I didn’t choose his equipment, some other coach did. Don’t know too much about chopping material myself so good to know about those things.
Say he gets a 5 ply blade for choppers, what would be a good fh rubber that would allow him to hit good topspins too?
I've tried the MK Pro and it's quite a good rubber. It's not that fast, and you have to put some power into it yourself, but the hardness on it feels very nice. Probably would recommend it to more advanced players. It all depends on preferences too, Matusdaira himself plays with the regular MK...
I have a player I’m currently coaching who plays as a modern chopper. Long pips on bh but can twiddle and play bh, chops with fh sometimes but also quite a lot of top spin. Hes 13 years and about medium level for his age I’d say.
He currently plays with a Falck w7 blade with a boosted sheet of...
Currently playing with K3 on backhand and mxp on forehand on a timo boll alc. I enjoy the mxp, it's nice on fh, but the bh rubber is kind of eh. It's good in the beginning for a couple of weeks but the feeling completely changes. I've had this one for two months and it feels fully dead and hard...