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I agree with your list in general, give or take a fewThere is however one line of disctinction that I would like to draw.Some of these rubbers have been introduced specifically for a certain target group.They come with reduced "speed glue/Tensor/whatever" effect and are meant to allow the next...

Diaz got yellow for tipping her racket on the table, then yellow/red for kicking the ball up after a superb rallye that she lost. (why Diaz understood it had something to with her service first is probably a matter of the quality of the English spoken by the umpire...) You never know if the...

The Bluestorm rubbers were already on the market when ANDRO introduced Energy Cell, except for the new PRO and PRO AM. Same for Nexxus. TIBHAR´s new Red Energy Sponge is probably the closest candidate for the technology, not the corresponding maximum thickness. But those who could tell for sure...

Everybody has access to that, ULTRAMAX is just ANDRO´s name for it. It should be fairly easy to grasp: Most Rasanter rubbers are available in 1.7 mm, 2.0 mm and ULTRAMAX (some only 2.0 mm and ULTRAMAX) - another name for the MAX of yore because the previously available MAX (mostly 2,1 or 2,2...

The founder of DONIC, Doctor Georg Nicklas, is also the founder of ESN. Historically, you could see a connection, technically I am not so sure that Nicklas has anything to do with the current DONIC managament. As for Energy Cell, I am pretty sure that other companies have or will have something...

Energy Cell is optimized for spin performance and creates a slightly different feeling than the regular Rasanter sponge, although this would only be noticeable when comparing R47 and R48 with the same nominal sponge hardness of 47,5 degrees. Catapult for me is a side effect, and speed - well, I...

You are right of course. I should have said ANDRO re-introduced the concept for the ESN made new rubbers.

ULTRAMAX is a THICKNESS made possible by thin topsheets. Other manufacturers name their thickest sponges MAX+ (Donic, Joola) or MaXXimum (GEWO), some didn´t bother while nonetheless having the same concept manufactured. The CONCEPT of even thicker sponges by using thinner topsheets was first...

That is correct. Rasanter (R37/R42/R47/R50 and V42/V47) were the first rubbers with this concept. With R53 and later R48 and R45 Andro introduced the Energy Cell sponge. Energy Call gives a little softer feeling on ball contact. This is very noticeable on R53, which plays softer than you´d...

Probably not, then again if he wants to be an attacking player his new setup might support that better than a slow setup mostly recommended to those players to "properly learn". There´s no guarantee he´ll win less, as there´s no guarantee he´ll win more. Probability may be on your side, but just...

Shortly after the speed glue ban the Japanese technology wasn´t up to par with what ESN had to offer in terms of bounciness or "speed glue feeling". Even Butterfly struggled with a few concepts before tenergy05. Stiga had their Boost and Calibra rubbers, but after that faced some serious quality...

I don´t think it is. DONIC has made some corrections to their product descriptions, here´s what they say about the Persson Pwerplay: By current standards this is a moderately offensive blade. When it first appeared, it was certainly one of the faster blades around. There is certainly a tendency...

I have no easy answer here, but I know the problem.. My friend (first league Germany women) explains it like this: From the better players, you get clean balls - especially in practice - and you adjust. From the lesser players, you get dirty balls, more unpredictable. Often with young...

I am using spin refresh and we also have a bottle of Cure Water in the house, once ordered to fill the gap between postage and free shipping. Both seem like cleaners with cooler names to me, and with the use of water the same job should be done equally. I feel that the whole cleaner product...

And that is why I´d suspect for the moment this "new" blade is a MIBE grip on her well-used ALC. ;)

That series has it all, very soft to medium hard, if you count the SFX versions mentioned above in. I consider the Powergrip as slightly less powerful than an MX-P or Rasanter, a bit easier to activate. The other versions offer the same characteristics at lower speed and more softness...

That series has it all, very soft to medium hard, if you count the SFX versions mentioned above in. I consider the Powergrip as slightly less powerful than an MX-P or Rasanter, a bit easier to activate. The other versions offer the same characteristics at lower speed and more softness...

Compared to any carbon blade (that I know) the HAL will give you more of an all wood feeling. The feedback is excellent, however "control" is something only you can feel. If the blade supports your shots at any speed you might call that controlled, while other people use control in a linear...

Yes, I see. Never had that much trouble.

It´s interesting how different the experiences are. I get all my andro R53 and R48 (before that R47) handed down by someone who I don´t see very often, so the rubbers have been off the blade for months some time. I´ve sometimes noticed some shrinking, but never of any serious kind...