Picking up Butterfly Lin Gaoyuan ALC

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Ok seems like the blade I'm looking for.
May I throw in a curve ball and also ask your opinion of this one[h3]Nittaku Acoustic Carbon or nittaku acoustic carbon inner[/h3]
Read alot and it's also a contender in my opinion want to order a new racket today
So I'm thinking stiga Dna Pro M för BH and nittaku fastarc on FH.

Think that will be a good compromise

Originally Posted by Zion

Bought a slightly different racket yesterday.
A butterfly Zhang Jike ALC with Stiga dna pro M on BH and nittaku fastarc G-1 2.1 on FH. Let's see how these rubbers perform on this racket.

Hope you'll enjoy the DNA Pro M as much as I did on a Viscaria

To me, ZJK ALC or LGY ALC are only signature versions of the Viscaria, those players were notorious for using Viscaria as the vast majority of the CNT members, even a regular (not "Golden") one for ZJK. If really there are some differences, I don't think it's that much noticeable. Even BTY rates those blades exactly the same on its chart, the TB ALC being different because of its slightly different design.

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I recently sold my Lin Gaoyuan ALC to a friend at the local club, she picked Stiga DNA Platinum M, and Butterfly Tenergy 19. She plays in NCTTA, and has a 2100-2200 USATT rating if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Konrad Bak

man I don't know how to elaborate with my English which is bad.
For me thickness of handle, the wings, gluing of handle, hardness of handle, gluing of different handle material, qc of material is different in every koto alc blades.
LGY ALC is soft as KH, and has long high throw, and every shots are going long, which can be good choice for D09C but it is really soft and you can feel how much you can feel ball pressure on handle but it is better 1-2 metres away, good alternative for limba alc with more direct shots..

ZJK ALC is harder because handle absorbs some energy which add some extra HOLD to the top and gives you more natural force if you have enough force in wrist to put the energy to handle, for me it is better choice for blocking style or aggressive in table play but the most important thing is your size of hands. Big size hands = you will like it you will put more force to the ball and be more aggressive after ball kick.

Viscaria alc, for me it is medium soft, for me is the most allround blade for using hard chinese rubbers, you can play passive and aggressive and the weight is more on the low side, which is more on the wings+handle,
sometimes the weight balance is medium (low weight of blade, empty feeling) but top of the handle is narrow, it gives good flex and forward speed it is wrist friendly because just to get good amount of speed you will move your wrist faster.
If LGY (in moving the ball to forward) is very speedy, Viscaria is only speed friendly and ZJK is not moving forward the ball very fast.

TB ALC, for me the sharpest, the most aggressive it is like pimped by F1 team and it gives you careless feeling what type of rotation your opponents put on your side if you read the time, the amount of spin and your stroke is really good, you will use opponents quality to play more quality balls but you must be very good because if you are not in the zone you will get too much errors.

And for example, not specific numbers around 1000 hours later and 20 glued rubbers, the material koto alc is deforming and glue will pull away the SPEED of fabric glued koto-alc material which makes every blade very near their own formula. People after changes must stay with the same handle because if it suits you, what you can change?
AND another opinion. the characteristic of every blade can be different because wood sink in arylate carbon and the characteristic of "the blade" will be the same because sometimes artificial material absorbs the characteristic of blade it is known as every koto alc is glass feeling by polish bad quality reviewer, I don't call his name.

like 95 grams of Viscaria can play similiar to 95 grams TB ALC but you will get 95 grams (not Golden version of Viscaria) I doubt it.
Viscaria is around 80-86 but you can find 90 grams too.
TB ALC 85-90 grams
ZJK ALC 3 badges around 88-90 grams that's why if I can compare 90 grams of TB ALC,
I will put in SPEED test TBALC=>VIS>>ZJKALC
84 grams of LGY ALC for me was softer and faster than 90 grams of any koto alc but of course it is opinion, you can get your opinion and buy 4 blades with the same weight in butterfly store and I will listen your opinion

I would trust you if you believed there were some differences between recent blades and old ones. I've tested a black tag TB Spirit for example, ad I was surprised how it was controlable, but that's kind of normal: a new blade is always faster than the same being 4 or 5 years older, and 5 grams doesn't affect that much the sensations : I'm a musician since I'm a child, I can tell you that a 7 or 8% difference in a Dunlop .88 mm nylon plectrum weight does not affect that much the feeling and the strokes on a guitar... no guitar legend weights his plectrums before putting them in his pocket or on the mike's stand, the thickness of the material, directly related to its flexibility so, matters way much than the weight.

Jia Nan Yuan recently switched to a Golden Viscaria because her old TB Spirit was indeed becoming... slow, and she needed more power. Her recent successful matches , either in mixed doubles or single vs Mima Ito, prove her right. I've also seen her training IRL with a regular Viscaria vs french pro A guys (her husband being the RPB chinese player Chen Tian Yuan, ranked french n°6) and she didn't seem to complain about any difference in feeling. Maybe a slower version with the regular Viscaria was helping her controlling the men's power... ?

I've also tested a 2 years old LGY too, it felt similar to my Viscaria, it was 5 grams lighter than my 92 grams visca... I've tested a quite new TB ALC also at the same time, no really big differences, maybe the handle... maybe stiffer... only the top pros can feel any difference, I could because I'm familiar with wood reactions and vibrations because of my music training since 40+ years, but it's seriously difficult to tell how it translates into TT for an amateur player like I am.

As in music instrument, how the wood ages is by far way more important.

The rest to me is... a fancy hype for EJs.