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Spin and more spin.
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Spin and more spin.
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Just to throw one idea of philosophy for someone learning out there.....
Someone learning to develop higher level technique would benefit from rubbers that are medium-soft or softer because that helps you learn how to get the ball to sink into the sponge without bottoming out to wood, to enable the developing player to learn to get the topsheet to grab the ball more fully and to maximize mechanical spin (topsheet grab + sponge and topsheet rebound).
For a newer player who has not felt that occurrence of the ball sinking into the sponge, the topsheet wrapping around the ball more fully and grabbing the ball more fully, and then the rebound and catapult that creates a huge amount of extra spin, it is much less likely for that newer player to learn how to obtain and control that depth of contact with a harder rubber. So, MXP would be too hard to really develop that.
And getting a thinner version of MXP would totally defeat the purpose of learning to get the ball yo sink into the sponge for a learning player. **[For a higher level player who already knows how to do this, a thinner version of a medium hard rubber like MXP would be fine. But I would still go with Max.]
There is a reason why Werner Schlager recommends a learning player who wants to develop looping skills to use Max thickness and not mess with thinner rubbers.
If you want to learn to hit flatter, thinner rubbers are fine. But if you want to learn to develop and improve your technique for spinning the ball, you would want Max thickness. And for that newer learner, Max thickness with a classic rubber like Mark V or an older generation tensor type rubber that has good control like Nexy Karis M or Xiom Vega Europe, would make way more sense then MXP.
A soft All+/Off- blade that is 5 plies, all wood and has a softer top ply like Limba would also help.
Sent from The Subterranean Workshop by Telepathy
Someone learning to develop higher level technique would benefit from rubbers that are medium-soft or softer because that helps you learn how to get the ball to sink into the sponge without bottoming out to wood, to enable the developing player to learn to get the topsheet to grab the ball more fully and to maximize mechanical spin (topsheet grab + sponge and topsheet rebound).
For a newer player who has not felt that occurrence of the ball sinking into the sponge, the topsheet wrapping around the ball more fully and grabbing the ball more fully, and then the rebound and catapult that creates a huge amount of extra spin, it is much less likely for that newer player to learn how to obtain and control that depth of contact with a harder rubber. So, MXP would be too hard to really develop that.
And getting a thinner version of MXP would totally defeat the purpose of learning to get the ball yo sink into the sponge for a learning player. **[For a higher level player who already knows how to do this, a thinner version of a medium hard rubber like MXP would be fine. But I would still go with Max.]
There is a reason why Werner Schlager recommends a learning player who wants to develop looping skills to use Max thickness and not mess with thinner rubbers.
If you want to learn to hit flatter, thinner rubbers are fine. But if you want to learn to develop and improve your technique for spinning the ball, you would want Max thickness. And for that newer learner, Max thickness with a classic rubber like Mark V or an older generation tensor type rubber that has good control like Nexy Karis M or Xiom Vega Europe, would make way more sense then MXP.
A soft All+/Off- blade that is 5 plies, all wood and has a softer top ply like Limba would also help.
Sent from The Subterranean Workshop by Telepathy
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