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He was Donic-sponsored, there were pictures of him using blue-sponged rubbers both sides, and also Tenergy both sides, almost always on Butterfly blades (Mizutani, Timo Boll ALC, Freitas ALC...). He's now Butterfly-sponsored: https://www.butterfly.co.jp/players/detail/gerassimenko_kirill.html

Can you please post the link to this interview. Do you know what blade he is using?

Thanks for the review and releasing it this soon! It answered all the questions I had. PS: Dan, will you be switching to T19 on your BH?

You're right, not necessarily better, for some it might actually be and feel like it, for most not or no significant change. A lot was right about these Butterfly lines, they were new tech (and trends!), often breakthrough and needed adaptations, later followed by other manufacturers. Now...

Ah! I don't mind it, I like the colors.

I agree that there's too soft, too hard and just right for me, but that "just right" is not the same for everybody and it can depend on what you pair it with and it can also evolve with your increasing level and physical training, and taste. For me, on the FH, if I'm using a tension rubber, it...

The pros have superior technique and physical abilities especially tailored to the sport, plus all the training. For them, even with a hard tension rubber, the ball will penetrate into it, they will get the surface contact, friction and trampoline effect they want.

You mean MX-D's arc is higher? You tried it?

Great looking blades! Where in France are you located?

SP and fast inverted rubbers like T64 are fast in different ways. With the right setup, SP is going to be faster on flat hits. Rubbers like T64 will be fast for topspin, and faster than most other inverted for smashes.

I think you already sorta know the answer to your questions: It would be good to try your SP with a harder blade like a classic 7-ply (or a ALC carbon). While a one-ply hinoki is fast, it has a soft feel which works well with inverted, what most people seem to need with SP to work at full...

Hi Tom, Like IB said, the reason you're not getting that explosive spin and speed anymore is the fact that speed glue is no longer commonly used. The other reason is the 40+mm plastic ball which is slower, less bouncy and spinny than the 40mm celluloid ball or better yet the 38mm one. Tenergy...

No reason why not, but it's going to be very fast and a lot less controllable than Battle or H3

You can use the YouTube subtitles translator.

Yea, I consider 5.8mm to be thin, anything more starts to be thick, so 5.6mm and under is very thin.

They keep making tweaks not necessarily to make it better but at least to make it different, more choices. Seems like they've gotten it right many times with pretty much every Sriver, Bryce, Tenergy, Rozena, Dignics... But where they really get it right for themselves is with marketing! And...

Too soft, bottoming out would mean the rubber cannot produce anymore speed or spin on its own.

How thin, 5.3mm? Do you know what type of carbon it has?

Along what IB66 said which is great advice, you can either add grip tape to your handle or weighted tape to the bottom of the handle (https://www.tabletennis11.com/other_eng/nittaku-side-balancer) so it balances out the weight of the blade more and it won't feel as heavy. Another option would be...

Like others have said, it's similar enough to Viscaria/Timo Boll ALC/Spirit/ZJK ALC, so if you can't find reviews of it by doing a search in the forums, google or youtube, just know that's it's just a thinner (5.2mm) and therefore slightly slower more controllable clone of these blades. If you...