tackiest rubber?

itachidaily · Feb 26, 2018

Hello,
I was looking for a tacky rubber to use and I remembered about 999 series(not globe). I googled and read many reviews and read good things about it but I also found out that 999's 999 series won't be ittf approved anymore
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if you go to the last page, 999's super 999, 999t1 will be withdrawn, it says..

so what's a rubber that's as tacky or tackier than 999?
seems like hurricane 2 is tackier than hurricane 3?

which 729 is tackiest?
seems like battle 2, 729-08, focus-1 seem good. i

f you have any other suggestion, let me know..
budget is less than $25/20euro.

Thank you so much for reading.

Lightzy · Feb 26, 2018

792 Battle 2 is the best tacky rubber currently in my opinion.

Also crazy tacky.

itachidaily · Feb 26, 2018

Lightzy said:
792 Battle 2 is the best tacky rubber currently in my opinion.

Also crazy tacky.

thank you for your reply.
yes Battle2 seems good.. does a ball stick to the surface for long time?

Lightzy · Feb 26, 2018

The plastic balls don't stick for long to any tacky rubber and like any tacky rubber it deteriorates with humidity, heat and dirt, but it's the tackiest rubber I've seen, pretty consistently (across I guess like 8 sheets I went through already?).

But most of all it's just a really damn good rubber in pretty much every respect, if you like the traditional type hard, tacky rubbers. It's pretty fast for a hard tacky rubber too. It drives really well, which if you've been playing with tacky rubbers for a long time, will be very surprising and fun for you.. And... yeah. Good rubber.

itachidaily · Feb 27, 2018

have you ever used hurricane 2 or 3? if so, how are they compared to battle 2.

and i see that you have ak47 blue also. seems like people don't like to put tacky rubber on BH nowadays and on revspin many people said ak47 blue is good for back.. seems like it can give lots of spin even though it's not so tacky? how much spin can it give? I haven't used tensor rubbers or regular rubbers like markV and things like that so I'm not sure.

Lightzy · Feb 28, 2018

I've used H3 and H3neo.

I switched to Battle2 because battle2 is more modern. It is faster, it is great for drives, it is a lot more tacky (good for plastic ball) and is MUCH less prone to losing the tackiness because of humidity or dirt.
EDIT: Also more consistent. I'd often get a sheet of h3neo that lost tack, a sheet that adhered so strongly to the packing plastic covering that the topmost rubber layer came off (with red color) and other bizzarities.

Ak47 Blue that I use on backhand is because it fits my style specifically.. It's an extreme rubber. Ultra soft/light/fast.
You can get ridiculous spin with it, no worries. But it has other disadvantages. Yellow is more balanced but I prefer blue for specific reasons.

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