For me the rubbers difference between different gears is too high. At low gear top spins like slow TS as an answer to chops, the throw is quite high and speed is slow. If you engage more into the sponge and play faster and harder TS, the throw gets lower.
For me this suits my backhand in a better way, since I play more low gears like first TS, counters, blocks, etc with it.
in addition to that, Tenergy 05 seems much faster in high gear TS to me
I don't think that Harimoto's D05 and T05 are the same D05/T05 that you and I can get from stores
Many thanks for the link. I will checkIt's always fun digging around in the various links on the page. MJ's setup, for example -
Dignics 05 and Dignics 80...
The hardness of the sponge and probably the tension.
Anything is possible I suppose. I'd prefer proof though.
There's a pro version of T05, 80 and 64 so I believe it's very plausible the pros have a pro version of Dignics as well.
It totally is plausible! And yet...no direct evidence that it's actually happening.
As an aside - what's the difference between the pro and commercial versions of T05, in your experience?
I don't have enough experience from using T05 so I can't compare directly, I own a sheet of T05 pro but not the regular T05. T05 pro is supposed to offer better grip and tension, harder sponge. Perhaps the T05 pro was rebranded to T05 hard commercially? Just my hypothesis.
I've been dragged in the past for overreaching about what the Pros use, and what use that info is, so some of this is just me being a bit devil's advocate about it all. I think there has been a (probable) trend in the past of the pros getting custom versions of rubbers (mainly sponge hardness, or best-quality stuff from the middle of a batch, and so on), so it's probable that this will be the case with Dignics as well (I'd prefer a Dignics Hard on the FH, for example, so I wonder if that's available to the Pros because that's a nice thing to wonder about). But it would be nice to have some direct evidence over and above the guesswork.
If you have flagship product released 10 years ago and still being king of the hill (at least from marketing and price/volume perspective) you have two choices: keep the cash cow running "forever" which means one day someone comes and will kick you down or release something newer even more expensive (and give your followers ultimate choice: either they will be feeding your cash cow like they did for past 10 years or they will pay even more
I believe Butterfly is doing the right thing from marketing and business perspective and I do expect price of Tenergy not going down (or just marginally) while price of new products being slightly higher (and wouldn't be surprised if initial "promotion" price is equal to Tenergy and then increased as much as 25-50% - not double how someone suggests but even 25% is hard to imagine from today's perspective and yet it can work for them).
Sorry but I totally disagree. Within your point of view ( and supposing your right ;-) ) all the rubbers would have the same results. You compare a solid component to an elastic component ( and in our case a multi modular one). The question here is how the rubber gives back the energy it has absorbed and it can´t be measured by a simple formula.This doesn't make sense. To hit the ball 22% higher would require 22% more energy. The potential energy is P.E.=mgh
where m is the mass, g is the acceleration due to gravity and h is the height.
It is sad when TT companies take advantage of the ignorance of their customers.
There is little truth in advertising.
Thanks to confirm ;-) Dignics is the significant innovation referring to the past decade , then improvements and production process are not the same...Nah, blade technologies have remained largely the same for the past 2 decades, by comparing the production process from early 2000 to 2018.
Rubber technologies haven't seen much improvement for the past decade, either. Even Butterfly admits they've approached the limits in terms of pips configuration and rubber formula.