He says it's totally different from outer carbon blades from Butterfly or any other brand. He actually dislikes outer carbon blades. It spins the ball very well with Tenergy and is is fast. During drives and fast open ups he says the blade shoots the ball. Tenergy feels soft a little soft with this blade but it's still good and not a problem. Bit heavy with the 05 and Rozena. I belive the blade they used was ~92g, mine is only 88-89g.
My setup felt strange at first as the blade is quite slow during passive shots or if there's little impact on the blade itself. I remember I lost my first set because I tried to do some slow spinny open ups and like 3-4 didn't even go as far as the net. One of the guys watching even asked if I glued on some slow Chinese rubber or what's going on. But I managed to fix this by giving the ball a bit more impact. Regarding fast open ups or loop kills for the first couple of my shots went like half meter long and I was quite baffled what is going on. How can it be like an All+ wood blade at a point and in the next be faster than let's say an Ice Cream AZX by quite a lot. I think the blade makes a quite high arc by default, Tenergy 05 should be probably better if someone likes it since it bounces the ball more foreward and it has a naturally high arc. The Golden Tango PS has a high arc, but doesn't bounce the ball forward. Before I was using an Ice Cream AZX with Tibhar Hybrid K2 on FH and that gave enough forward bounce and due to the tackyness I had no arc issues either but the ball wasn't very spinny. So it was quite hard to do a good slow open up. Fast open ups were pretty nice with it. I think with the Golden Tango PS my open ups will be very spinny and very difficult to counter or even block for that matter.
On backhand I had the most pleasant surprise that the Aurus Select was just natural. I could do slow and spinny open ups and chiquitas almost for the first try, blocking was super stable. By the end of the day I was doing very fast open ups on backhand that were pretty much impossible to return. Strangely the rubber should be like 45 deg hardness, but it feels harder than that. I've used MX-P before and that feels softer. The Aurus Select's hardness felt like something between an MX-P and a Dignics 64, but it is much more easy to use and didn't have that nasty catapult efect that D64 does if the ball stretches it well. I do have to adjust my racket angle if I get a hard drive on it since the topsheet isn't affected much by spin so I did clip a few balls on the very top of the net.
The blade definietely lifts the ball more than a Viscaria, I think it lifts significantly better than a outer limba blade too. A DHS H8-80 or 729 Battle 2 golden version would be a pretty good fit too for Chinese rubber fans. Orange sponge H3 I'm not so sure, but I don't like the orange sponge very much since I don't boost.
Edit: Over the table touch play was the most significantly best thing. I was literally having a laugh while doing serve receives that bounced 2-3 times on the table. With other outer carbon blades I'm lucky if I can do 2 bounces occasionally... I had such an easy time against the opponents 2 wing attacker, I could totally shut him off.
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