can you please tell me about the pro's and con's of the following rubber. Xiom Vega pro, joola rhyzm, yasaka rakza 7
All great rubbers, no doubt. I know Vega Pro well and like it a lot. It's a powerful, spinny classic tensor-type rubber, but it's not too extreme in all its properties. It's fast, but not insanely fast; lively, but not excessively; very spinny, but not the absolute king of spin.
Rakza 7 is quite a bit like it, except that it is much less moderate and hence much less forgiving. It is very bouncy, very fast, and very spinny — and sensitive to incoming spin. I found it a bit much to handle on reasonably fast blades, too fast on my own blade of choice.
I've met a handful opponents playing with Rhyzm-P and they all produced very heavy, controlled spins but did not have much in the way of direct play. It may be a matter of chance that they all had similar strenghts and weaknesses in their game, but I somehow suspect Rhyzm-P is like that, a rubber for controlled looping focused on producing oozing topspin balls.
Of the three, I prefer Vega Pro. If I were a few levels up (which would imply that I'd be playing at or near national level) I probably would safely master Rakza 7 and might prefer it. If my game, at my current level, would be slanted more heavily toward controlled spin-heavy loops on both wings, something like Rhyzm-P might be the thing; but I like some leeway in direct play, so I don't.
I prefer Nanoflex FT48 and FT40 to all three, by the way; and I'm having fun on the side with DHS Gold Arc 8, which is pretty close to Rakza 7. Friends of mine use Rakza 7 Soft and swear by it, but that's (I think) immediately an explicit choice for exclusive two-winged looping gameplay. More similar rubbers exist; in the same vein, Tibhar Evolution EL-S should be mentioned, as should Stiga Genesis S.
