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Extremely light, super affordable and very comfortable to wear. Quite durable no signs of wear after 2 months of playing(thrice a week) or maybe too early to say. Still, I highly recommend for such an affordable price.

I'm also a marathoner and so I became pretty particular and nosy with the feel of my flats regardless of type of shoes. So this one I may say one of my favorites.



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I have been playing with andro PLAXON 450 on my FH for a few weeks now and I rly like this rubber.
It's has a medium sponge with good gears from soft short touches to spiny loops. It's obviously not as fast as a hard sponge rubber but fast enough to win points with. I would say it comes close to Tenergy when it comes to spin but with the added bonus of not being to fast if you think Tenergy is to fast for you.

Der_Echte has made the Tibhar Kim Jung Hoon his primary battle ax for the last week and is ready to report findings...

KJH blade is designed by Nexy for Tibhar. Korea pro Kim Jung Hoon wanted Nexy to design his namesake balde. KJH was impressed with the early versions of the Nexy Peter Pan and told Pr. Moon what he wanted. I watched this exchange at Nexy HQ a few months before I left Korea. The basic things KJH wanted were...

- High spin potential and high arc
- Feel for the ball
- Decent top speed gear
- Controlled pace on shots that are not full swing
- Solid feel on direct struck balls
- Ability to block both fast off the bounce and soft BH defense
- Reliability close to the table on counters and off the bounce loops
- Flip and short touch performance

KJH got what he wanted. This blade isn't a rocket blade, but you make the "bang" impact, the ball will move out. The top end has enough to finish points, but you really have to have the timing of your body parts to make the thing leave a vapor trail.

I REALLY like its ability to fast block close to the table and also soft block when I loosen the hand pressure. I love how it can make good pace with a firm grip right before impact given a short compact swing.

My game relies on an ability to spin the first ball heavy and loop drive or hit the return. This blade does that. On receive, I tend to either be really aggressive or indecisive and ultimately passive, but the touch you can put on the ball can save your bacon. This isn't an OFF+ class blade, but you can still lay the smack down on finishes given the chance. I also like its ability to play more offensive minded close to the table, whether it is fast blocking or countering, you really can apply pressure to an opponent. That counts for a lot.

Ive been playing with the Stiga arioc now for some time and I think its a great rubber. I really like the feeling you get when you hit the plastic balls that you dont get with other rubbers. Overall this is a rubber that is good for the attacking player and I recommend you to try it!

In my opinion the 3* seamless plastic balls are not as good as any 3* plastic balls with seam.
The Xushaofa balls are in comperison to other balls pretty round and hard but with the seamless balls you are not able to play as powerfull shots as with the plastic balls with seam and it is very difficult to play with a lot of spin, what you can do with non-seamless-balls.
So all in all i prefer the plastic balls with seam ecpecially those of Nittaku.

The Baum Esprit has, for a Carbon-Blade, a relatively soft feeling for which reason the blade provides good control in all gameplay-situations.
In my opinion the bigggest strenght of the Baum Esprit is that this blade provides extremly good control in passive play for a offensive blade as well as when you want to play topspin-topspin rallies at halfdistance you can play pretty fast but also spinny shots due to the high arc the blade grants.

In terms of the weight of the blade I have to say that the Baum Esprit isn't really heavy. Mine has 88g. It is a bit headheavy but I think that this isn't bad as with this attribute you are able to put spin on the ball more easily than with a blade like the Clipper Wood for example.

And because all of that I have been playing with the Baum Esprit, which is a underrated blade, for a season and I'm won't change the blade for a while since I think that it is a great blade for versatile offensive players.

Nice blade for attack style play
and so easy to topspin

it's my forehand rubber on my viscaria blade
it's pretty fast and tacky with high consistency
but because of it hardness it has normal spin and not so spiny (as i tought)
overal a nice rubber with good price

Terrific blade for a all-round player that seeks good speed and outstanding control.

I've been using this rubber on a coaching bat I put together on my backhand side. It has decent control but is extremely soft which is not to my taste really. I'll keep using it as it is only a coaching bat. But would not like to use it for competition.

This is the best plastic ball on the market at the moment. I have used Butterfly, Joola, Stiga ,etc and this is the most consistent overall. There is not too much variability between balls. Definitely would recommend them over the other balls.

I have this for both BH and FH.

Throw angle is average but looping is incredibly easy with this rubber, especially if you have no trouble bending your knees.
It's fast enough if your game doesn't depend entirely on speed but also on placement of the balls.
I put 7/10 for control because controlling with a tacky topsheet requires more touch and attention to the spin of the ball.
I can also defend and retrieve balls amazingly with this, as well as do BH counter attacks away from the table with a lot of confidence.

Overall, it's a great affordable and safe choice for a rubber, that can do amazing things with the proper technique.

I followed my friends and some of the members on this forums advice to get myself a Clipper. I felt like my last blade was to fast and hard to control for me so i thought that this blade could be a better alternative, and it was. I have not played with the Clipper for that long but i already like it very much. It got the control and feeling i was looking for but it still got plenty of speed and i can get the full use of my strokes.


i have it easier to get my returns and serves short with good quality and i get a good connection with the ball, flicks also works great.


It took a few practises to get fully used to a new blade but after adjusting my strokes a little i only feel likes it’s getting better and better. thanks for those who recommended me this blade and i will also edit this review and make it longer when i have played with the blade some more weeks.

Bought this blade as a replacement to the Ebenholz NCT 5 which wasn't doing it for me. This blade is streets ahead is just what I was looking for: huge sweetspot; nice touch possible in the short game; fast when needed; very STABLE (like an old friend!).

You'll hear in the Table tennis daily video review about stability and sweet spot. Believe the hype. Only now realise what was missing from my game. Everything goes on the table. Does what you want.

Stiff but not overly so...loads of dwell time; ball doesn't just jump off the rubber. Looping is fantastic near and far way from the table.

Pricey but well worth the money! Well done Stiga.

Andro Rasant Grip on FH, and Yasaka Rakza 7 on BH.

its a decent longpimple for my first. great for chopping away from table w lots of reversal

ive been playing w this rubber for a while now on a 729 bomb and its not bad. chops were ok. Short game was good, and i could get a counterloop here and there off the bounce. after about 5 months of using it i have decided to boost with 1 layer of cooking oil. what ive found is that the speed has drasticaly improved and it makes a VERY loud sound.

I haven't tried a lot of rubbers but I didn't see much difference comparing with popular tensor rubbers like Bluefire, Tenergy and Evolution. It is really durable rubber, bouncy, spinny.
EDIT: The durability of the rubber is very very good. It can take a lot of bangs in the table and survive easily and edges are in perfect shape.
In the short play it not easy to keep the ball low some times. When the opponent uses a short serve with weak backspin on your fh side it is hard to return low and short with back-spin. It will either be short with no spin or long with backspin. Of course if your technique is better than mine you could do it, but I still think it's quite hard with this rubber.

Good rubber, little similar to T05. Defnitely for play close to the table, and definitely not for amateurs. The sponge is quite hard and also low throw angle make it not easy to play long way rallies. Very good for blocking, you can easily decide where to put the ball. Great for smashing. Not good for flicking.

This blade is one of the best i've used. I have used a Timo Boll Spirit for a long time, however since my recent purchase of the Timo Boll ALC I wouldn't change it back. It fits very well with my Calibra Tour and Joola Rhythm. It is very fast on the backhand side, even though I have a Joola rubber on my backhand which is 3 months old, it still feels brand new with this blade. The blade makes the rubber react very well, the sound of the rubbers are very loud with a clean feel which gives me great confidence when playing.