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It's a provincial team test version of the Sanwei Gear Hyper, according to the little white sticker.
Let me know how the Gear Hyper is. It's one of the few rubbers that I never bothered to test.

It seems kinda overpriced and underwhelming in performance
 
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What are those Target variations supposed to change compared to the santard Target 3? They're not even on Sanwei website.
Target 90 has lower throw angle, and also lower reaction to booster.

Target Pro Turbo has higher throw, higher rebound, and is slightly factory-boosted compared to Target 3. Therefore Target 3 reacts stronger to booster, Pro Turbo is already kinda boosted so it doesn't react as much.
 
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I just got this.

The weight is 90g and frequency is 1440. That seems pretty good, not too low, not too high.

Also I am happy to report that the head size seems the same size as Sanwei 75 inner. I was worried the head would be small
 
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Let me know how the Gear Hyper is. It's one of the few rubbers that I never bothered to test.

It seems kinda overpriced and underwhelming in performance
You can get them for like $7.5 including shipping on Aliexpress, so it's not super expensive. In fact, all of the rubbers in the pictures are less than $11. I played with the commercial version of Gear Hyper before, not bad for its price, but nothing so special to write about except the beautiful blue color, lol. It's semi tacky, a.k.a. K3 like, but much slower and more linear, lower arc.

I've been trying bunch of 39-41deg Chinese tacky rubbers for my BH side and so far I like the Rxton 3 blue best (among H3, H8-80, Gear Hyper). On the FH side, I will never move on from 41deg H3. Will try the Targets soon on my KLC Pro.
 
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You can get them for like $7.5 including shipping on Aliexpress, so it's not super expensive. In fact, all of the rubbers in the pictures are less than $11. I played with the commercial version of Gear Hyper before, not bad for its price, but nothing so special to write about except the beautiful blue color, lol. It's semi tacky, a.k.a. K3 like, but much slower and more linear, lower arc.

I've been trying bunch of 39-41deg Chinese tacky rubbers for my BH side and so far I like the Rxton 3 blue best (among H3, H8-80, Gear Hyper). On the FH side, I will never move on from 41deg H3. Will try the Targets soon on my KLC Pro.
link? I've never seen that before
 
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Damn everyone getting golden viscaria now
I got it for relatively cheap due to the fact it weights 95.5g. Here in Vietnam, the 88-90g Golden Viscaria are way more expensive than the heavier ones, which works in my favors. All my blades are 92g+, and with rubbers thay are around 195-205g. I used to practice my BH loops & flicks with my old coach's metal bat when I was much younger, so my right hand wrist is kinda strong and anything under 190g feels wrong to me.
 
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You can get them for like $7.5 including shipping on Aliexpress, so it's not super expensive. In fact, all of the rubbers in the pictures are less than $11. I played with the commercial version of Gear Hyper before, not bad for its price, but nothing so special to write about except the beautiful blue color, lol. It's semi tacky, a.k.a. K3 like, but much slower and more linear, lower arc.

I've been trying bunch of 39-41deg Chinese tacky rubbers for my BH side and so far I like the Rxton 3 blue best (among H3, H8-80, Gear Hyper). On the FH side, I will never move on from 41deg H3. Will try the Targets soon on my KLC Pro.
Does the Gears Hyper improve with booster?

Don't you find the Rxton 3 Blue too hard for bh?
 
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Does the Gears Hyper improve with booster?

Don't you find the Rxton 3 Blue too hard for bh?
The Gear Hyper doesn't improve much with booster, unfortunately.

The Rxton 3 blue with booster is a tad too soft for my BH, actually. I'm more BH oriented so I can do all sort of full swing loops and counter loops with my BH, so I much prefer hard rubber on that side as well. My style is like a Wish version of LSD, lol.
 
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The topsheet says Gear Hyper with the exact same LARC number. Also, "Nano" or "Nano Penetration", whatever they mean, are Sanwei's buzzwords for Gear Hyper rubbers, there is no Nano Gears rubber.
Is this a fast rubber like Moon 12?

What rubber is most similar? I might get one
 
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Is this a fast rubber like Moon 12?

What rubber is most similar? I might get one
I tried both Moon 12 and AK47 a while ago and they're not special in any way. I don't know why you would want something similar to those. The Gear Hyper feels different than both of them, simply because it grips the ball a lot better. It's very spinny for a non tacky rubber, a tad slow, and would probably work better as a BH rubber.
 
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I tried both Moon 12 and AK47 a while ago and they're not special in any way. I don't know why you would want something similar to those. The Gear Hyper feels different than both of them, simply because it grips the ball a lot better. It's very spinny for a non tacky rubber, a tad slow, and would probably work better as a BH rubber.
So its slower than Moon 12?

Why do you like it if its slower?
 
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