Butterfly Jun Mizutani ZLC

For me for now the only downside with this blade is that my playing level is too low to control this beast to the level that I have some stability in my play, especially so when someone return my first or second attack, I just too slow to react, the faster ball (and the more rotation it have) I loop to my opponent, the faster and with more rotation it return to me... I played with Apolonia ZLC blade before, and still play with it sometimes, IMO Apolonia and Mizutani ZLC is quite alike, but Apolonia ZLC is slower and have more vibrations, but Apolonia ZLC not create so much power and spin that can produce Mizutani ZLC, so now I have a dilemma, with Apolonia I have more stability, but Mizutani is more dangerous for my opponents and I like the "feel" of it more, for now overall on tournaments my results is quite the same when I use Apolonia ZLC or Mizutani ZLC, so I think that with Mizutani ZLC my play have more potential, but only if I manage to "tame" it a bit more, if I can't then will probably go back to Apolonia ZLC blade...

As for general "type of play" cons, IMHO Mizutani ZLC (as well as Apolonia ZLC) not for a close to the table type of play, it's a blade for a loop and counter loop play in the middle and far from the table zones with a lot of rotation involved...

FYI, the picture is old. It now looks like JM SZLC but with white lines instead of yellow. Its also 5+2 ply unlike the description which gives 3+2. This blade has great feel and feedback as the ZLC flexes and transmit vibration of the ball well, the top ply is also limba which helps. Looping is great as the ZLC flexes and provides dwell time but the ball will travel fast once it leaves the blade so you have the best of both worlds. Seems to compliment a chinese full arm style loop but europeon style works but not as well. You do have to come forward more and hit the ball slightly to the side which makes looping backspin on the BH tricky. Definately more suitable for 1 wing loopers who step around on the BH side.Punching and flicking is surprisingly great even against backspin. Counterlooping is amazing as the soft wood and ZLC will negate some spin and power from your opponents loop, this increases your margin of error. Throw angle is abit low but that could be due to my rubbers which also have low throw. Touch is controllable once you know the treshold of force that causes the zlc to flex. Any force below this treshold will cause the blade to play like an all wood blade. The treshold is quite low so be careful if you have bad touch. Similar to touch, the serve is tricky as sometimes you will engage the carbon and sometimes you dont. Due to the nature of serving, its harder to control when and where the the ZLC comes into play but with practice I'm sure this wont be an issue.

Overall a great blade. I like to refer it as the ZLC version of Viscaria. I believe anyone who can control ALC can control ZLC with practice and vice versa, the only reason you want to choose ZLC is for the playstyle it supports which is does for me.

It is very fast blade.Passive block is awesome.Serve , loop , smash , drive are very good.
This is awesome blade for higher level and professional player.very expensive.

This is one of my favourite blades to date. Compared to other ZLC blades (apart from the innerforce) it has a really nice feel to it which sounds more woody when coming into contact with the ball. I was using tenergy 05 on both sides and what i found was that it was very quick when it came to close to table game, making things like flicking much more difficult compared to an ALC blade.
Despite this, when you start looping close to mid distance it was a beauty as it had power and quite a lot of dwell time for a ZLC blade (which is still much less than an ALC blade in my opinion hence why i had to change)

Changed from Kong Linghui Special. This blade can handle play close and away from the table. Great for spinny loops and has more than enough power for put away shots. Dwell time is good for service and short play. This blade is made for tenergy but it can also go with other medium-hard rubbers.