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Actually these hybrid sticky + cake sponged rubbers are quite difficult to make a proper high arc ball that has a lot of spin. If you overcook your loop you will not hit the table, it will go long. In this regards I agree with brokenball that a high arc but low spin ball is counterproductive. I...

This is not always true if one can loop good. Players intentionally let the ball drop below the table and make a high arc and it barely passes over the net and blocking, flat hitting or countering those is very difficult. Not to mention that some table + ball combinations make the ball...

Yes, I agree with most of this. I found with koto top ply you need to have more of an upward swing motion since the koto just shoots the ball forward and doesn't lift so much, while with limba during your stroke you need to push the ball forward, otherwise your shot will be too slow/soft, since...

I had a brief play with T19 and it felt good. For me it feels softer than T05, T80 maybe even felt softer than Rozena for that matter. I think it is more suitable for physically weaker players or BH as it gave quite a bit of speed with not much effort and has a better bite than other tenergies...

You could consider the Tibhar K2. It's still pretty cheap on aliexpress and it's a solid hybrid rubber from ESN (if not the most solid). More oriented to the impact shots in my opinion, it doesn't lack spin, but it's not as spinny as Hurricanes or D09c, but for impact play and blocking it's...

You should try Hurricane 8-80 is you want something in between D09c and H3. Doesn't need any boosting.

I tried it on my Ice Cream AZX on the ZLC side. I have to say it's funny that on the Eucrasia it felt that the rubber is not so fast on BH, more stable not so rapid, but on an outer blade it feels quite fast indeed. It still has the transparancy, stable as hell, maybe feels softer too? On the...

Just a thought regarding the companies making blades buying the veneer from furniture companies. I guess it explains why there are so few type of wood being used. I don't really know the used wood on defensive blades, those might be a bit of an exception but like allround and offensive blades...

For sure there are special DHS sellers in China and by that I don't mean prott, but actual DHS brand shops that have different conditions. It wouldn't surprise me that Guangzhou or wherever prott is based had a shop like that. So they can just get it from there? Prott has more buying power than...

Yeah, it's funny how well it works out, right?

I just realized that DHS is literally cutting corners 😂

How does the K2 stack up against the Rakza Z? Their topsheets are similar? I really like the K2, probably the best ESN rubber for FH that I seen so far. I wouldn't call it very spinny, doesn't have much bite either, but it still works well in most cases. It's not heavy either, doesn't shrink...

I think also it will be for the non-pro market, but 39 deg is fine, you probably don't need to boost if you don't want to. The 42deg versions the pros are using must be very unfriendly without boosting. But it's also possible that some pros will put this H9 on BH. Liang Jingkun experimented with...

You are right, but I just meant artificially you can make the wood more dry. I'm not very concerned about how dry a blade is tbh, but I do notice that brand new blades are always super dry and after some use they must absorb some humidity since they no longer feel so dry. They also get a few...

I had a Fang Bo 2X blade and it didn't have Fang Bo's face either just the cup as yours. But I still had the old box, that had Fang Bo on it. I don't see any reason to make fakes of such a cheap blade. It's not even that desireable to begin with.

Well not really value for money, since they are quite expensive too. The IC AZX is quite well priced, but for example the Trinity from Joola is way too expensive at around 250EUR. That I would say is more expensive than BTY. Again the AZXi seems too pricey and so are the Calderano blades, they...

I think older blades are less dry. They absorb sweat and humidity over the years. New blades always feel very dry, "artificially" you can dry wood much better. I experience this a lot with newer BTY blades, not just one. I don't think it's a faulty blade, definietely not a rubber or gluejob...

I also think that premium blade prices are not justified. Like Butterfly I can even understand since they actually sponsor a ton of pro players, but it's not like Joola or Xiom etc have that many sponsored players and their blades aren't much cheaper if at all. The ply evenness is very good...

Sorry for the "clickbait" title, I don't want to call you out actually. I am not blade maker just a player who has subjective opinions, but you have maybe hundreds of blade manufacturing behind you and can give good insight. I am curious on your insight on recent Butterfly blades.(from the past...