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Rubber ratings: speed, spin, control, etc.

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Topic: Rubber ratings: speed, spin, control, etc.

Posted By: Trebor Renkluaf
Subject: Rubber ratings: speed, spin, control, etc.
Date Posted: 10/09/2007 at 5:30pm

Is that with max sponge? Min sponge? Somewhere inbetween?

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Blade: Tibhar Samsonov Alpha
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Blade: Stiga Hans Alser - 1983
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Posted By: thethinker
Date Posted: 10/09/2007 at 5:41pm

Those numbers are relative so it works for all rubbers of the same thickness.
For example, when you compare your Mark V and Sriver you come up with a rating. But the rating comes from comparing 2.0mm Mark V to 2.0mm Srive, not one being 2.0mm and the other 2.5mm. The 2.5mm and the 1.5mm rubbers have the same rating as the 2.0mm, the same scale factor, as it turns out.

Posted By: Jeff(ATTC)
Date Posted: 10/10/2007 at 1:37am

Generally Thicker sponge:faster, harder to control. Thinner sponge:slower, easier to control.

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