TBS + Tenergy 05 or 64 2.1mm good for close to table play and still have good power to hit at mid court once in a while.

If you like high arc and loop and smash alot then choose 05

Low arc loop and smash choose 64

 

One evening, I tried my friend's Primorac Carbon and Tenergy 05 holding it with penhold style.  He served backspin to me, I topspin the ball using my usual habitual thin brushing spin stroke.  Woooww...amazing to say, the first time in my table tennis play I feel the T05 rubber firmly gripped the ball at contact, hence giving the ball tremendous amount of spin which I could not feel with other equipment.  The first bounce of the ball clearing the net with sufficient margin (signifying higher throw), but with slower flight speed comparing to my Boost TC. 

 

At first I thought, with such higher throw arc in the air and noticeably slower flight speed, where would the ball land on opponent's table?  Amazed!!!  The super high spin makes the ball dipped down under aerodynamic theory to opponent's table, with still around 18cm to spare before missing the table edge.  After the ball touched the table, I was very joyous to see the second bounce so low and accelerated forward due to the high spin, and a noticeable curved of path (perhaps I had put in some sidespin topspin which I was unaware of).

 

When I tried to serve with T05 on Primorac Carbon with reasonably heavy backspin (just like what I normally served with my Boost TC), my friend pushed the ball back to me, and due to such heavy backspin serving to him, his push coming back with Newton's 3rd Law in place --> that means ... heavy back spin to me!  It was so heavy that I top spin with T05 but failed to clear the net!

 

I only used his racquet combination (Primorac Carbon + T05) for about 6 minutes before the security guard asked us to vacate the table due to time up.  But that 6 minutes last week was giving me so much hope alive that I have been looking for a high throw combination, and most likely it is about there, T05 might be the answer....

 

However, would like to say, in terms of flight speed, definitely Boost TC on Pro-Top Carbon King Jpen is much faster!  Although spin rate noticeably slower than Primorac Carbon-T05 combo.  In terms of noticeable responses:  eg.  feel in hand during ball contact, distinctive awareness of a high spin being imparted, and noticeable flight path change and sudden dip in low angle second bounce with high spin, T05 provides all the clear response.  It is due to this clear response that when I touched the ball at more brushing topspin, my mind told me "It is sure to clear the net!", and the ball cleared the net!  When I top spin with Boost TC, I could not feel this conviction and assurance of clearing the net.

 

Also I want to hear something about T25

Sallom89: "I think TBS also have medium feel, If so.. then I don't think it plays well, depends on what you want. For looping I found T05 1.9 bad but it has "amazing" control you can almost return everything"

Sadius:"TBS + Tenergy 05 or 64 2.1mm good for close to table play and still have good power to hit at mid court once in a while.If you like high arc and loop and smash alot then choose 05.Low arc loop and smash choose 64." ...agree

 

Sallom89: "I really didn't like T05 high throw when playing close to the table, but each step you take back I could unleash nice loops kills. But I'm afraid that I'll have bad time trying to clear the net with T25. "

LOOPMEISTER: "I originally bought 25 because I wanted a little lower throw angle than 05 for my backhand..."

 

- I also solved this problem (high throw, balls flyed off) with my Bh blocks and tell you one thing: it�all about training, drill, drill and technique and in my case change to 1,9mm from 2,1mm. now I�m very satisfied with T05.

 

our observations to Tenergy 25: blades Ma Wenge, P700, ALC: we really didn�t like this rubber from first moment, it was relatively hard and slow, lazy, dull, good only for smash, drive and chop close to the table, not good for euro-looping style and mid or far from the table play. I think it�s due to  T25 pimple structure, you have to open angle of blade more and push the ball moving more forward. However one friend of mine glued T25 to Kong LingHui Special and was quite satisfied with this combo. So our assumption is: T25 is for allround passive play close to the table with many chops, drive and smashes or offensive play including off+ blades, finding suitable blade (like in case of every type of Tenergy) is necessary.