impartial XS
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[Hardness] Little soft [Performance] Speed and Spin to have excellent |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed:8.7
- Spin:8.64
- Control:8.08
- To drive powerful spin of excited table rubber
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Players using the rubber table but smash powerful drives is recommended. Out of the playing rotation sharp Tutsi and seat tube shape due to high technology and high elasticity and easy spin on a power drive. Combination of soft sponge, coaxes out a high-performance control.
- Short pimples
Players use impartial XS
- Exceptional spin performance atypical for pimple-out rubbers
- Versatile performance spanning beginner to advanced players
- High-level performance across drives, blocks, and pushes
- Minimal quirks that broaden tactical variety
- Well-suited for players transitioning from inverted rubbers
Reviews by user
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Aieichi (Experience: ２〜３ years) This isn't short pips anymore!!!
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2016/11/23
It grips the ball almost as much as inverted rubber and generates good speed too, so you can hit powerful topspin drives! I'd recommend it to players who want to make full use of powerful drives. Put another way, I'd recommend it to anyone on the fence about switching from inverted rubber to short pips. If you're hesitating about switching from inverted to short pips, definitely give this a try!
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use Zhang Jike ALC
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Pape (Experience: ６〜１０ years) A short-pips rubber with great balance overall
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2026/07/09
I use this for one-sided penhold pips.
Overall, my impression is that every aspect performs at a high level in good balance.
It's not going to give you "outrageous speed," "confusing knuckle balls," or "ferocious spin," but it's easy to handle from beginner-intermediate up through advanced players.
It has enough speed to cramp your opponent, and spin performance that makes it easy to vary how much spin you put on the ball.
If you focus on it, you can cut a sharp push, produce knuckle balls, and either stop or extend the ball on blocks...
If you put in the effort, it even has enough spec to let you hold your own in topspin rallies against inverted rubber.It's true the spin performance is high, and conversely you can't deny it also picks up more of the opponent's spin, but
on the other hand you can still bring out that pips character (knuckle balls, flat trajectory) depending on your technique, so
I think there's room to widen your tactics through varying spin strength and arc height.The base spec is high and the performance is well-rounded with no real quirks, so both beginner-level pips players and people converting over from inverted can
learn pips-style play and keep using it as they step up.
For someone already used to pips, I think it makes a dependable partner for making full use of your tactical toolkit.
Personally, despite how well-rounded it is, I feel like this is a rubber that actually reveals more character the more you use it.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Racket recommended use AQUA BLADE RI
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Viscarian (Experience: Less than a year) Absolutely insane
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2025/08/12
It seriously spins the ball way more than you'd expect from pips.
Even someone like me who's only ever used inverted rubber can handle this.
If even a slightly high ball comes your way you can smash it, and you can drive too - it's a do-it-all rubber.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use VISCARIA
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Late bloomer player (Experience: ４〜５ years) Easy to use (if set up correctly)
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2025/04/12
If you want to get the real performance out of this rubber, I'd recommend putting it on the forehand of an all-wood blade.
So far I've used it on:
Nittaku Sanalion R, Butterfly Hadraw Chinese-penhold, and STIGA Cybershape Carbon (Chinese-penhold).
Since it's naturally fast already, putting it on a carbon blade makes it fly off so quickly there's no room left to put spin on it.
Putting on spin or producing knuckle balls comes with practice, once you develop a solid feel for it yourself.
Dropping it just over the net is also easy once you know how.
When you want to really commit to spin on a drive, you have to transfer energy more instantly than with inverted rubber, so that might be tough to do on the backhand.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
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Butterfly Fan (Experience: More than ２０ years) My first short pips rubber in a while
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2025/02/02
I used to use Flare Storm! When the ball changed, I switched to inverted rubber, but since my style is meeting the ball, I tried a bunch of pips rubbers on the forehand of my Chinese-style penhold blade and nothing quite fit. I started with XB max thickness, which gave me knuckle balls but felt unstable somehow, so I switched blades from carbon to a 5-ply wood one, but that felt a little short on speed so I moved to a 7-ply. Around that time I also switched to XS max thickness, and spin and flat-hitting technique both stabilized, so I stuck with it! After 3 months I tried MAX, but with my level, receives weren't stable at all, so I'm currently using "thick." I like how the ball grips well and the flat-hit feel comes through in my hand. This is a type of pips rubber with less instability, so I'd recommend it to anyone worried about their receive. With today's plastic balls, which don't take spin as easily and don't travel as far, this might sound backwards, but when I thought about mixing in a technique of drawing the opponent up to the table first and then hitting deep next, I think this is a rubber that can pull that off!
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Racket recommended use CLIPPER CR WRB
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TO Otherworldly balance, yet still has character...
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2025/01/09
I use this for penhold pips. It grips for spin, you can also just flat-hit it, blocks are stable... it does everything at a high level, which is nice, but for someone who's used pips for a long time, it's almost too quirk-free (which also makes it easy for the opponent to read). The one thing that bugs me is that angled hits can be tricky since the rubber grips the ball a bit too much. Knuckle-style blocks are hard to produce, so pushing the ball out long is more of a weapon here.
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
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Gratulations (Experience: ６〜１０ years) Hard to find something it can't do
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2024/12/13
It grips and spins the ball well, and the balance between the topsheet and sponge hardness is good too
it's excellent for controlling the strength of speed and spin.
Blocks stop the ball to a decent degree as well, so it's on the easier side for controlling depth.
For better or worse, it produces more arc than you'd expect from short pips, so shots land consistently, but you do need to work at it if you want to confuse your opponent with your trajectory.
The same goes for producing knuckle balls - bringing out that classic pips character
takes some help from your technique or blade choice.
On the flip side, if you have ways to make up for that, you can absolutely still play a proper pips-style game, and
of course techniques that call for spin are easy to pull off, so I think it broadens both your range of tactics and how high you can take your game.
I've previously used other horizontal-pip rubbers like Spin Pips, Booster SA, and VO102, and
this one still seems fairly easy to bring out knuckle balls and that flat, straight-line pips trajectory.
It's not as fast as VO102, but that actually makes blocks, the short game, and even attacking shots feel like they land more reliably.It doesn't have any one standout trait, but it's a short pips rubber I'd call a high-level, well-balanced all-rounder.
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Soft
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