Grippy tacky and sticky

I know one of them has a frictional topheet and other has sticky topsheet... I am little confused.  Can someone help me out?

Thx.

humint wrote: a tacky rubber has a sticky topsheet, wich enables you to put spin on a ball just by brushing it. a grippy rubber has a frictional topsheet; it's not sticky, so the ball has to get deep into the sponge so that you get spin on it, and i think that's why the euro-jap rubbers are a lot softer than the chinese ones, if an euro-jap rubber had a super hard sponge, it would be very difficult to put spin on your shots.

pingpongrob wrote: I use European type rubbers, and I brush the ball very lightly, but fast and get lots of spin as well.

pingpongrob wrote: I was using Inspirits, I likes the 39 - 40 degree version, I have changed back to plasma on a galaxy M-6 Blade. The Inspirits perform the best when they are primed, and speed glued. If you prime them the night before, with at least 2 generous coats of speed glue, then glue them again the next day you will find they perform much better. Initially they are a little tacky, due to the plastic protection sheet that comes with them, it tend to slow them down at first. When this Tackyness wears off, they are much faster. I used to use mine on a Andro Supercore OFF & an Andro CF Carbo Aramid, just got sick of gluing. Now I'm waiting for my Inspirit Quattro's to arrive.

pingpongrob wrote: Of course you can, it all depends what you want from your rubbers. I would prime them with the sticky plastic sheet removed, in this way you will get a bit of stretch on them.

mozzy wrote: Do you know, i have become a bit of an EJ in trying to find the right rubbers for me and the thing that gets my goat the most is buying something that you think is ok, then finding out after that it is not so  good unless it is speedglued

Don't Worry, i was once the same - Table Tennis is like that, you keep searching until you find one that suits your style. 

And one more thing - one of the top Juniors in Australia Once told me that if you Speedglue any rubber to the max, they all feel the same. I mean like 100ml of glue per sheet

My advise to you is quit the speedglue (yes it does feel good), and learn to play without. It will make you a better player for when the glue ban comes in. It will also save you lots of money.

I would advice anyone in the early learning stages of TableTennis to stay far away from speedglue. If you have speedglued your rubbers, they will be much more forgiving when you perform strokes. This will of course help you hit some more balls on the table than without, BUT, your technique will become seriously flawed, since you've never had to perform correct strokes to hit the ball on the table.  And once you start reaching higher levels of play, now relying on speedglue to make or break your game, you will have some serious difficulties against players with good technique. (because most of them will now have started speedglueing too, AFTER having gotten the technique under control).

I think Humint summed it up.

I'll comment . . . Many Euro rubber users complain that the Chinese sheets aren't soft enough. I think they are comparing to what they are used to . . . soft sponges to help create the spin. The sticky topsheets do not require the soft sponges; however, softer sponges with sticky topsheets will often increase the control.