I.E. break-in is not nonsense
is a matter of semantics , maybe but it is the players brain and muscle memories that are breaking in , not the rubber..................like i said ... maybe
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I.E. break-in is not nonsense
is a matter of semantics , maybe but it is the players brain and muscle memories that are breaking in , not the rubber..................like i said ... maybe
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Anyways, you’re contradicting yourself there, you said some players rub balls on the tacky rubber to take off the extreme tackiness, which is essentially just a different way of breaking in the rubber, and now you’re saying no break-in? And before we go into the booster part of the discussion, let’s just first define what “break-in” means. To me, something that’s broken in means a time period that object in question have relatively stable performance, i.e. it’s not about the feel, just time. Now, about boosted sponge, some may like it right after boosting, the bounciness, the soft touch or whatever, but that only lasts for a little while. After that initial stint, the boosting effect becomes less pronounced, still very noticeable and keeps stable like that for quite a while, and that’s what I consider as “broken in”. It’s not how the player feels about the rubber that defines whether it’s “broken-in”, it’s the time period where the performance of the rubber has less fluctuations. If the player don’t like the feel after the rubber becomes that way, then probably they should switch rubbers .
And let’s not forget the degradation, in case someone thinks that is what “broken in” means. A degraded rubber, or any other product you may come across, has dramatically lower performance then what is meant to have. For rubbers that means something like loosing grip, or pips breaking of if you use pips, becomes noticeably harder or softer (mushy, not returning back to its usual flat shape after pressing on it), discoloration, weird smell, bubbles etc.
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