Mizuno Q3/Q4/Q5/QQ/Q1

Review by a former rubber technician - Masami-san.

He pointed out 3 strengths:

1. manufactured by Sumitomo Riko, or Sumitomo Technology,
2. small porous sponge, where he compared with the big pores of "a certain" Tenergy or "a certain" Rozena that offers good dwell,
3. high overall hardness, harder than T05

Test setup - TBALC, with T05 in red and Q3 in black

First impressions:

Ball leaves the racket fast!
He then talks about how it feels different from the "unique grab" of Tenergy and is a rubber for advanced users.
MSRP is ¥6300, in line with Tenergy, Rasanter and a few others I couldn't make out.
Oshima uses it on his BH, Taiga et al.

Masami's focus as a former rubber technician - a new rubber that's oozing originality from a new rubber mech. Well, not exactly new as Sumitomo owns quite a few table tennis rubber patents, but new in the way the brand makes it a sales pitch. This is Mizuno's first domestically-made rubber, therefore, they can't stress "Made in Japan" enough that the phrase is even in the URL.



Available in Japan Oct 7, 2017.

In the meantime, check out the cool product site at Mizuno, which is pretty much empty, other than...

"May the rubber reform begin."

"The Q(Question) series commences, two years after the release of the GF series."



Mizuno official specs:
Thickness: 1.7/1.9/2.1
Type: XL(Crosslinkage) 52/3
Hardness: 47
Speed: 17
Spin: 16

Edited by zeio - 01/24/2022 at 8:54pm

Very interesting, please keep us posted about early reviews.

Review by Table Tennis Kingdom.



Test player from Mizuno, Katsuya Hashidume, who was a member of the table tennis club at Komazawa University.

Edited by zeio - 10/27/2017 at 8:28am

I like the look of Q3, but I wonder how different it is to its Mantra and Karis stablemates.

Edited by AndySmith - 11/07/2017 at 6:44am

Teclock durometer on a stand, GS-615 to be precise.

Edited by zeio - 11/07/2017 at 6:16am

zeio wrote: Teclock durometer on a stand, GS-615 to be precise.

Thanks

Another interesting review by a pair of male and female players, Sugimoto and Micchi, respectively.



They noted high grip and small pores upon unpacking. Blade used was Mizuno Fortius FT.

For Sugimoto, first Impression of the sheet is that ball leaves a little quick. Takes some getting used.
Counterings, driving backspin, blocking, spin control strokes are easy to do. Shot flight distance feels the same as German rubbers.

For Micchi, really hard to the touch, but doesn't feel hard when playing. Blocking and smashing are easy to do.

Edited by zeio - 11/08/2017 at 7:14am

zeio wrote: Q3 makes the Top 10 on its debut in the domestic ranking for Oct '17. http://world-tt.com/ps_goods/goods_ranking.php

Finally got around to putting this video up.



The Q4 has also been released. From the rubber matrix, Q3 is speed-oriented and Q4 is spin-oriented. At this rate, Q5 coming next year?

Q4 as reviewed by Table Tennis Kingdom. Q3 is speed-oriented whereas Q4 is spin-oriented.



Edited by zeio - 06/22/2018 at 1:11pm

how heavy are they?

Dream1700 wrote: how heavy are they?

According to one review,

Mizutani Special ST 91g

Q3(black, extra thick)
W/ package 90g
Uncut 67g
Cut 46g

Q4(black, extra thick)
W/ package 91g
Uncut 68g
Cut 48g

is Q4 the closest thing to 05 among all the rubbers?

Q4 $37.26 this week at TT11

Hi,
Have anybody tried Q5 yet ?!