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Best Blade for Butterfly Tenergy is subjective

First of all it worth noting that everybody is different and will find various materials more or less suitable. The best blade for tenergy depends on many factors, such as your style of play, your level of play, your strengths and weaknesses etc.

Best blade for Tenergy general opinion

The thing worth noting is that tenergy already has a huge amount of dwell time (time that the ball stays on the table tennis racket before leaving) that other rubbers don't have.  So having a blade that has lots of dwell time means you will pretty much only be able to spin the ball and not much else.  If you get a blade with flex you will also be in the same boat.  (Flex means the blade actually slightly bends which can be seen in thinner bats).  Not only that the amount of spin will become so great that you will find control almost insane.   Insane that you can't hit the ball without the ball staying on your bat for 5 minutes before it leaves. 

So many players - myself included choose a bat that is stiffer and harder to still be able to hit the ball when hitting harder into the blade.  It harder and stiffer doesn't mean the fastest blade in the world - just means it will give a bit more consistency to steering the ball, I would call this control.

Most would go with some sort of carbon or carbon arylate mix in there too.  I can't go past the ishlion as the perfect blade for tenergy.   The ishlion is a harder blade and lighter which balances out the heavy weight of tenergy.

Best blade for Tenergy is a Butterfly blade.

Have you ever heard of this general concept?  I know some players around my club saying, use the same manufacturer for both the blade and rubber.  Why? Because Table Tennis companies design their products by testing them on their own products.  Now I don't really believe this but it is an interesting idea that Butterfly Tenergy rubbers should only be used on butterfly blades.  I am sure Butterfly would love this "myth" spread!

I just received this email from M. Y.:

what blade is a good match for tenergy rubber 

	 I am a two-winged female looper. I am planning to try tenergy 05 rubber, but  I have heard that tenergy is pretty hard and heavy. I am wondering what blade  goes well with tenergy 05. Please advise. Is tenergy 05 durable? If I  practice 3 hours daily, how often do I change the rubber?Should I get 1.9mm  or 2.1 mm?

 

First thing I would like to say is, I wish people would just join up at the site and post these questions on the Website, because they are useful to all of us.  It means I don't need to keep answering the same questions. 

No matter male or female Tenergy is used equally by top female table tennis players too.  Tenergy is not hard, I would say medium hard but will agree that it quite heavy.  If you play 3 hours daily then I think you  will probably change your rubber every 3 months if you want to maintain the 90-100% of the spin level.  If you happy to use a spin level drop off down to 60% of its full possibility then you can use tenergy 05 for more than a year at that rate of play.  I have sheets that are almost 2 years old which loop with spin better than most old generation rubbers.  The thickness you  get depends on your ability and blade.  If you want full power spin looping on your forehand I would suggest the 2.1.  The thinner the less speed and spin especially after the initial 3 months.

Now Which blade?  I know nothing about your style so I will say what I am using now and what most players in the world are using that are the top two winged loopers and that is a Timo Boll Spirit blade.  For a fraction less speed than that Michael Maze is also fantastic. 

If you join tenergy club you can reply and explain more about your style and there will be more comments, but for now I will say tenergy 05 2.1 on your forehand of a timo boll spirit and something much lighter and quicker on the backhand in  2mm or 1.9 mm such as bryce speed fx or Killer spin fortissimo.