999t review -Awesome $5 rubber

lol. yep I used it backhand and forehand in an under 1500 tournament last weekend and got eliminated in the quarter finals by a player who had some heavy pushing going on that I did not have an answer for.

my review is a little bit disappointing, i'm a big fan of sticky rubber and i finally used this rubber thinking it would suit my style, but didn't perform well.

shinshiro wrote: Egghead wrote: manraid wrote: can anyone compare this rubber to hurricane 3 neo or hurricane 8 as regard durability ,speed ,spin ,throw angle ,...etc? from what i remember read online (taobao and others), it is similar to the old H3. Hi Egghead I searched for 999T on Taobao but I didn't find the rubber. There are some 999Ts but doesn't seem to be the same one of this thread. Does someone know if this rubber is still on taobao?

Reaper wrote: my review is a little bit disappointing, i'm a big fan of sticky rubber and i finally used this rubber thinking it would suit my style, but didn't perform well. I have been using a 3 year old 1.5mm DHS PF4-1 that i removed from a cheap premade, my BH flips were deadly because of the tacky rubber and slow speed and my chopping was very controllable and got me some points... eventually the sponge flattened and i had to find a replacement. I got the Super 999T in red and the topsheet is extremely see-through (doesn't seems promising but we'll see), it's not as tacky as it claims to be, doesn't pick any ball at all. it's 2.2mm 44° and the bounce is null, even a 1.5mm from a premade had more bounce, it is useless in blocking anything. I do like slow rubbers but i'm struggling with this one. I couldn't score many points with the backhand flick, it was so unpredictable, sometimes the topsheet wouldn't grab or simply the incoming ball would just not bounce off of it. The chopping went better but nothing out of the ordinary Maybe i got one from a bad batch but I was expecting so much more from this rubber claiming to be a super tacky rubber with controlled speed.

(I edited my original February post with the below comments just now)

After playing about 3hrs of training per week + 2 hrs of game play per week I first really felt at the 4.5 week mark a noticeable difference.  After that I changed at the 3rd or 4th week just because the rubber is really cheap and I don't feel there's a break in period so you can just glue it on and it feels the same (to me).

DarkerMyLove wrote: After playing about 3hrs of training per week + 2 hrs of game play per week I first really felt at the 4.5 week mark a noticeable difference.  After that I changed at the 3rd or 4th week just because the rubber is really cheap and I don't feel there's a break in period so you can just glue it on and it feels the same (to me). Previously with Hexer I could get away with 6 weeks. <span style="line-height: 16.8px;">Of course if you don't train too much you might can get away with more. If you are doing lots of loops and multiball ect it will wear faster obviously.</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px;"> </span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px;">I still have 4-5 sheets of both red and black...haha  PM me if you're interested </span>

If they haven't been spoken for i want them

i have an opportunity to try the 999t black sheet on my friend's blade (marcos freitus alc) and i think red sheet seems soft compared to the black sheet (still both medium hard rubbers)and i think the black is more durable than red

and more practicing with this rubber gives me that control is the shining core of this rubber beside the spin generation as well as speed of course(since i put it on mjszlc  which is a fast blade ).

this rubber compared to hurricanes (8 and 3 neo) i ithink 999t wins

el luchador wrote: there is a huge thread on ooakforums about the cheap chinese rubbers that you might look into.

can you give the link to that thread?

thanks. yeh, I figured that's the one.

pgpg wrote: This one, perhaps, about 'Training Rubber'? http://ooakforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=25211

well you really seem to like this rubber ;)
I just put a sheet on my bh since it is the highest throw rubber in decent condition that I have right now.
It needs to be boosted anyways and is best paired with a fast flexy blade. Then I imagine it has enough power. Still, a consistent yet rather harmeless rubber.

I tried it today on my fast stiff balsa blade on BH and it was surprisingly good. Very linear and controllable. Very stable looping game. Lacks the top gear to really threaten my opponents but for everything else it was fine.

i tried it yesterday and i usually used it on my fh but yesterday i played with it on bh and i noticed a very strange thing about this ,when y top spin a ball with this rubber on fy or bh the arc was extremely strange the arc begins normally in a reasonable height but when it hits the table it suddenly flatten in a dramatic manner which is something i didnot see with h8 or h3neo which makes it a dead and powerful weapon if u could perform a full stroke fh or bh topspin and it indeed have a lower throw angle compared to h8 definitely especially on bh when doing banana flick

it could be a bad patch mine is very tacky i played with for 4 months now and it lift the ball against gravity for about 1.5-2 minutes in worst cases

I remember there is JUIC 999 version ? and the regular Globe 999T version ? Maybe only the Globe 999T is the sticky/tacky  rubber ? I thought 999 rubbers are very heavy ! ? Won't having 2 999T for FH/BH make the racket too much head heavy ?