What rubbers should I use?

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Soft rubbers won't help you, they'll be very very different to what you're used to.
Soft rubbers are a lot less predictable and you'll find your shots going all over the place if you don't know exactly what to do with them. They tend to be a lot faster with low-energy balls, which is the opposite of hard rubbers, etc.

I suggest getting normal medium hardness rubbers.
If you've been developing slowly, try Xiom Vega Pro on both sides. You will smile a lot.
 
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If you could tell us your playstyle or show a video we could help better. You played with chinese rubbers all the time?
 
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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 :p 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 :p don't follow top players, choose what suits you best)!
 
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