Tackyness of a rubber

Can anyone explain to me what is the tackyness of a rubber? and what does it help to do? does it enable better looping or what? and is tenergy more tacky than xiom omega 3.

Tenergy is not sticky/tacky at all, as almost all Euro-Jap rubbers. They rely only on so-called mechanical grip instead of stickiness as well. There are some (but not many) tacky E-J rubbers like Neos Tacky by Stiga and 999 Ultima by JUIC, but that's a rare occasion.

When the rubber is tacky the attacker has to work in a bit more extra power into a shot - so with the Chinese hard training system it made sense. Tackiness also allows you to stop the ball a bit more and to better do quick flicks and counter topspins right off the bounce. As for the sensitivity to the spin, then if you have a good technique you can overcome that. Also if your rubber is hard then this combination is actually less sensitive to the spin as the dwell time is less and tackiness actually in this case stops the incoming spin.

The choice for you whether to go with tacky or non-tacky rubbers is really a choice for your style. If you playing at a not too high level and you are not a combination player with a good touch, then it's best you use classical Euro-Jap rubbers along the lines of Sriver family and similar. If you however are good enough and you are an all-out attacker who however requires some good short game and quick off-the-bounce play when close to the table then consider tacky rubbers. Also if you are a European style player who does a lot of loops and counterspins and doesn't like the muffled feeling when stopping the ball - also use Euro-Jap classics.

There are many types of them nowadays, some of them very close to the classics, some of them only mildly tacky so they do not differ a lot from evergreens like Mark V or Sriver FX or Desto F series etc. Notto mention that most of what China produces these days is 2-3 times cheaper than their European analogs.

melarimsa wrote: I play with tacky ... Shorter strokes enable me to be quicker.

Certainly helps when you are playing mostly close to the table. Then the muffling effect doesn't really hurt you since the ball doesn't have that far to go.