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Butterfly (3)

Butterfly Kreanga Carbon

Review of Butterfly Kreanga Carbon

Just to comment - as someone already did here in 2010 - that by ITTF rules this blade is ILLEGAL in tournaments.

Sep 04, 2018

Butterfly Garaydia T5000

Speed	9.7
Control	8.3
Stiffness	10.0

Hardness	6.7
Overall	9.0

Review of Butterfly Garaydia T5000

I am a beginner, with 1.5 years of practice, 3 times a week - I think it is important that in these evaluations there are also rookies who inform other rookies :) I am an aggressive player but still with bad footwork. I started with all-woods hinoki (Darker's 7 ply and Xiom S7), then Butterfly TBS. Three months ago I bought the Garaydia T5, which I like because it is very fast and forces me to develop the footwork - it is impossible to play with it without moving well. The feel has very little vibration and believe me, the blade is fast as hell, a little hard to control but helps to return the ball fast with small movements. At my club, two very experienced players have similar (old) blades: BTY Schlager Carbon, that has little more dwell time and similar speed, and a old Primorac Carbon that has even more dwell but less speed. For me, what is hard to do is the slow topspin, but both my colleagues are able to do it well with my blade with lots of spin and / or punch, even against "chop" short services - thats my fault my bad spin, because I was using bad techniques with previous woods that have lots of dwell helping to "grab" the ball.
In sum, I think this blade is now helping me to evolve, forcing me to devellop good footwork and to improve my topspin technique. I reccomend soft rubbers, now using Xiom Omega VII Euro and Stiga Calibra Sound lt, both MAX. And YES, that's my best blade!

Oct 25, 2018

Butterfly Garaydia ZLC

Speed	9.6
Control	8.6

Overall

9.6

Review of Butterfly Garaydia ZLC

I use the T5000 and now I bought a ZLC because the Garaydia model has been discontinued and there are few left - I don't think there will ever be a new Butterfly model with Hinoki so thick on the outer leaf.
When compared they are similar, both OFF +. ZLC is slightly slower with slightly higher arc. But due to the ZLC, the control and block on the table is much better and the contact time with the topspin ball is longer - now I have no difficulty attacking underspin services. Services have more effect.
Overall, the ZLC model is undoubtedly better and the energy dispersion of the ZLC material on the topspin blocks is incredible: in such fast wood it is easy to block aggressively but also the soft block with the ball bouncing two or more times in the opponent side.
In short, it is an OFF +, very thick and good quality Hinoki wood in the outer sheet which produces surprising good control in the block and in the short game. Now I use ZLC with Tenergy 05 (FH) and 05FX (BH): my game is still fast and aggressive but I have better control.

Dec 21, 2019

Darker (2)

Darker Esteem

Review of Darker Esteem

Just a correction:
2 carbon + 5 wood ply: Kiso Hinoki (outer), Kiri and Yanagi

May 05, 2018

Darker 7p-2a Point Carbon

Speed	8.6
Control	9.2
Stiffness	3.0

Hardness	5.2
Overall	9.0

Review of Darker 7p-2a Point Carbon

I also own the models "7p-2a 7t" and "7p-2a df". Behaves very similar to the 7T version (you can read about her to complement this evaluation). The concept of carbon only in the handle to help stabilize the vibrations seems good... however, the one I own appears to have a little more vibrations than the other two models I own.
Furthermore, in the warm-ups on table (just beating the ball with regularity) I have the sensation that ocassionally, the response is different and the rebound has variations. Perhaps is due to accumulated irregular frequencies in the handle or perhaps is some small "defect" in constrution in the one I own. In game, this frequencies variation doesnt affect the behaviour.
Discontinued, you can still find it in Hong-Kong online stores.
I paired it with Xiom's: FH Vega Asia DF, BH Vega Europe. Found no advantages and I prefer the regular model "7T".

May 09, 2019

Xiom (1)

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