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I put the MAX thickness on a Harimoto Tomokazu Innerforce ALC, and it came to about 57g with glue, about 55g without.
This rubber was a genuinely, seriously hard rubber that didn't let you get away with the illusion that "maybe I could get by with this even without the NUZN55-specific impact you get from something like Dignics 09C, V20 Double Extra, or Hybrid K3" - none of that.

That's because JOOLA rubbers as a whole tend to have a doughy sheet and sponge, which makes it hard to rely purely on hardness for your shots, and they don't have the softness to compensate for you even a little - I feel like a lot of their rubbers don't deviate much from the sponge hardness rating. Even with this rubber, I couldn't properly sink the ball into the sponge on even an easy, single-course ball, let alone in match play, so maybe it would be easier to use paired with an even harder inner or outer blade, but I felt that for the average player, choosing the Dynamic with its 52.5-degree sponge hardness would be the safer choice.

Feel of the shot: among slightly-tacky tension rubbers, my impression was that it's similar to Hybrid K3, but with even stronger tension feel on both the sheet and sponge, and with the sponge hardness raised quite a bit further.

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