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Victas Swat Carbon (158x151mm) comes to mind Also, have you tried the Harimoto SALC or SZLC?

Both blades are supposed to be 5.9mm but my VCI measures out at 6mm (my IFALC measures at a hair under 5.9mm). Picture to show how both blades use different thicknesses for surface plies and core

If you want to try Mantra Pro I suggest the H version, I felt XH was noticeably more difficult to play with, especially because I felt G1 topsheet gave me more grip and arc safety even over the M version. XH is also heavier than M and H which are relatively lighter in weight I don't think...

Nuzn55

Not very similar rubbers imo, first and foremost Nuzn50 is an almost-hybrid and V22DE is a purebred Euro style rubber N50 is more comparable to V15Sticky, but I think it is even slower than V15Sticky. The grip and arc generation of N50 is better than both V22DE and V15S but it felt like N50...

If you're looking for a Dignics-lite you should consider Glayzer, Rozena is more like nerfed Tenergy

I am curious if it would be any different for the player edition versions. Sure they are more expensive but tbh I don't mind as much when the boost dies so long as the topsheet remains shiny and sticky, it takes a lot to kill a good H3 topsheet and I don't hit anywhere near hard enough...

I didn't know you could still get Sriver S, I thought they stopped selling it more than a decade ago to solely produce the L version

Interesting that your rubber trimmings curled back on itself, I didn't keep mine and have only reglued my sheet once after the first session- it was curling but nothing I couldn't handle coming from rubbers like Baracuda and AK47 which curled very aggressively towards the sponge after some use...

I think its a good rubber, but I have the 39 degree on a 980XX (flexible 5 ply wood). Writing off a rubber because you couldn't adjust to it after an hour seems hasty to me, I'd probably have the same experience playing an extra hard Chinese style rubber on a stiff blade. What blade did you try...

Pretty normal for new formulation Hurricane topsheets, unfortunately. Nothing you can really do about it, it's really just luck of the draw wether you get a good topsheet or not imo

Even with thin layers, he is still using 3 layers of boost, and applying within 12 hours of the last layer. What matters when going for the stretched topsheet appearance is how strongly the rubber is doming and how heavily you roll the rubber on, if you wait for the rubber to relax from the dome...

Helix M is pretty medium in hardness, definitely a tic softer than G1 but it's not that soft. And it really depends on what you want- Harimoto will produce a shorter higher arc than the Ovtcharov, but I don't think Ovtcharov is a difficult blade either. Try the rubbers on Korbel first, it its...

Both are good blades. Ovtcharov is stiffer and more aggressive (bigger upgrade from Korbel), Harimoto is just like Korbel with ALC in it.

To me N48 was not just a softer N50 like R45 is a softer R48, the topsheet is different between N48 and N50 & N55. I feel N50 topsheet is softer and grippier than on N48, to me N48 moreso resembled a modernized Fastarc G1, whereas N50 was more reminiscent of a newage hybrid such as Bluegrip J3...