Has anyone tried it with Falco booster?
Since my main sheet got bubbled up and I bought 2 more from
@harty I boosted a new one with FTL mainly so it sticks to the glue (since out of the packet it peels off the glue like it's nothing, glue stays on the wood). And that issue was solved immediately, the rubber didn't come off my racket just by looking at it, in fact, the glue held excellent.
The FTL did dome the rubber, but didn't have that much effect to be honest.
Now I gave it a layer of Seamoon and the difference is night and day. Seamoon is the way to go. Before I used Winion booster and that works too, but Seamoon is more aggressive.
So new sheet of B3 @40 deg, cut to Cybershape 48g with the FTL boost. That is stupid light. That's like H3 national blue sponge light. So on normal racket that would be around 46-7g.
So now I add a layer of Seamoon too and after glueing it will be around 50-51g but that is still fantastic.
So I tried a few things recently since the bubbled up B3 and summer break kind of teases me of trying shit out.
First it was Xuperman Powerplay-X pro. Had glue layer, smelled bad, so I assumed it was factory boosted and perhaps it is, but not enough. I'd probably give it 2 layer of light seamoon out of the pack. Is it a good rubber? Well kind of. I kind of like it and hate it at the same time. It's not dead slow but not particularly spinny either. After some Seamoon it must be pretty good tho. I might try that out later. Not that light tbh, around 52-54g so... Topsheet feels pretty good and durable but not that elastic. Serves are like meeeeeeeh.
Tried RZEH again. Dang my 2nd black sheet of RZEH is so terrible. Even on the Sanwei PBO blade it's slow. Like light hit is fine, but once you start hitting fracking hard it's dead. And it has a very high release angle. I hate that it arcs everything. I want razor sharp angles, I need to feel the top of the net. I want the ball kissing the top of the net and also kissing the end white line. With RZEH, no chance... Maybe some softener booser would help it. Also heavy, 55g on normal blade. It is irredeemable.
Piny Fang Cui, blue sponge. I think it's made by Double Fish despite the fact that the company is registered to Tianjin, which is 729 manufacturing site too (RITC, the T is for Tianjin). But it smells like Double Fish rubber. The tophseet is very nice in fact. The sponge is very nice. It sucks booster like a dried-up Nun in the Sahara after a good old 3-4 days of UV shock therapy. It's fast, it has spin as well but it has 60g weight boosted on a Cybershape. Oh good old Hurrican 3 Turbo Blue memories. So in fact I recommend this but only with like V11 on the backhand or something light.
Sanwei National Target (new), this is a pretty nice rubber too. Not that spinny, but very stable, very slow on light contact due to stickiness and because the sponge is kind of soft and eats the ball well it is fast once it hits down on the blade. It's light too so 50g-ish on Cybershape that is totally cool. I have nothing bad to say, and it's just a good out of the packet rubber, it ticks all boxes and more. Is it the best at anything? Not really, but it is good enough.
Yasaka Rising Dragon 2, light, pored sponge, good speed, semi-sticky, bit bouncy, not particularly spinny. Eh... Dunno I didn't like it much to be honest. I can use it, it's light, it's good enough, but literally has no outstanding qualities. I would probably recommend it to people wanting to try sticky rubbers for the first time.
Loki Arthur China 40deg, again good weight, sticky, pored sponge, good speed, sticky, bit bouncy and decent spin. LAC 40deg kind of shouts at me that it's so similar to Rising Dragon 2. If someone told me Loki makes both I would not be surprised. They are not the same but so similar that I don't even care to make to distinguish. Also LAC durability is a huge question mark. It can bubble up in hours.
B3 still has that awesome serve advantage that so far I never seen. Maybe normal Tenergy has that too but B3 doesn't have the receiving disadvantage at the same time. Maybe I can do more magic with D05 or T05H to Mantra Pro XH or maybe with some of the previously mentioned rubbers that I cannot do with B3, but I can't serve with them like I can with B3 and a good serve that is returned in the net or high or wide etc is awesome since maybe I don't need so much magic with B3, I can smash higher balls that need less magic or just sit back and enjoy my opponent burn. Not to say B3 is worse at quick attack than the previous, it is not. But maybe needs more effort and more correct technique. If you have a good swing B3 is great. If you don't well then it's into the maybe territory.
B3 topsheet quality for me is the best I had so far. It is very strong, it doesn't slip. Most of these rubbers if you hit very thinly without impact the stickiness turns into grease. So with these rubbers you need impact or else you just hear the rubber squeak and ball goes into the bottom of the net.
Granted I use seamless balls, maybe DHS is better. But B3 doesn't do that, so it allows rubbing the ball and hitting it dead on.
kinda agree with the tacky surface has some deep relationship with the topsheet, I noticed that the more I boost my H3, the stickier it becomes.
This is tricky since I also think if one uses Seamoon or Winion (I never tried Kailin or Dianchi) the topsheet kind of melts together and gets more sticky. I don't have a better way to say than melts together.
If you boost ESN hybrid with FTL the stickiness will be gone. Boosting ESN hybrid feels futile (or needs special booster)
