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Poll Question: I am interested in how many players boost their sponge.
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    Posted: 04/30/2019 at 6:04pm
I am assuming the poll is anonymous unless you respond. The recent discussion on boosting and glue is surprising me. For the record I mainly use rubber cement to attach rubber, but use it at least 2 weeks prior to a tournament and always play with my paddle several times to get out that "freshly glued" feel. I also rarely play tournaments. 
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I think most people boost Chinese rubbers only. Other rubbers, probably just lightly like one layer.
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Originally posted by vik2000 vik2000 wrote:

I think most people boost Chinese rubbers only. Other rubbers, probably just lightly like one layer.

I would think so.  But a number of comments on different threads talk of boosting everything-including tenergy or ESN. If boosting were legal I would just reglue a sheet of 729 SST pro the day before I played and I could be perfectly happy.
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dilute 1/2 kerosene to glue, the effect will last 1 month for you.


Edited by chop4ever - 05/01/2019 at 2:10am
There is no real "pro", "prov" or "NT" H3 in the market.
Falco is not a booster
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I boost only to get one more month from an old rubber. 
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Besides Chinese rubbers, I would not use rubbers like the Rasanter R50 without boosting. Method is different for them (one THIN layer and wait till rubber becomes COMPLETELY flat) as the utility is different (a more pliant / elastic topsheet).
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I don't boost Tenergy as it always becomes too mushy even with a thin layer
Only chinese rubbers
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I just use rubber cement to attach rubbers. I don't play tournaments much.
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Nope.

Experimented with it, and did not find any advantages at all.

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It would also be interesting to see a poll on what kind of rubber you boost and which booster you use. 
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Originally posted by SmackDAT SmackDAT wrote:

I don't boost Tenergy as it always becomes too mushy even with a thin layer
Only chinese rubbers

I know a dude that boost his T05 and bounce like Hell
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I boost only my H3 with couple of layers in the first time and a single layer to reglue after 1.5 or 2 months. Just because without booster is hard rock and I may get a injury in my shoulder.
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For those folks boosting H3, how long is your overall process? I'm boosting an H3 (provincial blue sponge at 40 degree) for the first time and after applying the 3rd layer (24 hrs wait between each layer), the rubber is very domed. It's been like 2 days since the 3rd layer and it's still pretty curled up...
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Originally posted by vik2000 vik2000 wrote:

For those folks boosting H3, how long is your overall process? I'm boosting an H3 (provincial blue sponge at 40 degree) for the first time and after applying the 3rd layer (24 hrs wait between each layer), the rubber is very domed. It's been like 2 days since the 3rd layer and it's still pretty curled up...
1 medium layer or 2 thin is fine, unless you're a semi pro+
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Originally posted by vik2000 vik2000 wrote:

For those folks boosting H3, how long is your overall process? I'm boosting an H3 (provincial blue sponge at 40 degree) for the first time and after applying the 3rd layer (24 hrs wait between each layer), the rubber is very domed. It's been like 2 days since the 3rd layer and it's still pretty curled up...

I boost my 42 degrees H3 origin one time with my own making booster, leave it 1 week for stabling consistency. I re-boost after a month.
There is no real "pro", "prov" or "NT" H3 in the market.
Falco is not a booster
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Yes, you have to boost hurricane. 

Edited by MLfan - 05/03/2019 at 12:55am
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Originally posted by MLfan MLfan wrote:

Yes, you have to boost hurricane. 

I heard a theory that modern rubbers are so boostes that no booster can make them faster
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Originally posted by MLfan MLfan wrote:

Yes, you have to boost hurricane. 

I heard a theory that modern rubbers are so boostes that no booster can make them faster

lolol can't tell if you're joking ;)
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Originally posted by MLfan MLfan wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by MLfan MLfan wrote:

Yes, you have to boost hurricane. 

I heard a theory that modern rubbers are so boostes that no booster can make them faster

lolol can't tell if you're joking ;)

Lol but any has tried?
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Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by SmackDAT SmackDAT wrote:

I don't boost Tenergy as it always becomes too mushy even with a thin layer
Only chinese rubbers

I know a dude that boost his T05 and bounce like Hell

Does he win all the time?
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Originally posted by fmarek fmarek wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by SmackDAT SmackDAT wrote:

I don't boost Tenergy as it always becomes too mushy even with a thin layer
Only chinese rubbers

I know a dude that boost his T05 and bounce like Hell

Does he win all the time?

Like 70%
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Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by fmarek fmarek wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by SmackDAT SmackDAT wrote:

I don't boost Tenergy as it always becomes too mushy even with a thin layer
Only chinese rubbers

I know a dude that boost his T05 and bounce like Hell

Does he win all the time?

Like 70%
maybe he would win 75% if he didn't boost
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Originally posted by tom tom wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by fmarek fmarek wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:

Originally posted by SmackDAT SmackDAT wrote:

I don't boost Tenergy as it always becomes too mushy even with a thin layer
Only chinese rubbers

I know a dude that boost his T05 and bounce like Hell

Does he win all the time?

Like 70%
maybe he would win 75% if he didn't boost

Yep he wins 70% with 6 layers of dandoy booster. He said he would quit tt if booster is banned
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lol, booster could never be banned, simply due to the impossibility of enforcing it for 99% of the table tennis population. 
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Yep he wins 70% with 6 layers of dandoy booster. He said he would quit tt if booster is banned


That makes sense. If one is used to super fast rubbers there might be a little bit weak technique there. Ouch
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Originally posted by fmarek fmarek wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:


Yep he wins 70% with 6 layers of dandoy booster. He said he would quit tt if booster is banned


That makes sense. If one is used to super fast rubbers there might be a little bit weak technique there. Ouch

not quite. That guy would need a great timing and technique to control that super fast and spin sensitive T05 (with 6 layers of booster)
There is no real "pro", "prov" or "NT" H3 in the market.
Falco is not a booster
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boosting is for weaklings/copcats/lazy/fancrazed players

nearly all rubbers are fine out of the packet including Chinese
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Originally posted by smackman smackman wrote:

boosting is for weaklings/copcats/lazy/fancrazed players

nearly all rubbers are fine out of the packet including Chinese
Not most Chinese rubbers at a high enough level

I feel like tt forums have huge echo chambers either for or against booster, but the facts remain


Edited by SmackDAT - 05/04/2019 at 10:22pm
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Originally posted by chop4ever chop4ever wrote:

Originally posted by fmarek fmarek wrote:

Originally posted by mykonos96 mykonos96 wrote:


Yep he wins 70% with 6 layers of dandoy booster. He said he would quit tt if booster is banned


That makes sense. If one is used to super fast rubbers there might be a little bit weak technique there. Ouch

not quite. That guy would need a great timing and technique to control that super fast and spin sensitive T05 (with 6 layers of booster)
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Originally posted by SmackDAT SmackDAT wrote:

Originally posted by smackman smackman wrote:

boosting is for weaklings/copcats/lazy/fancrazed players

nearly all rubbers are fine out of the packet including Chinese
Not most Chinese rubbers at a high enough level

I feel like tt forums have huge echo chambers either for or against booster, but the facts remain

All rubbers are quite fine.  Booster just makes the sponge more compressible in the right way, but you could play quite well without booster.  Once you are used to edge and the ease of spin, you want it, but it doesn't mean you can't play 95% of the same way without it.
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