HYBRID K1J
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[Hardness] Little hard [Performance] Spin and Control to have excellent |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed:7.67
- Spin:9
- Control:8.48
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Reviews of HYBRID K1J. Players who use Rubber evaluate various points such as hardness of the sponge, speed, control, spin, and feel at impact thoroughly.
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Specifications
- Producer
- TIBHAR
- High arc, heavy ball, strong rotation compared to tension rubber
- Excellent performance in serve, tsuttsuki, and stop techniques
- High response to backspin, easy to lift
- Strong grip force from adhesive properties provides stability
- Hard sheet requires proper impact technique
Reviews by user
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Uhohaho30000 (Experience: ２〜３ years) Verified Purchase
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2025/02/03
This is the best rubber I've ever used.
It's on the slightly tacky side, but it's tackier than Xianglong.
If you put a TSP protective sheet on it, you can stick the ball to the racket, point it face-down,
and walk more than 10 laps around the table with it stuck there.
The feel is softer than Xianglong.
Loop drives are super easy to pull off! I feel like I can lift any ball!
And stops just die dead, and pushes get insane amounts of spin!
Of course serves get crazy spin too!
It spins so much that too much spin can actually work against you!
Open the racket angle for a drive and it gets speed and spin, digging deep into the table!
This rubber has an incredibly high arc.
Coming from tension you'll probably overshoot a lot at first, but you'll get used to it easily within a month.
The harder you swing, the faster it gets, but hit it lightly and it doesn't fly at all. But there are times when that's actually a good thing!
As for stroke style, a lightly opened racket angle within the tacky style suits it better than a tension-style stroke!
It's cheap, lasts a long time, and on top of that gives crazy spin with decent speed too — the ultimate rubber!All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use Tomokazu Harimoto Innerforce ALC
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happy (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Basically a tension rubber Verified Purchase
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2019/07/15
I bought this rubber in max thickness; my previous rubber was the Q5.
After using it, my impression was that it feels almost like a tension rubber.
For one-course drives and smashes, hitting it the same way as a tension rubber gets you tremendous spin, and it didn't feel tacky at all. But for pushes and counters, it does have that tacky feel and doesn't fly much - which actually makes counters land well, and makes it easy to hit deep, high-spin loop drives.
On top of that, serves and stops are easy to put spin on, and they stop short enough to score points just from that.
Also, maybe because the topsheet is soft, it felt softer than the listed hardness (around 50 degrees by feel).
Compared to the Xianglong, the arc is higher and it's easier to get spin on, but the Xianglong felt easier to generate speed with.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Hard
Racket recommended use DYNASTY CARBON XU XIN EDITION
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Table I've decided this is Golden Tango's successor
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2025/02/24
Test-hit this looking for a successor to Golden Tango
It feels like the sheet of Golden Tango PS made a bit harder, with the tackiness toned down slightly.
The original (unmarked) Golden Tango can generate more speed, but Hybrid K1J can make the ball heavier.
The arc is about the same as Golden Tango.I was looking for a successor to the original Golden Tango, and settled on Hybrid K1J.
Below are the other rubbers I test-hit while looking for a Golden Tango successor
Glazer 09C: Easy to hit, but the ball is light. Well balanced
Kiryu 2: Feels like Xianglong with a slightly higher arc and a slightly softer feel. Easy to get distance like Xianglong. Because the sheet is hard, loop drives still need a decent amount of impact
Rakza Z: The arc is too high, needs swing adjustmentAll Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use Innerforce Layer ALC
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ichi06666 (Experience: ４〜５ years) Great for 3rd-ball attacks off backspin
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2024/01/15
Compared to slightly tacky tension rubbers, the tackiness here is on the stronger side.
Rather than a tension-style stroke, opening the racket angle and hitting with a brushing motion seems to produce the higher-quality shots.
Whatever the pattern — short serve to the forehand, short serve to the backhand, or half-long — I can hit a strong 3rd ball without even thinking about it. It's easy to score off the opponent's blocking mistakes, or to follow up with consecutive drives or get into a rally.
When I was using a spin-oriented tension rubber, it was more of an all-or-nothing gamble aiming for an outright ace, and if the opponent's return was good I had no answer, so I wasn't really able to make use of developing play off backspin serves.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use LIBERTA GLORIOUS
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SHOKICHI (Experience: ６〜１０ years) Quite mild when switching from tension rubber
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2023/01/01
This was a pretty mild, easy-to-use rubber for switching from tension to tacky. Slightly tacky rubbers have that good hard-but-still-fast quality, so if you like that type you'll like this, and personally I liked it more than the popular tacky tension rubbers.
I was worried serves and chops would get harder to do, but chops actually became easier to hit cleanly and crisply than before, and serves were easy to put spin on too! That said, you do need to focus more on brushing the ball — hit it too flat and it pops off with a "smack" (this might be the tension part showing through).
As for topspin drives, I personally found both drives and counters against backspin really hard to do! If you ask whether it can lift backspin, the tackiness is so strong that it actually loses the spin battle instead. Against topspin, the grip on the ball is almost too good — if you brush up from below it goes long, but if you just flick it it flies straight and either doesn't land on the table or goes into the net. If you focus on brushing, you run into issues with the arc and the spin like this, but just slapping the ball is pointless too, so it's good to keep a strong sense of contact while learning to add spin!
For people switching from tension to tacky, I'd like you to be properly aware of the tacky rubber's characteristics and give backspin drives a try!All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use LIBERTA WILLOW
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Shogun (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Quite a high arc
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2021/12/21
First off, it's slightly tacky, but once the ball is on it, the bounce is the same as a tension rubber, with really high grip.
When I actually rallied with it, I kept overshooting one shot after another. The arc is really high!
It rises about 10cm higher than a normal spin-tension rubber, which makes it hard to hit. It's a rubber that takes some getting used to.
That said, lifting backspin balls is easier since the ball naturally rises more. It goes in with a fairly loose margin for error.
Flat hitting works too, but it's hard to make it a real weapon. This is a rubber you win with through spin.
It's on the heavy side but high-performance, so if you use it, you'll need to practice and get used to it. It doesn't pair well with wooden blades that already have a lot of arc. I think it pairs well with special-material blades, wood that doesn't produce much arc, or blades with a flatter trajectory. The Korbel has a fair amount of arc, so the pairing was bad for me.
I'd encourage everyone to give it a try.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use KORBEL
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Homoko (Experience: ４〜５ years) A rubber that feels human(◩_◩)
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2020/12/21
I got to try this because a teammate from my club team was using it.
Personally, I found it very easy to use.
According to the person who owns it, the level of tackiness actually changes day to day. On a good day it's about medium-tacky, and on a bad day it barely sticks at all. It felt kind of like a person, lol.
This rubber felt like a spin-oriented tension rubber with extra grip and ball-holding ability.
In terms of feel, it's more like around 48 degrees - it doesn't really feel like 52.5 degrees, so the topsheet must be soft.
It's nice that you can hit well without even having to learn tacky-rubber technique - doesn't seem like a rubber that splits opinion much.
If you're putting it on, I think it suits a blade with special materials (an inner-ply one would be best), probably.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
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