HURRICANE LONG 5
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[Hardness] Medium hardness [Performance] Speed and Spin are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 9.44
- Spin: 9.22
- Control: 8.6
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Hurricane Long 5 adopts 7-ply aryl-carbon fiberboard with Pith-Film tech, offering great power and stable control. It is continuing Ma Long’s quick and changeable style featuring swift shift between attack and defense. In the upcoming 2014, a new era of new material T.T.balls, HurricaneLong5 will be the top choice of Ma Long.
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Specifications
- Producer
- DHS
- Product code
- NC-0368
- Weight
- 89g ± 3
- Material
- 5+2 (Wood, ALC, 7 ply wood)
- Thickness
- 5.9mm
Players use HURRICANE LONG 5
- Remarkable speed and elasticity unexpected for inner material
- Exceptional spin performance when paired with sticky rubbers
- Slim grip provides excellent operability and stable play techniques
- Tension rubbers cause excessive speed making control difficult
- Requires advanced skill level, unsuitable for beginners
User reviews
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Aaaat (Experience: ４〜５ years)
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2023/10/22
It's a top-tier blade, but personally the hitting feel is really bad.
I feel like the forehand is rough going unless you use a tacky rubber.
The backhand, I feel like pretty much anything works.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) HURRICANE PRO Ⅲ TURBO BLUE
Recommended rubber (Backhand) V>20 Double Extra
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pink lemonade (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Hard to master even among inner blades
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2022/12/31
Since the top sheet is hard, ball release is quick even among inner-material blades, and it felt like it's for advanced players.
The forehand is fine since I have Hurricane on it, but I couldn't find anything that suited the backhand well, so I gave up on it.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) NEO HURRICANE 3
Recommended rubber (Backhand) DIGNICS 64
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Dai-chan junior high school teacher (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Too much for me
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2022/12/13
It's said to be an easy-to-use inner blade, but honestly it flies too much to be usable.
For match play, it bounces too much in the short game. You get overshoot misses exactly where you need the ball to go in.
You end up losing matches on those little mistakes. Only real top-level players can win with this blade.
Spin is hard to generate because ball release is so quick.
Speed is decent, being an inner blade.
This isn't a blade worth paying a premium price for.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Fastarc G-1
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Rakza 7 Soft
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Rubi (Experience: ６〜１０ years) Can't imagine using anything else
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2022/07/14
*These are my impressions using the provincial-team-spec W968 with Provincial Hurricane Blue.
The feel for strong-impact shots like drives, and the feel for weak-impact touches like the short game and serve, are both really good — most blades tend to lean toward one or the other, but this one balances both at a really high level, which is fantastic. It pairs excellently with Hurricane, and I think tacky rubbers like Hurricane are the way to go on the forehand. As for tension rubber, Japanese-made tension rubbers like Butterfly's felt better on this than German tension rubbers did.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) HURRICANEⅢ NATIONAL RUBBER BLUE SPONGE
Recommended rubber (Backhand) DIGNICS 80
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The (Experience: １１〜２０ years)
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2022/06/29
I normally use a Viscaria plus Hurricane. I bought the Nittaku version, 89g.
Since it's a Ma Long blade, I was picturing a fast-flying inner blade, but the hitting feel is more like a tap-tap Inner Force Layer ALC, and ball release goes Viscaria > Inner ZLC >> Long 5.
I was at least expecting something on the level of an Ovtcharov inner, so the sheer mildness of it threw me off.
A notable trait is that it doesn't resonate much in your hand — there's not much hitting sensation. I think it does grip the ball, but there's not much feel to it, and it flexes quite a bit. After trying various things, I found that with regular tension rubber it grips the ball too much and the release timing gets tricky. So the best setup ended up being either a hard tacky rubber on both sides, or tacky tension rubber. This is a blade for power hitters who can commit to swinging at 80% all the time.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Dignics 09C
Recommended rubber (Backhand) HYBRID K3
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Twenties (Experience: ６〜１０ years) The era of tacky rubber on both sides
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2022/02/13
First off, the drive is amazing. The feel is on the soft side, yet it bounces incredibly well. Initial ball speed off contact is fast, and if you hit even harder you can produce drives with a nice arc that combine plenty of spin and power (put your weight into it and the ball that comes out is nasty). I tried loop drives too, and the spin and carry were so strong that an opponent using backhand short pips kept missing their blocks. For backhand drives, once I put tacky rubber on, balls that used to sail long with tension rubber now went in easily without any trouble. Pushes and stops were, in a word, easy. I also tried chiquita — brushing sideways makes the ball curve in on an arc, so I felt it was easy to both confuse the opponent with spin and to aim precisely at a target course. Serves are easy to produce too — you can put heavy cut on them or send them long — which raised my opponent's receive-error rate. Naturally, for long serves, since the blade bounces just the right amount, it's easy to place the ball exactly where you're aiming, and with more practice I think you could develop serves that catch opponents off guard or skim low just over the net, giving you more tactical variety off the serve.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Backhand) HURRICANE 8
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Kyo Leopard Man (retired) (Experience: ６〜１０ years) "All-purpose" fits perfectly
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2021/11/12
F: Teiten 41°, B: Skyline 3-60 35°
I had Hurricane on both sides, but the weight was a bottleneck, and to get used to fast-paced table tennis I switched over from a Layer ALC. 208g → 190g.On the attacking side, whereas before even a counter with a lowered contact point below net height used to fly straight into the net, this blade handles it without trouble, and I felt the balance between "bounce" and "hold" was excellent, giving me real confidence that it's very strong against topspin balls. It also puts out more than enough power when I go for a hard hit myself against backspin. As for handling fast pace, which was my concern, it's very capable — even a small, compact forward swing clears the net with room to spare, which I found really appealing.
This good ball-holding directly translates into more variety in blocking (both extending and curving the ball) and stability in the short game — stops, chiquita, and so on.
A pleasant surprise: because the grip is slim, it's easier to change your grip between forehand and backhand, allowing more flexible play. Also, since you can relax your hand going into the short game, it should let you play with more finesse.I also borrowed a friend's racket with Tenergy 05 on it, and while the ball path was flatter, I could still clearly feel the blade's strengths.
True to the product's marketing, this is by no means some "wild horse" — it's a genuinely all-around blade that comes together with a high level of balance.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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