Bernadette Szocs playing with the NEW PINK RUBBER!

Gwenved · Aug 16, 2019

iskandar taib said:
Access isn't the problem with Quantum X - it's available easily on AliExpress. The problem is the price. ^_^

Before the two color rule (when was that .. 1983?) there were NO rules about what color you could have on your bat. Cheap Chinese bats came in all sorts of colors. I've heard of (but not seen myself) green sheets of Mark V, and I had a sheet of green Spectol. Yasaka Tornado came in this beautiful shade of honey. The original 729 was sort of a plum color. Hardbats came in all sorts of color, too. But most inverted sheets at the time were one color - red. There was a Yasaka Black Power (which was black, and had a very questionable blurb on the back comparing the qualities of the rubber with, er, people from Africa, I kid you not, and Yasaka claimed, also on the back of the packet, that making black sheets was difficult without ruining the qualities of the rubber - THEY had found the secret formula, though), but the first "mainstream" black sheets in common use were Butterfly Tackiness Chop and Drive.

Iskandar

I've never seen a green Mark V but I had a blue one....referring to the Tornado ( not Honey but Yellow for me) and Black Power, I had both in 2.0mm in a H5 Tomi. I had Mgic Carbon in the 4 colours too and the very famous yellow Thibht Golden Falcon.
Red ans blue is a nice combination for me as black and Yellow.

Airoc · Aug 16, 2019

Gwenved said:
not Honey but Yellow for me

or somewhere in between

In Germany, they called these colours "natur". This included brown-ish and all sorts of yellow-ish/orange-ish.

I remember one Nittaku, Joola Clipper and the Tornado all were called "natur" and looked totally different.

Purple Friendship is remembered by most, green Joola Clipper, a pretty regular rubber in green was Donic Slick - I am sure there were other variants at the time.
Blue Mark V or orange Sriver were a little harder to get.

Ah, the times when you´d buy a green Donic Slick because it was green and you´d just play with it, innocently ignoring sponge hardness, topsheet hardness, "throw angle" and what else

Really, I think there´s too much information and too much choice out there right now. It´s a luxury, but it can also do your head in.
I get used rubbers handed down from people, and like in the old days I just play - could be Rasanter, could be MX-P, and it´s ok for me where you could actually make a philosophy out of the differences.

iskandar taib · Aug 19, 2019

Natural latex rubber is an amber color, much like honey. That's what I remember of Tornado - the topsheet was very transparent, you could see the pips underneath, and was the color of natural latex rubber. The yellow Tuttle Octopus is very different, it's just plain opaque yellow. If it were, say, dayglo yellow, I'd have been happier. I wish I'd ordered the green instead. If I really liked the rubber I'd order another sheet, but I don't. It's OK, but there are sheets just as good for 1/3 the price.

Iskandar

IB66 · Dec 9, 2020

iskandar taib said:
Natural latex rubber is an amber color, much like honey. That's what I remember of Tornado - the topsheet was very transparent, you could see the pips underneath, and was the color of natural latex rubber. The yellow Tuttle Octopus is very different, it's just plain opaque yellow. If it were, say, dayglo yellow, I'd have been happier. I wish I'd ordered the green instead. If I really liked the rubber I'd order another sheet, but I don't. It's OK, but there are sheets just as good for 1/3 the price.

Iskandar

Was the ‘Tornado’ a Yasaka rubber? I remember my uncle using this back in the day!! Honey Orange colour!!

killiegradge · Dec 9, 2020

IB66 said:
Was the ‘Tornado’ a Yasaka rubber? I remember my uncle using this back in the day!! Honey Orange colour!!

Yes it was Yasaka and easily the fastest available at the time.My team mate Stuart used it.

yogi_bear · Dec 10, 2020

IB66 said:
Was the ‘Tornado’ a Yasaka rubber? I remember my uncle using this back in the day!! Honey Orange colour!!

Used to own one 20yrs ago+. It erodes easily.

Airoc · Dec 10, 2020

yogi_bear said:
Used to own one 20yrs ago+. It erodes easily.

Should be way longer? I guess it should´ve gone out of production in the mid-Eighties when the red/black only rule was introduced.

Back in the day I played half a season with it, didn´t seem to be less longer lasting than Sriver and the likes.

igorponger · Dec 10, 2020

Beggards cant choose, We used to employ TAMASU Sriver-S yellow sponge, 100 Usd a piece.

tt_beginner · Dec 12, 2020

yeah I'd buy it

brokenball · Dec 13, 2020

This is a stupid topic. Pink or red does is make any difference?

tt_beginner · Dec 13, 2020

I don't think so

yogi_bear · Dec 13, 2020

Some people like red cars or black pick up trucks.. It is something like that...

Gwenved · Dec 14, 2020

yogi_bear said:
Some people like red cars or black pick up trucks.. It is something like that...

Hi Yogi, put a black car and a white one under the sun in summer...there's around 5ºc of difference inside between both.
And that's a fact. ;-)

yogi_bear · Dec 14, 2020

Oh yeah? Compare your so called summer to our tropical summer of 37 to 42 degrees celsius lol. I know the difference but point is people have their preferences. I hate pink and will not use a pink rubber but i will play with bernadette szocs wearing pink hello kitty shirt and using a pink rubber.

LilMunchkin · Dec 14, 2020

yogi_bear said:
Oh yeah? Compare your so called summer to our tropical summer of 37 to 42 degrees celsius lol. I know the difference but point is people have their preferences. I hate pink and will not use a pink rubber but i will play with bernadette szocs wearing pink hello kitty shirt and using a pink rubber.

YESSIR. PHILIPPINE SUMMERS ARE HOT. As we say, only hot or hotter.

black and red ftw

tt_beginner · Dec 14, 2020

I will buy a pink version of my rubber if available, it will stand out in the room lol

Gwenved · Dec 14, 2020

yogi_bear said:
Oh yeah? Compare your so called summer to our tropical summer of 37 to 42 degrees celsius lol. I know the difference but point is people have their preferences. I hate pink and will not use a pink rubber but i will play with bernadette szocs wearing pink hello kitty shirt and using a pink rubber.

Come to Spain in Summer, more than 45º for long time, and not only dry could be wet too.

LilMunchkin · Dec 15, 2020

Gwenved said:
Come to Spain in Summer, more than 45º for long time, and not only dry could be wet too.

Yeah but in ph its almost summer all the time..

Gwenved · Dec 18, 2020

LilMunchkin said:
Yeah but in ph its almost summer all the time..

Same in Andalusia... ;-)

lugi2000 · Feb 13, 2021

I had a thought about these approved colours https://www.ittf.com/2021/02/03/emotional-theory-colours-new-rubber-colours-decided/ Won't this benefit some manufacturers over others?

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