SK7 Classic
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[Hardness] Little hard [Performance] Speed and Spin are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 8.8
- Spin: 8.01
- Control: 7.99
- Reprint model of old classics "SK7"
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Jun wood seven plywood racket royal road there is a use track record of top players, appeared in a new guise. And the power of seven plywood, will not have the pure wood racket peculiar delicate sense. It is recommended for players who seek a dynamic and delicate play.
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Specifications
- Producer
- Butterfly
- Product code
- 36881,36884
- Speed
- 11.1
- Touch
- 9.3
- Size
- 157 × 150mm
- Weight
- 91g g
- Material
- Wood, 7 ply wood
- Thickness
- 6.8mm
- 7-ply construction creates weight and hardness enabling powerful shots
- Excellent feel and control characteristic of wood material rackets
- Strong balance of speed and spin, particularly effective for drives
- Requires player strength and technique; unsuitable for beginners
- Great value compared to carbon rackets, appeals to feel-focused players
User reviews
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Ume-chan (Experience: ２〜３ years)
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2017/06/02
Being a 7-ply wood blade, it feels a bit heavy, but you can immediately tell when you hit the sweet spot, so I'd recommend it as a second blade or so. I've also put Hurricane and Skyline on it in the past, and it was easy to use with both, so I think it's a blade that works with pretty much any rubber.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) ROZENA
Recommended rubber (Backhand) TENERGY 80
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Takutaku (Experience: ４〜５ years) Easy to use
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2026/05/16
The first thing I noticed trying the SK7 Classic was, "this is all wood, but the shots have serious power."
True to a 7-ply blade, the feel off the blade is solid, and driving produces some pretty heavy shots. It pairs especially well with Tenergy 05 — the arc and spin on loop drives feel great.Blocks and counters also feel stable, and I didn't feel like I lost out to my opponent's power shots. It's not the kind of blade that flies on its own like an inner-carbon blade — it only flies as much as you put into your own swing, so there's a real sense of "playing table tennis on my own terms."
On the flip side, the weight is on the heavier side, so swinging with just your arm tires you out fast. But for someone who can swing using their whole body, I think it can become quite the weapon.
Overall, the balance of speed, stability, and feel is great — it keeps that satisfying wood-blade feeling while still delivering power, making it a really fun blade for attacking players.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) TENERGY 05
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Tenergy 64
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The Battle of Minoshima! Also great for single-sided penhold
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2026/04/04
If you want to play penhold Chinese-style with rubber on one side, this is the one.
It has real thickness, and the bounce is guaranteed too.
It's not easily affected by your opponent's spin, so you can commit fully to your shots.
That said, some units run heavy, so watch out for that.
For now, put on a Tenergy or Dignics and overpower everyone.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Tenergy 64
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2025/06/29
I've used three units — FL at 90g, 93g, and 87g.
If you want to use this type of blade, I'd recommend picking the heaviest individual unit you can still swing comfortably.
For a blade with no special materials, the bounce and feel off the blade change quite a bit depending on how dense the wood is.
The 87g and 93g units in particular differ so much you'd think they were two completely different blades.As a blade it checks the thick, fast, and heavy boxes, but surprisingly you can also feel the wood holding onto the ball.
Since the board is thick, it's less about flex and more about the outer limba layer gripping the ball, I'd say. The ball comes off fairly quickly, but not too quickly — that balance is spot on.
True to wood, the appeal is in the slight variation in shot quality and the heavy shots it produces. That said, there's no help from any special material, so it all comes down to your own power.
Lifting backspin really tests your technique, so whether you can swing through there or not is a good way to decide if this blade is right for you.Aside from the sound on contact not quite being to my taste, this is a really excellent blade, especially combined with the value for money.
Compared to Innerforce-type grips, this one is rounded rather than angular, so it feels a little thinner.
The balance point is also more central to hand-side, so it's easy not to notice the weight as much, which is another plus.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
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Gen Hogan (Experience: More than ２０ years) Flies well, heavy ball
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2025/06/17
It's been half a year since I got back into large-ball table tennis, and I can't get enough of my weekly practice sessions.
In my last review, I was impressed by how the Nittaku Miyabi FL felt like it grabbed the ball. I got a little greedy and bought a second blade. Special materials like carbon fly well and seemed ideal for large-ball play, but the feel off the blade is harder to sense, and the price is high too, so instead I bought the Butterfly SK7 Classic — a cheap, bouncy, 7-ply wood blade. The value for money is excellent.
The Miyabi has Royal Prince max thickness on both sides for a total weight of 129g, while the SK7 has Allegro Max on both sides, coming to 147g.
With the SK7, at first the ball flew too much and went long off the table a lot, but from my third practice session I got used to it and started getting deep shots in.
I had my opponent hit with both blades, and I also received shots from both and asked for their impressions. They said the Miyabi doesn't fly much, and the SK7 makes the ball feel heavy. From my own experience, the SK7 flies well, but when it comes to smash control aimed at a corner of the opponent's court, the Miyabi seems more precise. For now I think I'll spend some time getting used to the SK7.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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Ordinary person (Experience: １１〜２０ years)
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2025/03/15
This blade assumes you can already swing through properly!
If you try to swing it using only your arm (from the upper arm down), it's a pretty heavy, hard-to-handle blade. But if you can swing by rotating fully from your shoulder blades, linked with your lower body, you should be able to handle it reasonably well!
Weight = on the heavy side
Spin = lower-mid
Speed = upper-mid
How forgiving it is = upper-mid
Fun factor = high (I think players with a career going back to the Showa era will really enjoy this)Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
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Pro beginner (Experience: ２〜３ years) Great speed
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2024/11/16
I was originally using a 5-ply blade, and when I switched to this one I was surprised at how much it bounced. And being 7-ply, it feels heavy — depending on the hardness and thickness of the rubber you use, the total weight can end up over 195g, so you might need to adjust for that. Being wood, it holds the ball to a certain degree, but since it's a blade that flies fairly well, loop drives might be a bit harder to put on. Then again, that's probably just my own skill
Backhand short pips were easy to play too. And it looks cool, so I'd recommend it as a second or third blade.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
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