Tenergy 05 Table Tennis Blogs

I left my bat in Thailand, so wanted to set up a new one here in Australia.  I want lighter with looping ability.

I retried a thin hard blade with f3 and tenergy 64 - hate the hard feeling after I had got used to my balsa Yasaka blade.  The f3 is too unpredictable on it.  So I then after 2 nights of play put the same rubbers on my wood blade - a cheaper Butterfly all round blade.  It is 5 ply with limba outers.  Grubba Variant which seems discontinued.

I like the big fat straight handle as it is like my yasaka blade.  The f3 played better here as it is a softer blade but still I could not get a feeling that f3 was a reliable rubber.  I found it is rubber with very little control - as I knew before it is too bouncy and has to much variety requiring very very very perfect timing to keep the ball on the table.

So having run out of tenergy 05, and not wanting to use 05 fx any more and having really gotten used to tenergy 25 fx on my other blade in Thailand - I decided to retry the original 25 on my forhand for starters.

Now I can do all my shots, everything goes where I think it should or at least there are no suprises.   I need more time playing with this combination - but it does feel pretty dam great for now.  

It is weird that after all my trials of various composites of arylate carbon zylon and various woods like hinoki etc.  I have come to a couple of unremarkable or memorable blades that are cheap nothing special in looks or promotion.  They just play with control are light and as balanced as you can get.

Night 3 - 5 hours of constant play 

Wow, I just found I could do all my shots again.  Tenergy 25 really suits this slower allround blade.  Even counterlooping from a distance was very good.  The strength as advertised: Over the table play.  I felt I could attack almost any shot at net or higher visciously.  I felt I could counter attack and loop dangerously and most importantly I felt receiving short serves on the forehand a breeze return with a variety of spin.

Because it is quite a hard rubber coming in with a short pimple kind of flat slap the easiest of all the tenergy.  

The tenergy 64 on the backhand also felt like I could counter and block and attack from off the table better than I have felt for a very very long time.  

The whole combination feels a bit heavy but not unmanagable.  

After I get back to Thailand I will compare 25 fx and original 25 more closely to decide which I think is better for my "more recent" style of staying at the table.  

Tenergy 05 I liked best on hard composite blades, but find those blades need to be heavier than 80 grams to have a correct feeling.  05 on softer wood blades as I have now turned to, feels like too much dwell for at the table play where it is often needed to be able to just hit direct the ball.

So I believe I will be sticking with a light wood straight handled blade with either 25 or 25 fx on the forehand now.  As for the backhand I will in future look at the hexer power sponge which I am considering as a lighter cheaper alternative.  I want to start trying to use forehand for everything and only use backhand when it goes there clearly.  I have in the past been to happy to move to use my backhand when it should clearly be a forehand.

Afternoon 4 

Shorter play today.  I am fully addicted to over the table play attacking almost everything with my forehand.  I wish I had a bit longer arms though - would life easier for this style.