Customer review for Butterfly Tenergy 80-FX

External Review for Butterfly Tenergy 80-FX on September 17, 2014

Me: modern defense with feint long 3 long pips on the BH and inverted rubber on the FH on butterfly def 3. FH is for offense, not chopping.

I speculate butterfly made this rubber because the common saying "beginners should not use tenergy" hurts their sales.

Well, I am very confident this is suitable for a beginner. By beginner I mean one knows all the basic strokes and when to use them, and plans to learn the advanced ones.

This rubber makes difficult shots easy. To date, I can execute the ghost serve the easiest with this rubber, even compared to the sticky Chinese rubbers I used to use. The spin is almost as good as the Chinese rubbers, but the control is higher. It's easy to return serve short and set up a fourth ball attack. Lifting backspin is very easy even when not using the entire body in the stroke. This rubber is insensitive to incoming spin. I don't recall having any problems flicking the ball either.

These were my experiences after 3 or 4 sessions with this rubber. However, I subsequently took it off and replaced it with tenergy 05, with which I am much happier.

The throw angle in the 80fx is low. Also, generating deadly spin on loops takes a lot of effort. I'm used to varying the spin by striking the ball at varying distances from the equator of the ball. Doing this with the 80fx sent balls off the table. A very deliberate brush at the desired speed is needed. Unlike other modern rubbers, speed and spin are very linear. There isn't any "magic arc" as the 05 or "pop forward" like other spring sponges. Don't get me wrong, I could vary the topspin enough to mess with people, but it takes a lot of stroke to do it.

Speed is medium, with a lot of gears. Most of the players at my club are offensive ones, and in forehand rallies, I didn't feel outgunned speed-wise.

Overall, it's a quality rubber. It will help some peoples' game, but others less so. The tenergy 05 is unquestionably faster and spinnier so I'm sticking with 05.

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