Donic Bluefire reviews

power7 wrote: metalone wrote: mikepong wrote: fatt wrote: metalone wrote: This is a mini review, since I only played with it for 30 minutes - warm up and FH look. Current Set up - Blade Nittaku Barwell - FH Aurus max, BH Aurus Soft max.   lol I love aurus but I am letting mine go to try something else and my focus has been on the bluefire; I am happy to read that I am on the right track.  How is the durability of aurus? on an average how many months do you change 1 sheet of aurus? I have been using the same sheet for two months. Is it a good BH rubber to attack with?

power7 wrote: What are the two other hardness description? First time using european rubber, is it soft like butterfly, or not really soft like DHS sponges.

I love the blue sponge... I really the tendency to have funky colored sponges instead of everything ranging from baby-pee yellow to muted orange.

Cut, where that sheet has been cut in the factory, the older Tensors don't cut in the same way because the sheet is made from a different rubber. Hexer HD, Rasant and Bluefire all cut the same more smooth way

This rubber from Donic I think is with the same topsheet as Xiom rubbers, only sponge is different. Can somebody compare these rubbers, I will be glad to know.
Thanks in advance!

As you wrote Donic states somethings about flexibility and feeling. I don't read anything about predictability or high control here. Actually pips can be seen in the pics above, nothing that extraordinary. Also I read some positive reviews on the German forum. Probably it's tick faster and spinnier than previous generation Donic tensor (maybe S1T). 

Got the sheet of M1 max sponge black in medium-hard. 

Edited by power7 - 05/15/2012 at 9:39pm

High_Arc wrote: Donic states:  "The top rubber with its small, long pimpled-in structure lends the rubber the best possible flexibility and sensational feeling." I personally have never experienced a rubber where small, long pips on the inside of the top-sheet did anything good (at least not for the FH). Take for example Hurricane 3 or T05. These rubbers get their high control (or let's say predictability) precisely because there top-sheet does not have long small pips on the inside! And of course because of their high surface grip (but it seems that ESN finally managed to get a comparable amount of grip considering the surface). I would be willing to bet that the Bluefire will soon get a significant amount of not so good reviews.

Edited by bluebucket - 05/16/2012 at 12:35am

Edited by power7 - 05/16/2012 at 2:32pm

Play 2 hours with the rubber.  My impressions are it is a pretty good rubber, easy to pick up if you're use to softer sponges and rubbers.  It is similar in the sense the throw arc and stoke mechanics used are similar to tenergy05.  The differences it that the sponge isn't as sensitive as T05 in terms of catapult effects.  With T05 even on serves with low toss the spring sponge would kick the ball sometime over the net too high.  With M1 this was not an issue.

Edited by power7 - 05/19/2012 at 9:43am

I played for one minute with bluefire m1 black max on a viscaria. I only did fh loops against block, for one minute.
It is definitely similar to t05 in behavior: the throw is very very high, and stays high no matter how you hit the ball or how much power you put or how much you brush. IN this, it is much more similar to t05 than vega pro. (Vega pro's throw is higher than t05 in half-arm loops, but flatter in full arm power loops.)

Spin is at least as much as t05, but regular t05 users say M1 has more spin. I can believe that.

My impression is that the rubber is not very fast (not like calibra), probably a bit more than vega pro, like t05. So it is very, very similar to t05. I derive this impression from the fact that I played with a viscaria and the racket overall was not much faster than my OC + Vega pro.

But the feel is not like t05. in particular, the topsheet seems a bit softer than t05, probably like vega pro. as a result, the feeling is more "liquid", I don't know how to explain.

Another impression is that this rubber is more difficult to play with than t05, less forgiving, and less tolerant of imprecision. I had the feeling when I was out of position I was about to miss. But I am not sure about that, as I only played 1 minute, and because it is inconsistent with my other impression (that the throw is the same regardless of how much you brush and how much power you use).


Edited by seguso - 05/19/2012 at 1:59am

AMonteiro wrote: kolevtt wrote: This rubber from Donic I think is with the same topsheet as Xiom rubbers, only sponge is different. Can somebody compare these rubbers, I will be glad to know. Thanks in advance!   Yes, this topsheet looks really close to Omega 4 judging by this pictures. My bet is that M1 is just an Omega 4 Asia (47,5°) with blue sponge instead of black.

How heavy is the sponge compared to Aurus that you were using???? I should have a sheet by Wensday next week, hopefully.

I know what you mean and I suspect you may be right. I do get the same sensation from the Acuda S1 Turbo that satisfying feeling of loading on the blade and even more satisfying when it reaches your opponents end of the table.

The Acuda S1T is the only one of the new generations of tensors that I have played with. I have had it on my blade now for 7 weeks. Excellent rubber!!!! I hope the Bluefire will be just as good or even better. Time will tell

Fatt glad to hear you like it.