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honestly, I do not know and do not care too much, as long as the pips are not too spin sensitive (high spin SP are too sensitive) but are still able to generate high amounts of spin on their own. I do not care much about reversal.

sounds good! I tried boosting other LP and it seemed to get faster but not more spinny. Probably the soft sponge does not need boosting, as you say.

Is p4 significantly different from p1? One of my team members has p1 and I do not think it is suitable enough to generate my own spin. Sure, it can vary the spin, but it is not dangerous enough imo. If p4 can generate more spin it would be interesting. The thing about sidespin is that you can...

Yes. Boosted hybrid is better than boosted provincial IMO, because it is easier to play but slightly less spin.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for high friction LP to chop with. Thought it would be nice to try sidespin chopping like hou yingchao or haruna ojio. I do not know too much about pips, but it seems the general idea is to use low friction pips for close to the table blockers, and high friction pips...

There is not much difference between a boosted chinese rubber and a hybrid rubber nowadays. Just boost the shit out of a hurricane 3 until it becomes as fast as a hybrid. But the QC of hurricanes is not good, so you might as well pay for a provincial, at which point you might as well buy a...

Donic barracuda is what OP is looking for.

It's not a soft rubber, it's in the same ballpark as fast arc g-1

The rubber will be better on softer blades with limba outer and higher throw.

401 and D09c are effective for choppers, but are much harder than G1 and require more effort and skill. Also, xiom Vega Def is very good. Here are the main selling points: 401: quite slow controlled spinny defense with occasional counter attacksVega Def: spinny and powerful modern defense with...

If player has harder preferred average impact, or average ball to handle has higher speed and spin, then player will have preference for harder rubber. reversed for softer rubber preference. Harder rubber demands more physically from the player, but requires less precision with angle and timing...

Difficult to say honestly. I have a lot of experience with joola flash and various rubbers but can't answer confidently. Depends on your goals, whether you go for mainly spin or speed to win the point. But if you play pure carbon I don't see you going primarily for spin, as it is not optimized...

Definitely Fastarc c-1. if you ever need more speed and your technique is good enough, you can go g-1 or t05.

Michael, I don't think one blade is particularly stiffer than the other. I tried the DC with some rasanter before and it was about as spinny as a Innerforce ALC with d09c.it's also slower than Harimoto and has koto, which I prefer.

Long story short, I got rid of the harimoto and traded it for a dynasty carbon. Funnily, I found out that a pretty good player in my club (over 400 points better than me) tried the harimoto a year ago and did not make the switch from his korbel, because surprise... it lacked the spin for his...

Interesting to hear about blade weight possibly affecting spin. Funnily, I tried to get a 88-92g harimoto, but the local butterfly dealer said 84g is the heaviest they have. Of course that makes you wonder wtf is going on there. I do have a newish 92g powerplay. I think my older one was 89g...

I do have recordings from league matches, but I do not like to upload videos due to privacy concerns, although I understand it would help the cause. Rest assured that I do not fall into the category of smack talking hobbyist. However, there is not necessarily a correlation between playing level...

From the modern thicker ones maybe. The older thinner ones, however, like WSC, PG-12, HL5, H301, etc. are spinnier.

As I wrote before, serving spin is normal, and anything at low to medium impact is, too. Same rubbers.

Good point, I'll try to add some weight to my blade to compensate for the 6g difference. Glue, booster and edge tape should do the trick. Freitas seemed good, I tried it in Norway where the setting was really slow, great speed, as you say probably more controllable on slow to medium impact, but...