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- Butterfly's most popular attacking blade
- Suitable for strong loop players who wish to speed up their rubber whilst maintaining control
- Excellent control and feeling whilst maintaining control
- XXS size also available for young players with a smaller hand
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Tamasu Butterfly celebrate in 2000 their 50th anniversary
Success has a name
0n December 19, 1950 Hikosuke Tamasu founded Tamasu Co., Ltd.) in the small town of Yanai City, Japan. This was the beginning of a company career which is almost unique in table tennis.
The company founder Tamasu was a renowned international for Japan at his time. He fulfilled his dream of a lifetime when half a century ago he made his hobby his profession. At that time he could hardly imagine that he would make Butterfly the leading brand worldwide.
Support individuality
But creativity, durability and a profound technical knowledge meant success. 0ver and over again he looked for new possibilities in order to optimise techniques by innovative playing material. �Each player is different. Each one has his strength and weakness. By offering individual playing material I wanted to help players right from the beginning to emphasise their individuality� he describes his company philosophy. The breakthrough came 1960 resp. 1962 when Butterfly ALLROUND D 13 resp. TEMPEST D 13 were introduced. The greatest success, however, was the introduction of SRIVER in 1967, which is one of the world wide most used rubbers. Eventhough thus rubber won more than 30 world championships it is constantly been improved in order to cope with changes in the game.
0wn research center
Since 1983 Butterfly has its own training and research center in Tokyo in which highly qualified scientist co-operate with world class players and coaches for the development of rubber and blade technology. Since many years Butterfly rubbers and blades are used by more than half of the participants at World and European Championships.
Living table tennis
Mr. Tamasu is convinced that table tennis keeps young and fit. �Table tennis really is a life time sport and ideal specially for older people� he adds. Even today Mr. Tamasu travels around the globe in order to promote his beloved sport. There is almost no country on this earth which does not have friendly relations with Butterfly.
By the way, friendship and peace. Due to his horrible experiences during WW II Mr. Tamasu chose BUTTERFLY deliberately as company name because this stands for peace, spring time and joy.
Planning the future
Ten years ago H. Tamasu appointed his son Kimihiko Tamasu new managing director who now carries the company on based on the Butterfly company philosophy. Today some 150 staff members work for Butterfly worldwide.
Focus on young players
Two of the most promissing young European players, Timo Boll and Michael Maze, have long term contracts with Butterfly. Many European coaches will support Mario Amizic to find more talented players for Butterfly. Apart from those youngsters Butterfly has many experienced world class players, such as Kong Ling Hui, Kim Taek Soo, Zoran Primorac, Werner Schlager, Christophe Legout, Zhang Yining, Liu Jia or Tamara Boros.
Quality and service
Rubbers and blades are certainly Butterfly�s main products. But also in other fields, such as textiles, accessories, tables etc. Butterfly offer a wide range of high quality equipment. �Quality and service come first� is Butterfly�s motto.
No fear of the future
The table tennis industry is obviously aware of the decreasing number of players. Tamasu: �still table tennis is an attractive game for kids and adolescents. Associations, clubs, industry but also professional clubs and players are asked to stop this negative trend�.
New Era of Tamasu Co., Ltd., Tokyo
In December 2005 a new board was elected, which is led by Shunsaku Yamada, Managing Director. Three key words for the new board are service, technology, and planning.
"Service": Tamasu Co. is determined to continue contributing for further development of the sport.
"Technology": The new Butterfly Technical Centre started to research and develop table tennis rubbers and sponges in April 2006.
"Planning": Every staff will be involved in planning the annual achievement of the company and in sharing the same objectives
Zoran Primorac
Karina Lefevre
Ormesby’s 15 year old Karina Lefevre won her biggest championship so far in taking the gold medal in the UK School Games Table Tennis in Bath on Sunday. The UK School Games is a multi sport event sponsored by the Government as part of the build-up to the 2012 Olympics and is the strongest competition at junior level in the British Isles.
To win the coveted title Karina, ranked at No 4 in the England Junior list and seeded 4th in this competition, beat all 3 players ranked and seeded above her. Karina, who attends the Thornaby Community School, won 7 consecutive matches starting by winning her group against Chloe Thomas of Wales, Stephanie McCallum of Scotland and Ayonija Sundararajan of Berkshire, all by comfortable margins, to take a place in the last 16.
At this stage, Karina beat her second Welsh player, Natasha Rees, in straight games before going on to play the England No 2, Sara Wang, against whom Karina had played 2 very close matches in the team events. This match was a third close encounter which was levelled at 2 games and 9 points all in the decider before Karina won the last 2 points.
In both the semi final and final, the Ormesby girl fought back from being 2-1 down. In the semi, her recovery was against the England No 1, Emma Vickers, where Karina from the 2-1 deficit won the 4th at 11-6 and the decider at 11-7. In the final Karina gained revenge against the England No 3 Junior and No 1 Cadet, Emily Bates of Lincolnshire, from the final of the English Junior Championships in May. Karina looked in trouble when she lost the 3rd game convincingly at 11-3 but took full control from that point, winning the 4th at 11-6 with some strong hitting rallies and the decider at 11-4.
What makes this performance even more remarkable is that Karina, aged 15, was in the main playing against competitors 2 or 3 years older than herself. She still has 3 more chances to lift this title in the future.
On Saturday, Karina helped the North East girls team to win the bronze medal in the team event with her Ormesby team mates Chloe Whyte and Rachel Greener and Sheffield’s Melissa Wright. The North East team won their group by beating Scotland 6-1, Northern Ireland 5-2 and the South East by 4-3.
In the semi final the North East narrowly lost to the South West 4-3, so playing off for the bronze medal against the South East for the second time and on this occasion winning 4-3.
Karina was the star of the North East team, winning 9 of her 10 matches whilst Melissa Wright won 7 out of 10, Chloe Whyte 2 out of 6 and Rachel Greener 1 from 4.
This overall performance with a total of 5 wins against higher ranked players will boost Karina’s England ranking right at the start of the new season and helps to justify the England selectors’ faith in her. Karina’s next major competition is her first full international when she represents the England Senior team in the 6 Nation Championships in Fife a week on Saturday.
The worlds best known and most popular fast attacking rubber
Used by more world ranked players than any other rubber
The most reliable and consistent rubber available
More than 20 World and 70 European Champions have been successful with Sriver
The all time winner
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Very popular rubber amongst the participants in World Championships
Slightly slower than regular Sriver
Combines particularly well with Butterfly glue
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Bryce has been the most significant innovation for more than a decade. Bryce with its new production system that builds tension into the rubber molecules unleashes extra energy every time the ball is struck by as much as 18% compared with other rubbers
Bryce gives the glue effect without gluing with speed glue
Uses the High Tension Technology
High Tension by Butterfly is an innovative technology developed through passion. We use this technology to produce rubbers of a new generation that guarantees unbelievable grip, extremely good feeling and high resistance that will lead to dynamic and rewarding play
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Comfortable, well fitting shorts manufactured from 2-way stretch and cool dry lycra.
Classic style cut.
Available in Black, Silver or Navy.
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