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Rubbers that perform well in humid |
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haggisv
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Posted: 02/10/2014 at 7:48pm |
What rubbers you think perform well in high humidity?
A friend had some trouble with T05 on a fairly hot day with high humidity >60% (due to evaporative A/Cs), and it looking for something better for those climates. |
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AL_in_MN
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Go with a tackier rubber for high humidity, nearly all grippy rubbers perform poorly in high humidity, in my experience anyway. Can anyone recommend a grippy rubber that does handle humidity reasonably well?
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JonathanVN
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Yes, tensors are generally not a very good rubber to use in humid conditions. Sriver El, however, performs extremely well in humidity, in that it seems to retain a consistent bounce. I've never used any "grippy rubber" before though, so I am unable to recommend anything in that category.
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Tinykin
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Of more concern to me is wet or damp balls. Some players have wet hands and they attempt to dry it on their now wet shorts with the result that the ball is damp. Sometimes in my throwing action , I attempt to throw the ball only to find that it doesn't leave my hand cleanly as the hand or ball was damp. Even the table sometimes is a little damp.
One solution when there is high humidity is to have a big towel to constantly wipe the bat and ball and less frequently, the table. Edited by Tinykin - 02/11/2014 at 1:04pm |
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bluebucket
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We have an average of 80%+ humidity during the playing season. Although I don't usually notice it a problem then because the days are cool, for some reason you don't seem to get the condensation that you get on a warm day with similar humidity. When it's bad no rubber seems able to play 100% even very tacky ones get slippery
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haggisv
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Wow, 80% is very high! So what rubbers still work in slightly less humid conditions?
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tt-panopticum
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It should be noted, that usually humidity is described/measured as rel. humidity.
I.e. 80% in cool condition actually means a lot less compared to le's say 80% in environment temperature of 30 degrees C..... As anecdotal reference - I've been in China for training with three young players - two playing with last gen. ESN rubbers one Tenergy. During three days humidity has been very high, tables even looked wet and felt like just wiped with water..... One of the ESN rubbers (a contracts player fact. tuned version) was worst, absolutely unplayable, the other ESN and Tenergy really bad soft brush loops impossible to play..... The chinese players with almost all H3, while complaining a bit as well, clearly had much less trouble, changing rackets clearly confirmed the much better playablity with H3 - perhaps one more reason to use chinese rubber if located in notoriously humid asian country?? IMO, yes |
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haggisv
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Excellent point! |
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