What is the best alternative for Tenergy 05?

Originally Posted by Michael Zhuang

What makes Tenergy so spinny? I would imagine a soft sponge and highly grippy topsheet would generate most spin.Â

In the 80's, after the war has ended, many denizens of Middle Earth quickly found themselves to be unemployed. Soon, they descended to Normal Earth to seek their keep. Gandalf the Wizard and Galadriel the Elven Priestess, soon found themselves to be in the employment of a corporation called Butterfly Inc. Using their age-old whatchamacallit-thingamagic, they use it to create a super unearthly rubber and named it Tenergy. Soon, more denizen of Middle Earth came into employment of Butterfly Inc. The Orcs, Wargs and Uruk-Hai quickly organised themselves into the production, manufacturing and logistic part of the operation. The Tree-ents, under Treebeard leadership became their main supplier, supplying their natural sweat, err I mean latex to Butterfly Inc which is the main raw ingredient to produce Tenergy rubber.

So, back to the question, what makes Tenergy so special. It is all the above that comes together that makes Tenergy so special. End of story.

The TT Gods sent humans rules to protect from this. 100 of them.

The best alternative for T 05 has to be T 80 on forehand and T 05fx on backhand. I have heard that there are other makes of rubbers but it is against the rules of table tennis to say they are as good as Butterfly!

Pienso que hay varias opciones.
*exer y rasant de andro.
*V15 de victas*Acuda de donic talvez.
*Omega 7 euro de xiom puede ser de lo mejor aunque el precio es bastante alto.
Pero para mí la más cercana es sin duda la mxp de tibhar.
y en tt11 siempre hay 3/4.

Originally Posted by Silver smasher

The best alternative for T 05 has to be T 80 on forehand and T 05fx on backhand. I have heard that there are other makes of rubbers but it is against the rules of table tennis to say they are as good as Butterfly!

Perhaps you could change "good" to "expensive", and that would be more correct?

Try something like Yinhe Mercury or one of 100s of Chinese rubbers.
I wasted first 15 years of my life with European & Japanese rubbers from Butterfly , Stiga, Yasaks etc
Then I realized I don't really need them because these rubbers are only "needed" by pro players (who are subsidized by us amateur players for advertising, sposorship & endorsement costs, some other costs I won't mention)
But then at that time not many quality Chinese rubbers were not very high
Butterfly (& Stiga) are still the gold standard with highest quality (control) but amateur players don't need them.
Chinese quality is far more than sufficient these days for an amateur player. ( I can say these true of any Chinese product over Japanese LOL)
I order 5 or 6 sheets of Mercury for $5 each. I keep hoping they die because I can use the next sheet. But if I keep them clean, they don't seem to die.& I have about 4 or 5 extra sheets extra & ready to be changed anytime. I have not changed one in years on 3 or 4 blades I have
For a price of one Dignics I can buy 20 sheets of Mercury, which will last me 2 more lifetimes

Sriver, Mark V, Impartial, Magnitude, Feint Long Classic etc are the greatest rubbers of all time (I preferred SuperSriver over Sriver as it had more spin) .
There are other reasons I now intensely hate Japanese & European manufacturers but I will get into them later

Same goes with blades. I use a custom blade but if you want to buy a European or Japanese expensive blade, don't.
Buy a Chinese clone (I did not say knock off) first with similar or identical layer composition. If you like it then buy the real one later, if you can afford it.
If not just stick with the Chinese clone. Only diffeernce I see is higher material quality and the secret glues or epoxys used by Butterfly or Stiga etc. & quality control (even that bigger Chinese manufacturers liek RITC & DHS may have caught up)

DNA Pro ,has worked for me after my tenergy got old ,

Someone needs to repost rule 28

Aliexpress has ESN rubber GoldArc 8 for $32. I think this would be quite close to Tenergy.

Originally Posted by igorponger

Rasant 47.5 should be the next to the best

I am so so so getting the R47 next.....

Originally Posted by UpSideDownCarl

Not sure if you are joking or serious but Rasanter R 48 (not R47) is probably the spinniest rubber I have tried. It is way better than R47 and it is probably the best ESN rubber I have tried. It does not last as long as Tenergy. For the first three weeks it is way more spinny than Tenergy. Then it fades a little. But even after the ESN factory tuning wears off, it is darn good rubber.

Hi Carl,

Just saw this post of yours that was addressed to me directly.

I bought R48 couple of week ago that I have glued to one of my bat but I have not play with it yet as I am do not want to mess with my equipment too much especially during competition time. I'll be able to some feedback after my competition ends and in between tournament time, where I'll get some silly time to play around with these new set-ups.

Cheers mate.

Originally Posted by Gozo

Hi Carl,

Just saw this post of yours that was addressed to me directly.

I bought R48 couple of week ago that I have glued to one of my bat but I have not play with it yet as I am do not want to mess with my equipment too much especially during competition time. I'll be able to some feedback after my competition ends and in between tournament time, where I'll get some silly time to play around with these new set-ups.

Cheers mate.

I’ve had a sheet on for a week now - early indications are good. It feels like a slightly softer, more friendly D05 (my FH rubber) and is very spinny.