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I play a modern defensive sort of game at local league level. I currently use andro rasant beat (1.9mm) on my FH and Curl P4 (1.0mm) LP's on the backhand. My BH is usually used for chopping and the occasional attacking shot, but I'm now starting to think that I might actually be able to perform...

I'm using Andro Free Glue, is this considered a good quality glue?

Which do you think is better at holding the rubbers onto the blade? I've used sheets before on the LP rubber that I use on my backhand, but always used glue on my inverted forehand rubber. It's only ever the FH rubber that seems to start coming loose around the edges. Does anyone use glue sheets...

Can anyone recommend a decent protective tape that comes in 12mm (so that it covers the blade and the rubber edges). I play mostly in cramped conditions (office lunch room!) and I'm forever hitting my bat on the table, walls etc because there's hardly room to swing a cat, nevermind a TT bat! I...

Thanks for the clarification.

Thanks for your input. You say that 80fx would be under-used by a modern defensive style of play...so how comes you use it yourself if you're a defender and you categorise it as an aggressive rubber?

I'm curious to know how the sponge on the Tenergy 80fx compares to the sponge on the Tibhar Aurus Sound, are they of similar softness or is there a noticeable difference. I currently use the Aurus Sound in 1.7mm on my FH and just wondering if I might get more out of the 80fx. Playing style is...

Plenty of talent right there!

I think Dan won the match 11 points to 8.

So I play with LP rubber on my back hand. I've just switched from Giant Dragon Meteorite to Giant Dragon Snowflake. I'm getting on fine with the switch but one thing that is bugging me a bit is that the layout of the pimples is slightly different at the bottom of the rubber and some of the...

But a very skilled player can make pretty much any type of rubber do things that a less skilled player can't...so this doesn't really highlight anything that's unique to LP's. All it really highlights is that equipment does have some influence on how a player plays...but it's the skill and...

Well said. The way some people moan about LP's, you'd imagine that they produced some kind of random spin and flight path that defied the laws of physics. This, of course, it not true. LP's do have a different effect on the ball to inverted rubber, but the effect is still predictable as long as...

Phillypong, the LP brings variety to our sport, and variety brings different styles of play...and to borrow that old boxing addage; "styles make fights". And great TT "fights" are a positive things for our sport....at least far more positive that watching a couple of all-out attackers smash...

Amazing - my favourite player!

Does anyone know which blade and rubbers he uses? His style fascinates me, and my own playing style seems to be similar (although greatly inferior, of course). I play an allround inverted rubber on my FH and a LP on my BH, I use a light-weight combination blade with a slower BH side and a faster...

Could be something to do with the differences between rubbers that are otherwise identical apart for playing characteristics caused by the rubber colour. I've read several reviews before where a player has tested a particular rubber and said that it plays slightly differently in red than it does...

Can anyone offer any clarity on the following for me; you our can buy Lp's where the pimples have a ribbed/rough top, but the sides of the stalks are smooth. so on that basis, the whole surface area of the pip does not need to be equally grippy. But is the reverse arrangement ok i.e. Smooth...

Oh, I didn't realise that. So do the current rules state that all parts of the pip have to be equally grippy?

I see...it was my understanding that you could get LP rubbers that has pips where the sides of the pips had more grip than the tops of the pips such that you could produce spin reversal by hitting the ball in such a way that only the pip tops made contact, whilst you could also "brush" the ball...

Thanks for your input, guys. I think I might try Giant Dragon Cropcircles.