Best Flat Hitting Rubber?

[John_]

Short pips or bluestorm z2/3

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

I never notice this player from
Spain. She is a flat-hitter and guess what? She is using T64 on her FH!!!

Loving her already!!!

She shows that one need not be a full looper to be playing high level competitive TT.

She shows that one need not need short pips to he a flat hitter.

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

Tenergy 64 or Dignics 64 are well known for spinny openups and Perfect flat hitting in rally. Sounds like what you are looking for?

I tried T64 today and was happily smashin' to my heart's content. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Topspinslinger]

I tried T64 today and was happily smashin' to my heart's content. Thanks for the recommendation.

It makes a loud sound aswel, gotta love T64

 

[Haraold]

How About a Nittaku Gorikki Kaisoku or probably a better known Tibhar Quantum X Pro?

 

[H3R0]

Can anyone explain why SP are better for flat hitting?

 

[Funk Fu Master]

I think, most hard (47° and above) rubbers would be suited for Flat-hitting...

 

[JJ Ng]

Can anyone explain why SP are better for flat hitting?

A few things about flat hitting and short pips:

1) speed is more important than spin. When you block with inverted, even if you do NOT want to put any spin on it, some of the kinetic energy gets transferred into spin anyway. You can see the ball going back to the opponent with some curve. So if some of the kinetic energy is converted from speed to spin, then, well, speed is not going to be as fast.

2) Flat hitting is about "flat." The goal is to hit the ball back barely over the net and give the opponents less time to react. So short pips does a much better job.

3) the sponge matters. I am in the transition of switching from inverted to short pips on my backhand side. Some of the short pips I have tried, the sponge is not as bouncy as Tenergy for example. So perhaps Tenergy 64 might be faster than many of the short pips out there.

4) the length and the hardness of the short pips matter. Short pips are a bit like inverted. For inverted, there is a huge difference between Tenergy 05 and Mark V. For short pips, I really really like Der Materialspezialist Spinfire because the pips are short and hard. When the pips are short and hard, the ball travels faster. Just think about it; if the pips are longer and softer, they will defray some of the kinetic energy so the ball returned would be slower. I have tried softer pips like Spinlord Waran I and III, and Rakza PO and I just don't like them. I mean the latter rubbers have more deception (wobbly effect) but that also takes away the speed. Spinfire plays like inverted rubber and very direct (not catapulty).

Long story short, if you really want to flat hit, you need to choose the right short pips for your purpose.

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

Can anyone explain why SP are better for flat hitting?

Pips do not obey the law of physics. It comes from the realm of magic.

 

[H3R0]

Pips do not obey the law of physics. It comes from the realm of magic.

True indeed.

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

Two days ago I tried T64 on lower / similar level players with good result. Z
This evening after work, will try T64 against some higher level players. See how it goes...

 

[xavi]

How About a Nittaku Gorikki Kaisoku or probably a better known Tibhar Quantum X Pro?

I'm playing with short pips since covid, but before I was playing with Goriki Kaisoku and I liked a lot.
Good for smash, good for serve, top, cut... just do nice acceleration going up or down and you will se the results. Also is easy to block forward touching the ball on the center or a bit lower and it will come cut (a deeping ball), I done that as TPB. This is I think what they say is similar to short pips.

If you play close to the table Kaisoku is a very nice rubber. I was using it with Rutis Revo.