Medium hard rubber for backhand

[Gaucho]

Hi all,

Any advice/suggestions for a medium or medium hard rubber on a carbon inner blade fitting to points mentioned below?

-Easy to push and drive
-Not big of catapult effect
-Not to speedy
-Not to spin sensitive
-Good in touch- and short game
-(relative) good in serve receive (not to springy)

I don't do any power loops with my backhand.. I rely on a stable serve receive / drive/ push / block / slow spin in my backhand game. I mainly use my backhand for controlling, I like to be agressive with drives in combination with active blocking.

 

[Ghostzen]

What rubber are you using at the moment?.

Did you prefer faster, slower, more grip etc.

Then you'll get a tailored response from a fair few of the members who really love their EJ'ing 👍

Cheers
GZ

 

[Gaucho]

What rubber are you using at the moment?.

Did you prefer faster, slower, more grip etc.

Then you'll get a tailored response from a fair few of the members who really love their EJ'ing 👍

Cheers
GZ

Good one, forgot that to add 😅

Currently using tenergy 19. Very nice playing 'far' from the table, I don't end up looping far away from the table with my backhand a lot, not particularly my strong suit so to say. It's ok in block and drives but to springy in the touch/short game and relative spin sensitive for my liking as well. biggest down side is it's fast and springy rubber for my open ups, difficult to control in this regard, of course this has to do with my inferior technique for the most part.

Rubbers used on backhand the last years; (in combination with my carbo x7 and some wooden off- blades)
-Xiom vega europe; nice rubber
-Xiom vega X; bit to bouncy and not impressed by it's durability
-Rakza 7; nice allround rubber; not to good for drives and pushes imo, quite springy as well
-Rakza X; nice lineair rubber, I guess I need more speed to get the best potential out of this rubber
-Bluegrip S2; ok rubber, felt a bit dead/dull, very good in pushes and blocks imo tho
-Tenergy 19; to springy, to fast?

-For driving I like a bit kick (blade plays obviously a big part for this as well);
-For spinning/open up I don't like to much speed/spring
-Grip; I guess average or below average, no to grippy

If I had to describe a 'preference', maybe something like Vega Europa but more direct and lineair. I'm aware that Vega Europe is a med soft rubber, I liked it more on forehand. I'm not looking for a rubber that shines in the spinning department, just needs to be stable/controllable and not to fast on open ups.

Recently I've played with Dignics64 on a test blade in a tt shop very nice rubber in all departments but to fast for me to control (going to use that one on my fh).

 

[Amayzde]

The 2 most populair ones are:
-Rakza 7
-Fastarc G-1

Rakza 7 is a bit more bouncy, but less grippy. Probably easier to play on bh.
Fastarc G-1 is not as bouncy, but has more grip.

So more grip means more spinny, but also more sensitive to spin and vice verca.

 

[Snek]

Butterfly glayzer?

 

[KM1976]

Hi all,

Any advice/suggestions for a medium or medium hard rubber on a carbon inner blade fitting to points mentioned below?

-Easy to push and drive
-Not big of catapult effect
-Not to speedy
-Not to spin sensitive
-Good in touch- and short game
-(relative) good in serve receive (not to springy)

I don't do any power loops with my backhand.. I rely on a stable serve receive / drive/ push / block / slow spin in my backhand game. I mainly use my backhand for controlling, I like to be agressive with drives in combination with active blocking.

Andro Hexer Grip or Victas Ventus Extra or Andro Hexer Powergrip SFX or Donic Acuda S2

 

[Pe-ter]

Some of the Tibhar EVO series?

 

[greenbeanmachine]

Sounds like you're looking for Hurricane 8 (medium-hard) or Hurricane 8-80 (medium-soft)

 

[ander999]

Xiom Vega X

 

[Crillo]

Hi all,

Any advice/suggestions for a medium or medium hard rubber on a carbon inner blade fitting to points mentioned below?

-Easy to push and drive
-Not big of catapult effect
-Not to speedy
-Not to spin sensitive
-Good in touch- and short game
-(relative) good in serve receive (not to springy)

I don't do any power loops with my backhand.. I rely on a stable serve receive / drive/ push / block / slow spin in my backhand game. I mainly use my backhand for controlling, I like to be agressive with drives in combination with active blocking.

Tibhar Hybrid MK, great rubber which ticks all the boxes!

 

[Aizen]

You described hybrid rubbers but they generally lacks in drive (when it compared to tensors esp tenergy)
My opinion, You will miss tenergy 19, maybe you could try d09c which is quite expensive. Or you may try rakza z.

 

[TackyForehand]

Nittaku Factive. Middle of the road rubber.

 

[Scarfed Garchomp]

Aurus Soft, its a medium hardness rubber but its firmer and steadier than Vega Euro (42.5 for VE and 45 for Aurus Soft)

 

[ck1407]

Hi all,

Any advice/suggestions for a medium or medium hard rubber on a carbon inner blade fitting to points mentioned below?

-Easy to push and drive
-Not big of catapult effect
-Not to speedy
-Not to spin sensitive
-Good in touch- and short game
-(relative) good in serve receive (not to springy)

I don't do any power loops with my backhand.. I rely on a stable serve receive / drive/ push / block / slow spin in my backhand game. I mainly use my backhand for controlling, I like to be agressive with drives in combination with active blocking.

You can look up on victas v15 stiff or extra depending on the sponge hardness preference (45 and 47.5 respectively) since they are relatively spin insensitive and take lesser effort compared to G-1. g-1 requires you to be more proactive during attacking shots in order to feel the strength of the rubber (g-1 does fulfill all your criteria just need to know that this rubber require to commit some effort during attacking shots to make quality shots)

 

[Jan_]

Victas V15 extra is really good, fits your criteria perfectly. Not too fast and with very little catapult.

 

[Machi]

Sounds like you're looking for Hurricane 8 (medium-hard) or Hurricane 8-80 (medium-soft)

medium hard is how many degrees dhs scale?

 

[ttarc]

medium hard is how many degrees dhs scale?

H8-80 was afair always available with specified sponge hardnesses: 37° and 38°
Normal H8 39°, 40° and 41° (formerly labeled with soft, medium and hard) but also available from some shops with 37° (e.g. dhs-729.eu, prott.vip or ttnpp.com)

 

[Grumms]

Loki Telson 100 seems to fit the description.

 

[Grumms]

You can look up on victas v15 stiff or extra depending on the sponge hardness preference (45 and 47.5 respectively) since they are relatively spin insensitive and take lesser effort compared to G-1. g-1 requires you to be more proactive during attacking shots in order to feel the strength of the rubber (g-1 does fulfill all your criteria just need to know that this rubber require to commit some effort during attacking shots to make quality shots)

I find G1 faster than any other rubber I tried. And I tried a lot.

 

[Vrael]

my new find is k3 fx, before I used mk fx, fastarc g-1, glayzer, glayzer 09c and many more, Mk could also work, but I prefer k3 fx, it has softer top-sheet and the grip is amazing.