Friday 27 November 2015

andro rasant power grip vs butterfly tenergy 05

andro rasant power grip is mentioned as one of the alternatives to butterfly tenergy 05.
how equivalent are they?

spin:
they are equivalent in spin.
impossible to tell which one actually has more spin.
they both have a lot, that's all I can say.

speed:
I notice a difference in speed when doing flat hits.
andro rpw is slower and there's less bounciness in this specific shot.
the farther you go from the table the more noticeable this becomes.
it's a bit like that feeling you get from chinese rubbers like hurricane 3.
you loop and there's not that much difference with an euro rubber.
you hit a flat forward shot and it suddenly became sooooo slow.
the andro rpw is not so extreme, it's more bouncy than hurricane 3, but it still keeps a bit of this characteristic.
when looping or pushing or serving there is very little speed difference between tenergy and andro rpw.

control:
this is closely related to the speed characteristic mentioned before.
the andro rubber has this characteristic that depending on how you hit it you will get a different speed.
so it makes it a bit more unpredictable than a tenergy rubber.

I won't say that tenergy has more control in pushes or in loops or in blocks because it doesn't.
what it does have is that predictability, you almost know exactly how much speed you are going to get in each shot.

with andro rubber it's not so predictable, at least in the beginning.
I guess if you spend a lot of time with it you eventually get used to it's characteristics.
but with tenergy you don't really need to do this, somehow the speed always matches what you expect.

durability:
tenergy even though it begins to look old pretty soon lasts as long as you want it to.
you can use it for years if you want to.
andro I haven't used it for that long but it looks pretty durable and the topsheet also is very durable.

weight:
here andro loses badly.
if you put both sides tenergy in one paddle and both sides andro in another paddle (same dimensions both paddles) you get a difference of around 10 grams.
so each cut andro rubber is at least 5 grams heavier than a tenergy.
that's quite a lot and enough to make a paddle head heavy.

well that's all I got, andro rpw is totally usable and you can get used to it with time.
personally I think I have been using tenergy for too long and it's hard to change at this point.

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