the best rubber to use booster on

Xiom Sigma 1 Pro
Xiom Omega IV Pro
Xiom Vega Pro
are the ones I've seen boosted well with Falco.

Tibhar MX-P + Falco seems to work quite well :-)

If it's the best, it does not need booster. If it needs booster to become the best, then no doubt H2/3 BS is your path to the temple of gods.

Chinese tacky rubber with hard sponge are perfect for boosting, like DHS Hurricane 3/2. 

assiduous wrote: this whole boosting business has done more harm than good for the community. That's for sure.  You should know one thing about boosting, it makes the properties of the rubber very unstable. You may like it right after the boost, but a week later it will play worse than if u never touched it.  Frankly, unless u are talking about some dead sponge chinese rubber (which they all are out of the box), boosting will really mess up a otherwise good rubber. Test it on some old ones that u don't care about. But to put on a brand new 50$ + rubber is just reckless.

Tibhar77 wrote: I am just wondering about which rubbers is good to use booster on. i have tried to boost t05, but i feel t05 is getting to mushy  i have also heard that bluefire M1 has the same problem. i have used dandoy bio booster. please help!

  I think boosting T05 ruins it.  Just my opinion.  I only tried it with Dandoy.

Those that Ashish mentions but there is no point. As the others said before me they do not add any good to the latest generation of rubbers. They may increase the speed a tiny bit but there is a drop in control. The rule is that look for hard rubbers because the oil will soften them up often resulting in a mushy rubber.

The Xiom Sigma / Omega IV series are very good as they are, for example.

tg3 wrote: I think that bryce speed was designed to be boosted

It was actually designed to be used with speed glue.

tg3 wrote: Matt Pimple wrote: tg3 wrote: I think that bryce speed was designed to be boosted  It was actually designed to be used with speed glue. no, old bryce was designed for speed glue, bryce speed came at the time speed glue became illegal

No, Bryce Speed came out before speed glue ban -- maybe a year or so.  I used to speed glue it legally.  They also had an FX version that was supposed to be especially responsive to speed glue, again before the Fall 2008 ban..  It may be that these rubbers respond well to boosters -- actually it would not surprise me at all -- but they were not originally designed for boosters. 

Yes, and so?  I used it with speed glue at the Southern Open in 2007.  It was my favorite rubber from the time it came out until the speed glue ban.  I thought it was incredible with glue.  I am not saying you are wrong about the main point you are making, though.  Probably the properties that made Bryce Speed respond well to speed glue make it also respond well to booster.  I never tried it with booster, though.  After speed glue ban I played with a couple of different tensors and then switched to Tenergy.  I once tried boosting Tenergy and I think it was an expensive mistake.   

Edit:  Also Bryce Speed is also really durable.

H3.H2,TG3,TG2

Tassie52 wrote: Tibhar77 wrote: I am just wondering about which rubbers is good to use booster on. Laws of Table Tennis 2.4.7 The racket covering shall be used without any physical, chemical or other treatment. If you're not sure what this means, I'm sure someone can explain it to you.

Edited by the_theologian - 12/31/2013 at 6:25am

Tassie52 wrote: Tibhar77 wrote: I am just wondering about which rubbers is good to use booster on. Laws of Table Tennis 2.4.7 The racket covering shall be used without any physical, chemical or other treatment. If you're not sure what this means, I'm sure someone can explain it to you.

the_theologian wrote: Tassie52 wrote: Laws of Table Tennis 2.4.7 The racket covering shall be used without any physical, chemical or other treatment. after much laborious consideration of this rule, I have decided it's incredibly flawed and very much in the interest of manufacturers, retailers, and the ITTF which receives advertisement money

Quite frankly what you have decided is pretty much irrelevant. Whether the rule is flawed or if it benefits manufacturers is not up for debate. The only decision you get to make is to follow the rule or to cheat.

the_theologian wrote: said differently, the rule is a joke.

You can say it any way you like and as often as you wish and in any font size that you have handy, it won't change the reality that the rule is the rule.

the_theologian wrote: but that's not what this thread it about anyway.

Wrong. This is precisely what this thread is about. Any discussion of booster takes place within the context of the rules that govern the game. Every choice to boost is a conscious decision not to follow the rules of the game. Make that choice by all means, but do so admitting that you know you're cheating.

And, if that's preaching, well I'm old enough to know that nobody listens anyway.

I suppose only chinese rubber for boosting? Is falco tempo long booster good for hurricane/skyline? I dont like too soft a rubber actually..