C-Hack
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[Hardness] Little hard [Performance] Spin and Control are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 8.78
- Spin: 9.44
- Control: 9.22
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Reviews of C-Hack. Players who use Racket evaluate various points such as hardness, momentum, weight, item by item to worry, and feel at impact thoroughly.
- FL
- ST
- Chinese pen
Specifications
- Producer
- DARKER
- Thickness
- 5.8mm
Players use C-Hack
- Excellent compatibility with sticky rubber, easily producing heavy spin
- Combines strengths of both inner and outer type rackets
- Superior stability and maneuverability for close-range techniques
- High arc reduces overshot errors
- Slim grip is comfortable to hold
User reviews
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Hide SEED (Experience: More than ２０ years) For those who couldn't master outer ALC Verified Purchase
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2023/01/17
Intermediate to advanced players, inverted rubber on both sides
My current main blade is the Timo Boll ALC, with K3 on the forehand and 09C on the backhand.
The C-Hack feels like an outer ALC blade made easier to use, a bit more tamed.
It holds the ball longer and gives a higher arc than the ALC, so the C-Hack is easier to handle.
The ALC has more distance and initial speed that gives your opponent less time to react, so the ALC has more attacking power.
Compatibility with tacky rubber is excellent — you can produce nasty, erratic balls.
However, with tacky rubber on the backhand, I feel a bit short on distance.
Weight: 83g
I never feel uneasy about being overpowered by my opponent's shots.
It's light, so sometimes the ball doesn't go exactly where you aim, which takes some getting used to.
Grip: FL
It's on the thinner side of FL grips, so if you like the Kenta Matsudaira ALC, you'll probably love this.
If you usually prefer a thicker or standard grip, opinions might be split.
Good points
Even balls I reacted to on reflex stayed on the table and I could return them.
Fine, detailed techniques were easy to control.
The amount of spin is on the higher side.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) HYBRID K3
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Dignics 09C
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zex (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Verified Purchase
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2023/01/30
I've been using the Zex Gear Outer Viscaria,
and it wasn't that great a match with the rubber I'm currently using,
so it never became my main blade.But I'd used Dignics 09C before, so I tried putting it on,
and just as the concept suggests, tacky rubber produced great shots!
When I put on other rubbers,
personally, they just didn't quite click for me…
If you use tacky rubber on the forehand and tension or semi-tacky rubber on the backhand,
I think this would be a great, well-matched blade for you.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Dignics 09C
Recommended rubber (Backhand) DIGNICS 80
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JACK A fun blade Verified Purchase
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2023/01/21
I bought this for my son. He switched from the Innerforce Layer ALC. He's only used it for two days so far, but he said it's a fun blade to hit with. The grip is easy to hold and it has good speed too, so he likes it. It seems like spin is a bit harder to generate now, but... he really likes the feel as well! He's not used to it yet, so he plans to keep using it while figuring out how to handle it.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) V>20 Double Extra
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Vega Europe
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Takanori 2 Verified Purchase
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2023/01/21
This blade lets you make the most of the speed that Chinese rubber usually lacks.
Hard Chinese rubbers normally need you to hit with strong impact and a real gripping, snapping motion. But with this blade you don't need to mix that snap into your drive — just put spin on the ball and the drive suddenly accelerates and digs into the back of the opponent's court.
The quality of quick drives off short balls is also really high, with balls that carry good spin, and my opponents overhit a lot because of it.The short game feels no different from an inner-type blade, so you don't need to think too hard about it.
For counters, it's more stable if you focus on overwriting your opponent's spin rather than smashing down from above.
For blocks, because of some liveliness and a tendency for the trajectory to rise, it's easier if you close the racket angle slightly. Blocking with an upright racket face still comes in fast and deep even with Spectra, so it probably takes a bit of adjustment to get the feel right.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) HURRICANE PRO Ⅲ TURBO BLUE
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Spectrum · 21 sponge
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digging man (Experience: １１〜２０ years) The ideal blade?! Verified Purchase
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2023/01/20
I'd been using the Zex Gear Out up until now. I tried this new blade with the same rubber still on.
Compared to the Zex, drives land shallower, and the bounce is a bit more restrained since it grips the ball more. In exchange, stability on pushes, serves, and returns improved, along with the roughness you get from tacky rubber. My backhand drive also got easier to swing.
It's a blade that takes the best of both inner and outer construction, sitting right between the two.
The feel is maybe best described as a slightly soft outer blade combined with a hard inner blade. It's a bit unique. It doesn't vibrate much in your hand.
The grip is a bit thicker than the Kenta Matsudaira ALC, and thinner than the Zex.
I'll keep using this as my main blade for a while.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) TRIPLE Double Extra
Recommended rubber (Backhand) HYBRID K3
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Kazumetaru Fits Chinese penhold grip so well! Verified Purchase
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2023/01/19
C-Hack penhold, Chinese style. Even though it's light, I put Chinese tacky rubber (Hurricane Neo 3, blue sponge) and Tenergy 05 max thickness on it, and the spin is amazing. With the Hurricane, blocks, counters, stops, and chiquita all stick dead on the table, and loops grab like crazy too. Since it's light, Tenergy 05 generates a lot of speed, and the drives are incredible too. I might never have used a blade like this before. This is the ultimate blade if you want a true specialist setup that matches perfectly.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) NEO HURRICANE 3
Recommended rubber (Backhand) TENERGY 05
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mm (Experience: １１〜２０ years)
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2023/03/01
My impression, in a good way, is that this blade properly stays within the range of a typical outer blade.
Spin is the selling point, but it doesn't hold the ball like a plywood blade would — it's more that it has an outer blade's quick release, yet it's still easy to grip the ball with.As a result, you can overwrite your opponent's spin without being too affected by it, so both hitting against backspin and countering are easy to turn into your own shot, and it was easy to produce tacky-rubber-like shots.
The sensation that vibrates back into your hand is also minimal, so it's hard to feel the effect of your opponent's spin, which suits players who want to keep pushing forward and attacking by overwriting the spin with their own.The only downside is that the arc is so high that blocks tend to balloon into a high arcing trajectory. Since it's just high but still lands on the table, it should be manageable once you get used to it, but it seems like it'll be a struggle until then.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) RAKZA Z EXTRA HARD
Recommended rubber (Backhand) RASANTER C48
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