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Yep. Especially for training I don't see a reason to use something more expensive than H3 (Neo) commercial except if you have to use blue sponge or got someone who's sponsoring you. Durability is way better than ESN. The last ESN >backhand< rubbers I tested lasted maybe two month (V>11, V>15...

Hitomi Sato does this ;)Can be found in Adam Bobrows video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGrxhRU8CvY at around 2:28

Seems to be the provincial version of the new Target National ;) Don't ask why but Sanwei has registered https://equipments.ittf.com/#/equipments/racket_coverings the original topsheet as "Target" (62-001, old Target National, Target Provincial, Target Pro Blue, Target 90) and the new topsheet...

Official answer from Butterfly: zero difference. Viscaria, Zhang Jike ALC, Lin Gaoyuan ALC, Matsudaira Kenta ALC, Timo Boll ALC and Timo Boll Spirit all have the same reaction and vibration property. They all have the same head size (157 mm x 150 mm) and the same thickness (5.8 mm) except Lin...

H3 definitely plays better boosted ;) Regarding blades/blade rubber combinations: Mostly personal preferences. I like a bit more flexible blades better with H3 than stiffer ones and still prefer slower all-wood blades. The only blade that I somewhat disliked with H3 was the Tibhar Lebesson...

Stiga Mantra Pro M, H and XH are now on the LARC. Still Made in Japan :) https://equipments.ittf.com/#/equipment_preview/racket_coverings/3404

Donic Persson Powerplay Senso V2: beast mod ready ex factory. No tools necessary ;)

Sponge hardness should be around 40.5° on DHS/Shore A scale but the top sheet is quite soft from what I know so the overall feeling will be softer ttps://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?27476-DHS-Hurricane-hardness&p=373785&viewfull=1#post373785

If you have or rely on a thin ball contact than stay away from at least Vega Asia. VA works, to a certain extent, quite well for a rubber which was not optimized for spin but lacks significant grip especially in higher humidity environments. Same for Rasanter according to some reviews. So I...

The last time I tried these Stiga blades was over 30 years ago. Quite flexible and quite heavily vibrating compared to other blades but they are good blades nonetheless if one likes that. The V14 Pro is quite the opposite: it's a true Off blade, even Off+ when you get one weighing over 90g...

B2 has definitely a quite a low throw. If one manages to get racket/stroke path angle always 100% right for this rubber it can be more dangerous for the opponent than a H3 but if one deviates just a little bit from the ideal the ball goes either long or is stopped by the net. That's...

PrinceTT has some DHS Power G6X in stock http://www.princett.com/EN/USD/product/DHS-Power-G6X-PG-6X-Table-Tennis-Blade-5-wood-2-ALCexternal-structure-436.html

Thank you! Didn't expect to see the H3 make it in the top 10. Would be interesting to see - if there is enough data - in which country which rubbers are the most popular. In Germany we see some regional differences because the large stores in these areas mostly try to sell their own brands e.g...

That's similar to what I experienced with a couple of rubbers (V>11, BlueStorm Z2, Vega Pro). First the sponge fails, than boosted it to get the bounciness/trajectory somewhat back and not long after that the topsheet fails/isn't grippy enough for my play. Two to three month at most when I had...

Thank you! 85g and between Primorac and Korbel. 88g and faster than Korbel or Rosewood (afaik Korbel and Rosewood are quite close in terms of speed). Some (at least for me) good data points for selecting the right weight! That's something the reviewer in the German forum also noticed: The...

Did you weigh your Falcima? A reviewer from Germany wrote that the speed of her/his 85g Falcima is somewhere between Primorac and Korbel. https://forum.tt-news.de/showthread.php?t=433975&page=2 Definitely helped. Something like an all-wood Viscaria would be nice to have ;)

Many ESN rubbers have seen a price increase recently. All new Evolution rubbers MX-D, EL-D, FX-D now have a MSRP of 52,90€ before discounts. Rakza X, Rakza Z, V>15 also now over 50€, Rasanter R45, R48, R53 over 60€. But Butterfly still sells their Tenergys for 59.90€ in Germany.

That's not a crazy idea... Boosting causes similar changes as good old speed glue did. A bit more speed but more spin. More spin = more control = more balls on the table. Tiefenbacher and Durey found +4% more speed and 12% more spin in their 1994 paper 1) and noted that "Speed gluing increases...

If you never played with H3 or the like than you could start with the Hurricane 8-80 instead and go on from there if you like it. No need for boosting. Depending on what rubbers you played before start with the slightly softer H8-80 37 (around 47° ESN, same as e.g. a Vega Pro) instead of the...

Neither trained by a Chinese coach nor started playing in China but switched to (heavily speed glued) hard, tacky rubbers on my FH in the mid 1980s ;) Restarted TT in 2018 with ESN junk on the FH and switched to H3 after around half a year, tried a couple of hybrid rubbers since then and still...