Why is Tenergy 05 still considered the best FH

I certainly don't hope that it provides more dwell than your S2, compared to the S2 Tenergy is considered a somewhat hard rubber. 

Bluefire is just as good and nearly half the price.  Tenergy is good for counterlooping but it's very lively for the short game compared to Bluefire.

Edited by kevo - 04/22/2013 at 9:41am

i doubt it has more dwell time than S2...

I don't know about you guys, but I can tell when I'm playing against s/b with T05. The loops come in much harder and faster. The ball jumps high and the torque is substantial. T05 is so easy to loop with and so easy to generate spin, it should be banned. Even lifting heavy underspin is a breeze. 

Still Dhs produce the best forehand rubber in the world. Not like butterfly, Dhs only produce limited quantity of high grade blue sponge like h3 or tg3. The blue sponge really make chinese rubber feel more lively and powerfull specially on counterlooping away from table. With orange sponge it feel dead and need a lot of powerto counterloop. It's the best rubber I have tried and any tenergy series can't compare with blue sponge.

I also love the 05 beacuse the awsome looping carestics and i also like in the short game. i play a really hard/fast blade also hybrid wood nct and i love the power in it whem u smash or do quick flicks with it.

kevo wrote: Bluefire is just as good and nearly half the price.  Tenergy is good for counterlooping but it's very lively for the short game compared to Bluefire.

Baal wrote: Feel.  Lots of rubbers approach it in performance.  None have the feel.  Of course not everybody likes it, people who do love it.

I agree with feel, and also durability.  T05 is tops.  I have switched back to inverted on one side for now and have been ejing on club members' rackets.  Power-wise, to me, T05 is no comparison to those Chinese "national" grade smooth rubbers.  I also feel that some of the newer Donic rubbers with 2.5mm sponge are more powerful than the T05.

i can replace it on my FH with a lot of stuff without overall detriment to my game. Tenzone, Rhyzm, M1 or MXP do the same job, not as spiny or jumpy but slight sacrifice in spin comes with better control.

ashishsharmaait wrote: peter79 wrote: The blue sponge really make chinese rubber feel more lively and powerfull specially on counterlooping away from table. With orange sponge it feel dead and need a lot of powerto counterloop. It's the best rubber I have tried and any tenergy series can't compare with blue sponge. ...and is that a boosted sponge (Haifu/Dianchi)? Where do you buy it from?

No it's not boosted. First I only use rubber cement mixed with waterbased glue. I already removed the old glue, now I only use Waterbased glue. It's much faster than national H3 from TTNPP on Clipper CC. I don't boost anymore, it will become much faster if it's boosted.

I can't tell you on this forum, the seller can get DHS stuff which is supplied to Chinese National team.
For example Ma Long's DHS 506 PG3 handle, the new DHS 506 blue handle, TG3 and H3 National blue sponge for national team. The price is a bit cheaper than prott.cc for sure.

chopchopslam wrote: Tenergy is $68 now. Most of these other premium rubbers are around $55. So it's not that horribly priced anymore. And I think the sponge lasts longer than the typical tensor sponges.

+1
The difference is 5$ now not 13$

Mickael wrote: chopchopslam wrote: Tenergy is $68 now. Most of these other premium rubbers are around $55. So it's not that horribly priced anymore. And I think the sponge lasts longer than the typical tensor sponges. +1 The difference is 5$ now not 13$

Unless buying Donic rubbers from TibiKe on this forum.

Then the cost is $34 per sheet for bluefire, depending on exchange rate, so that's half of Tenergy.

I only had the pleasure of hitting another persons T05 and am not good enough to notice the differences.

peter79 wrote: Still Dhs produce the best forehand rubber in the world. Not like butterfly, Dhs only produce limited quantity of high grade blue sponge like h3 or tg3. The blue sponge really make chinese rubber feel more lively and powerfull specially on counterlooping away from table. With orange sponge it feel dead and need a lot of powerto counterloop. It's the best rubber I have tried and any tenergy series can't compare with blue sponge.

Is that with or without boosting the DHS ?

Tenergy 05 is a very forgiving rubber. I agree about the feel as well. There are other rubbers that produce more spin or more speed, but the feel is still the best IMO, like a comfortable pair of old shoes. It produces explosive loops from fh or bh, and it's good for blocking or pushing. I've tried several other rubbers (Barracuda, S1 Turbo, S3, Boost TC, Hurricane 3 Neo, Xiom Omega Elite and Omega Pro, Sriver, Bryce,Friendship 729, Geospin Tacky,Tibhar Grip-S Europe Soft,Nittaku Narucross, etc, etc) and I keep coming back to good ol' T05. As far as Hurricane 3 goes, I believe the blue sponge version is expensive, even heard that one version sells for $150 a sheet. No thanks. I'll stay with T05 for the moment...

I recently (less than a week/two sessions) went back to T05. I am coming from boosted commercial H3 NEO.

Looping with T05 is much easier. I can generate the same amount of spin and speed with T05 with less effort.

Next up, slap some frictionless pips on my backhand.