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So good to look at this blade, I love the way the sideways cut Koto layer looks (also I have a blade with White Oak, which has a somewhat similar texture to American Chestnut, but it is much harder). I think that every 5 or 7 ply blade is special, which has harder 2nd or 3rd plies. It would be...

Did you try other blades than #24 for cutting rubber? I use #11 scalpel blades (also around $15 per a set of 100, 1-3 assembled rackets per blade) and I think, it lets me cut precisely enough (I use a cheap bamboo cutting board and 1-2 sheets of A4 office paper if the rubber doesn't have...

Based on your mention of preferring spin vs. speed, I suggest you try 729/Friendship Battle Max Pro. It really needs physical investment (and footwork/vertical body position awareness) in each shot to be played with quality, but it has a tremendous amount of mechanical deformability, which can...

With pretty similar characteristics (good catapult, mid-low throw angle), I could recommend Yasaka Rakza 9, which should play fairly similarly, but a bit softer at 47.5° sponge hardness.

I am mostly a fan, I tried many products with overall good to great satisfaction, and I will definitely buy them in the future. My first try from DHS was a racket ordered as assembled by the TT11 Shop: DHS Power G9 FL with H3 Neo (commercial) 2.2 39° on both sides. While I lacked some more...

At least, not in their European/American product line. It appears, that a few more Sanwei rubbers and blades are meant to be sold primarily domestically, but those can be purchased from a few "not official" sources. The default communication about these products seems to be outright denying...

Patrick Franziska

I agree on TSP SWAT is being a good foundation for progressing with the skills. However, I think, if you use only one configuration, that won't tell you too much about the "best possible" racket. I would get one or two more spare blade to make experiments with them as well. Regarding rubbers...

I looked at Jupiter 3 Asia around July, and I have also seen the excitement in the reviews about this rubber, so I had to give it a try and ordered a pair of 39 deg sheets, then mounted them on Yinhe Uranus U3. I ran into an unlucky batch however with the black sheet, which has weird transitions...

Hmm, I have a blade, which is fairly similar to this except one spectacular difference. Plies 2&4 are Koto instead of Ayous (but approx. the same thickness) - this results in a bounce freq. of ~1300Hz instead.

Normally I would not follow back this soon, but just after 1.5 net hours of training, the sponge became much faster, and now I can believe, that TP3 is faster than Target 90. This got me completely by surprise - many Chinese rubbers can take even 5-10+ hours before the sponge breaks in.

I will definitely assemble another racket - I guess, in my case, probably three factor worked in synergy to have less bounce: 1. the sheets were heavier, than my Target 90 sheets (~54.5g cut vs 51.5g cut), 2. the ball bounce frequency of the blade used with TP3 was ~1178 Hz, while I had another...

I haven't tried them yet, but I have Target 90. Target 90 is noticeably more beginner friendly, but feels a bit limited in generating spin (but still very good in its price segment) - TP3 with its sponge and the Nano Penetration topsheet (62-021), has clearly superior spin generating ability...

I think, the topsheet is more elastic, than the one of Battle 2 - and Battle 2 feels more direct ( = low throw) than TP3. with B2, I need to topspin more upwards, but with TP3, I can do topspin more forward, if the swing is strong enough. I haven't boosted any rubber yet, probably I also won't...

Initial observations: The topsheet is very tacky (did not test with ball lifting, but it adheres strongly to the protective foils), the density feels rather high, but the rubber itself has great elasticity, which also helps a bit with the energy transfer, but combined with the tackiness, the...

I assembled a racket today - I will start experimenting from tomorrow on. My blade choice was unusual (Friendship Starshine Tylosis "Off+"): a 7-ply all-wood blade with White oak outer ply | Ayous | Ayous | ayous core structure - weighed 97.7g (!) before gluing - the white oak is a rather hard...

Actually, I do not run a shop (I am an employee in a different area), but I am trying to review different kinds of rubbers, and this one got my attention, so I placed some extra trust in this 'Nano penetration' topsheet - I will see whether it did worth it. (sorry for offing again, but I also...

I bought a few sheets on AliExpress, but I was hesitant to mount them on a blade (but it will soon happen from now on), because I had a great variety of sheet weights. In the first batch I ordered, I got sheets weighing around 68 g, but I was picky because I had different sponge thicknesses...

I am very familiar with the DHS Power G9 blade - I mostly use them with the same DHS rubber on both sides: - 2× Hurricane 3 Neo (39°, 2.2mm) - 1× Hurricane 3 Neo Provincial (39°, 2.2mm, orange sponge on both sides) - 1× GoldArc 5 (47.5°eu, max) - 1× Skyline TG 2 Neo (39°, 2.2mm) The one with...

I have that rubber on my try list, just didn't purchase it yet. Something also odd to use (and demanding on faster blades): Victas VS>402 Double Extra - an inverted rubber on 50° euro sponge, but contrary to many other rubber topsheets, it has its underlying pips arranged horizontally, which...