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MATCH BALL · 4 SMOOTH PANELS

VELARC MOTH

The one that moves.

€159€44

Drag to turn it. Flick to spin it.

Velarc Moth match ball, plain white with four sky-blue eye-spots, on a dark studio floor

Close-up of the Moth’s hairline seam and an eye-spot

Velarc Moth on the free-kick spot under floodlights

HOW THE MOTH FLIES.

Set a strike from our free-kick spot, 24 m out and left of centre. The Moth is drawn solid; the Keel and the Hook take exactly the same strike as outlines.

Speed off the boot94 km/h

Spin9 rev/s

goal line5 m10 m15 m20 m25 mTOP VIEW

1 m2 m3 m4 mSIDE VIEW · HEIGHT ×2

	Time to goal	Bend	Speed at goal	Spread
Keel	1.29 s	1.3 m	58 km/h	–
Hook	1.29 s	1.3 m	58 km/h	–
Moth	1.31 s	0.9 m	52 km/h	–

Fig. 1: Each strike is aimed for the far top corner with the Keel; the other balls take exactly the same strike. Model fitted to published wind-tunnel data for smooth balls with little seam (Keel: 32-panel stitched balls; Hook: 6-panel thermally bonded balls). Sources on the Flight Lab page.

CONSTRUCTION

FOUR PANELS, ALMOST SMOOTH.

Four panels with 1.98 m of hairline seam, 0.48 mm deep. With so little for the air to hold on to, it settles late: its drag is lowest at 89 km/h. Four eye-spots, so a ball that barely turns shows you its slow tumble.

SPEC SHEET

PRODUCT

Size	5 (Match) · 5 or 4 (Club)
Circumference	68.5–69.5 cm
Weight	420–440 g
Pressure	0.8–1.0 bar
Panels	4
Build	Thermally bonded, smooth
Seam	1.98 m, 0.48 mm deep
Cover	Polyurethane
Bladder	Latex (Match) · Butyl (Club)
In the box	Ball and inflation needle

FLIGHT (model, sourced)

Lowest drag at	89 km/h
Drag at 101 km/h	2.8 N
Curled strike, 94 km/h and 9 rev/s from 24 m	0.9 m bend, 1.31 s to goal
Driven strike, 112 km/h, no spin	0.910 s to goal
Half pace, 76 km/h, no spin	1.72 s to goal
No-spin spread at 83 km/h from 25 m	0.40 m