INNERFORCE LAYER ALC.S
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[Hardness] Little soft [Performance] Control and Spin are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 6.86
- Spin: 9.05
- Control: 9.22
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• Great for players playing close to mid distance to the table.
• Ideal for strong first ball attacks.
• Easier to create spin on the ball.
• Easy tp 'hold' the ball on the racket.
• Arylate Carbon technology
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Specifications
- Producer
- Butterfly
- Product code
- 36861,36864,36862
- Speed
- 10.1
- Touch
- 8.4
- Size
- 157 × 150mm
- Weight
- 87g
- Material
- 5W+2AC (Wood, ALC, 7 ply wood)
- Thickness
- 5.5mm
- Excellent spin and control from thin blade (5.5mm) design
- Outstanding stability and handling in front court and on-table play
- High versatility - compatible with various rubber types
- Lower speed performance limiting in back court
- Slightly heavier weight challenging for beginners
User reviews
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Inverse user (Experience: ２〜３ years)
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2018/02/04
I thought this racket is really well suited as an introduction to special material blades
There are places where it falls short if you back away from the table to drive, but you can still keep stable rallies goingOverall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) TENERGY 80
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Spin Art
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Tacky rubber user (Experience: ６〜１０ years) Moderate is best
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2018/01/31
Since the blade is thin, the flex is really great. It's also outstandingly easy to handle. I use this racket for chopping. It suits any rubber. On the forehand, it's easy to play a spin-focused style built mainly around attacks that make use of the flex, mixed in with chops. For chopping, the sharpness comes from the rubber, and when I go on the attack, I finish points with a fast push. It lets me play the ideal style. You rarely see people use a special material racket for chopping, so it's interesting. It's a really good racket that suits any playing style, so please give it a try!
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) NEO HURRICANE 3
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Asshii777 (Experience: ２〜３ years) Surprisingly strong composite feel?
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2017/12/26
Borrowed a friend's and hit with it a bit.
I hear it doesn't feel that strongly like special material compared to others in that category, but for someone like me who normally uses a wood blade, the feel was quite different.
Still, it gets spin and has speed, so I think it's a good racket. It might even work surprisingly well with tacky rubbers?Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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Drive demon (Experience: ２〜３ years) Stable?
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2017/10/10
This racket didn't bounce that much compared to other rackets. Since I was using Hurricane on my forehand, it felt even less bouncy. At first I kept catching the net, but once I got used to it, my drives started going in consistently. The speed is better than expected too. I think it's a good recommendation for anyone who wants to move from wood to a special material blade.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) NEO HURRICANE 3
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Fastarc G-1
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Ichi (Experience: ２〜３ years) Light hits feel like wood. But hit hard and...
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2017/05/29
I'm a 2nd-year junior high schooler, a close-to-mid-distance drive player, and I made the top 32 in my city. I switched from the Sanalion S half a year ago and this thing bounces a ton. Hit it lightly and it feels like wood, but sink the ball in with a soft rubber like the one above until it makes that metallic sound, and it's insane. Grazing topspin drives are easy too, and since I consider myself a power hitter, sinking the ball in on a drive gives crazy speed and spin, though of course it doesn't quite reach the speed of outer blades like Timo Boll's. For the short game, chiquita gets good spin and so do serves. Cutting pushes have good spin and are easy to do, and stops stop well too. It's insane. Well, it's not suited to people who prioritize speed. It's also not suited to power hitters who dislike special material blades. And it's not for people who dislike thin blades. I'd recommend this to players who use spin-focused techniques like loops but also play power tennis with sunk-in drives, yet lack stability. It's also good as an entry-level special material blade. This racket is an entry-level special material blade, but it has speed, spin, and control all in one — a special material blade that feels like wood on a light hit, but shows its true ALC nature when you hit hard. The rubber mentioned above is the one I'm using.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Vega Asia DF
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Vega Asia
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Sanzui (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Quick release but not much speed
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2017/05/21
I moved over from the Ma Lin Carbon. The feel leans soft and it feels nice, so I think it was worth the price. That said, my honest impression is that the speed isn't that high despite how quickly the ball leaves the blade. If you're putting long pips on it, choosing them is pretty tricky since you have to sacrifice both variation and sharpness. On the other hand, the usual awkwardness of long pips is reduced quite a bit, so shots like a simple block, just getting the ball in and touching it, felt easy. I'd guess a hard rubber would work better here than a soft one — a win-win, maybe?
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Coppa X1
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Fastarc (Experience: ６〜１０ years) ALC that doesn't feel like ALC
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2017/05/19
With the Innerforce Layer ALC, when I hit backhand or forehand shots, the ball
would fly off before the spin really took hold after hitting the blade,
so it flew in a straight line and wasn't very stable, which is why
I switched to this racket.
The blade turned out to be thinner than I expected,
and since it doesn't bounce that much but gets solid spin on the ball before it flies off, it arcs nicely into the opponent's court,
so it's stable. But when smashing or hitting a hard drive, it's fast enough that you'd think it was ALC, and the spin is tremendous too.
Since switching to this, I've been able to beat opponents I'd never beaten before.
I really think it's worth using.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Fastarc G-1
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Tenergy 80-FX
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