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    Posted: 03/31/2016 at 1:56pm
I have recently switched over to Hurricane 3 (this time decisively and finally) after trying a lot of rubbers on my forehand. The last one being Tibhar Evo MX-P (unboosted). However, I am currently facing difficulty in adjusting to the throw of the rubber. I have boosted the rubber with 3 layers of Haifu Booster. 
Is there a video or a coaching tip which I can look at to understand how to adjust my action to understand the chinese style?
 
Here are a few problems that I am noticing currently -
1. I played against a defender today and he uses TSP Curl P-4 on his backhand. On his chop against my sidespin serve, the following things were happening -
a. If I tried hitting softly, the ball was landing into the net. With MX-P, I was able to land this shot with some decent spin. However, this is always a risky shot as there is not much spin that you can impart on this ball and speed is your only saving grace. 
b. If I tried hitting through the ball, I was hitting about 6 inches outside the table. The ball was dipping very very late. I tried lowering the angle of the racket but to no avail. The ball started dipping into the net if I lowered the angle too much.
2. On heavy backspin shots from the defender, I tried lifting the ball with a lot of leg and upper body power but every time I felt that the ball just left the racket too soon. It was almost as if the ball just touched the rubber and immediately flew off without staying on the racket for even a fraction of a second. 
3. I played against my practice partner yesterday and he is a left handed attacker from both the wings and pretty powerful at that too. Whenever I tried blocking a slower spinny ball with a soft hand, the ball would slip from the rubber's topsheet and fall down. Closing the angle down and hitting through the ball resulted in the ball falling outside the table on the other side. 

I do not want to give up my dream of being able to harness the full power of this beast of a rubber. However, at this point, I am feeling very inclined to go back to MX-P or buy a Tenergy. I need some boosted H3 players to help me out here and coach me a bit. 

I am using boosted H3 (the regular version and not the NEO).
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Do you have any videos of yourself playing we could reference?  That will ultimately help the most.

For your first and second points - without knowing what your stroke actually looks like - it sounds like you are not generating enough spin (and consequentially arc) against the defender.  Coming from MXP or almost every non-chinese rubber, this is usually because you have not become accustomed to the harder sponge of hurricane (especially the original and non-neo sponge) and previously relied on the tensor/cake/tenergy style sponge for spin generation rather than topsheet brush.  Chinese rubbers on average need more racket speed because they do not have the same elasticity of euro-jap rubbers, so focus on committing to your swing and over-emphasize the followthrough for now until you start landing your loops on the table.

For your third point, I've had similar problems in the past with blocking using Chinese rubber.  You need to influence the ball in some way - especially if it is a high quality slow loop - in order to return it well.  Because the sponge is relatively harder than what you were accustomed to, a ball with little forward momentum will not engage your blade or sponge and will slip on the topsheet if your hands are too soft.  Try to employ a slight roll or topspin against your partner's loop until you get a better feel for the rubber.

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Thanks schen. Will try and take a video of myself playing as soon as possible. I am sure that there is a lot of spin on the ball because the ball continues to spin very very strongly long after dropping onto the surface (we have a carpeted floor). I am still inclined to believe that H3 still needs much more spin to land the ball because I have played against someone who uses H3 perfectly and his spin was basically unstoppable. So I am certain that there is a lot more to be done.

What should I do for the backspin ball though? The moment I try hitting with more of an upwards motion, the balls starts going outside and if I close the angle even slightly, it just lands dead into the net. Any suggestions here? 

Slow, spinny loops are definitely killing me a lot right now. Earlier, I was able to simply flat hit through them without much trouble but much of that ability is lost with H3. 
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Hard to say about how address your problems against backspin without seeing you play, so I don't want to assume anything.  But with the symptoms you've posted, it ultimately falls back to not brushing the ball enough.  It takes some time to truly adjust from spinning with sponge like you were able to with MXP to spinning with only topsheet at first.

With H3, hitting through spin is not as easy as with most other non-chinese rubbers.  You are almost required to spin or counter the ball back - I cannot think of any high-level user of H3 that hits or soft blocks slow spins with their FH... almost all of them counter or roll the ball back.
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Thanks a lot schen. Appreciate your help on this. Will post my video soon. Hopefully by next week.
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I had (have???) the same problem with underspin spin balls when I switched to H3 Neo. And for me it was exactly what schen said. I wasn't brushing the ball enough. You really need a fine brush with a very fast whippy swing. If you swing too quickly and contact the ball too thick, it'll go over. And if you contact it slowly like that, it'll fall into the net. Good luck!
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