Rubber with tacky topsheet and soft sponge

Tackifire is very Tacky, but the sponge is a little hard, and its on the expensive side ( 30- 40$$$). I really like the spin I cn produce with it.

You may try the soft sponge version of Tackifire-C. It calls Tackifire-C soft. The top sheet is very tacky and density is 34.

Hi there! Thanks for the first suggestions!

@Haggisv: Yes, I prefer a rubber with a very soft sponge. At the moment I play with a soft tensor rubber. The feeling is very well, bud there is only very little spin in my topsspins. Thats the reason, I look for a tacky topsheet. Bud i think a midly tacky topsheet would be great as well. What do you think about the Dawei Inspirit Quatro? Could that be a solution?

@ahoi1: Is the Tackfire rubber from Butterfly?

Thanks and Greetings

Roger

stiga Neos Tacky is tacky and soft. i don't know the numbers, but is light, tacky and soft.

Butterfly Tackifire Special Soft (finely tacky surface with sponge hardness similar to Sriver FX)

swissping wrote: @ahoi1: Is the Tackfire rubber from Butterfly?

for a chinese rubber 999/saviga and venus are hard to beat

and if you're looking for tackiness on one side, the black is quite a bit tackier / softer in most of the chinese sheets.

But if you brush loop you don't benefit from the softer sponge. The main reason I use a slightly tacky topsheet with my very soft saviga sponges is so I can get a little more out of my serves. I don't think it helps much on loops...may actually hurt if the ball can't make a clean break.

@haggisv: My technique is very well! I had never problem with the spin before the speed glue ban. The new rubber I use is a Xiom Omega I Tensor rubber. I have a very good feeling with it, bud the spin I can produce with it, is not a lot. The topsheet of all Tensor rubbers are not tacky enought to produce a lot of spin...thats my opinion.

Greetings Roger

By the way: Thanks for all your suggestions!

haggisv wrote: To get more topspin on a loop you really don't need a tacky topsheet, just a grippy one, and a soft sponge helps. Tacky topsheets make it easier to get heavy spin on the soft shots, like serves and pushes, but I don't think it will make a topspin spinnier.   What rubber are you using? I suspect you need to work on your technique to get more spin...

@swissping

tackiness chop with 2 layers off fair chack,controlled loop with pace

Hi debra

This could be also a solution for me to combine a soft sponge with a tacky topsheet. Thanks for your suggestion.

Greetings

Roger

debraj wrote: @swissping   I was facing the same issue as of yours... there are very few if at all really tacky rubbers with soft but good sponge. stuff like XT is too slow without glue for a decent play.   after wasting big bucks trying different combinations, i have come to the conclusion there no such rubber that is "RED" and really tacky and retains tackiness effecively, with soft and resonably fast sponge. :(   [ my caveat: "as tacky as i want them to be"]     so this is what i have done:   asked cole to make a combo of soft saviga sponge with one of the very tacky topsheets (and he suggested Galaxy Mercury), and the i spinmaxed the topsheet to make it ... really really tacky even on the RED side.   and now it works great without spending big bucks.   BH: saviga 35 max + galaxy mercury black + spinmax red FH: saviga 40 max + galaxy mercury red + spinmax red [you may need a fast blade.. i use galaxy T8]   I can invite any player in my club to give me a heavy chop that i cannot loop with it. ;)  but yes it needs good reading of opponent's serves .. since you are vulnerable too.