Ai Fukuhara PRO · ZLF [Discontinued]
| Everyone's rating |
[Hardness] Little soft [Performance] Spin and Speed are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 8.26
- Spin: 8.32
- Control: 8.11
- Players aiming to speedy play in front of team
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Supervision model of Ai Fukuhara player. ZL fiber lightweight, to the excellent performance of high resilience, by providing the "grab the ball" sense of inner fiber design, it is a racket that enables speedy play in the front-end.
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Specifications
- Producer
- Butterfly
- Product code
- 36671,36672,36674
- Speed
- Mid-Fast
- Touch
- soft
- Weight
- 85g
- Material
- Five, ZL fiber (Wood, ZL carbon, 7 ply wood)
- Thickness
- 5.8mm
Players use Ai Fukuhara PRO · ZLF
- Natural ball contact feel close to wood with minimal discomfort
- Optimized performance for front-court fast attacks and flat hits
- Lightweight with good swing speed and easy switching
- Anatomic narrow grip design for comfortable handling
- Balanced capability in both loop drive and attacking play
User reviews
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Okonomi mashi (Experience: ６〜１０ years)
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2017/12/26
It has way more pop than I expected.
Meeting the ball straight on is easy, but I think the short game takes some getting used to before it clicks.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Flyatt Spin
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butterfly (Experience: More than ２０ years) Excellent stability
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2017/12/16
I used it myself and it was really great, but when I let my child use it, their stability and power both improved compared to before. Serves, attacking, receiving, the short game — I can watch all of it with confidence now. My child also says they don't have to rush as much anymore. Before this, they were using a ZLF blade, but with this blade the bounce is just right and they look like they're hitting comfortably.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Tenergy 64
Recommended rubber (Backhand) ROZENA
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Megumin (Experience: ４〜５ years) Light
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2017/07/26
It's very light, so the swing-through feels light and it produces speed. I think it can be used widely, from beginners to advanced players?
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) TENERGY 05
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Vega Japan
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Sho-go (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Almost all wood
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2017/07/01
A friend of mine has this, and they let me hit with it, so I wanted to write about it.
First, maybe because I'd just been using a harder special-material blade beforehand, the feel was almost indistinguishable from wood.
Personally, it had been a while since I felt a blade flex this much.
Comparing it to other 5-ply blades, it's definitely a little harder, and I felt just a hint of ZLF.
It has a decent amount of bounce too, with a sense of launching the ball off the flex, so it seems like it would also pair well with tacky rubber.
And since it's used by Ai Fukuhara, I also felt it's a blade that brings out the strengths of variation-type rubbers like Attack 8 well.
Also, the grip is thin and designed to be easy for women to hold too, so I think it's a satisfying blade for players who play close to the table.
It's definitely not a cheap blade, but if the ball control, bounce, rubber compatibility, and feel all line up well for you, I think it's a blade worth the price.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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AYA 12345 (Experience: １１〜２０ years) A blend of 5-ply and 7-ply characteristics
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2017/05/28
It has a special material in the inner ply, but overall it plays like a wood plywood blade. It has properties of both a typical 5-ply blade (like the Acoustic) and a 7-ply blade (like the Clipper Wood). The unique traits of this blade are: "the plywood is a bit thick, and even though it's a blade that's easy to drive with, flat hitting is also fairly easy to do," and "the blade head is on the smaller side, so the total racket weight doesn't get too heavy even with heavy rubber mounted."
■Bounce
5-ply < Ai Fukuhara Pro << 7-ply: it bounces just a bit more than a 5-ply.■Ease of driving
7-ply < Ai Fukuhara Pro < 5-ply: it's roughly in between a 5-ply and a 7-ply.■Ease of flat hitting
5-ply << Ai Fukuhara Pro < 7-ply: close to a 7-ply.■Weight with rubber mounted
Ai Fukuhara Pro < 5-ply < 7-ply: even with heavy rubber mounted, you can still handle it close to the table.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) GFT48
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Spectrum · 21 sponge
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Utah (Experience: ４〜５ years)
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2016/10/02
This was the first carbon blade I ever used.
First of all, it's very light, so it doesn't get too heavy even with max-thickness rubber on both sides.
The grip is thin and easy to hold.
I never had it slip out of my hand.
The feel gives you a sense of holding the ball, so you can hit with real confidence, which also makes it easy to control.
Speed comes easily, so if you stay conscious of adding spin you can hit a well-balanced ball.
It's not very picky about rubbers either, so I'd recommend it.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Rakza 7
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Fastarc G-1
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Taro (Experience: Less than a year) Easy to use even for beginners
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2016/08/17
I'm a beginner and bought this as my first blade.
The blade thickness makes meet hits easy, and since it's light, switching between forehand and backhand was easy too.
Since it's supervised by Ai Fukuhara, it paired excellently with Spinart and Attack 8.
For an inner-ply blade, it has good bounce, so if you sink the ball in you get more speed than expected.
The grip is on the thin side, which I personally like.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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