Butterfly Tackiness Drive
Friction Rubber for Wide Range of Players Designed for the controlled spin player, Tackiness Drive is equally at home for the steady looper or blistering chopper looking for more speed in his/her attack. Class: Super Spin Speed: 85
Surface: Inverted
Style: High Friction Pimples-in Rubber
Spin: 90
Hardness: 38
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Pros
- The Butterfly Tackiness-Drive is a popular choice for all-round play, offering a neutral and forgiving performance. The rubber is lightweight, soft, and very tacky, with a sticky surface strong enough to reverse the spin rotation of incoming Top Spin balls.
- The Tackiness-Drive is great for training and perfecting techniques. It offers stability, great blocking, medium speed loops, and very good spin on serve. It is also long-lasting and offers a decent balance between offense and defense.
- The Tackiness-Drive rubber is excellent for spin, with good control on serve and loops. It allows for both offensive and defensive play. Blocking is particularly effective with this rubber, and it is recommended for all-round and defensive players who can generate a lot of their own power.
Cons
- Despite its performance benefits, the Tackiness-Drive rubber has compromised durability and longevity for consistency and intense performance. It is sensitive to temperature and heat sources, becoming sticky and unusable in conditions above 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Some players find the Tackiness-Drive rubber a bit slow for forehand play and lacking in speed. It is also not recommended for new players as it may lead to the development of flawed techniques without proper coaching.
- The quality of the Tackiness-Drive rubber does not last for more than half a year, and it is considered expensive. Some players find it lacks dynamics for modern all-round play and is weak at dynamic backhand play. It also easily cracks on the edges on miss-hits.
Reviews of Butterfly Tackiness Drive (24)
However it does perform well close to table blocking. I have 1.5mm. tried chopping, but find it harder to chop as lacks bite.
Still, it's a great rubber for spin. Good spin on serves and during really with low skill. Slow but sick spin with a high skill level.
Receiving serves has never been a problem for me with this rubber. Control was basically all I could wish for no matter the thickness of the sponge.
Blocking is heavenly with this rubber and I play opponents that hit their drives like smashes. No problem returning this while even reducing some of the pace as long as you're in place.
It's a shame the quallity of the rubber don't last for more than half a year or so, as where my sriver and tackiness C easily lasted longer than a year.
Basically I'd only recomment this piece of art to defence and allround type of players that can generate a lot of own power and also go more for spin than speed.
I would never recommend this to a new player. It can seem like a great pick, probably lets you jump a level at that point but it's likely to create a flawed technique unless you got a good coach that has enough time to correct and assist you every step of the way... which is rather rare.
Ps. I played this on two off-type blades for a few years.
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