Hi. I'm a offensive player and I'm used to the chinese rubbers since I was young. But I got the amateur paddles, the ones that were pre assembled. Now with the dhs rubbers I have some trouble at receiving strong spin services and playing again choppers. Can't make the ball pass the bet. I tried my friends rubber (tenergy 05 fx) and it's quite easy to do everything.
Well, that's not enough yet
But if you used amateur paddles before maybe you've chosed a quite fast setup for you, also you use a H3 for BH Side, and that's not a viable choice in general. My advice is:
- Move to a slower blade, Hurricane Long 5 seems a quite fast and head-heavy upgrade, from a person that came from pre-assembled paddles.
- You have to choose between chinese rubber on FH or Euro/Jap Rubber, with Euro/Jap you get more forgiveness, more easy spin, and maybe a not so good short game. With chinese rubbers you get good short game, tremendous spin with the correct stroke, but you can't be passive with chinese rubber, at least you shouldn't. Oh and you should boost your chinese rubber.
- It's not good pratice have a hard chinese rubber on backhand. There's few people that can play that way, and in general are people with a solid backhand and a solid brush loop strocke. If you prefer chinese rubber also on backhand you should try Hurricane 3-50.
My Advice on rubbers if you want improve faster:
Rozena both sides(If you want to play with euro/jap on both sides).
Maybe you should upgrade to Tenergy80 because it's a hybrid between 05 and 64.
After you develop well your strokes, you could choose between 64 our 05 or even stay with 80.
The most important, and if you have some money, it's to try equipement(not as an EJ ofc
don't follow top players, choose what suits you best)!