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I have used this rubber when I started playing table tennis, My DHS Hurricane 3 Neo (FH) was partnered with a Tenergy 05 (BH) and DHS PG-7 as the blade.
In terms of speed, This rubber is fast because of it's hardness. Mostly my flat drives go zoom when I hit the ball very hard. My only problem with this rubber is when I'm playing defense, It's kinda hard to block using Chinese Rubbers IMO. But overall it's a very good rubber, very suitable for players who have an all-out offensive style. I used mine for about 1 year and a half, and IMO it's durable.

This is a very welcome surprise. A rubber for those that likes a sticky surface, and a speedy sponge. It is not as tacky as a chinese rubber, and is speedier with a medium/low throw angle. Its like the description: Spin of China, speed of Euro, and touch of Japan. It plays more like a euro/japan-rubber than a chinese tacky H3/Neo.

This spin machine, i think, plays best on a speedier blade like carbon/fast wood. Tried it on Donic Diacon, Nittaku Redshank (thin carbon) and Stiga Rosewood NCT 7. Speed is very good for a tacky rubber. Very good for serves, service-return and top-spin play. Touch shots also very good. Recommended as a forehand-rubber. Its easily the best sticky rubber i have tried and incredibly fun to play with. When i played for the first time, i hit quite a few heavy sidespin-loops that had so much spin that it actually went past my opponents blade! I just laughed, and he too!

I'm referring to a DHS Hurricane 3 NEO rubber glued on the blade with VOC free glue (butterfly chack).
To my amateur hand I didn't feel this rubber lacking in any area of the game comparing to my previous rubber XIOM Sigma I Europe.
I have to admit I quite enjoyed the change. Of course blocking isn't exceptional with this rubber and it requires some precision.
The durability of the rubber is really low. When it contacts the table there will probably be a piece of it cut. The thing that saves it though is that it is on my forehand and I usually get the table with the backhand rubber. Next rubber I am going to get for my forehand will be h3 boosted because I'm curious, how a boosted rubber feels like. I have read people saying that this rubber was significantly different from a typical tensor, I didn't notice this to be honest. For me the rubber felt similar, as for it collecting dust, it does, like every rubber, not more. Also some people think this rubber is slow, I don't agree, I did try a TIBHAR EL-P and it felt slow comparing to H3 when looping.

Overall I think Hurricane 3 NEO is a fair rubber for the forehand and I suggest it to people looking for a cheap blade to begin with.

Very picky rubber.

Avoid using this rubber if you are not a fan of mushy rubbers.

This rubber's sponge is very soft, almost to the level of mushy.
Because of that softness, it is good for blocking and control.
In my opinion, I would say this rubber is good for beginners or people who wanna switch to shakehand from penhold.

I used this rubber when I switched from penhold to shakehand racket.
At that time, I could not do any backhand basics of shakehand, so I chose this rubber.

At first, Although this rubber is quite bouncy, I could not perform aggressive backhand loop.
It was because of the softness of the sponge. The sponge prevents players from adding speed to the balls.
So, if you have confidence in your backhand skills, I would not recommend you to use this rubber. Go for Rakza X or Rakza 7.

However, I liked this rubber's softness since this rubber's blocking and control was so good.

I would not say that this rubber is for everyone.
Maybe this is for players who are not very confident in their backhand skills like me.

Just boost it.

This rubber is made to be boosted.
I applied 2 layers of booster and this rubber became a monster in terms of balance of spins and speed.
Highly recommended to boost this rubber!

The other good thing about this rubber is that it forces you to place your feet in a proper position otherwise your balls would be slow and not spinny.
Good for training, I would recommend this for beginners in stead of Tenergy series, which is undoubtedly the most popular rubber for pros.

However, I think this rubber is also tricky rubber to use because of its tackiness.
When I loop or drive, I have to move my forearm very fast.
However, when you can hit balls with your maximum power, your loop and drive will be super spinny and super fast.
Because of its tackiness, it's also good for short games like stops, push and flick.

Overall, I really enjoy playing with this rubber and I think I won't change my FH rubber for a while.

This rubber is great for backhand.It feels like I can't miss.Very good for every playing style, it has lower throw angle than Tenergy 05 rubber.
It feels soft,great contol,great spin ,good speed .
The biggest problem as all we know is price of Tenergy rubbers

A great blade to match any type of player! (except choppers)

180$ = Worth buying.

You can hit very fast balls without much effort and still have some control on small plays.
This blade goes great with Tenergy series or any tensor rubbers.
I personally like to use this blade with Chinese rubbers and it performs quite well.
When I loop the ball with this blade, I can hit the ball in the corner of table.
When I make small plays like stop, push or even flick, this blade gave me nice control on the ball.

Summery ; quite well made blade which goes well with any types of rubbers!

This blade is great for the developing player. It has a good feeling and I like how it doesn't have a hollow handle. It's not too slow yet not as fast as the carbon blade. It is very durable ( I already had mine for 3 years). The Primorac is a very good classic all-wood blade.

I had this blade (Primorac Off+, which is on the photograph) since the last 15 years. ...one blade... It is expensive (in Germany ~120€) but the durability is amazing, nearly unbreakable. I flip out sometimes after hard matches and smack it against my upper leg and so on (nothing cool though) but the blade was at every time fully intact. The blade is very hard and stiff, so you can feel the ball touching via vibrating. It´s a fast blade, able to generate maximum speed but with good control. I think it´s perfect for players in middle distance with offensive topspin play style.

Having played with it for about 4 hours on 2 separate training sessions, here are my thoughts (playing with 2 Tenergy 05's):

Design & Handle: I really like the design with the phoenix print up front and the nice and classy straight handle. Nothing too out of the ordinary.
The straight handle is a big plus, especially compared to the flared one. It fits nice in the hand.
Serving: Great for serving. Low and spinny serves, short, half-long, long, you name it, very easy.
Short game: Best aspect of this blade. As this has ZL Fiber, and no carbon layers, you get a lot more feedback. The touch is amazing.
Looping: Very easy to generate a lot of power from short and mid distance. Also does the spin shots very well. You notice the control and forgiveness on every stroke. Timing needs to be accurate though.
Far away from the table: Some people complain about the lack of power, I don't really know why. Speed is more than enough. Counter topspins from far away are a joy. Surprised at how well the blade smashes.

Conclusion:
I was looking for a replacement for the DHS W997, which was a bit too powerful and lacked (with Tenergy 05 on the FH side) touch and control. This blade gives me the control and balance that I was looking for. I don't know why it isn't very popular, I don't know anyone who plays with it. Would definetely recommend it to a variety of players. If you have any questions, feel free to ask

Nittaku acoustic is an allwood blade composed of limba, limba, tung-tree, limba, limba the limba ply being a soft ply makes the blade soft with great feeling. There is some variation in weight, mine is 91g which is a nice balanced weight to me.

The amount of vibration is great for me as a developing player and not too over the top which I felt with my older allround classic blade. While it is an offensive blade it is not too fast, but due to the limba plies it has good dwell and it is easy to spin the ball well. I'm using tenergy 05 2.1 on forehand and donic baracuda max on the backhand. It is quite heavy at 191g but you quickly get used to it.

I think I would be able to handle an even faster blade due to the slower backhand rubber, but I rather focus on heavy spin and upgrade speed slowly with time and this set up with the acoustic seems ideal for this goal. If you're a flat hitter then you may want to go with something different.

The handle is quite small so keep that in mind if you have big hands, this also means it can be a bit head heavy, which I'm still feeling but getting used to.

I'd highly suggest this blade to someone that has played for a while and developed their game but looking for something slightly faster and want more spin. Because of the softness of the blade it's good to keep in mind what rubbers you put on it as well as how developed your backhand or forehand is e.g. I'm using tenergy05 a fairly hard rubber on my forehand which is suited for speed and spin while the baracuda is slighly slower but is forcing me to spin more as gives me good control for the short game and blocking.

very good rubber for spin-against-spin-actions, short serves with massive spin, short loops and long drive topspin strokes are possible with great arc in flight path! the ball pops out of the rubber at very high angles, so it is possible to close the blade very much and generate immense rotation. another advantage to other rubbers is the feedback feeling when you hit the ball hard, that means you can even change blade position at ball contact so the ball jumps not too high/low.

I've been playing the Andro Rasant for 2 months now and I'm very happy with it. It's so fast but at the same time it's also controllable. It is not as spinny as a Tenergy but it's still enough to generate a lot of spin. This rubber suits perfect to me, it's good for short play, you can easily play counter topspin and also play very fast topspins.

Hey guys!
Since February 2015, I've been using this flared blade with BTY Tenergy 05 on the FH, and Yasaka Rakza X on the BH.
Once you see the packaging it comes in, it is very clear why it costs £280. There is a nice look to the blade, with the colour coordiantion making it very attractive & once holding the blade, it has a very comfortable feel (even if you adjust your grip for certain shots).
Once rallying, you'll notice it has a very nice feel to it straight away and reminds me of the feel of the BTY Innerforce ZLC (somewhat stiffer but a fair bit faster).
FH(Rocket)- Even from my first hits I could really feel the ball sink in to the blade and making most of it's wide sweet spot. It took me a few practise sessions to get back into my complete rhythm of play but once I did, balls flew past sparring partners and the blade had more than enough power to hit past opponents.
BH(Need to be very consistent)- In my first few matches of using this blade, I found it very difficult to get more than one/two shots on per point. They'd always go too long or go into the net. However after some getting used to, it felt much easier to drive/punch past opponents and force them off the table. Backhand flicks were excelled- whether you wanted to put them down the line or produce heavy spin back, it was very easy.
Short game(Need very good touch) Due to the JM Super ZLC being so fast, touch play would not be easy to control at all. Balls were always going off the table due to the speed but it was heavy spin being produced. When wanting to do a dropshot, sometimes the ball would be picture perfect, sometimes the ball would just bounce off the blade and off the end of the table. Fortunately, this got much better after time and you feel well in control.
Finally, I'd recommend this blade to any offensive player for both BH/FH who is consistent. Even if you miss the sweetspot you still have a good chance of getting the ball back on. The dwell time enables the ball to literally 'sink' into the blade and produce tons of spin.

For a while now, I have never been able to fully understand what the Nexy folk mean by "bang impact". I have always been a heavy topspin brush looper of sorts who even when I loop drive was basically doing a very thick brush with hard sponge.

I got the Nexy OLAM to test as part of an effort on mytabletennis.net to get testers and reviewers for the OLAM/Zealot. What I had heard about the Zealot had already left me not so much of a fan with comparisons to the YEO fairly common place. The Nexy designer described OLAM as a special blade that expels the ball and talked about things like "line factor", "point factor" and "bang impact" etc.. I wondered about the marketing hype but decided that hey, it was worth a shot to see if this blade was really special. Moreover, as someone who likes softer outer plies with dwell time, this could simply be a reaffirmation of my position that blades with hard outer plies help no one.

I got an OLAM (88g ST handle) from Nexy. It looked good and had this annoying red diamond stud on the handle but nothing so bad I couldn't use it. I stuck on MX-S briefly on the rubber and tried it out in a couple of matches. MX-S though tends to play similarly on just about every blade I put it on - the one thing we noticed was that the ball came out the rubber faster when I used MX-S and that blocking was amazingly easy. So the depth of contact made the blade feel fast but the rebound wasn't like rockets or anything like that. I almost felt sometimes that I couldn't hold the rubber on the blade (I had this experience later when serving with MX-P on the blade where the ball seemed to stay on the racket for such a short time I could hardly serve the ball over the net when brushing). This might be a result of the hard beechwood outer ply, an outer ply I have never played with before. Below the beech however, we have the usual spruce, limba and kiri suspects from looping blades, so this blade is a looper's blade where you have to work to get some impact beneath the top play, but the hardness of the top ply creates a lot of linear control.

I was going to write this blade off as another harder blade that I couldn't use but I was impressed by the blocking control. I decided that I couldn't do a review in good faith without playing with the blade for an extended period and that I had a tournament coming up and couldn't do so so I used the blade occasionally until the tournament I prepared for was over. I am now playing with it through out this week to better understand what the blade about - I am using Evolution MX-P rubbers on both sides.

This blade may have helped me see where I got the benefit of hard outer plies wrong. In a sense, one can argue that soft outer plies and some wood combinations promote brush impact and harder outer plies and some wood combinations promote bang impact. It's not that you can't do both brush and bang with any combination, but it seemed that the OLAM rewarded deep impact. Because the blade was so linear, I kept trying to increase the contact depth of my stroke and it seemed that the linearity of the blade made seeking a deeper contact depth rewarding. Brush topspin strokes work, but making harder contact works even better on topspin balls and with great control too. The MX-P felt like a good match because its high grip/dwell counteracted the feeling of slippage that I felt on the OLAM in general. And MX-P rewards contact depth as its sponge is relatively hard so I didn't feel that there was a serious risk of bottoming out the MX-P sponge on power strokes.

The OLAM itself is either a massive innovation or a hint to me that I have gotten the benefits of hard outer plies wrong. It might be the latter, but I highly recommend this blade to anyone who is currently a fan of brushy strokes and wants to improve the contact depth on their shots. Use it with extremely modern rubbers with high grip like Tenergy or Evolution or the slippage may drive you crazy if your contact depth is not high enough - the topsheet will almost entirely determine short game control and slippage. You will feel as if you have laser accuracy on many of your shots because of how the blade performs on bang impact. I will post some practice and match video from this weekend to close out the review later. Will also add any comments then.

I bought balls from an Aliexpress vendor and DHS says they have improved the material they use. Fortunately I only bought 6 of them.

The weight was an average of 2.76 grams with small variance. This is identical to XSF and Butterfly G40+, a little more than Nittaku Premium 40+. This would meet the strict ITTF standards that come into effect this January. It is an improvement over previous DHS balls, which were always over 2.80 and would not be approved after January. The balls have a nice bright white color, a rough surface and they seem round.

Beyond that I have nothing good to say about these balls. The bounce height is still very low, in fact identical to a Joola 40+ ball from June of 2014 (which was made by Shanghai DHS factory). In play this is obvious. The balls stays low, dips a lot, doesn't come out which makes play at middle distance difficult, and there were occasional weirdly low bounces. In short, most of the things we have complained about regarding playability of Chinese seamed balls from the start are still a problem, even with the latest version of the balls from this company. Maybe these new ones will turn out to be more durable, but they still suck. And since they suck, I don't plan to use them, so I don't think I will be the one to figure out if they are durable.

I implore tournament directors, league officials and club managers, please don't use these crappy balls. Why impose terrible balls on players when there are at least three different types of decent balls available (seamless, Nittaku Premium, Butterfly G40+). If price is an issue, go with seamless.

Great rubber for FH and BH. I've said this quite a bit, but our rhyzm line has always seemed to be more of a speedster while our maxxx line has always focused more on spin.

After you glue it, it will probably shrink a little bit when you reglue it. Also with all of our maxxx and rhyzm lines you're likely to get it pre-tuned from the factory. So if you're using the water based glues it is a pain to reglue so you can pretty much do 2 things. Either just glue a layer on top of the old glue or make sure to use good white glue like finezip, haifu, dianchi or dhs.

I personally liked this rubber on the BH. As with any of the newer rubbers these days durability is really low compared to rubbers from a few years past. But then that makes sense as with any business that relies on repeat customers rubbers that last too long (1-3 years) will not make them profitable. It costs a lot to purchase the fees for certification and then get a mold ready then you have to play around with the composition as best you can since all rubbers in ESN (major European rubber manufacturer) are basically the same. Doesn't matter if it's JOOLA, Donic, Stiga or Adidas you're most likely looking at an ESN rubber. These days with the plastic ball brands are all about the grippy surface and bouncy sponge.

But what that means is that your rubbers will not last as long as they used to. If you're training with a plastic ball it also means that you're going to lose durability because the balls just do more damage than the celluloid ball did. They're a bit heavier and have a little more friction and they break all the time which scratches the rubbers more than celluloid did.

So just in general you'll find that you're rubbers don't last as long with Plastic as they did with celluloid.

MSRP $64.95
Everyday $59.95
MAP $39.95

PM me if in the USA, I can probably get it for cheaper.

This rubber was great on the backhand. It's soft at 37.5 degrees, but it definitely has more of a kick than the Xsoft. Before Tenergy came out this rubber definitely had potential to be a good speed glue replacement. However since it's got a less porous sponge it's nothing compared to rubbers these days. It definitely has a great sound when you're looping with it.

The rubber is super spinny and has a decent kick to it. It's great for mid distance and close to the table. I often recommend this as a BH rubber for anyone who likes to spin and is upgrading from something slower. Once you have good feeling it's a great rubber to upgrade to from say Sriver G3 or any of the beginner rubbers.

After it's been glued for a while it will definitely start to lose it's kick faster than modern rubbers. That's basically what I mean about Old Style Rubbers.

MSRP $54.95
Everyday $49.95
MAP $37.95

If you're in the US I can probably get you a better price PM me.

Brave was a limited run rubber, made in Japan.

It's actually a great rubber for spinning and over the table looping. Yue 'Jennifer' Wu, USA 2016 Olympian used this rubber and liked it, but as it became discontinued she decided to switch to Maxxx 500 and Maxxx-P

This rubber is pretty awesome to counter off the bounce with. It's a fusion Chinese feeling, but japanese bounce to it. I would probably compare this to Sriver G3 and other great rubbers that spin well.

If you can find a good sheet this rubber is great, but just know since it's been discontinued for at least a few years there's a good chance you'll end up buying a baked sheet that is no good.

MSRP $49.95

Energy 325 is a rebranded Energy Xsoft rubber. It's a great rubber on the backhand or even a step up for beginners using a mambo/sriver type rubber to learn the fundamentals.

If your style involves blocking or quick counters off the bounce this rubber is great to play with. You will lose power mid distance, so stay away if you're looking for a good mid distance rubber.

MSRP $54.95

Everyday pricing $49.95

Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) $37.95

I can probably go below the MAP pricing if you're in the USA and interested PM me.