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Butterfly (1)

Butterfly Zhang Jike Super ZLC

Speed	9.3
Control	10.0
Stiffness	5.0

Hardness	5.2
Overall	9.9

Review of Butterfly Zhang Jike Super ZLC

27.3.2014:
The ball behaves similarily at the ends of the blade and in the middle of the blade. Not found this in any other blade including hard carbon blades. I guess best players who hit only with the center of their blade do not need this kind of blade to keep their hits consistent. Used this only with Xiom Omega V Tour rubbers. Even with so slowish rubbers my playing style has gone worse, because I get good speed using only my wrist. So maybe I later put even slower rubbers to this blade.

24.9.2014:
Now I have put Tibhar Genius Sound to FH and TSP Ventus Spin to BH. With this combination I can use long enough strokes. I tried couple of slower rubbers to this blade, but the ball speed was not following linearly the hitting speed and those were too difficult combinations (it was too difficult to estimate when the incoming speed + own hitting speed went over the point of discontinuity and balls did not land to the table).

Sep 23, 2014

Friendship/729 (1)

Xiom (1)

Xiom Hayabusa Zi

Speed	8.2
Control	9.9
Stiffness	5.0

Hardness	5.2
Overall	9.8

Review of Xiom Hayabusa Zi

(updated 1.11.2015:
Still using this blade, but it requires fast rubbers to compensate low speed of this blade.)

My blade weights only 80g - so the weight-sense do not help in strokes.
The whole blade area works quite similarily just like in Andro's zylon blade. Feels like a whole-wood-blade in topspin. It is noticeably slower than Hayabusa ZX, but the ball control feels similarily good.

I like thick rubbers and this lightweight blade is working very well with thick Xiom Sigma rubbers. This blade requires much faster rubbers compared to my second favorite blades Tibhar Stratus powerwood and Andro zylon kinetic.

Nov 01, 2015

Yinhe (Galaxy/Milkyway) (3)

Yinhe Venus V-13

Review of Yinhe Venus V-13

My weighted 99g. So consistency should be 5 not 10. With rubbers it became too heavy so I modified it suitable to quite much smaller rubbers. Now with Tenergy 05 and Tenergy 05Fx it weights 175g and is awesome. I do not feed numerical ratings, because this blade would have totally different features with 85g weight.

Jun 06, 2013

Yinhe J-1

Hardness	0.0
Overall	7.5

Review of Yinhe J-1

This blade is really much different than any other blades I have used. The speed is not problem, dwell time is good and all other individual features are quite ok. BUT: it is so different in fast game that it would require its own playing style. I do not want to build my playing technique on to this blade, although I suppose I could learn to play with this blade.

The playing with this blade was little like playing against long pips, but the disturbance was coming from own blade! I felt like the spin and the throw angle would have changed according to an unknown reason.
Short game was quite ok.
I used this blade with max thickness Xiom Sigma Euro and Pro rubbers that have worked well on any other blades.
My blade weights 96 g.

May 06, 2014