Mysterious Popularity: MX-P, G-1, Rakza7, Vega Pro

I can understand Hurricane 3 Neo popularity, it´s cheap and with 2 layers of booster becomes a lethal weapon (in proper hands, of course). 

fatt wrote: G-1 and Vega Pro are so conventional, reliable and predictable, I can see why people like them so much, MX-P has the speed that gave it muscle credibility to compete with T when nobody could get even close and it's up there for that reason only, even though it's not that great. (I don't remember what the Rakza series feels like.) G-1 remains the best for me because its versatility and position right in between Rozena and T05. In fact, it is better than T05 for anybody under 2200 because it's more forgivable in the short game and blocking, especially when dealing with incoming spin.

Buy 4 for price of 3 definitely effects sales as top 6 are all in that deal. Interesting the rise of G1. Been out for 8 years yet gone from not popular at all to aiming for top soot in last few years. It's been number 1 seller in Japan for a while but was way behind Vega Pro in EU until recently.

SmackDAT wrote: NextLevel wrote: fatt wrote: G-1 and Vega Pro are so conventional, reliable and predictable, I can see why people like them so much, MX-P has the speed that gave it muscle credibility to compete with T when nobody could get even close and it's up there for that reason only, even though it's not that great. (I don't remember what the Rakza series feels like.) G-1 remains the best for me because its versatility and position right in between Rozena and T05. In fact, it is better than T05 for anybody under 2200 because it's more forgivable in the short game and blocking, especially when dealing with incoming spin. G1 brought back the joy of table tennis for me.  It is the most popular rubber in Japan for good reason.  I don't feel the need to buy or test something else and the quality of the rubber is rewarding my game. Just bought 4 G1s for my ZJK ALC. How do you find it?

NextLevel wrote: FruitLoop wrote: Buy 4 for price of 3 definitely effects sales as top 6 are all in that deal. Interesting the rise of G1. Been out for 8 years yet gone from not popular at all to aiming for top soot in last few years. It's been number 1 seller in Japan for a while but was way behind Vega Pro in EU until recently. It wasn't sold outside Japan until recently.  And it wasn't discounted either back then.

Edited by zeio - 02/26/2019 at 10:36am

zeio wrote: The G-1 has always been available around the world since release.  The comments on tt11 date back to 2013. G-1 didn't catch on highly likely because it was late to the porous-sponge party, even later than Rakza 7(Mar, 2010) and Vega Pro(Dec, 2009).  The time it shot up in popularity happened to coincide with Ito winning the German Open in 2015. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?19019-Fastarc-G-1-(vs-Baracuda)&p=242982&viewfull=1#post242982 The Fastarc G-1 is an absolute oddity. It was released in July 2010, so close to 2 years after Tenergy and close to 1 year after Baracuda/Hexer/Genius/X-plode.  Unlike the others that started with a bang and then sank into oblivion, Fastarc G-1 has been in and out the top 10 of Table Tennis Kingdom sales ranking during the last years of 40mm, and only really became a best-seller well after the switch to the 40+(July, 2014).  It's going strong in the ABS era(April, 2017) and has been at the top for the past 2 years except for 2 months, when Rozena temporarily dethroned it in Aug and Sep 2017.

seems like their customer base is in america and the choices are based on the advice given in mytt and ttdaily forums 

the good thing about G1 is that it lasts longer than any of the top 5, and does not take humidity much and it happens that is far better for the plastic ball than any tenergy, it has a very high throw full of spin but slower than mxp tenergy wich is so good that it can be played with any blade from all 5 wood to carbon blasters which is not the case of tenergy mxp or rasznter. it suits woman and man styles. so many more people would buy it of course. it is like h3 (china) in tensor tenergy market.and lighter too.

Edited by Mickael - 02/26/2019 at 4:46pm

NextLevel wrote: SmackDAT wrote: NextLevel wrote: fatt wrote: G-1 and Vega Pro are so conventional, reliable and predictable, I can see why people like them so much, MX-P has the speed that gave it muscle credibility to compete with T when nobody could get even close and it's up there for that reason only, even though it's not that great. (I don't remember what the Rakza series feels like.) G-1 remains the best for me because its versatility and position right in between Rozena and T05. In fact, it is better than T05 for anybody under 2200 because it's more forgivable in the short game and blocking, especially when dealing with incoming spin. G1 brought back the joy of table tennis for me.  It is the most popular rubber in Japan for good reason.  I don't feel the need to buy or test something else and the quality of the rubber is rewarding my game. Just bought 4 G1s for my ZJK ALC. How do you find it? It might be too slow for you.  It is like a slower MX-P which means it does some things really well, and has great spin but without being too fast.  But if you play close to the table, you will absolutely love it and I like it away from the table because I like to control the ball not hit it hard per se.

Mystery solved....

Edited by zeio - 02/27/2019 at 3:59am

"all andro tibhar xiom ... are on offer mistery not solved. only the best made it to the top."

Edited by Fulanodetal - 02/27/2019 at 12:52pm

46 rubbers promoted, yet, only the old-timers listed above are the most popular in 2018. I don't see how the promotion solves the mystery.

Fulanodetal wrote: The data comes from the same website. ... FdT