Seamoon booster

Not like other tuners which seem to make the sponge mushy. The sponge kept a solid feel.. it felt like it was a better spring effect. Added dwell and kept the feel. Speed and spin noticeably improved.

Seamoon booster works very well with these...

http://www.tabletennis11.com/other_eng/xiom-ball-case-xbc-ii

Takkyu wrote: Normally, a booster, mostly if it's chinese, it supposed to soften the sponge which adds springiness and better feel/better control.

WHY ITTF ISN'T HAPPY ABOUT BOOSTERS/TUNERS.

Just read this document.
http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=206&Category=rubber&Competition_ID

and this excerption on foremost

....The obvious solution is to control those racket coverings so as to reduce the speed and spin slightly, but not too much; we do not want to change the character of the sport entirely.

ITTF earlier plan to speed the game down by introducing 40mm balls did not work out well. The bigger ball has now became as speedy as it used to be in the past days of 38mm balls.

Clear, ITTF is not happy about such speedy balls and rubbers and is naturally unwilling to let into the game any staff that is eventually to drive the sport even faster and the rallies less controlable.

The postfactory (home made) boosting on the rubbers is known to increase the ball speed/spin dramatically, and this surely doesn't comply with ITTF early expectations to eventually slow the game down, and this is the best principle reason for ITTF to keep any home-made boosters/tuners away from major international competitions.

NOTE: There is no good evidence so far that ITTF is about to accept and validate the use of the bio-boosters some later day.

So, every player alive is well adviced to get prepared for the "booster-voided epoch" to come down quite shortly, I guess.
   

ITTF have to eventually decide what they want more - driving the sport faster, higher and stronger, as the Olympic motto suggests, or driving their profits higher and faster.

Edited by Imago - 08/08/2012 at 1:21am

Imago wrote: ITTF have to eventually decide what they want more - driving the sport faster, higher and stronger, as the Olympic motto suggests, or driving their profits higher and faster.

I just glued up two rubbers "boosted" with seamoon. TG3 neo was alot better than what I got out of the packet and was also the 1st time I have used a chinese rubber with catapult effect (bounciness). Was quite an eye opener how much better it was to use however I am guessing it could use more as it still felt a little dead next to a tensor.

I was surprised far more by the sheet of X3 I boosted up. Straight away you notice that the rubber is much louder than before! Even slaps produce brush like clicks! The other standout was that I could not feel the rubber bottom out even on big loop drives. It played far more like a hard sponge than a soft squishy tensor. Speed picked up slightly however spin picked up quite a bit. 3 of us took turns hitting and blocking loops comparing the X3, TG3, S1 and S1t. Both the hard Acudas were still easily quicker than boosted X3 however the X3 was rivaling the spin of the S1t! Considering that normal X3 does not compare to any Acuda this was quite a shock. We could all BH loop the blocker off the table with the X3 90% of the time vs 50% with S1t.

As a guide I don't gauge boosting by layers but by curl. In this case both rubbers where boosted to 180 degree curl.

dauntless wrote: http://cl.ly/image/3N330V2G2p0vGot this from ttnpp.com, took a while to get here from HKGI put one coat of Finezip on it, then one thin coat of the booster. It has a gentle dome after 1.5 hours. I will follow up with pics as it progresses. Once it dries I will do another coat of booster, then glue to the blade. I will put this on an an identical blade and test vs. regular unboosted H3 Neo.Very curious smell, like herbal Chinese medicine ;)

Cool
Btw, don't pour Jack Daniel's over the sponge if you get drunk..

I think you should have bought the provincial version and picked a softer sponge.. But that's my personal preferences. If by any chance you don't like or don't intend to make a full use of that bottle of Seamoon, I could buy it back from you. Let me know if that's the case.

I use the same combo of Seamoon and finezip and it works very well. I use 40dg provincial though. I hear it's even better on the non-neo sheets. I'm going to try that next time I get some new Hurricane. My sheet is only a month old and still probably has another boost left to use at least. 

Notes:
Just measured the total thickness with digital calipers --> 3.85mm

Depending on amount applied I would guess you could tune at least 10 sheets with the bottle.

-update-

Some pic links:

http://cl.ly/image/2o0X1r2A2O1C

http://cl.ly/image/0p05431j2N07 If Apple made weights

http://cl.ly/image/2t0m0F3b0R2B

http://cl.ly/image/242w47441F0a

I'll hit with it in a few minutes and update side by side initial thoughts




Edited by dauntless - 10/04/2012 at 4:19pm

 it would be nice to know what rubbers boost well and how much,wonder if someone could post a table of boostness

The NEO's don't have as good an effect, but it should still be a pretty noticeable difference. 

Edited by beeray1 - 10/05/2012 at 6:29pm

one thing though after using seamoon on TG3bs.. its nowhere near as strong as Falco Long boost

seguso wrote: sorry, does seamoon pass the "mini rae lite" test?

What is this test?