Your experience also fully confirms my experience. Indeed, this control over the game is difficult to describe, but it is there 🙂 - with this rubber, I hit the table more and more accurately. At the expense of the Barracuda, for its time and a celluloid ball, it was a very wear-resistant and tenacious rubber, which I played for quite a long time on the backhand. Just the other day in the club I exchanged rackets with a friend who had two new Barracudas and I couldn't wait for him to return my racket to me 😁. Apparently there is a discrepancy between this rubber and the new plastic ball DHS Dj 40+
I am glad we agree. The directness of G-1 is unique, compared to other tensor rubber such as EL-S, Rakza series, Tenergy fx series and Barracuda. I like the Rakza series too but it is just not the same.
Both C-1 and G-1 are great. G-1 is hard and fast, but not chinese rubber hard. It is fast, but not Tenergy fast. I really enjoy it on my backhand.
I could not stand Barracuda. Like I said I bought one new maybe 2 years ago in the middle of COVID. Played with it on my backhand for 10 minutes and just ripped it off and gave it to a club mate for free.
G-1 just gives me the confidence that I can push the ball and block the ball as hard as I want and I trust the ball will go wherever I want it to go.
I have put G-1 on all sorts of paddle including Tibhar Stratus Power Wood and recently Tibhar Fortino Performance. It is clearly a bit faster on the Fortino than the Power Wood but still managable. I just recently put it on DHS Bo carbon. I have not tested it out yet. But I am sure G-1 works well with any blade.
