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Have you all tried or seen this yet?
So I'm teaching my girls to play table tennis and of course they want colored rubbers. Because they're still kids and I want to keep it light, I say why not. I get them their setup but on ali express I kept seeing this Meteor 845 Blue Short Pips based on my search for colored rubbers for the girls naturally.
Ali Express link here:
Now I play penhold (My YT Channel with various videos so you can get a feel for what I'm talking about) and grew up playing single wing. It's what I know. I've dabbled into duel inverted but for as much power as I can get sometimes with the RPB, it just never has been consistent. So being single wing, I've tried a number of different rubbers on the RPB side for the occasional chop and/or the twiddle game.
One thing I've never liked about Long Pip chopping is that I can't really do much with the spin. Yes it's much easier to chop but I've always wished I could vary a chop from deadish to heavy backspin. That's something more commonly achieved from short pip choppers.
Well for the price of 5 bucks? Why not. I've tried 802 before and actually use to play that on my forehand years back so I'm at least familiar with short pips. It was the 802 on the 35 degree sponge.
Honestly this plays very similar IMO to 802. The sponge, I got it in 2.0 MM which is the thinnest I could get (yes thick for chopping I know but I will occasionally punch with this too so it won't be exclusively chopping) and I would classify this orange sponge as medium hardness compared to the 35 deg 802. Past that? if I wasn't looking at the rubber, I'm not sure I would be able to tell a difference.
It hits, blocks & plays fine counter-hitting. Typical Short Pips. Controllable and very flat but to my surprise it really chops pretty nice. Already in my first session I can vary chops in terms of amount of backspin which gave my training partners problems.
It's too early for me to give a final verdict as I want to test it vs some of the best at our club to get a full feel of it but come on. For 5 bucks? That's a silly price and I'm really, really impressed so far.
This guy in this video compares it to 802 in his YT video
So I'm teaching my girls to play table tennis and of course they want colored rubbers. Because they're still kids and I want to keep it light, I say why not. I get them their setup but on ali express I kept seeing this Meteor 845 Blue Short Pips based on my search for colored rubbers for the girls naturally.
Ali Express link here:
Now I play penhold (My YT Channel with various videos so you can get a feel for what I'm talking about) and grew up playing single wing. It's what I know. I've dabbled into duel inverted but for as much power as I can get sometimes with the RPB, it just never has been consistent. So being single wing, I've tried a number of different rubbers on the RPB side for the occasional chop and/or the twiddle game.
One thing I've never liked about Long Pip chopping is that I can't really do much with the spin. Yes it's much easier to chop but I've always wished I could vary a chop from deadish to heavy backspin. That's something more commonly achieved from short pip choppers.
Well for the price of 5 bucks? Why not. I've tried 802 before and actually use to play that on my forehand years back so I'm at least familiar with short pips. It was the 802 on the 35 degree sponge.
Honestly this plays very similar IMO to 802. The sponge, I got it in 2.0 MM which is the thinnest I could get (yes thick for chopping I know but I will occasionally punch with this too so it won't be exclusively chopping) and I would classify this orange sponge as medium hardness compared to the 35 deg 802. Past that? if I wasn't looking at the rubber, I'm not sure I would be able to tell a difference.
It hits, blocks & plays fine counter-hitting. Typical Short Pips. Controllable and very flat but to my surprise it really chops pretty nice. Already in my first session I can vary chops in terms of amount of backspin which gave my training partners problems.
It's too early for me to give a final verdict as I want to test it vs some of the best at our club to get a full feel of it but come on. For 5 bucks? That's a silly price and I'm really, really impressed so far.
This guy in this video compares it to 802 in his YT video