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does malone do that now that he has h3 in bh?
Why Chinese players change from forehand to backhand ruber when thei are Smashing?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD44f16K294
Here's a vid with a few examples. They flip to smash with their European Tenergy (mostly) rubber instead of their Chinese tacky rubbers. Someone mentioned that the European rubber is easier to smash with - but can anyone go into more detail as to why? Is it simply because they are faster, or is it because they are less responsive to spin than a tacky rubber might be?
Tacky rubber holds on to the ball longer than non-tacky rubber so it slows the ball down on flat hits, and a little less so on loop drives. If you see top CNT smashing with their Chinese rubber side, they don't smash so much as they topspin smash. If anyone wants a modern example, they can look at Ma Long vs Marcos Freitas or Xu Xin Vs Mizutani or Yoshimura.
Yes, but the hardness is different.but ma long uses h3 on both sides.
but ma long uses h3 on both sides.
Wang Liqin doesn't twiddle his bat. But then I think he is the exception that proves the rule
@Carl.
2 of my Hong Kong club mates swear that black is better than red for Chinese rubbers. It does not matter what colour for euro/jap rubbers as the quality is top notch but they say that the stereotype of "made in China" is very much alive in DHS rubbers. Black being the natural colour is why it plays much better than red which has its characteristics altered by the intense colouring pigment. Personally, I can't really tell much difference between the 2 but I only used H3neo for a few months whereas they used H3/neo for years. Plus i only tested the difference in colour for a few hours. They are also better than me in terms of skill so I think i will take their word on the red/black issue. They are after all my club's resident Chinese rubber expert.