So if we forget about high power loops, and look at the elements that are actually important for low-to-medium levels, we can see that H3 is very supportive:
- Service
- Serve receive
- pushing and short game
- overriding spin
- spinny opening loops
Those are all elements that are very important at these levels, and elements that can be played with a high level of safety using a Chinese tacky rubber like H3.
Sure, there are also elements that are harder, mostly flat elements like drives, passive blocks and smashes. But what that teaches is simply to always make an active stroke and add spin for safety.
The point is that it's harder to learn to loop with hurricane than with your easier to play andro r45 rubbers for instance. Yes sure, with good technical training and a good coach that all can work out, but that is utopia for most. There is simply not good enough coaching available in most clubs.
i am so adamant against this h3 to learn loop because i do and did see it fail already for youngsters at our club that actually have access to at least regular group training and here and there direct guidance from a coach. We even have a seasoned coach on the adult sessions that plays chinese rubbers, but still it seems to be very hard for 18 year old non muscular boys to loop with unboosted hurricanes.
That boy uses even the medium soft versions of hurricane 3 and still he can't loop with any consistency, because the power and acceleration needed to actually do that is above what he can actually control.
Yes, every 20th loop attempt he actually brings onto the table quite well and fast, but 95% of the others fail to clear the net.
The reality is that people learn from watching others and copying this style. This is just way harder for somebody with hurricane trying to copy a european technique because oh wonder, even the same movement that lands his peers a loop would not work with his hurricane rubbers.
The result is that guy can't loop, every attempted loop is more like a wild swing with a slap not a brush contact and every serve he can't return he will simply attempt to loop/smash it because he is out of options. All his serves are empty, because he does not have the wrist friction or acceleration to impart any spin, so basically everything he does and even if he would copy the movement of his tensor rubber peers would fail him.
this really hurts me seeing it fail so hard, because if you just looked at his equipment you would think that he is a spinny looper, but his game developed to the opposite. An empty balls spraying and smashing player.
The initial hurdle/threshold with these rubbers is simply too much for people that dont have a dedicated coach that can work with him on that.
I think this can severely harm "his game", because in my opinion learning to spin with some easy andro hexer rubber to actually incorporate loops into your game by using this successfully is much better than swining wildly and uncontrolled at the ball to try to get a thick enough contact with the right swing angle and trajectory.
Perhaps Doppelschlag wants to add a short video of his loops so we can see if his technique is anywhere close to what would be needed to have a chance to use that rubber.
