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    Posted: 07/20/2015 at 8:43pm
Constantly reading the posts here, it seems like 90% of the folks suggest that people use a softer/slower rubber on the backhand and a harder/faster rubber on the forehand?

What is the logic behind this?

I play a predominantly forehand loop/drive based attacking game, and i also drive/block with my backhand pretty consistently, however the opposite seems to work for me much better, i tend to do much better with a softer spinny rubber on forehand and a harder rubber on the backhand.

Just very curious as where this advice originates from?
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good question there rocketman, the first thing is everyone is different and have different preferences so matching up your likes to your game style is something unique to yourself
 I will recommend to my customers a hurricane type rubber for forehand and focus type for backhand and explain that hurricane is great for spin and the softer rubber great for block, easier return of serve, counter hit etc blah blah
and people go along with that , then every now and then someone turns their bat around and prefers it the other way, so go figure
 just for a bit of fun play some games with your bat around the other way, so you know for yourself
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I had originally followed similar advice, and had gotten myself rakza 7 for fh and rakza 7 soft for bh, however when i turned them around i find it to work for me much better.
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I think this hard on FH and soft on bh is derived from the Chinese style where they have hard and tacky FH and can hit FH stronger but use springer bh rubber to overcome the less power a bh can generate. If you block, push and hit your bh and stay at the table I think a harder sponge makes sense.
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Originally posted by rocketman222 rocketman222 wrote:

I had originally followed similar advice, and had gotten myself rakza 7 for fh and rakza 7 soft for bh, however when i turned them around i find it to work for me much better.


What a coincidence, I have recently noticed the exact same thing.

I've always used Rk7 on my FH and Rk7 Soft on my, using a YEO blade and recently when I felt Rk7 a bit dead and hitting a lot into the net I switched hands and started playing with Rk7 Soft on my FH. The feel is great and everything else also felt great, like the dwell time, loops, drives, controlled serve returns. But I saw two problems.

1) My serves lacked speed and spin
2) I started losing a lot of points when I would play a few feet away from the table, netting most balls, so it seems this soft sponge lacks speed and power away from the table. Maybe this is the reason soft rubbers are not recommended on the FH?

What are your thoughts guys.
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All things being equal, the main difference between harder and softer sponge is that the harder sponge gives better linear control, and the harder sponge allows you to swing harder and still spin (similar to thicker sponge).  The rest depends on what kind of feel you prefer when you strike the ball. You can play better with a rubber but not like the feel of it.  Happens all the time.
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