these seem to close the debate once and for all whether it's Mark V (for victory) or Mark V (for five)

I think you, as a do-gooder & a t/t fanatics & enthusiast like all of us here, should scan all pages (as PDFs) of these cataloges & email to all those who love these goodness....If it is not too much trouble for you.

That Double Happiness blade in World Champion Guo YaoHwa's hand was exactly the type I or most of us that generation played with.

Very cool stuff.

 

  There wasn't anything super concerning Super Sriver. It was a marketing ploy to expand the Sriver name. It had less spin than regular Sriver, was allround in speed and was a good blocking rubber. 

 

 Sriver Killer was a slow anti.

 

OMG to think back in those days a player could get a Primorac or Korbel in 3 handle types!

yasaka came out later with a "h plus" version of their mark v which was a harder sponge

:)

 I used to play with super sriver, spinnier with more control than Sriver L or S. Sriver killer was an anti-loop, dead as hell. 

 Definitely V for five, its predecessor was Cobra III which everyone called cobra 3. I think it was always Mark V, but they started using the V for victory as a sales pitch.  

yasaka came out with a rubber called "V Stage"

is that "five stage" or "vee stage" ??

:)

I always call it Mark 5 but often heard "V for victory".

This really brings back old memory. See translation on the 4th and 5th one? The tackiness one. I guess that was old school translation using dictionary years ago.

 It was an acquired taste, spin loop flat hit. After that I used Dunlop Prexy f/hand Tacky drive b/hand on a Alser alround. By early 1980's Mark V both sides with a ton of Tiptop tyre glue on a Grubba alround.

 'look It snaps at the ball' 

Yasaka made it ,  it could do any shot !!

like (red/black/green/blue?)

:)

I started TT in the 80s and read all the catalogs I had many many times... Wondering whether these are still at my parents'...

 It was never the same as when it was in its natural colour, which was  yellow/gold/brownish which I think they used to say was the natural colour of the cachouc rubber rubber used.

 I don't  think they made super sriver in black, they always seemed to have problems with the dyes in those days, black rubbers were always considerably slower than red, but black glued up better, which is why many players used it on their f/hands. I can remember quite a few players playing with Sriver killer topsheet on mark V sponge so they could mix the spin and hit John Hilton style. Rubber regulations were not so strict back in the day.

 You had to contact thin, off the top sheet with low pace, it wasn't a loop driving rubber. England has a rich history with TT, and there was an abundance of quality coaches back then. My Coach had learned his stuff in the 1960's the birth decade of loop. The whole point of the loop initially was to make the opponent pop the ball up because he could not control the topspin, you then looked for a kill with a flat hit. There was a definite distinction between a loop and a flat hit, loop driving has blended these two strokes together somewhat.  Though I have adapted with the times to a certain extent, the pattern of my structured game remains the same, I go for heavy topsin on the follow up to serve, only these days it is to try and stop my opponent forcing a quick ball on me rather than making the ball pop up, then I look for a closed angle loop drive on the 5th ball instead of a flat kill. I found Super Sriver perfect for making the distinction between pure spin loop, and flat hit, it just felt so crisp, as opposed to mark V, which I believe was the first rubber to allow the spin and pace for loop driving. Crikey, once you start reminiscing  

for jpen - yasaka had gt3 (thin 1 ply cypress or hinoki), gt5 (thick 1 ply cypress or hinoki), or gt7 (1 ply judas).  butterfly had their 1 ply cypress or hinoki blade - that came with a full cork back

the one's that I could find are all dried up and chipped. 

Thanks for bringing back some fond memories .  Forty years or so ago, my dad bought me an "English Style", green rubber on both sides and leather wrapped handle. 

Oh shooot.. I've been looking for some time now that Sriver logo with a player spinning on the right side and can't find it anywhere, lol.

Thanks for sharing!

Oh how I use to like Wakaba, I like it's classic head shape.

till now I emulate some of my blades from it.

Scorna is a defensive blade with a bigger head if I remember well (I sold the ones I had), it is much lighter than Gergely and very slow.

The scorna t5000 is a very good one for an all-round game but unfortunately (for me) it was only made with FL handle, difficult for twiddling if you don't have big hands.

Yes mine was +/-107gr but my scorna (normal) less than 85gr.