Need help to sort the weight of rubbers

[Der_Echte]

Coincidently I've weighted all these listed rubbers uncut (either me or my training partners bought them) and the order is as follows (heaviest to lightest):
1. H8
2. Evolution MX-P
3-4 H3/EL-P (both very close depending on which particular piece u picked for)
5. Bluefire M2
6. P-1
7. S-1
8. Vega Pro

Just like Carl said H3 is like lead and even more so for H8, and both perform pretty poorly when unboosted. The 2 Evolutions, despite having strong performance overall, is also well known among us to be at "lead" level as well.
P-1 and S-1's weight should be at reasonable range for you but they can't really spin the ball very well compare to few top rubbers (just like most nittaku rubbers do). Same goes for Vega Pro although it's got decent control and pretty light as well.

As for Acuda we don't find it able to perform as well as Bluefire especially in spin category, except for a custom ver. Acuda which few of us tested with a bat from a ~rank150 player in my country. And regarding whether you should change your BH rubber for now it's rather difficult for me to judge without detailed info so i am not commenting on it.

Sorry for bad English.

EDIT: I do think Der_Echte is very spot on regarding aspects of weight.

Ur ability to FUNCTION in English is BETTER than some Americans, so you can safely stop worrying about sounding like a dumb foreigner. Your (good) ability to communicate is obvious and anyone who wants talk bad about your English and eat a knuckle sandwich from me.

You can put Hurricane series and Evolution series and Tenergy Series in that order on top of the spectrum of rubbers you listed and the others are "normal" weight behind them even if I never tried them (except for Xiom) hehe.

The thing to consider with a HEAVY rubber is your blade's ability to accommodate the total balance after you glue it on. With MOST modern blades, a heavy rubber will make an already mis-balanced blade even moar mis-balanced (too much forward). Even 6 grams of grip tape may not be enough to balance it out.

I have said it a hundred times about my mod, it is about balance and feel before and during the swing, and most important the FEEL at IMPACT. Words can describe the difference between standard modern blades and an easy mod you can to to most of them to get better balance and feel, plus ease of acceleration.

Carl has handled nearly 90% of the blades I have done mods on and he himself has used the very same blades he owned WITHOUT the same mod so he can tell you there is a huge difference in every blade I make the mod. Carl better articulates the physical and biomechanical aspects of ease or difficulty in accelerating a bat given different balance. He can also poetically describe the improved feel at impact and can tell you that the bat with a mod that was 185 grams but is now 210 grams plus feels LIGHTER when handling it in your TT strokes, whether it is a full swing or a wrist shot.

As our Harvard educated 2100+ USATT level Vietnam friend describes, it is SO MUCH BETTER to have a solid and heavier balanced blade when handling elite players' loops. They loop with so much force, that a lighter unbalanced bat must impact the ball perfectly to have feel and control and my bats with the mod to be heavier and better balanced will handle that kind of loop much better with a larger sweet spot and less error - much more stable. That counts for a LOT.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Yeah, I felt that the bat is heavier since I bought it 4 month ago. The overall weight of my rubber is only 191 grams, but I feel that my BH rubber is heavier than my FH. I don't know if the difference of weight between my FH and BH rubber are too significant. In the beginning, I thought it was fine a and maybe I could adjust if I played with that new setup more frequently. But as the time went by, I feel that my BH rubber is too heavy for me to execute my backhand stroke.

Okay, this is just silly. Like Der_Echte already said, the idea that one rubber is a little heavier than the other rubber is not going to make a difference. Every CNT player who uses H3 on one side and T05 on the other side is using a racket with one rubber way heavier than the other rubber.

Even the things Der_Echte is talking about which have to do with the amount of weight in the handle or the amount of weight in the head of the blade, after about a week of playing with any blade, you will be used to what you are using and it will work fine for you.

So, if you are starting to think that your BH rubber is too heavy for you and you need to use a lighter BH rubber, and if your setup's total weight is 191 grams, I think you are just overthinking things and trying to figure out something to help you rationalize getting new equipment. That is called the mindworm EJ disease. Its in your head.

So, if that is the case, either keep using what you have, because it is fine. Or just go get yourself what you want and accept that you are about to spend another $200.00-$400.00 (USD) on something because you feel like it, and get it over with.

But you don't need anything else. What you have, there is nothing wrong with it. The problem is something inside you is saying, "I want something new, something better".

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

By the way, the modification that Der_Echte is talking about is this. He takes apart the handle and fills the hollow space in the handle with something to make the handle weigh more so the blade is handle heavy instead of head heavy. And yeah, that makes pretty much any blade feel better and play more solidly. The blade does not feel any heavier though. So feel free to look for one of Der_Echte's threads on modifying his blades.