Kong Linghui Special (Butterfly)

This new addition in the very popular line of rackets designed with the help of the 2000 Olympic Men's Champion, Kong Linghui, offers the best speed to control ratio in the Offensive Class of Blades. Used by Kong Linghui himself, the unique Arylate-Carbon and 3 ply-wood construction of this blade produces the perfect blend of control, speed, and maneuverability for the off-the-bounce quick attacking style of play. The soft feel of Arylate blended with the power of Carbon, this blade has it all.

Speed: 80
Control: 80
Weight: 90g

• User reviews

Average user rating from: 4 users

Overall rating		4.4
Speed (4 ratings)		4.0
Control (4 ratings)		4.6
Hardness (4 ratings)		3.0
Weight (4 ratings)		3.1
Build quality (4 ratings)		4.6
Value for money (4 ratings)		3.9

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Monday, 16 February 2009

Written by Anonymous

Overall rating		4.7
Speed		4.0
Control		4.5
Hardness		3.5
Weight		2.0
Build quality		5.0
Value for money		4.5

Good blade! Look at my rating!

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Saturday, 08 November 2008

Written by t3h anarchist - #1 reviewer - View all my reviews

Overall rating		4.0
Speed		3.5
Control		5.0
Hardness		2.5
Weight		3.5
Build quality		4.0
Value for money		3.0

Butterfly Kong Linghui Special is a arylate carbon utilized blade that has excellent control. The wood is really soft, and also it is pretty light, so you have very good control and feeling form the blade.

But to me there is simply not enough momentum to get the speed i want. Its too soft, so the ball seems to kind of stick onto the blade to long, there is not the explosiveness of better offensive blades.

My guess is that beginners and intermediate players might like this. Theres good control, but the speed is simply not enough. I recommend that if you are better, you get something harder with more speed. This one simply cannot produce the high quality shots such as with Mizutani or Amultart.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Sunday, 06 April 2008

Written by Anonymous

Overall rating		5.0
Speed		4.0
Control		5.0
Hardness		3.0
Weight		2.0
Build quality		5.0
Value for money		5.0

I have been using Sardius for the past 12 years, finally I decided to try something else. I was looking for something fast and yet controllable. I tried many blades, finally after I get hold of Kong Ling Hui Special blade ... I know, I get the right blade.

This blade has very high quality built, soft feeling for better control yet when you struck hard, the ball will travel like a bullet. Excellent blade for best of both world, control and speed. You will never go wrong with this blade.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

Thursday, 06 March 2008

Written by hymm - Top 50 reviewer - View all my reviews

Overall rating		3.8
Speed		4.5
Control		4.0
Hardness		3.0
Weight		5.0
Build quality		4.5
Value for money		3.0

I used this blade for 2 years as I moved from a beginner to an intermediate player. I used this blade primarily with Friendship Geospin Regular Black on the forehand and Donic F3 on backhand. I loved this blade for learning forehand looping, but eventually stopped using it, because the bounciness of the blade made flips difficult to spin or lift the ball.

Handle Type: Flared
Weight: 83.3g (measured with scale).
Thickness: 6.5mm (from Butterfly Website)

Construction: This is a very nice blade. The plys compose of 3 wood and 2 arylate-carbon layers. The outer plys are made of hinoki, and blue and black arylate-carbon. Not sure what the center ply is. The handle is one of the more comfortable that I've used. It was more squarish.

General Impressions: I would call the speed class of the blade OFF. The throw is medium high. The blade is relatively stiff, but has decent dwell time with the hinoki outer plys. Because of the hinoki and arylate, the throw of the blade is medium high and the blade is bouncy, which is especially noticable in the short game. The sweet spot of the blade is the largest of any I've tried. As long as I didn't hit with the edge of the blade, my loops were very controllable. I think the large sweet spot helped me learn to loop as I could be less precise with my technique.

Looping: Looping feels great on the table. The throw of the blade makes it easier to lift backspin. Looping in the mid distance was ok. I can't say much about the back court as my technique is inadequate at this distance.

Smashing: Feels ok, but not great. Sometimes smashes feel mushy.

Pushing: Hard to keep low due to bounciness, but with decent technique not impossible.

Flipping: My beginning flipping techique was too poor to make up for the low dwell time on flips. I could still flip no spin balls but not with a lot of confidence. I suspect that the vibration dampening was too much for these touch shots.

Blocking: I had no trouble controlling blocks with this blade, but I've never played with a bad blocking blade.

Conclusions: A pretty good blade for looping, but lacking in other areas. The bounciness and stiffness of the blade make it hard to use in the short game. The cost of the blade is on the high side and for nearly the same price of $120 USD you can get the Avalox J-Aramid which is the same thickness, with the same construction for the 2 outer plys. The Avalox has a little more feedback and is a little softer.

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