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That was my impression trying VIS with H3 and even D05 forehand. The only place it's at all harder to control than an inner or allwood is in blocks against the very strongest shots and in short pushes right over the net. It's honestly not that rigid of a blade, they balanced it really well...

If you're lucky and your style is a bit older and you just use BH to setup points, then you can get away with Commercial NEO H3 37 on the backhand. They're available real cheap from Aliexpress and actually quite good quality (specifically the NEO 2.10mm ones). :) With Clipper I could see...

Sure, the tension effect should be active for a good while, even if the rubber's not at all faster. I can never get the edges to stay on if I glue curled, though.

Really long pips and a really thin sponge would have super high load sensitivity and a very low input force cap, so it'd be worse in every way for grip; but it'd be very stable and not very dynamic.

Shipping will be immense, and I will pay GST ontop. With Aliexpress coupons, the price is much lower. 🤷‍♂️

To be honest I trust Global Sports Store a lot more than Prott. I've only ever gotten good products from that Aliexpress store. Heard sketchy stuff about Prott. Besides, it'd cost more after tax and delivery, at best cost the same amount, and take longer to arrive.

I've only used Haifu. The claim for Jiechi is it increases elasticity +20%. If that's true, I expect more like one day, but realistically probably under 4 hours. Needless to say that claim is not true unless they measured it at 1m/s or maybe 1mm of deflection, lol. The delta gets smaller with...

I've settled on a DHS inner blade (Long 5 if I can nab one for a nice price on 11.11, but B2 for now) with H3 on forehand and H8/H3 on backhand mostly because it's similar to what I played the first few thousand hours with and because DHS equipment just works for me. They rarely do unexpected...

Good luck to Loki and other manufs without serious R&D and engineering knowledge if they wanna replicate something like Zyre. Existing rubbers already have topsheet wear and bubbling issues, and a super thin topsheet will only exaggerate those. :)

Black softens it the most out of all of the boosters. It's the strongest one for elasticity and for softening. I haven't tried how much maximal softening it can achieve, but I'm sure it's over 9 degrees if you pile it on like 5 layers. Black is the densest, strongest, most softening and least...

Adhesion is mostly constant, so it adds let's say 5N of transverse friction. If your stroke force is making 10N of friction, then it's a huge increase, like in serves. If your stroke force is making 100N of friction, then that 5N is not so much. It's why tackiness doesn't really increase the...

I really love the B2, and being very forehand dominant, I'm thinking of getting a HL5 or HL5 Gold some time later. Is the HL5 "B2 but better" or distinctly different? I've never had the chance to play actual games with one.

I swap out sheets when the sponge is gone (2-3 months) and not when the topsheet is gone, so I don't know for sure how my method works long-term anymore, but FWIW I have a 12 year old Super FX that still had okay grip. I just used water and protector sheets with it.

Yeah, probably. I find a very small amount of water is better too, spread it with the hand, then wipe it off with some paper towel. Just to remove debris and nothing more. If you soak it in water, it will absorb it, and rubber doesn't like water.

Fastarc G-1 to me felt like it is completely unbothered by just about anything.