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The average hardness should be something like 52~ Shore O which is "similar to 40 Shore A" ie: Hurricane 3, but seeing as the Butterfly sponges are really digressive (or so it seems) it might just run out of force at higher deflections. So I'm not surprised if for a "dense feel" you'd need...

Occasionally a BH flip is used even at the highest level to attack lower spin balls, some players like Ma Long will even feint a push. I will say though that good luck doing this on actual heavy backspin when using high-grip inverted rubber, like a short serve that will net even if you angle...

There's no way to tell for sure, especially without seeing you play, but if you brush a lot thinly to make spinny, slow loops, or like to block speed off the ball a lot, then perhaps soft, otherwise medium if you're more of a speed player or want a faster block.

For all I know the rubbers are entirely different from eachother, so you might need to just try it. Grip is definitely good on the Moon Speed, supposedly it wears out in a few months.

I'm using Yinhe Moon Speed Medium in red on my backhand. On passive shots it's similar to high-throw soft tensors, but I feel that it's more speed biased and less spin biased on active shots. I find it good to play with personally but it might not be what you want. If you need something slower...

My experience is much the opposite; dense Chinese rubbers are faster even on backhand. The only real issue with the dense sponge in my experience is that due to the linearity, sometimes you won't get enough racket head speed to engage the sponge for adequate spin, which might result in an out...

The first setup I bought over a decade ago had tacky rubbers on both sides, and I found a lot of advantages to it. The (subjective?) control benefit was more important than the supposed lack of speed, especially close to the table. It probably wasn't optimal for the cell ball, but it's nice to...

You didn't specify who you'd be buying it for, so yeah, I'll take it.

Ideally it's probably best to change one part at a time, a little at a time. Maybe change the blade, keep your rubbers for a month or two, then change your stronger wing's rubber, and so on.

I feel like the less contrived it is, the better. This would be a super duper contrived change IMO.

The whole blade is activated at the same time, it's complicated. In general I would say that yes, typically inner carbon blades are less elastic in low force shots. Thing is that ultimately the rubber and sponge is the thing that's actually grabbing the ball and it's doing 99% of the...

Flexor carpi ulnaris runs basically from the pinky to the elbow IIRC. I had a lot of issues with the boundary between the tendon and muscle being tight, which made a lot of my forearm muscles congruent with eachother. What it resulted in was finger, hand and wrist pain when doing some things...

I will say that technical changes to the sport can have no real effect at the level of play that most players play at and will not affect the popularity of the sport at all in terms of adoption rates, but can have very profound changes at the highest levels which can affect the longevity of the...

It may have changed for all I know, but you probably just became better. 8 months is enough time for some real development. I wouldn't waste money on National unless you're a pro and absolutely need a very specific sponge hardness for boosting purposes. You're about 1000 TTR lower than where it...

The B2, and especially B2X, are stiffer than the Long V. Am I missing something here?

If you're worried about the H3N being too hard if you buy another sheet, consider buying Provincial. The QC on the sponge hardness is +-1deg like ESN rubbers are. Commercial is all the same but the QC is much looser; I don't remember what it is off the top of my head, but it's more like +-3.

OP didn't say he wants something similar feeling, did he? He said he wants a faster setup with a tacky topsheet. His current rubber is likely too soft to begin with; that's why he is changing. That's a 42deg~ Shore O rubber. My current setup is around 53/48 Shore O, and I could go a bit higher...

Thanks for assuming a lot of things. It'd take hours to go over all the physics, but tl;dr is that you don't run out of spin just because the elastomer's further stiffness has become part of the installation stiffness once it bottoms, and the effective spin in a real stroke for any given sponge...

Apart from all the terminology mistakes which is never a good look, I just don't agree with almost any of this, from experience nor from just a physics standpoint. It's a lot more complicated than that and the sponge hardness has a bigger influence on the coefficient of restitution curve than...

FWIW I played a bit with a 3.5 year old mostly unused H3N and it still felt pretty fresh. Every other rubber I've had which has sat for a while has been completely gone. In general very incoherent post, though. You're lucky if people will actually read that and give proper advice.