FH Rubber mainly for on-table gameplay

[AKIOO]

Hey, there!

I’m looking for help choosing a new forehand rubber for a mostly close-to-the-table playing style.

Am likely an little indermediate player, started my journey around 20 months ago, since am playing with long pimples on my bh my gameplay is oriented mainly for on-table play

I preffer to brush the ball & play with spin , I don't have the right technique to step away from the table and send the hard top-spin loaded with spin and power.

Am looking for an rubber that will help me to open the game more, receive the serve with inverted side and make me more confident in using it.

The current blade am using is: Chu Long Nie ALC (fast blade)

I've tested on it:

- Dignics 09C - definetly rubber not designed for my level, it's really hard for me to use it proper way (bought it only to test - didn't go well, ended up in trashcan)
- Xiom Korea - this worked way better, with that kind of rubber i've used inverted way more during the matches & put way more balls on the table - but I would say this kind of rubber is more likely designed for BH side. Also, the one of the biggest minuses of this rubber was the weight, the rubber comes only in 2.3 thickness which combined with the blade made it kinda heavy.

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated, wish everyone a good day! ❤️

 

[Yuomay]

I think the blade you are using is way above your skill level. And also quite heavy coming in at 105 grammes.

If you insist on using it you could go with either :

• beginner tensors to develop your strokes and not have something too fast Nitakku Factive comes to mind
• Soft tensors, they're slower but bouncier, Rakza 7 soft
• if you prefer to have modern rubber you could try Nuzn 45.
• Chinese sticky rubbers but I wouldn't be able to help you in that departement as I never used them.

 

[Archosaurus]

Get a 5 ply wood blade and go back to more beginner oriented rubbers until you can perform all of the techniques from every distance and timing that they can be used in, and you have developed one or two of them to be very strong relative to the others.

I think using high performance equipment too early will stifle the fun out of the game and make you nervous when playing. It is also more expensive.

I suppose if you're already competing in the top few divisions in your province/state/whatever then you're free to ignore this as you are actually an intermediate player, but you mentioned you have issues with one of the basic technqiues, so I am assuming skill level. I have seen people who have played for 30 years who are beginners; time doesn't factor into it so much.