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nivekkan said:

I have heard that the national ones are actually fake. Because if you think about it, national means the rubbers are made to be used by the national team exclusively, right?(I could be wrong). If it is,doesn't the act of selling you a national version violate the point of the national version? Why should you be able to use that? Where do they smuggle it from?

It just sounds fishy to me. Yes, even the fake(national blue sponge/ provincial) ones might play better than commercial ones but they just inflate the price to a ridiculous degree because they make it sounds like it is the real one that would have been used by the national team but stole it somehow and sold it to you.

But even if it is real, I wouldn't be able to afford it. In short, if you are absolutely fixed on DHS, just buy the commercial ones and boost it if you want to. If not, you would have to break in manually.I don't really get what "break in" means either but I guess it means hitting the dead hard sponge with balls to make the sponge softer eventually.

I find the Nittaku hurricane pro III turbo blue (50 deg hardness) to be the closest to the DHS hurricane but with better quality control and factory boosting from my research(I want to try it but I haven't have the chance yet.). If you don't know yet, the DHS quality control is pretty crappy.

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