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Oh for Christ's sake ... 🤦🤦 Y'know ...table tennis is a really bloody confounding sport sometimes. At the risk of sounding like a complete bell-end, It seems I may have potentially spoken too soon, about speaking too soon, about the Kirin 3. It might not be quite as crap as my first initial...

I spoke too soon on the Kirin 3. 😒 Yes it's fast...in a way. And yes it can spin a bit, but it's downright weird and annoying to use. (Imagine a non-boosted standard H3, but grippy... Or else a very thick and tough, marginally bouncy 729 cross That's a bit what it's like. No catapult effect to...

Yeah it is a beast! I had a second hit with my T100 this evening strapped to an OFF - all wood five ply blade made with heavy veneers, and my earlier suspicion was right -- it just loved it. Prior to that though I tried it on an experimental blade of mine (4mm balsa core / inner soft carbon...

You've been given some great advice here, and frankly I can't add all that much to it. Rakza 7s are a very solid starting point as far as rubbers go (if a little heavy) and an all-wood blade (be it from nittaku or anybody else) is also an excellent starting point. Two things I would add though...

Loki Rxton 3 Blue -- on FH its a bloody cracker! Low throw, fast, lots of spin. A hard playing tacky/hybrid with tensor sponge. Very good quality rubber at a surprisingly low price. Highly recommended.

Yes.

It's definitely grippy, but not hugely so. The spin you get from it is quite adequate, but doesn't blow you away. Rakza 7 or R7soft spins more, as wouldost ESN rubbers. It really is surprisingly firm out of the box. The sponge isn't as hard as the T100 but it feels harder to play with, as the...

Had a quick hallway hit this evening with the Kirin 3 (Black top-sheet) Initial impression: I like it! It's no world-beater, and (unlike the T100) it's not remotely a threat to the T05 or T64, but it's still not a bad rubber, and at its price point I can see a lot of intermediate players (1-3...

The Rxton 1 Special is a standard R1 top-sheet with carbon sponge instead of the usual flaky-cakey stuff it normally boasts. Speed & spin are both pretty solid, without being spectacular. Control is very good to excellent. To me at least it reminds me a bit of a less-springy version of the...

My Kirin 1 and Kirin 3 test rubbers arrived today. On opening the Kirin 3, my heart sank at first, as with its matt, opaque top sheet and carbon sponge it looked nigh-identical to the original T3. My very first impression was therefore "it's just a rebrand job" Closer inspection demonstrated I...

Purely out of curiosity, what was the blade you tried the T100 on, and what was its composition?

It's reasonably T64-like -- haven't used a T64 very much, or for a very long time, but I do remember it being very fast and punchy, and a great BH rubber. The T100 is certainly fast and punchy -- it's that dead flat throw angle that frustrated me though when I used it on my BH. It really is a...

I'm starting to think this rubber was developed for big looping rallies away from the table. It behaves a bit like a R3 Pink and blue on steroids in a way. When you really start looping & hitting hard with the R3 Blue and pink, you get a flat straight trajectory with lots of spin, and the ball...

Just sent you a PM 🙂🙂

The vibe I get from Loki over the R3 blue and pink is they're not certain if they will continue with them or not. The blue seems more solid in their thinking but I think they're torn over the pink. This is probably due to early production problems (separation) The latest batch of pinks I bought...

Yeah no worries 🙂🙂 Please see below. I ordered a sample set of Kirin 1 and Kirin 3 rubbers yesterday for product testing purposes, largely out of curiosity. I'll upload some of my thoughts on them both once I've had a chance to try them out on a few different blade types.

If there's anyone out there in Europe, who's seriously currently looking for a replacement for their Shakehand Hinoki one ply blade, then send me a PM, as I may be able to help. Just last week I send a shipment of Sköllas (a Shakehand one-ply blade of my own design and development) off to my...

You're correct re: the quality of rubbers on their pre-made blades. They're only really for casual ping-pong players only (not competition use) are aimed largely at their domestic market. Re: Kirin pips-out rubbers -- that info came from the latest sales brochure Loki sent me about a month...

Loki are also going to release (or have released) Kirin range pips out rubbers: short, medium & long.

If you mean 729 Super FX then it's a tacky and dead traditional Chinese rubber when unboosted. I used it for a while a long time ago -- It's actually not a bad rubber for learning on, and can still create good spin, but the sponge is just massively dead out of the packet. A great learning...