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Well on first thought it may seem as only marginal money, but table tennis players aren't that rich, and especially like pro players you have to glue 2 new sheets every 3 days, so it isn't really convenient to ditch all the available options of your sponsor to continually get your rubbers on your own personel expense for a perceived maybe 5% to 10% benefit of tacky rubbers, ( national h3's are like 90 euros for one sheet 🙂) let's say you change both sides twice a week thats about 360 euros/week not worth it, so the thing is Sponsorship does play a role, the thing is d09c is the first high quality tacky rubber produced by a euro/jap company
Butterfly, produced Tackiness D and C first, around the late 70’s early 80’s, these were as tacky as D09C, not sure how tacky they are now. But new sheet back then held ball for about 1 to 2 seconds. Sponge was fairly hard but not a spring sponge. Slower rubbers, better spin than the original Sriver.
Bty also produced Spin Art, which can or could be seen as D09C’s direct predecessor, similar tackiness etc D09C has the latest spring sponge variant that the Diginics rubbers use.
When BTY brought out the Tenergy series, which was and still is a hugely popular rubber, they maybe took their foot off the pedal regarding tacky rubbers?? Why bother when T05 etc was doing really well and selling !!!
With Aibiss BTY have a slightly tackier top sheet, on a hard dense sponge, similar (ish) to H3, more expensive and many would say not quite as good as H3.
D09C is still pretty lame in terms of tackiness !! But a great rubber especially if you like bouncy spring sponges.
It would be interesting if Butterfly had a similar deal with DHS like lNittaku do, H3 on a BTY spring sponge…………!!!!!!