Tenergy 05 and 64 rubber needs a blade that is harder

People often talk about what is the best blade for Tenergy.   Everybody is different but the general consensus seems to lean toward - tenergy plays best on a hard blade.   Harder blades have a lower throw angle and help manage tenergy's high throw angle.  Next, how do you know if it is soft or hard?  Well, a hard blade is more speed than spin orientated.  It is for smashing.

Extreme example: A wooden paddle that is composed with a really thin hard wood veneer (something like Paduk) followed by the hardest material = carbon under it, and then more hard wood under that.  When the ball hits into this it is like bouncing the ball on the table or on hitting it into a glass window.  There is less energy lost, less dwell time, less affected by spin and cannot impart as much spin.  The ball bounces up high as more of the energy is transfered into rebounding the ball.

Then lets take an extreme hypothetical opposite.  A super soft blade would be a 1 ply balsa wood (soft wood).  When the ball impacts its like dropping the ball on a blanket, the energy is lost into the surface, the ball doesnt want to bounce off.  By hanging around longer before bouncing you can be affected by more spin and give more spin.

These are extreme examples. 

If you don't know if a material is soft or hard then try pushing your nail into the wood (somewhere on the blade not used for hitting the ball).  You will see even softly doing this will leave an indent on soft woods and nothing on hard woods.

Finally get 2 blades and try bouncing the ball on them without the rubbers on them.  I have always found that a higher pitched sound means it is harder.  Don't mistake higher pitch for louder.  Louder just comes from more hollow - such as balsa core blades. 

Tenergy 25 on hard blade or soft blade

However, Tenergy 25 plays the hardest in the series and has the lowest throw angle.  Also Tenergy 25 plays the most like Chinese drive rubbers.  Chinese rubbers are best suited to all wood softer slower blades.  Tenergy 25 plays better on these softer blades.

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