Butterfly Table Tennis Rubber Spin Art compared to Tenergy
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Butterfly Spinart - Spin Art
Spin Art boasts to offer a tacky rubber on top of the Tenergy sponge. But its spin rating is the same as tenergy 05's.
In the early part of 2009 there was some talk about a few Japanese players, such as Ai Fukuhara, and Hirano sayaka who were reported to having switched from their old Hurricane's to a new rubber from butterfly known as SPIN ART. The stamp for the rubber was approved by the ITTF quite a long time ago although it has not been released to the public yet. It now finally appears this more "Chinese style" rubber might have been released in China and will possibly be released world wide by April 2010. Supposedly in Japan on the 21st.
The qualities of the Spin Art rubber are quite distinct.
Butterfly is well known for having its own hardness scales. For example it's softest high tension rubber is solcion at 28 degrees and everyone knows that actually means 38 degrees or more. So you can only imagine that if Spin Art is 48 degrees then this will be one of the hardest rocks on the planet. It will be hard to imagine why spring sponge would be used or how it could be the "spring sponge" we all know. It will also be one of the heaviest rubbers you could ever use. Spin Art is reported to weighing over 70 grams uncut, which probably means over 50 grams when cut to fit your blade in a maximum thickness. I think a few people will be using the lightest rubber they can find on the other side to balance this out.
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The Spin art SPIN
The spin will not be more than Tenergy 05 (going by butterfly speed and spin ratings) even though Spin Art will have a tacky topsheet with spring sponge under it! Both Tenergy 05 and Spin Art are rated with a 11.5 spin rating. And the speed will be much slower than any of the first generation tenergies. Even though a rubber has a tacky topsheet, it doesn't mean it will play overall with more spin. The pip structure and the sponge are of paramount importance to the equation. A very hard sponge though, makes consistant looping more difficult.
Speed is 11.9
Spin 11.5
Sponge 48!!!!!!!!
So it looks like a hard tenergy spring sponge + tackiness topsheet with a much more equal spin to speed ratio. If we make some more of our own inferences though, the hardness will give the user much more control in the short game very similar to the way tenergy 25 is less bouncy and easier to control in the short game. The tackier topsheet and the less forward kicking bounce will also give some very good serves, don't you think?
Also the new fx series will be a great softer contrast to balance out the weight of the blade.
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SPIN ART is heavier than 05,64
Submitted by tenajisu on 17 April 2010 - 8:50pm.Received this butterfly table tennis info from TT-Japan.
Ping Pong Paddles with max speed & spin
Submitted by TT energy on 18 April 2010 - 3:05pm.Players that want maximum spin and good see will agree it is good to see it has finally been released somewhere. The fact that it is heavier is a no brainer though. Density almost always = weight. BUTTERFLY SPIN ART seems pretty good yea.
This is definately going to create a 10 spin rated paddle, I love top new tt rubbers... Butterfly owns table tennis, but will this rubber get beyond an h3? who knows.
For the same volume, more density always equals more weight.
Submitted by pnachtwey on 25 April 2010 - 6:29pm.Not almost always, always when the the volumes are equal.
There is little that can be disputed here. This is an engineering geeky physical fact.
I have made a post on another forum about the weights of rubbers since I too prefer less weight. I have found that the quality control is not that good because the weight per square cm is not that consistent even for a high priced rubber like T05. The difference may not be noticeable but it is measurable.
chinese rubber similar to japanese rubbers
Submitted by Licyalill on 22 May 2010 - 10:09pm.ping pong rubber weight
This seems like a Japanese rubber similar to a Chinese rubber. What about chinese rubbers that are similar to japanese rubbers?
The reason the Butterfly rubber weight and paddle weights are usually heavier is interlinked with their quality. Light is always less durable easier to break, tear etc.
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Submitted by emoncange on 17 November 2010 - 11:50pm.I am just surprised that not more players have taken up this as their number one spin rubber. The sport of table tennis is confusing in that way. I really thought that spin art might replace tenergy in popularity, yet it almost seems not worth it compared to tenergy's performance and Chinese rubbers a quater of the price.
T05 does well at the spin game too
Submitted by pnachtwey on 18 November 2010 - 4:27am.There is a person at the club that plays close to the table with T05 on both sides. He doesn't loop. He hits balls and uses his wrist to add spin. It is very deceptive as there are no big swings. It slows down the game a lot because one is always trying to estimate the spin and figure out the best way to get the ball back. He is as bad as playing some one with LPs. The spin may not be as great with T05 and using just the wrist but the deception is high. I haven't beat him yet and have felt 'out gunned' with my Apollo and Mark V. The next time I hope to have my T05 or by new blocker paddle.
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Submitted by TT energy on 18 November 2010 - 8:55am.I know of this sort of player. They more often than not also overweight. They put in lots of time playing, so are actually good, but do everything they can not to move. And yes tenergy will lend itself to smaller strokes much much more than a Chinese rubber or spin art.
Tenergy has the spin and speed to do very little and reward you even more when you do a full powered stroke.
I played last night again and I am sure tenergy 05 is staying on my defensive blade now. I love it is perfect on my backhand just still not sure about the tenergy 05 fx on my fh STILL.
I actually love the fx on fh for everything now except one major shot. The fast counter loop a metre back, I want regular.
Ai Fukuhara uses Nittaku Acoustic Spin Art
Submitted by dstamat on 24 November 2010 - 9:00am.Nittaku Acoustic
Spin Art
spin art review
Submitted by TT energy on 12 December 2010 - 3:10pm.Now that I have heard so much about the new tacky tensor out by Palio: Thor's I wonder how it would compare to spin art in a review. Nicefrog?