suggestions fh rubber

been researching quite a lot and looking for suggestions from you guys these are the rubbers that im interested for my FH : Joola Phenix 48, Tibhar 1Q, Adidas P5 and Joola Rhyzm

Tibar 1Q is a real sleeper.....wake it up on your blade and be amazed. Real power with real control for mid distance loopers and hitters. My next FH rubber in about 6 months. A higher rated player than myself( 2100) recently switched from T05 to 1Q and he is bonkers about it. It has a medium low throw which may bug some players but overall it is the best power rubber with the best speed/spin/control ratio that I have ever played with.

Sofaires wrote:  btw is the regular version soft or medium?

jinlai wrote: Depend on what you want, you want control, speed, power, defense? Control - choose an allround rubber and don't go for maximum thickness, 1.7mm is more than enough Speed - choose a hard sponge rubber and go for maximum thickness Power - choose a medium hard rubber and go for maximum thickness Defense - choose a thin sponge rubber around 1.5mm

Tibar 1Q is a somewhat easy rubber to transition to. Very linear, fast, not as spinny as T05 but I feel easier to play with and there is no surprises like Rakza 7 ( very high throw). If you are a mid level player like most of us mortals here on the forum 1Q will be no problem. If you can play with Calibra you will have no problem with 1Q. I liked it much better than T05, T64, Rakza 7, H3 Neo, Outlaw, and Genius.

have you tried xiom vega pro? it's the rubber for close to table loopers. huge arc and spin, good enough power for fh close to table (and also mid distance if you use a hard blade, like koto hard).

Stiga Boost TC.

thanks guys for all of your suggestions, right now im looking at the joola rhyzm and adidas p5, i didnt get much insight at the tibhar 1Q and didnt get any video of it playing and as far as i been reading the rhyzm has more spin than the phoenix with almost equal amount of speed, does anyone know the trajectory of any of the rubbers i listed above?

I would say that Phenix has a medium-low throw. The main advantage I find that Phenix has over ESN Tensor rubbers is linear performance and control and hopefully durability. I switched rackets with a player yesterday and he played with Phenix while I played with his Vega Europe and Vega Asia yesterday. I found it a very decent setup and while I had no problems adjusting to the Vega setup he couldn't quite figure out how to get the spin out of Phenix. You really have to dig in to the sponge while I think he was use to brush looping. In any case, all of his shots were going into the net, so I told him to let's switch back.                                                                                                   

NextLevel wrote: Throw always depends on the stroke.  I used to think Phenix was low throw, but there are few rubbers that lift backspin more easily.

I will let you know how Calibra feels. But I want relate all of my experiences about Phenix and though I love the rubber, and there is no question that the other player was totally lost using Phenix after playing with the Vega Tensor rubbers. I thought you should be aware of this. 

Edited by richrf - 04/10/2012 at 10:38pm