says
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says
2023 Certified Organ Donor
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Good blocking does not mean hard sponge. I have a quite soft one on my BH (Victas V>01 Limber) and can perform damn good blocks
Agreed. One can block with any rubber and get used to it. Important aspects are having knees bend and able to get right to the ball when close to table, then the ability to control grip pressure and impact to make the ball do what you want.
Away from table blocking, you have the same dynamics in play. However, you give opponent enough time to check for and reply to SMS message on his mobile before hitting. You have to fool him on the spin and depth with hand pressure, you can do that with any rubber. However, it is a real good thing to make a sudden firming of grip right at impact and a tiny explosive hit through... at distance MX-P is SOOOOOOO much better for this and the OP values this option.
However, watching the match footage of the OP, I can see the way he prefers to impact the ball is certain situations... and MX-P suits his preferences a lot more than FX-P.
True, there are many impacts and also how the rubber matches the blade and how it is glued and used is of course important. I sometimes defy logic and go for FX-P on some of the more flexible or thinner blades, because the way I grab and spin the ball on FH... it just works better with FX-P there on those blades... and I can still block FH just fine.
