ejunkie wrote:I have use some of those marked tensor rubbers and they are just not as good as Tenergy. Right now there isn't a rubber as good as Tenergy for sure. May be Spin Art will be the one.
The Butterfly Tenergy is a whole different rubber. It is Japanese. The Butterfly primarily developed Tenergy to impress the Chinese. The Tensors are German, and they are different from Japanese rubbers in feeling and hit. The ESN did not have any idea Butterfly would come up with something like Tenergy. Right now, the ESN is focusing towards Tenergy like rubbers.
I have written about this a while back in the blog. The Tensors added more speed to the game. That was necessary at the time of speed glue ban last year. They have to add more spin. ESN is doing that now. I don't think ESN can make something exactly as Tenergy in feeling, but the new generation rubbers from ESN will have more spin to compete Tenergy.
What I don't like about this whole development is that the offensive equipments are becoming very smart. Whatever ITTF wants to do, the exact opposite is happening. With this development there is no good defensive equipments to combat this offensive. I would like to ask ITTF to approve frictionless pips. The players are still tuning and the trick pass the ENEZ. The speed and spin of offensive rubbers are increasing. Why the frictionless pips are left out in this game?
