Table Tennis Rubber Blade

Butterfly Tenergy 64 - speed effect

Tenergy 64 is the fastest attacking butterfly tenergy rubber

Tenergy 64's speed

With the speed rating by butterfly at 13.5, it is only 0.5 slower than the fastest rubber Bryce Speed 14. Everyone says its very dynamic in how quick it works in a number of broader gears.  Some even defy Butterfly the company and say it is faster than Bryce Speed.  It has that butterfly punch feeling even though it leans a touch more toward the loop side.

After reading around on the internet and various table tennis forums there seems to be a disagreement over whether or not speed glue can be applied to Tenergy without negatively affecting its playing properties.

On one hand there are forum users claiming that the speed glue fills up the porous sponge of the rubber, effectively stripping the Tenergy sheet of it's main weapon - the sponge itself. It's claimed that when the sponge becomes filled with the speed glue it becomes a bit "mushy" thus losing its springiness.

I had my first hit back here in Brisbane today for quite a few hours and I am happy my level seems to be the same as when I left.   I had a quick hit with my t05 fx t64 table tennis master combination and got quickly bored of it against both players compared to using tenergy 05 original with blitz on my yasaka blade.

Just as butterfly has often done, the first of a series was the best combination for the top players. Bryce original was hugely successful just as Sriver was etc compared to all the other variants that follow.

Tenergy 05 is the most used forehand rubber and often backhand, then 64, then 25, then 05 fx, then 25 fx.

So I told you why but I didn't tell who uses tenergy 05 fx. I am on my third sheet of tenergy 05 fx but you will not find many if any top players using it because it is not fast enough.

To replace a table tennis rubber first you should remove the old sheet. Just pull it up slowly bit by bit from different angles. If it isn't coming off you may have to expect that the rubber will come off ripped up. If it has been commercially attached as a premade bat you probably can expect that not only will you need very strong chemicals to remove it, such as acetone or turpentine, you will also need to sand the remaining sponge residue and glue to get a smoothe finish again.