Blade Rubber Combination

If the ball is going long or into the net you need to work on your problems

Try training first and commit to a time period of sticking with this setup and evaluate after that.
If that doesn't work then you can either use more linear rubbers or use a slightly slower, more flexible blade.
You may also use the opportunity to ask other clubmates or your local shop to try out other setups and try to understand how they are different from yours.

Thanks to both Hozuki and strataras for such good and precise suggestions,

I asked my clubmates and they also suggested to keep the same blade TB ZLC for some more time, and after the present rubbers life, try once with some controlled slow rubbers for a year or so. Then give a thought about changing the complete setup. Try to improve footwork also.

Although its sufficient time till then, need some suggestions...
1. Some controlled rubbers for bh & bh for present blade to slow it down.
2. A few more options similar to gionis carbon all+ with artificial fibre in case i don't get the same blade.
3. Rubbers to keep on new blade. I love to loop on fore hand and always try to attack in game. Every one in club says my drives are good. Learning bh loops.

Again kindly suggest from butterfly, tibhar or may be donic.

Regards.

leave your set up the way it is. keep in the bag..

I think you should never change blade and rubbers simultaneously, as you won't understand anything about what has changed and why it did. If you think a change is necessary, then use same blade with different rubbers, or use same rubbers with different blade.
Also, the slower the rubbers, the faster the blade can be. The slower the blade, the faster the rubbers.

The way I view this is that it depends on your preference, either you want the fast blade to provide your base speed or your fast rubbers. The slower counterpart then should be much more linear and will generate more speed during more powerful shots.

Mathematically, it could be something like
Speed S = (b + r)*p +B +R,  with
b= power dependent speed increase of blade,
r= power dependent speed increase of rubber
B=power INdependent speed of blade
R=power INdependent speed of rubber

Okay this is just a linear approximation but I think it gets the idea across.
It should be more like a natural logarithm curve for hard, fast and stiff blades and soft, fast and bouncy rubbers. And more like a exponential curve for the opposite setup with eventual transition to linear curve.

However, I think for european style looping game, you need the sponge sinking.
You can achieve this dwell by choosing one of two setups: (I am mainly refering to FH strokes here)

1) hard and fast rubber + slow blade
best short pushing, but openers need effort. great at mid distance counterlooping, needs fast anticipation and power to penetrate the hard sponge, giving the most powerful shots. The choice of the Chinese.
2) soft and moderate speed rubber + fast blade
most middle gears, very easy to use. short game sucks, needs continous well placed loops to win the point, cannot generate enough power and spin to hit winners, gets overpowered by opponent using 1)
The choice of the average player.

However, I am currently trying to use
3) hard and fast, but linear rubber + fast stiff blade

This is a setup one would usually recommend to hitters and blockers. Not enough dwell to generate good spin and almost no feeling for touch shots. I compensate for the former by brush looping with tacky rubbers using chinese technique and for the latter by training more. But it eliminates the weaknesses you get from the other setups: won't get overpowered in topspin rallies or struggle with opening loops, also good quality pushes (with training) which makes it awesome.

Well this has become somewhat lengthy and it might not be 100% accurate as it just reflects my personal experience, but I think it might be useful for many players to think about the concept.
Therefore feel free to add or critcise!



Edited by Hozuki - 04/18/2017 at 5:55pm