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That´s the point.

You can also buy it from topspin-sport.de I´m currently enjoying the 51 degree version due to its stability, which gives confidence for every shot.

ETIKA is a very good rubber. Its main characteristic for me is outstanding stability in every situation, which makes you more confident in your own shots and enables you to play with more accuracy or "control" without any loss of spin or power. Ball contact feels better/longer than with equally...

Isn´t Axylium the equivalent of Arylate, so Axylium would be AL (as in Keyshot, etc.) without the C for Carbon? Even XIOM make a point that Hugo does not play with Carbon blades.

None particularly. Just wanted to point out that durability depends on so many factors. I guess it´s safe to say anything "active" that implies friction or force will stress the rubber more than a push and block game.

The properties you describe (soft feeling, high spin level) are an effect of the ENERGY CELL sponge andro introduced with R53. (As a sidenote, curiously enough the newest ENERGY CELL rubber R45 does not feel much softer than its official sponge hardness.) I think you have all important points...

Since Rasanter rubbers were the first of a new generation of rubbers with a thin topsheet to enable a thicker sponge in max thickness, I don´t think any Rakza is an equivalent in that respect.For general attributes like sponge hardness, spin potential or speed however R47 and Rakza7 aren´t...

Today I had a chance to play them both on Apolonia blades 3 grams apart, so a good neutral basis for comparing them. Rasanter gives me more spin and just feels more complete, for lack of a better description. The owner of both blades, though sponsored by Joola, picked Rasanter R45 as his new...

You might want to consider Evolution MX-D which gives you t05 feeling at MX-P price...

As attractive that would be optically, not as concerns the pricing, I read that BTY is not going to manufacture rubbers in any of the new colours. Rozena in pink, a match made in heaven, but no ;)

This, unsurprisingly, is a bang-on assessment. For testing, I currently use a pro-quality selected rubber with 52,5 degree hardness on one side, a factory standard Rasanter R45 on the other. I can handle the hard rubber in practice situations, but wouldn´t want to dare in competition. Yet even...

I may have been inaccurate. I compared R45 to Rhyzer 48, which was 2.0 mm as opposed to R45´s ultramax. I have no experience with Rhyzer 45, that would be an interesting candidate and maybe if I get a chance to see a friend who plays with it the comparison can be done, but there are several...

No, I don´t weigh rubbers. Mostly I play with used ones handed down from friends who think it´s time to change a bit earlier than I would. That kinda makes it "take what you get, and adjust" ;)

2021 seems to provide a few very interesting new rubbers other than all the hybrids after all. TIBHAR Evolution MX-D should by all means appear as a fixed star on many forehands when the halls re-open and the leagues are in full swing again. And andro presents Rasanter R45, a rubber to provide...

Without knowing the Akkad in detail, but why shouldn´t it? An offensive rubber paired with a 7ply offensive blade, I see no obvious reason why there´d be a problem.

It would be a move sideways, from a 47.5 degree sponge rubber with a thin topsheet to enable a thicker sponge (contrary to all other manufacturers, Tibhar made no big MAXXXXX deal of it), with modearte catapult, to a totally different concept with a sponge around 45 degree hardness, a softer...

Of course not. When t05 first appeared, it was unrivaled by German or other Japanese rubbers in terms of spin, certainly a very good topsheet working together with a very good sponge. But I guess German rubbers caught up and I also thought Mantra rubbers were the first really good Japanese...

There is no measurable answer, as in "the ball has 6% more rotation on a topspin hit with 72% angle". But I am sure a lot of players would identify t05 in a blind test, whereas they very likely wouldn´t be able to tell an Evolution from an Omega and a Rhyzer from a Nexxus.

In all the years of trying, noone developed a rubber that felt like t05. You might argue that new ESN rubbers for a while have out-performed t05 in some respects, but still the feeling remained unique. The new Evolution MX-D puts an end to that. I never understood why MX-P was heralded as an...

All andro Treiber blades are of good manufacturing quality with a very reasonable price tag. Simplified, you could say Treiber CO rivals Boll ALC (but CO gives me more spin) and CI rivals Innerforce ALC. Therefore, CI is marginally slower than CO. In direct comparison though, I found CO has...