Friday, December 7, 2012

Tenergy 80 released!


OK, so if I could have stocks in any company in the world, any company do you know what company that would be? Given that Apple stock is virtually unobtainable, my next choice would be Butterfly (Tamasu Japan).
These people have to be the marketing geniuses of the world. Seriously, they have a virtual lock on the table tennis market. They make the most popular rubber on planet earth, the most expensive sheet ever made, pretty much every player has tried it at one point or another and many have chosen to keep it.
I'm talking about Tenergy 05 of course.
So what does butterfly do to continue their dominance?
They continue to release variants.
First there was T25 then T64.
After that, they started to release all the rubbers in Fx versions so now we have T05, T25, T64, T05FX, T25FX, T64FX.
They did the same thing with marquis player Timo Boll.
The Timo Boll TBS blad was so popular, so ubiquitous, they decided to release TBALC, TBZLF
ad infinitum.
Genius.
So for those that have tried all the Tenergys, and in time for the holiday season, out comes Tenergy 80.



I dont know much about it as yet, but based on the review I've seen posted at OOAK forum, the topsheet and sponge appear to be exactly the same as the other Tenergy rubbers.



The only difference seems to be in the pimple structure which while not being too different from T05 seems to have slightly rounded and tapered pimples.



I'm still searching to find out why Butterfly even bothered to release this variant (other than the obvious answer that EJ's will always buy whatever comes down the pipe from Butterfly especially if its called Tenergy whatever)
I need to get some shares in Butterfly .

(All photos copied from OOAK forum)

1 comment:

  1. for some reason, I missed the passion in your playing ha ha...you pulled off the not-taking-it-seriously really well....now I'm convinced! sheesh :P

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