Katsuo000's profile
| Gender | Male |
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| Age | U30 |
| Experience | More than 20 years |
User review
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2019/12/27
I'll compare it to DHS's Provincial Team Hurricane NEO3 Blue Sponge. This one is nearly 20g heavier, and even though it's brand new, the sheet had marks that looked like stains — typical of Chinese-made sheets, which was a letdown.
It might partly be due to swing speed, but bounce, power, and spin are all higher on the DHS one. Like I felt with Turbo Orange, it bounces more than you'd expect for a Hurricane/Pro rubber, so it feels pretty good to hit, but I also felt that the extra bounce makes it harder to produce tricky, spin-heavy balls. Once you know DHS, you end up feeling that it's the better one. That said, this one produces more of that tricky character than Turbo Orange, so if you're committed to Japanese-made rubber, it's a solid option.
By the way, my blade is a Hurricane 301, which has the same construction as the Long 5 and is a heavy blade. It's not like it's a blade that clashes with tacky rubber, but someone I played against told me that the combination of a Zhang Jike blade with Dignics has more speed, spin, and ball weight than this combination. Just for reference.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Hard
Recomend racket HURRICANE LONG 5
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2019/09/15
This is a comparison with Tenergy 05 Hard and Dignics 05.
Compared to 05 Hard, the spin is a bit weaker, but I felt I could hit drives that are more linear and faster.
As for the feel, 05 Hard felt like the ball sinks in less, and I felt the VII Tour was better suited to fast, repeated hitting.
05 Hard and the VII Tour are about the same weight and quite similar overall — I think 05 Hard's strength is spin, while the VII Tour's strength is speed.
Next, the comparison with Dignics.
Compared to Dignics, I think the VII Tour is weaker in both speed and spin.
The key point is the feel: Dignics is harder to handle and you need to learn how to hit with it specifically, whereas the VII Tour is a true spin-type tension rubber — if you can handle a hard spin-type tension rubber or a tacky rubber, you should be able to handle this fine.
It's also a rubber that combines outstanding speed and spin even among spin-type tension rubbers.
It's cheaper than Tenergy 05 or 05 Hard, and in terms of positioning, I felt you could call it something like a Tenergy 80 Hard(?).
Definitely give it a try.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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2020/07/17
Max thickness, 45g.
Good points
- Light!
- Easier to handle than Dignics 05 and 80! But still properly a Dignics!
- Meet hits go exactly where you aim them!
- Pushes and stops bite and stop firmly if you catch them with the sheet!
- Blocks settle down easily too.
- Less sensitive to incoming spin than the other Dignics rubbers.
- Still has that Dignics trait of being easy to counter-drive with.
Bad points
- The amount of spin does drop, as expected.
- It draws an arc, but because the spin drops, the ball doesn't settle down as well from spin.
- When you want it to grip the ball, it doesn't grip as much as you'd expect. The ball comes off the rubber fast.
That's about it.
It might be a good one to use to get used to Dignics. It's probably the easiest to handle of the bunch, but it still has that Dignics character, so if Dignics in general doesn't suit you, your opinion of this one will definitely be bad too.
Since the spin drops a bit and the ball comes off fast, if I use it, it'll be on my backhand.
Hope this helps.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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2019/08/25
I previously posted a review for the backhand side, but this is my first time posting a second review for the same piece of equipment — this time it's about the forehand side.
It's hard to feel the ball holding onto the rubber, and if you don't consciously drag the ball, it leaves the rubber before the spin catches. But once you figure out the right way to spin the ball with this rubber, it turns out to be an extremely high-performance rubber that lets you hit balls with more speed × spin = destructive power than ever before. If you're used to tacky rubber, I think this feeling of putting spin on the ball will make sense to you right away.
From here on this is just my own personal opinion, but as for why Butterfly released a rubber like this — it's not a great way to put it, but it felt pretty close to the sensation of using the organic solvents that are currently banned. In other words, I think this is equipment meant to let you compete under the current rules against DHS, which dominates as the world's number one. It's easy to counter-drive even against super-spun balls! It's a rubber that can stand up to drives from tacky rubber too! I think using this rubber well opens up new possibilities to challenge yourself, so I'd recommend giving it a try at least once.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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2020/02/04
Used on the backhand, normally I use 05 Hard, weight was 51g.
Compared to the 05 series, I think the max amount of spin is about the same or a bit less.
But it has the amount of spin and arc typical of a spin-oriented tension rubber, and I think you can get a lot of spin out of it depending on your stroke and how used to it you get.
It's probably a product designed with Tenergy 05 in mind, so switching over from 05 should be easy aside from the weight.
The points where I felt it was better than the 05 series were the delicate-touch techniques like blocking, connecting shots, and stops.
True to a German-style rubber, while the ball quality drops a bit, it felt like the ball would go in even with sloppy hitting.
Blocking was quite easy, and the ball went in regardless of the drive's spin amount, and it was also noticeably easier to handle knuckle balls and other ordinary balls during rallies.
Hitting with just the topsheet doesn't produce much bounce, so stops stuck dead too.
On the flip side, what needed some getting used to were drives and chiquitas against backspin — there were a lot of net misses and overshoots, making it difficult, and the spin was also a bit tame, so it was easy for opponents to return.
DNA has a grip feel like 05 and attacking power above the passing line, while the ease of all the delicate-touch techniques besides drives, and how easily the ball goes in on the table, are considerably better than 05 — worth it if you're focused on winning.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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