Loki RXTON 9 new sponge.

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The arc and second bounce are lethal, but speed is average. Even on full swing counters to open-ups it lacks tempo.
That was my experience with a lot of "H3 replacement" rubbers. Dianchi D to now is the closest, but it's visibly less elastic at high swing speed especially in counters against topspin. Shame if Rxton 9 is the same.

I wonder why? Softer sponge that's more forgiving at medium speed at the expense of being less stiff at high speed?
 
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I think just Kailin does not have as high "efficiency" as national oils. I wonder how much Seamoon it would take...
Two layers haifu black to be exact
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That was my experience with a lot of "H3 replacement" rubbers. Dianchi D to now is the closest, but it's visibly less elastic at high swing speed especially in counters against topspin. Shame if Rxton 9 is the same.

I wonder why? Softer sponge that's more forgiving at medium speed at the expense of being less stiff at high speed?
To be fair, a non boosted H3neo behaves exactly the same. Rather the R9 feels like a high quality version of the h3. I will report back how it plays boosted tho tonight.
 
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To be fair, a non boosted H3neo behaves exactly the same. Rather the R9 feels like a high quality version of the h3. I will report back how it plays boosted tho tonight.
I boosted the R9 39 with unholy amount of booster, and now it seems to be way more alive.
 
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I boosted the R9 39 with unholy amount of booster, and now it seems to be way more alive.
I played today first time. Support is gone, power is stupid, spin is stupid++. Blade is singing. I hope it is going to go down, now this is too fast for me. The grip is too high, the balls are toxic. The rubber become bouncy when I first glued it. Unfortunately I am a bloody idiot and apart from reboosting it, I also added more glue. The curl was so high I was not sure if its going to stick I added additional layer. I think it might have contributed to the excellent feeling.

This feels amazing not going to lie. I need go go multi ball to try and practice more predictibly.

I need to weigh the booster next time, layers are bad quantifier.
 
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I played today first time. Support is gone, power is stupid, spin is stupid++. Blade is singing. I hope it is going to go down, now this is too fast for me. The grip is too high, the balls are toxic. The rubber become bouncy when I first glued it. Unfortunately I am a bloody idiot and apart from reboosting it, I also added more glue. The curl was so high I was not sure if its going to stick I added additional layer. I think it might have contributed to the excellent feeling.

This feels amazing not going to lie. I need go go multi ball to try and practice more predictibly.

I need to weigh the booster next time, layers are bad quantifier.
How many layer you put overall ?? 2 before first gluing then 1 after ? Black oil ?
 
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