, feel, and I love the sound it gives off. Great durability I nick this blade on the table all the time it is made of steel! People complain about blocking with this blade but I feel that the blocking is great. It gives more of a low and short bounce, but I prefer that it lets me play extremely aggressive close to the table even when on defense. Honestly I have no negatives for this blade. It is definately worth a try. What do you have to lose, your not going to find many blades at a lower price.

Like many other new balls they keep disappoints me. I thought this Butterfly ball was much slower then I was expecting and I can't say that the quality satisfied me. Some were good round but many I tried felt a bit eggy, really miss the old ball.

I bought the economy Red and Black package which cost much less than buying the two seperately. But somehow I think I have bought a dud. My two sheets are totally different in character. The red is lively, shiny, tacky, soft and decent as a Chinese rubber, but the black is just the opposite in every way. It is dull, hard, no tack since new and slow. The combination of hard and no grip surface makes it very difficult to play with. Only thing that is cool is the blue sponge look. So the quality control of these super cheap rubbers was reflect on the product and made all buying down to luck.

I ordered two pairs of this rubber. The black one was 36 degrees hard and the red was 38. So this meant the red will go for forhand and the black for backhand.

Actually the rubber plays very good for this price, quite linear, there are some occasional variations. Spin is very nice, with good technique it is enormous. Speed is slow. I recommend this rubber for beginners, because this rubber needs to be swinged to actually work. But on higher level this rubber is no option.

Actually I boosted my rubbers, with a lot of oil. So when boosted speed was a bit slower than T05Fx, control was still decent, and spin was better, but still required good technique.
I tried many chinese euro style rubbers and they do have one thing in common, their sponge is not so springy as the modern ESN rubbers, so you have to alter your looping stroke a bit. Use a bit more opened angle and a bit more pushing when looping to engage the sponge harder with the ball and you wil get your fine loops.

When boosted this rubber preformes quite well and it definetly worth the price and very suitable for amateur competition level or even a for intermediate competitions.

The previous reviews are very detailed, but I would like to add some missing things.

The rubber is not or should not be labeled heavy. Actually modern attacking rubbers are nearly at the same weight, which is 0.24 grams per square milimeter in max thickness. This is totally true to Evolution MX-P, Tenergy 05, Xiom Omega IV Pro, Bluefire M1, Acuda S1 Turbo ... (actual values may vary between 0.238-0.250 g/mm2)

This rubber is a mixture of the Bluefire M2 sponge with a semi chinese topsheet like TinArc 3 (a bit softer than that). This properties give this sheet a very controlled and very linear behaviour. Tolerance for mistakes and incoming spin read is outstanding.

Boosting the rubber with oil or other stuff makes it even faster and spinnier without negative effect. The original sheet smells from some sort of belgian booster, so after a mounth I reapplied booster to restore the original size.

Durability is outstanding, no abrasions. I clean my sheet after every training and it still preformes well (90-95%) after 3 mounths (120 hours overall).

A great substitute for a DHS H3 / H3 Neo rubber.
The Xiom Vega China comes with a ESN/Tensor sponge, but pretty hard sponge.
The topsheet is pretty lively and only has a gentle tack to it (can't hold the balls for more than 3 seconds).

This is almost like a hybrid (half chinese half euro), but I will push the scale more towards Chinese for the sake of the hard sponge, which allows these benefits:
- Great service possiblities
- Great blocking possiblities

The Tensor sponges also allows a powerful forehand top spin game, from close to mid distance from the table.
The harder sponge allows a "on the bounce top spin drive" extremely deadly.

The con is the weight, as this is likely one of the heavier alternatives in the market. But if you pair it with the right blade and other rubber, the total weight can be manageable.

I recomend this to be a forehand rubber - an alternative to H3/H3 Neo.
I rank it in the range of provincial versions, and I did not tune/boost mine.
Durability went well for over 6 months of "random coaching/fun play"

Butterfly Timo Boll Spirit - The best, amazing blade with fantastic feeling! If you don't have it, buy it and you will probably never change and never regret that buy.

Faster than Acuda S2, slower than Acuda S1 Turbo, with slightly less spin than the first two. Not as good as S1T for mid-distance or away form the table play, but better for 3rd ball attack. Also it is slightly lighter. Its durability is pretty impressive.

This is pretty awesome. For a cheap cost guarantees a good product. More Power Sanwei and Dawei.

Tenergy 05 is very controllable. I like it very much. You can produce a lot of spin on the ball. It is also very durable for my rubber, mine is around maybe 2 years old.

I've been using T05 for more than 5 years on FH side and it play well with hinoki woods.
It's a perfect match, in my own opinion, suit my playing style.

A good rubbers in the market but can't compare to T05 in term of spin, speed and quality.
I used its on BH side, which suit me well. And glued it with speed glue (apply 2 layers).
Have a go since Bty rubbers so pricey these days.