China is a huge country. I guess it will be hard to generalize here because of the lack in data. At least i dont have this data, maybe if you write an email to the chinese government you gonna get the needed data from them^^
Jokes aside, if i remember correct one chinese guy mentioned they usually play with the cheaper alternatives to hurricane 3 like palio, yinhe, kokutaku and so on.
Hi Birdman,
Can you please ask your coach or coaches, why Skyline or the H2 is not favoured anymore? Any reason for it? Why H3 all the time?
It’s just good for feeling and developing technique. It has more control compared to T05, has forgiveness, has a lot of power on high impact, and is cheap. IMHO, any tensor is good for BH.
Lot’s just use a cheap training blade. The ones that are serious about playing use wood mostly.
Beginner—intermediate: DHS Power 7/ Donic Ovtcharov No.1 Senso( wood)/ Stiga Clipper/ Butterfly Petr Korbel.
Advanced: Butterfly carbon blades( mostly Viscaria)/ Stiga wooden.
a lot of kids use the same blade all the way up the levels though.
Sorry, I can’t really get in touch with my coach because I have been resting from an injury, and can’t go train anytime soon. Here is my opinion on the matter:
One part of your question which I’m not sure is a little lost in translation……
It sounds like you think that using Hurricane 3 is a big challenge and only for very good players already? (Sorry if I’ve missed the tone of what you were saying).
In the UK, there seems to have been a shift away from your typical soft European rubbers for juniors, towards the harder, tacky, Chinese rubbers.
It allows developing players to learn the full strokes (because the rubber is much slower in general), without the fear of sending the ball flying long like you would with the European softer rubbers.
Yes I totally agree !!! The bad habit of European coaches is that they "prescribe" soft rubbers to young novice players.
I'm sure if young players used sticky rubbers with a hard sponge right from the start, the quality of the game would develop faster and with better technique.
Any reason why you say this?
Those rubbers would be recommended for the next stage.
Once a beginner has learnt the basic strokes and is looking to get a bit more out of their equipment, we’d recommend Sriver/Mark V etc.
That’s certainly the way the coaches I know would
It’s just something lots of people say here in China. I’ve played with a TG3 on my friend’s racket and it didn’t feel good for shake hand. Maybe because it was a premade racket( TG Blue), and really heavy.
Depending on where you live, you could probably get something cheaper and slower that would be better.
H3 unboosted isn’t particularly fast, but something like Friendship 729 is cheaper and better for learning (in my opinion).
If they are learning a 2 winged attacking game, I’d put the same rubber on both sides initially.
