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so I visited a newly opened TT shop with my team because they wanted to try out new rubbers such as the the rasanter series etc. .
Since i was and still am quite happy with my setup ( dhs w968,boosted H3 neo national in 2.15 39deg and a Tenergy 80) I decided to tag along just for fun.
The shop staff asked me if I wanted to try anything and referred me to to 2 giant drawers full of premade bats with all kinds of rubbers and blades. Not wanting to miss out on that opportunity I picked one at random. what I got was some TSP speed blade with TSP basic? on the backhand and a 2.0 TSP Ventus speed on the forehand.
Now this is where things got interesting, when I started looping away from the table it quickly dawned on me. This rubber felt eerily similar to my boosted h3. At first I was dumbfounded and denied the possibility that it could match the h3 in output speed and spin. I had no choice but to whip out my own blade and do a head to head comparison. The rubber played ok whilst using a european technique where as the h3 didnt work at all. But when i switched to my main(chinese) style both setups performed equally good. Me as a certified EJ did what every EJ would have done at this point. I went and did a whole training session at the shop(after asking if it was ok with the staff . And after standing there sweating, looking at the rubber in my hand, staring in disbelieve, I came to the conclusion that It is every bit as good as a boosted h3 national (blue sponge) and in some aspects ( close to the table looping and drivng) it even surpasses it. I believe it is due to the slightly softer sponge.
This whole scenario felt very weird to me since I did not want to accept that some random 38 euro rubber can outdo the epitome of all rubbers, but the facts left me no choice.
Since my h3 will need replacing in a while i will give the ventus speed a shot, but not in 2.0 but in 2.3. I hope some of you can test it and tell me what they think. I for one felt like sharing this discovery with this awesome community!
peace!
so I visited a newly opened TT shop with my team because they wanted to try out new rubbers such as the the rasanter series etc. .
Since i was and still am quite happy with my setup ( dhs w968,boosted H3 neo national in 2.15 39deg and a Tenergy 80) I decided to tag along just for fun.
The shop staff asked me if I wanted to try anything and referred me to to 2 giant drawers full of premade bats with all kinds of rubbers and blades. Not wanting to miss out on that opportunity I picked one at random. what I got was some TSP speed blade with TSP basic? on the backhand and a 2.0 TSP Ventus speed on the forehand.
Now this is where things got interesting, when I started looping away from the table it quickly dawned on me. This rubber felt eerily similar to my boosted h3. At first I was dumbfounded and denied the possibility that it could match the h3 in output speed and spin. I had no choice but to whip out my own blade and do a head to head comparison. The rubber played ok whilst using a european technique where as the h3 didnt work at all. But when i switched to my main(chinese) style both setups performed equally good. Me as a certified EJ did what every EJ would have done at this point. I went and did a whole training session at the shop(after asking if it was ok with the staff . And after standing there sweating, looking at the rubber in my hand, staring in disbelieve, I came to the conclusion that It is every bit as good as a boosted h3 national (blue sponge) and in some aspects ( close to the table looping and drivng) it even surpasses it. I believe it is due to the slightly softer sponge.
This whole scenario felt very weird to me since I did not want to accept that some random 38 euro rubber can outdo the epitome of all rubbers, but the facts left me no choice.
Since my h3 will need replacing in a while i will give the ventus speed a shot, but not in 2.0 but in 2.3. I hope some of you can test it and tell me what they think. I for one felt like sharing this discovery with this awesome community!
peace!
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