Haifu Rubbers, and their increasing popularity...

Basically until a few months ago, I never knew Haifu made rubbers. I only found out when I looked at ittf's rubber list. Then I saw that presports obtained them. And now I look and see MAJOR pros using it including Hou Yingchao, and Dang Ye Seo (HAIFU WHALE/II). Has anyone tried it, know some one who has tried it, or any info at all about it. It clearly isn;t a regular heavy spinny Chinese rubber, otherwise it would be obsolete.

Price, they are more expensive than the average chinese rubber. They are in like the 20$ range, at least at presports, the ONLY place that sells them. I hear that the sponge is very elastic, which Is a reason you wouldn't need glue.

A coach from our club got one. It was whale as far as I remember. It was brought from China by our national team coach during the Olympics. Black Sponge. Not much tack. Doesn't feel like glued or something but not as dead as classic Chinese. It was playable without tuning etc. It didn't draw much attention in our club since it offered nothing special. Sponge was med-hard I guess. Will examine more to inform you.

i thought that looked like black sponge in the pic, that is pretty cool

I tried this rubber with black sponge about 2 months ago on clipper in hebei

its nothing special for average players, you wont have the racket speed to get the full potential out of it just like when most players try to use hurricane

pretty much useless unless have extremely fast racket speed and are pretty much a professional

because its going to have way way to hard of a sponge for you to get the ball to sink in and use properly

from what i remember it was much harder than the hurricane I had at the time

the system was like this, for the professional kids there

the little kids had palio cheap and softer

then the 12+ year olds had palio or soft japanese on the bh if they could afford it, hurricane forehand

the older kids got japanese on the bh a ton were using hammond. bryce and sriver was also popular and a harder hurricane or this haifu rubber on the fh

nice info!  interesting that they start them without hurricane then when they swtich to hurricane they work them up in hardness as they get older, that black sponge is calling me, need to get a sheet ha

Liu Shiwen switched to 729-08. And eacheng has it.