What are the benefits of Chinese rubber if...

A player at my club is using Hurricane 8 on both sides. When I tried his racket, I was really suprised because I really liked it. Blocking and countering felt really solid(normally with hard china rubber) it's the opposite. Looping was still very nice and spinny. When I had a good look at his rubbers I saw that the topsheet turned greasy and non tacky. It turned out that he cleans his rubber with a foam cleaner after each practice. So the tackiness faded away. So the advantage off non tacky china rubber is the speed and the ease of use. Ofcourse the dip will be a lot less but it's perfectly usable especially if you play a counterstyle based game. I would compare the feeling to Xiom Sigma Europe I

there is no advantage lol. if that happens, it's time to change rubbers!

The Notorious wrote: Happened in like a month?

Depends on how often you use and clean.

After about the first month it loses its tack but the top sheet remains grippy. Depending on your technique this can be less spinny or more spinny. I had a sheet of Dawei IQUL that became spinnier after losing its tack.

The good thing about Chinese rubbers it the top sheets are so durable and the sponge remains hard so you can loop-drive through anything. I found an old sheet of PF4 (about 3 years) that's still grippy.

zeio wrote: The tackiness can be maintained for much longer than that if you know what you're doing.

slevin wrote: what do you do to maintain tackiness?

Cat piss works. YOu put your bat in the kitty litter for your cat's next session. Your rubba will be the tackiest

I heard if you wipe with water and put on Clear packaging tape on the wet surface, you can make a Non-tacky rubber SUPER-TACKY after 24hrs ! But it is illegal by ITTF rules :-)

I just found a bat I'd lost for 4 years with an old sheet of Dawei 2008 XP.

It was collecting dust in a corner somewhere. Wiped the topsheet with a wet sponge and let it dry and it was still tacky and as bouncy as it was years ago. Maybe not as tacky but it can still generate a serious amount of spin. Will be using this bat for my next session.

That's 2 old sheets I found. 1 DHS PF4 and 1 Dawei 2008. Chinese rubbers last forever.

tom wrote: isn't super tacky Chinese rubbers = the inferior quality, i.e. provincial is way less tacky than a commercial?  so do you really need or want super tacky?

tom wrote: SmackDAT wrote: tom wrote: isn't super tacky Chinese rubbers = the inferior quality, i.e. provincial is way less tacky than a commercial?  so do you really need or want super tacky? So I was about asking the benefits of Chinese rubber is there was minimal tack? (i.e. the difference between a hard Euro-Jap rubber in that case) Please rephrase your question - not sure what are you saying.

The most obvious benefit is the price, then it is the speed- slower than most euro-jap which will help to open your moves and develop power.Spin can be very deceptive. Another big advantage is the short game and maybe the serve. Saying all this I don't mean that one will play better with Chinese than eu-jap. Buy and try.They(chinese) are anything but expensive

Edited by Kolev - 07/19/2017 at 12:26am

Hi Yogi_bear,

If you refer to dhs provincial and national I have nothing to say.Yes indeed they are expensive, but I don't think that with them we are going to miss less.

There is H3-60 (yes, H3-60, not TG3-60). It is H3 on a tinarc (#60) sponge.

It's not readily available, but you can get it from prott. It costs around 45 dollars, so it is probably national or provincial. They also have H3 on a white cake sponge (#65) and a red cake sponge (# unknown) I don't know what their characteristics are, though.

Here is the link