Need Advice Please. Gergely, rubbers or skill?

Hi, all!
I need your valuable advices please....
I currently have a credit with one of local TT store and I'm wondering how to spend it. I was thinking about getting either Gergely or Primorac Carbon.
Here's my background:
I started playing with a premade cheap chinese blade+rubbers about 2 years ago and had a chinese student who were majoring on tt p.e. teaching me how to play tt for about 2 months. Then I didn't play for a year after that.

Last year I started playing again in a local tt club. I used DHS H-WL with Faster 3 and Hurricane 3 (commercial). From then I managed to try several other rubbers such as: Hurricane 2, 729 Lightening, Dawei 388, Dawei Inspirit, LKT XT, LKT Torrent, Sriver El, Cermet, Mark V Ad, Andro Plasma, Andro Revolution, Prashida Frankfurt, Prashida Osaka, Prashida Tokyo, and Prashida Tokyo 2 (pre-release sample).
Half a year ago I got another all wood blade (7ply) Sanwei V5. Had no idea what kind of wood since no information that I could find on it. The V5 has much vibration (I like it), less control than the H-WL, but quite much faster than the H-WL. A couple months ago I got me Dawei Wavestone based on the good reviews I read here and other forums and have been using this blade since.

My early setup was using Hurricane 3 BH with Faster 3 BH. But then I found the most suitable BH in LKT XT. It just worked great for me. BUT I had to use speed glue for the XT to work for me. A few months back I decided to forgo speed glue, thus I need to find other rubbers.

I then used Sriver-EL for BH, which proved to be great also. A little bit worse compare to LKT XT glued for me, but I could manage. And since I forgo using speed glue, I also need to change my FH rubber. All the chinese rubbers I tried seems to lack in speed without using speed glue. The closest one I try was the LKT Torrent, but I found the chop was too high  on my FH. I then tried Mark V Ad, but it didn't feel that great for me.
I then tried the Andro's and Prashida's. The andro are fast but i seemed to not be able to produce much spin with them. The prashida I finally hit it off with the Tokyo and Tokyo 2. But the thing is that locally, no tt stores are selling these series, so I have to get it from Hong Kong (my uncle has good relation with the main prashida guy over HK). Well, actually, the other problem is that, when I used the Tokyo on my BH, it seems to be great fit than on my FH as well.

I then got me Bty Cermet hoping to use it on the FH. A couple of months ago when I first got it, I couldn't produce much spin with it, but I'm doing fine now. Problem is, it's still doesn't feel all that great for my FH. I then tried using it on the BH and it works great for my BH as well. So, again and again I'm finding good BH rubbers but not for my FH.

I'm an all-round player trying to be spin player on both wings. Currently my play is majority spin with FH (loop/fast spin) and majority chop, block and smash with BH (flip-smash BH is my strength).
Lately I've been observing that my FH spins fall in the middle of the table regardless of position (left-center-right), which make it easy for the opponent to  react. Even when I hit hard fast low spin. My standby stand is about 1 m behind the table and during play could move to 2 m back but not farther. I tried standing closer to  the table but then I ruin my timing.

With all that, would I benefit from getting the Gergely or Primorac Carbon? Reason for the limited option is that the TT store I currently have a extra credit with only carry Gergely, PC, and Sardius Bty blades. The store has more chinese DHS, 729, Dawei, stuff and no other brands. I rule out Sardius because of least control based on the ratings. I'm leaning toward Gergely because it has highest control rating out of the three, but not the least in speed. Also reading the forum, I read that Gergely has better reviews/ratings than the PC.

So, will using Gergely benefit me? Or other rubbers? Or perhaps I should just get another Sriver EL for backups and just work on my FH skills?

I'll appreciate your advices...
TIA.

I did. That site and here what led me to my purchase of Sriver El, Cermet, and Dawei Wavestone. Good stuff. That's why I come back for more good advices...

I would say that pure Carbon blades are not for you. You are not an all-out attacking player, you probably chop and use short game quite a lot. In my opinion, you shouldn't go for a very speedy blade with much less control. Wavestone seems to me like a very good blade for your style. However, if you are certain you want to try a faster blade, Galaxy T-4 is a very good one. It's four plys of Carbon, it's pretty fast but judging by what owners say about it, it has a surprisingly good control as well. Full disclosure: I haven't played with it so it's just a purely academic opinion...

The Gergley 21 is faster and has a harder feel than the original Gergley.  All carbon blades do not have very good feel to them on average.  People can generate spin with them but it does take good skill to do so.  If you are really set on getting something with carbon in it go with and A/C conbination, it will have a softer feel than regular carbon and help your spin game out a lot more.  I haven't used the Gambler blades but if any of them are similar to the TBS get it.

That's good that you are improving your FH spin.  Cermet is a good rubber, I used it on my backhand for a while.  As long as you can keep being consistent that will be the biggest key to your improvement.

Well a coach would help.  When i had Cermet on the BH i had Bryce FX on the FH.  I thought that was a very good combination.  It was a very spinny, fast, yet controllable setup. 

It probably wouldn't be a good idea for rokphish to use the Gergley 21 or the Gergley.  I think the setup he has now is a good combination for what he's trying to do right now, the Gergley 21 would probably be too fast and a waste of his time and money. The rubber he's using right now is fast enough, tossing that on the Gergley 21 would be detrimental to his game right now.

I'm think to the contrary, I would rather have a slower/medium blade with faster rubber.  To me it is easier to experiment that way and to have more variation.  But to each their own

It's up to you, but right now if you feel that what you have right now is not too bad then keep working with that to build up your technical game, then worry about switching over to the rocket equipment.  And find a good rubber for your BH if you think the Tokyo is too fast. 

Yeah, once you develop your game more and get a style more set in stone for yourself then you'll be able to get that good setup for yourself to match your style.  It'll come

I do not feel Gergely is that hard or fast maybe because it has two thick Hinoki outer layers.

I tried Inspirit and Torrent. Inspirit is ok with speed glue. Torrent i found i need to change my chop movement because it goes higher than others i tried. Quattro, no local stores sell it cause of very low/no demand. I read about bryce series but read that without speed glue they dont perform as good. I dont want to use speed glue anymore. If i were to speed glue i might stay with LKT XT on BH and H2/3 on FH a lot longer.

rokphish wrote: I tried Inspirit and Torrent. Inspirit is ok with speed glue. Torrent i found i need to change my chop movement because it goes higher than others i tried. Quattro, no local stores sell it cause of very low/no demand. I read about bryce series but read that without speed glue they dont perform as good. I dont want to use speed glue anymore. If i were to speed glue i might stay with LKT XT on BH and H2/3 on FH a lot longer.

I think that you might still want to stay with the SG - I was thinking the same thing before I tried Tibhar CTE with Tibhar Clean Fix water-based glue. The result was absolutely fine. If anybody is interested I will post more after I spend more time practicing with the resulting blade. Presumably, you only need to do that once in a month and that is absolutely fine by me.

When I tried old speed-glue (I have to do that in my office because you need several hours to put subsequent layers of glue on it, and I spend 10 hrs straight in my office so why not use that...) everything around me stunk for the entire day, and VOC were pretty nasty, especially when you do that in a rather enclosed office...

There is no such problem with CTE - it smells a tiny little bit but the smell is not bad and it goes away in a minute, not to mention that there are no VOCs so you probably won't have brain damage any time soon... all you need to do is to put another layer on every hour or so, and by the end of the day you are done. Tibhar CF also works quite fine, I had no problem with sticking the rubber on the blade (you should put a thin layer on both and wait 5 minutes). Every next time they say you only need to put 1-2 layers of CTE - and that's only once a month! sounds like a winner ... also there are other reviews (on OOAK, for instance) and people say they like it enough to switch to it.