Butterfly Timo Boll W5

Fine blade from BTY with a nice feeling FL grip. It has a medium sweet spot, and with T05 provides more than enough speed and spin to gain the point. This blade felt like a precision instrument but is a bit head heavy with Tenergy.

Great blade for precision play. Loops, smashes and drives are good and blocking is great. I play it with JOOLA Maxxx 500 on both sides. Very good. I can only recommend it to advanced players.

JOOLA Maxxx 500 was too hard for this blade and I switched to Bluefire JP1 and M3, then changed the M3 to Tibhar MX-P.

This is a modern type looping blade, quite stiff and the koto outer wood ply is a bit hard for me, but I can get used to it. This blade needs fast and short moves to generate aggressive and fast loops, and the loops become quite effective. Old style big arm swing loops are possible too but this blade does not like that, there isn’t that much dwell time for that type of stroke. If you love the tempo and the characteristics but want a little softer touch try Tibhar RedCypress.

I have to disagree with the comment of not a loopers blade. I agree with the last comment, Dec 31st. This blade has great control and a ton of dwell time. I use T25FX on FH and T64 on backhand and have been using this blade for 6 months, just got my second one last month.

I have T05 FX fh and Barracuda bh great feel and control and the dwell time rivals that of nittaku acoustic. Great paddle.

The blade feels a bit too soft, but it is really good for controlled looping. Overall, it provides an excellent attacking game.

Stiff, good for flat hitting, not suitable for looping. Less spin, good balance.