Tibhar hybrid MK and Tibhar FX-D

[mat]

Hi, on blade Victas balsa 5.5 on FH I use andro R42 which is ok but sometimes I get a feeling that does not grab a ball (maybe also my mistake). Anyway I like softer rubbers, not to speedy and for topspins. If its light also very good thing.
Anyway I am inyerested in Tibhar MK or Tibhar FX-D.
Any conpare or experience with these rubbers?

 

[Malik J]

Hi, on blade Victas balsa 5.5 on FH I use andro R42 which is ok but sometimes I get a feeling that does not grab a ball (maybe also my mistake). Anyway I like softer rubbers, not to speedy and for topspins. If its light also very good thing.
Anyway I am inyerested in Tibhar MK or Tibhar FX-D.
Any conpare or experience with these rubbers?

Hi,
I played both for several months. MK on FH, FX-D on BH.
MK is medium-hard rubber with a very good grip. It's not tacky at all, it's classified as hybrid because of lower bounciness then most tensor rubbers. Which is why I liked it a lot. Though probably not what you are looking for.
FX-D is also grippy, but is very bouncy and dynamic. Hardness is between medium-soft and medium. Probably much closer to your Andro rubber. I liked it on practice, but not during match play, cause I overshoot too many serve returns.
Finally, if you're looking for a very grippy rubber in medium-soft/medium range you could have a look at Donic Bluegrip S2. It's the rubber I use on my BH after FX-D. I love it, I've played it for around 6 months now and I'm done with EJing on BH. At least for a while It's semi-tacky and less bouncy then FX-D. Tackiness makes it the easiest rubber for looping backspin balls from those that I tried so far.

 

[job59]

Hi, on blade Victas balsa 5.5 on FH I use andro R42 which is ok but sometimes I get a feeling that does not grab a ball (maybe also my mistake). Anyway I like softer rubbers, not to speedy and for topspins. If its light also very good thing.
Anyway I am inyerested in Tibhar MK or Tibhar FX-D.
Any conpare or experience with these rubbers?

Maybe the "not grabbing" is related to the balsa wood? I played with the 6.5 (1 edition). It made me smashing too much.
I downgraded to the Tibhar Illusion Killer. Now my topspin is more reliable. Even very strong shots have a lot of spin. I just put a Tibhar MK to my backhand. Feels very good.

 

[JOOGEL]

Hi,
I played both for several months. MK on FH, FX-D on BH.
MK is medium-hard rubber with a very good grip. It's not tacky at all, it's classified as hybrid because of lower bounciness then most tensor rubbers. Which is why I liked it a lot. Though probably not what you are looking for.
FX-D is also grippy, but is very bouncy and dynamic. Hardness is between medium-soft and medium. Probably much closer to your Andro rubber. I liked it on practice, but not during match play, cause I overshoot too many serve returns.
Finally, if you're looking for a very grippy rubber in medium-soft/medium range you could have a look at Donic Bluegrip S2. It's the rubber I use on my BH after FX-D. I love it, I've played it for around 6 months now and I'm done with EJing on BH. At least for a while It's semi-tacky and less bouncy then FX-D. Tackiness makes it the easiest rubber for looping backspin balls from those that I tried so far.

I can nothing but agree with this post. The mk hybrid is not taky but very grippy. I played with it on fh and it made it very easy to grip the ball. Tibhar's website says mk hybrid is 48 degrees so that's several degrees harder than your r42 but maybe you can try mk hybrid fx, that's softer.
And about the fx-d. I like that rubber so much. I feel like I can do anything with it but I agree it's bouncy sometimes and short game it can bounce hard off the runner sometimes but as you get better you can control it. Both very good rubbers, I recommend the fx-d or the mk hybrid FX, because it's softer than the normal mk