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Recent Reviews

	Butterfly Tenergy 25 FX Great BH rubber I try it on TB ALC 2.1 thickenes, and find it very fast however any ball you touch in mid long distance with just a flick of the wrist and a bit of forearm swing most of the ball will land on the table and push your opponent back with a decent spin and catapult effect, in my game good for practice lots of fun but my matches are not on this level yet, so I give it a go on Innerforce ALC the carbon on this blade is ''hidden'' deeper under two leyers of wood so it slow down the rubber a lot ( to the point that I rated it 7 out of 10 ) what you get instead is a great control for receiving service pushes and chops are accurate and with lots of back spin, block and active block from the table will just drive your opponent crazy. The only minus is that it lost a lot of power when you need to take your game two steps back a little quicker hand action is essential to get speed out of deeper leyer of carbon if you able to go low on your legs hand under your b...x and than fast swing you will get your reward - a beautifull topspin with high throw angle. Tenergy 25FX is great rubber you just need to find blade for it that suits your game. Reviewed by bajer81 on October 4, 2013
	Andro Rasant amazing rubber. i dont reccommend using water based glue with it. i had trouble gluing it but no touble playing with it. effortless spins and flat drives. amzing rubber Reviewed by mattTT09 on October 4, 2013
	Reactor Thunder Review for black rubber @ max Looks: Comes in plastic with paper cover around. Not a vacuum pack. It has a green sponge. Sponge looks like old school Chinese sponges for speed glue (sort of mixture of rubber and paper). It has tacky top sheet with good amount of smell to it. As if it is factory pre tuned. Speed: Deffo not a slow rubber. It has enough speed so you can play up to 3 m away from the table with a ok pace. In short game speed is more then enough. Spin: This rubber has more speed then a spin in my opinion. For openings, serves and side spin close to the table shots spin is sufficient. RBlade said that rubber is not for looping far away and i tend to agree. Sebas made a good review about characteristics of this rubber. I suggest you read the post of his link. Some things i would like to mention before logging out. Top sheet is tacky but not a lot of grip on it. When you go in faster exchange ball can slip easily this is a main downside of this rubber for me. Another funny thing is the sponge reaction to the glue. I was out normal glue so i had to use speed glue on this. Glue i used was Haifu Blue Whale 2, which is a strong speed glue. I just tried to glue the rubber in normal way without boosting so i put one thin layer on sponge and one on the blade. Did not even wait for the glue to dry out, and the rubber curled so much that it took me two days to actually glue it on the blade. This is the first time in my life to see such a reaction so early to a speed glue. As if human would drink one small cup of coffee and stayed up for five days, that how bizarre this was. Overall rubber is OK and nothing more for the price. There are better alternatives to this at this price range. Galaxy rubbers are much better in my opinion and just as affordable. Personally i can see myself using this for FH training but not a game rubber. If Reactor would menage to fix slipping problem with this rubber then story would be different. I do recommend this rubber for beginners, and intermediate players as a match or training rubber. You dont have to be a physical beast to use it but it is not a tensor easy. Medium throw + ok speed + tacky makes it for a nice FH rubber. Hope this helps :) Have fun and enjoy TT. Reviewed by Amigo on October 4, 2013
	KTL (LKT) 368 I can't stress enough how good this blade is. It's really unbelievable for the price. Of all the Cpens I've tried, this one for sure allows me to hit with the most spin. The All+ rating is accurate and is very controlled. I've tried this blade with inverted, short pips. Honestly it does everything well. The only area where this blade doesn't excel is the speed. It's just average. But I think that's why this blade is so good in the other ares. spin, touch, control. If I wasn't playing a short pip, speed game, I would absolutely play this blade regularly with inverted. Reviewed by soper79 on October 04, 2013
	JOOLA Flame Fast There is no perfect blade, that's why I rated it 9.9, but this is as close as it gets (this is a personal opinion of course). The control, when you take the speed of the blade into account, is fantastic. Used a couple of different rubbers on it, but now I am stuck on H3 NEO on FH and Joola Express One on BH, and I think I have found a mach from haven. For the finishing of the blade, Joola has gone over the top with this one. I was amazed when I took it out from the box, and held it in my hand for the first time, and the feeling doesn't go away. I noticed that the label on FH of the blade slowly fades away after changing a couple sheets of rubber, but I guess that's normal (since I didn't seal it) and not really important. Thumbs up to Joola for this one and keep up the good work. Reviewed by laki on October 03, 2013
	Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon The blade that I got is "legend" flared and is exactly 82 gr. as Stiga advertises (looks that I was lucky). The finishing is at a highest level (strange for Stiga in the past couple of years) and it just looks beautiful. I paired it with Dawei IQUL 40 on FH and Nittaku fastarc G1 on BH, but I switch the sides from time to time, depending on the type of game i want to play (IQUL is a bit slower). The feeling of OC is still there, with a bit more added speed and stiffness. With the right selection of rubbers, OCC becomes a loopers dream. However, who is looking for lighting fast and stiff carbon blade, look elsewhere. In short, OCC is a control freak with off- speed, great for spin game, not lacking in the blocking and smashing department, a bit faster and stiffer than OC, but still remaining that same woody feeling that we all loved. Reviewed by laki on October 03, 2013

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