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It depends on what you're used to. It's a bit softer than H3, but not a soft rubber by any means.

That tracks with my experience. I've tried it on a few blades and it always felt safe but non-threatening, unless you really wail on the ball. It's definitely more lively than unboosted H3 but far from an ESN tensor or a factory-boosted hybrid like Big Dipper. It's great for training BH...

I think this sums it up. Having used Mark V I have a hard time recommending it for anyone serious, especially when it's still $35 a sheet and newer, better rubbers can be had for cheaper. Even Xiom Musa I--which I've heard compared favorably to Mark V--is ~$28 USD on tt11. Palio AK47 is even...

I genuinely don't believe Rakza 7 would be too much for someone coming from a Stiga Royal 3-Star and looking for more spin. The Royal is a premade, yes, but it's a modern one and around $50 USD; the S3 rubber on it is 2.0mm and likely not that much worse than the generations-old Mark V. If they...

I started with the Yasaka Sweden Extra with Mark V 1.8 on both sides. It's great for pure beginners but those rubbers do put a ceiling on you pretty quickly. As soon as I got a coach he told me to keep the blade and switch to Rakza 7. If you don’t have a coach and you want to play as safe as...

Perhaps @Andrea Jiang can help clarify the differences in packaging and hardness offerings?

I'm curious about the Danish Oil experiment. I noticed the handle of my HAL feels a little less...finished—a bit of a disappointment considering the price tag—but I don't want to add a grip to it, so if there's a way to smooth it out without making it slippery I'd be highly interested. DO is a...

Singe-ply hinoki is a strange beast. It's very soft, but springy and fast at higher gears. The softness gives dwell, so it's easier to create those big, arcing loops with a long stroke. Paired with H3 I imagine you get deadly topspin, but I don't know how your wrist handles that weight 😅...

Yeah, this looks like a good time.

If this happens, we need shirts/jerseys to commemorate! Something like:

I ordered one a few weeks ago and finally got a chance to hit with it a little bit, about two hours of training and an hour of match play. Not a lot of time yet, but it has already made an impression. Two words come to mind: Stability: Probably the best blade I've owned for blocking. It feels...

My wife and I usually take one big trip a year and have wanted to visit Germany for some time; this would be a great excuse. (At least for me! She's not much of a ponger 😅) Can we get Herr Boll as a special guest? 🥹

It sounds to me like, from a  player perspective, prize structure/incentivization is part of the problem. How many fans really care what the top prize is in $? I care about who wins, not about how much money they win. If the goal of advertising that is to say "Look how well we reward our best...

This is so true. And as an extension of this, not warming up the same way you play. I've burned myself a number of times by warming up a certain set of gears that land consistently only to try and use a higher gear(s) in the match and end up missing the table or overcommitting and not being...

Don't worry! "Former" will become "relapsed" if you hang around here long enough 😄

How well does Sueke work on non-Chinese rubbers? I've tried DHS15 and different Revolution formulas and they dried quick and adhered well but I have yet to find a glue that  actually peels from the rubber like people say it does. I can get both to come off cleanly from harder-sponge Chinese...

I asked TT11 and the heaviest they had at the time was 86g. Spinfactory may be a better bet.

Honestly TT is the only thing keeping me from tipping the scales from overweight to obese, but I feel the same about my weight affecting footwork—and my knees. I'm sure it doesn't help that my club has a hardwood gym floor instead of that nice PVC/rubber but I went from having 0 knee problems...

Here's a couple of options then, and they're even 100% wood! Their short game may suffer, but pros adapt.

59°?! I guess it's just a race to the hardest sponge now. Which will break first: the ball, or players' elbows? At what point does a rubber become too hard for a 2.7g ball to reliably compress? TT has already evolved into a pretty athletically demanding sport; at this rate players are going to...