Horrible experience by using DHS Skyline TG 3 Neo in Stiga Rosewood NCT VII

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After the COVID quarantine I decided to train with Skyline 3 Neo (on a 5p all wood OFF blade)to improve my precision because this rubber seems to be quite unforgiving for bad timing, positioning, stiffness....and so on and so on. With other words-it is not an easy rubber to play with. I boosted with 4 layers of FTL and after 4-5 hours of serious training I came to a level of comfort. When I manage to forget about passive blocking and play relaxed without loosing speed , put emphasis on loop drive I actually started to like this inexpensive rubber and probably may adopt it....(after trying D80 of course

Man! I followed the exact same logic and trained back with friendship bloom power! I won’t lie it wasn’t easy but I feel like it really helped me get back to speed.
 
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Need your help and expert advise for rubber suggestion...

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People with little training goes from tensor rubber to Chinese rubber. Gets upset. What a surprise!

If you've not had formal training to be able to generate power from your legs and core, just please skip out on any Chinese rubbers.

Generally sound advice.
 
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Chinese tacky rubbers have no forgiveness on slow strokes and bad form your old rubbers might seem a lot faster you should brush the ball correctly with good form in order for things to work you should play with it at least for 6 months if its your first time with chinese rubber and if you get used to it you will improve a lot faster than eu rubbers thats if you want to put in the work if not just stick with esn rubbers mx p or something.
 
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I recently decided to switch to this rubber on my BH (TG3 Neo - also on a 5-ply wood with TG2 Neo on the FH) from TG3-60 (and previously from Nittaku G1/Rakza 7). Each iteration of going more in the direction of Chinese style has been punishing physically but a revelation mentally. In the end, I hope it to help my game overall, as it really punishes you for having bad timing (positioning, foot-work and fundamentals for strokes) but the euphoria from when you do finally make things click is the best!
 
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Very hard high throw blade and very hard low throw overboosted rubbers will be very good choice until you find someone who can play more spinny slow loops and has better technique

Example dyjas vs calderano in German Open 2017

Yeah if you run into someone who can play more spinny loops and has better technique, you might lose. Not sure why you think the blade and rubber combination is to blame.
 
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I recently decided to switch to this rubber on my BH (TG3 Neo - also on a 5-ply wood with TG2 Neo on the FH) from TG3-60 (and previously from Nittaku G1/Rakza 7). Each iteration of going more in the direction of Chinese style has been punishing physically but a revelation mentally. In the end, I hope it to help my game overall, as it really punishes you for having bad timing (positioning, foot-work and fundamentals for strokes) but the euphoria from when you do finally make things click is the best!

To me the reward is to be able to loop on the top of the ball consistently which is more mental than physical effort
 
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To me the reward is to be able to loop on the top of the ball consistently which is more mental than physical effort

Yes, as soon as the ball has a lot of spin, the shots tend to be in your favor as you can return it with much ease. Additionally the feeling of “safety” comes to mind and I feel like I can rip through the ball with lots of confidence.

It’s those dead balls (no spin) in which you need to pay much attention to (mental and physical effort).
 
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You moved from a modern soft rubber to one of the harder Chinese offerings. What were you expecting?

You are not going to get "power on the forehand" by changing a rubber. Work on your positioning and swing faster. TG3 holds up much better than ESN stuff on high impact speeds, but you need to be able to generate that speed yourself. Otherwise, it just feels like a dead slow rubber.

IMO it works for Xu Xin, so definitely not without merits.

From what I know xu xin is using tg2... Which is slower than tg3...
 
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