Sword · Pips Line · Short pips
Dance
Dance is a canonical short-pips identity with a standard short-pimple topsheet.
Also listed as: Sword Dance · SWORD Dance · Sword Dance
Specifications and evidence
Approval evidence and market availability are recorded separately. A name listed by an approval source is not proof that the rubber is currently on sale, and a rubber on sale is not proof of a current approval. Approval is never inherited by a suffix or edition, and no expiry date is invented.
Market status describes current commercial availability only. Where it could not be verified it stays unknown rather than being guessed from a shop listing.
Printed hardness values are manufacturer figures on the maker's own scale. A printed Chinese degree is not assumed to equal an ESN degree, and no hardness is inferred from a product code or a sponge colour.
No reliable official Sword list price is published per region, so no price is shown rather than an invented one.
TTDNA core profile
- Speed
- 85
- Spin
- 56
- Control
- 79
- Arc
- 32
- Hardness
- 45
- Tackiness
- 15
- Block
- 70
- Durability
- 73
TTDNA values are TTDNA's own editorial 0–100 ratings. They are not official Sword measurements, not laboratory data and not a conversion of any retailer score.
Short and long pips behave differently: short pips hit flat and generate some spin of their own, while long pips mainly return the incoming spin. Generated spin and spin reversal are separate ratings.
TTDNA ratings
TTDNA values are TTDNA's own editorial 0–100 ratings. They are not official Sword measurements, not laboratory data and not a conversion of any retailer score.
TTDNA ratings are normalized comparison values, not laboratory measurements. They are built from published specifications, technical sources and structured product evidence, converted to one 0–100 scale. Where a directly comparable measurement is unavailable, the value is an evidence-based estimate. Overall-style scores are composites of several characteristics. Methodology
Sources: Sword official product data · Retailer spec listings — weight, sponge hardness and thickness · TTDNA ratings — derived by TableTennisDNA, not manufacturer data
Data confidence
Generations are never merged automatically. Paladin II and Scylla III are their own records, and no specification is copied between generations of the same name.
Variants and configurations
1 variantColour, thickness and configuration are variants of one model — never separate products. Colour never changes a rating, MAX and OX stay qualitative labels, and OX carries no sponge hardness.
Black · Red · Standard sheet range
Standard · Sponged · Medium (TTDNA band)
Speed 85 · Spin 56 · Control 79
Known users
Fast-block and hitting players — pen-hold forehands and close-to-table backhands that punish topspin early.
Sword publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.
Rest of the Pips Line family
Long Can
A Sword short-pips rubber. Despite the name, Long Can is a short-pips sheet and is never classified as long pips.
Long pipsVenom
A Sword long-pips rubber focused on defensive variation and spin reversal.
Long pipsScylla III
The third Scylla generation, a Sword long-pips rubber kept as its own canonical record.
Family membership groups related names. It never means shared construction, and family members are never merged into one record.
14 Sword models in TTDNA · Compare the range