Rakza X
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[Hardness] Little hard [Performance] Spin and Speed to have excellent |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed:7.9
- Spin:8.51
- Control:7.76
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RAKZA X table tennis rubber from Yasaka is the latest addition to the popular and highly successful RAXZA series of Yasaka rubbers. The top sheet is a mainly natural rubber gum, employing a new production method.
The result is a top surface with exceptional grip enabling both phenomenal spin and speed. These qualities reduce the margin for error. This top sheet is then combined with a harder “Power Sponge”. The resulting combination of a faster sponge and high grip top sheet enables you to place the ball accurately with a high degree of success.
Serves and short returns are both very sharp, similar to the Rakza 7 and Rakza 9.
RAKZA X – yet another winning combination from Yasaka!
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Players use Rakza X
- Strong grip force makes spin easy to apply
- Hard sheet requires feeding the ball properly
- Designed for players with fast swing speed
- Stable for drives and close-to-net techniques
- Durability somewhat short at 2-3 months
Reviews by user
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Society players Just really easy to hit with
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2016/05/28
The ball sinks in just the right amount and control is good.
The sheet is on the harder side, but it's more stable to let the ball sink in and hit rather than brushing it.Serve
You need a knack for putting spin on it. If you let the ball sink in and swing compactly, you get good spin.
Using the same swing but sinking the ball in and releasing quickly gives you a knuckle ball that's hard to read.Push
A bit tricky, but if you swing fast and catch the ball thin, you get a ball with a straight, hard-to-read trajectory.Stop
Just stopping the ball is no problem, but if you try to add spin, you need the same kind of stroke as a push — and that ← is hard.Chiquita
The hardness of the sheet gives it good stability.
Both a speed-oriented version with strong topspin and a variation-oriented version with strong sidespin are easy to do.Flick
Rather than flicking, chiquitas and drives over the table have more power and are more stable. Since there's a risk of the ball sinking in oddly and overshooting, I only use flicks on clear chance balls.Since plenty of reviews already cover how good this rubber is in topspin rallies, I deliberately focused here on the short-game strokes that I found trickier. The excellence in rallies goes without saying.
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use MA LIN EXTRA SPECIAL
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Image Studio (Experience: ４〜５ years) For drive-style players
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2026/03/30
I have this on my backhand, and I found it hard to put spin on but easy to generate speed with.
I think it would suit people who want to create a nice arc.
There were times I felt it's hard to handle if you can't swing through properly.
I think drive-oriented players would like it.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use EARLEST7＋
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sea urchin (Experience: ２〜３ years) Moderately good feel
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2026/01/21
I used to use this on my forehand. The grip on the ball is more than enough when you hit with strong impact, but when you catch the ball thin, the grip felt slightly lacking. Also, after 2-3 months of use it starts feeling slick, so the lifespan is short. As for the short game, it was pretty average.
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use SO-TEN
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(Experience: ６〜１０ years) A rubber that only shines with real power behind it
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2025/06/02
I used the 2.1mm version.
This is a hard, heavy, classic old-school German rubber.
The sheet is on the hard side, but the ball doesn't come off it especially fast.
The sponge also feels dense, giving an overall sense of heaviness, but a key trait is that it's really easy to lift the ball upward.
It's basically a forehand rubber. On the backhand it feels harder than the numbers suggest and is tough to use.If you can really drive your own power into the rubber and grip the ball, you get a high arc with a heavy-feeling shot.
On the flip side, if you don't swing through properly, the ball still rises but tends to come out flat and straight.
Brushing techniques with the sheet also feel a little harder to pull off. You need to be conscious of gripping the ball.Finally, true to German rubbers in general, it's on the heavy side. The sheet I used, at 157×150 size including the adhesive layer, came to 51g.
You may need to adjust weight on the backhand side or the blade itself.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use ZX-GEAR FIBER
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Kappa (Experience: ２〜３ years)
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2024/08/14
Forehand side, thick
Harder than I expected
It's easy to put spin on, and the spin actually shows up
When I tried to create an arc, it produced a solid arc
But personally I preferred Rakza 7, which is softerAll Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
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Rakza (Experience: ２〜３ years) A drive-specialized rubber
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2024/04/05
Switched from Rozena to Rakza X.
Here's a comparison.
Ball speed: Rakza X is a bit slower
Spin: you really put spin on the ball and send it out
gets a lot of spin
Control
harder to hit than Rozena
feels like you have to aim it yourself
the arc is high so it takes some getting used to
Hardness: feels harder than Rozena
Sound: on the backhand it makes a slightly higher-pitched sound
Drive
if you swing with power it's stable and produces a good shot
gets better reviews than Rozena
Push
not very stable
tends to come out more like a stop
Serve: neither good nor bad
Feel: a bit heavy when used on both sidesWhat I liked
Forehand topspin drive
Backhand topspin drive
Chiquita
Thoughts
With a Ma Lin Extra Special and two sheets of Rakza X it comes to around 190g, which is quite heavy, but I think it's good for anyone confident swinging a heavier racket.
Unless you hit with real impact, the ball won't lift properly, but if you hit firmly it's good.
The ball lifts so much that I became able to hit backhand drives, which I used to struggle with.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use MA LIN EXTRA SPECIAL
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Yasaka believer (Experience: ４〜５ years) Spin is insane
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2024/02/06
I used to use Tenergy and Dignics, but I felt those kinds of rubbers were just too bouncy for me... so I switched to Rakza X.
Well, obviously it falls short of Dignics in raw performance, but for someone at my level — about the level of a regional (Hokkaido-wide) tournament competitor — it's easy to control and, more than anything, easy to generate power with! I don't hit by smashing the ball hard into the rubber; instead I keep my backswing compact and try to hold the ball with the sheet and sponge. I'd say I'm more focused on spin than speed. I really feel like Rakza X grips the ball and spins well! Tenergy can produce spin and speed on par with or even beyond Rakza X, but Tenergy's lifespan is only so-so, so the value for money is way too poor — in that respect I think this is better than Tenergy. The hardness feels somewhere between Tenergy and Dignics, with a fairly firm sheet. I think it suits players who like to counter-spin or attack after building up spin, rather than players who win with raw speed. In the short game it stops the ball reliably — if it's not stopping for you, that's on your technique.
One thing to note is that I found serves difficult — it seems like a rubber where it's hard to snap spin onto the ball instantly. Topspin drives are where Rakza X's strength really shows.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Soft
Racket recommended use Innerforce Layer ZLC
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