Sriver EL

Everyone's rating [Hardness] Little soft
[Performance] Control and Speed to have excellent
Sriver EL

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Averages reviews points

  • Rating: 6.87 / 10
  • 67 reviews
    • Speed:5.7
    • Spin:5.39
    • Control:8.31

    Sriver EL combines Sriver's top sheet with a medium-soft elastic sponge.
    This softer sponge allows you to generate more spin without using a power swing.

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    Specifications

    Price
    3,200 Yen(Include tax 3,520 Yen)
    Producer
    Butterfly
    Product code
    05380
    Speed
    100
    Spin
    80
    Control
    83
    Hardness
    35
    Customer Reviews SummaryAI Summary
    Highly rated as a beginner-friendly rubber with excellent control and stability. However, many reviews recommend switching to other rubbers after skill improvement due to insufficient speed and spin.
    ■ Frequently Mentioned Points
    • Excellent control and stability for beginners
    • Lacks speed and spin compared to advanced rubbers
    • No distinctive characteristics, easy to handle
    • Relatively short lifespan reported
    • Suitable for basic skill development before upgrading
    ■ Representative Voices
    ▲ PositiveSufficient performance for beginners, encouraging practice to generate power through body movement. Easy control, good balance, and ideal for progression from beginner to intermediate level.
    ▽ CriticalPoor speed output, short durability, and insufficient bounce for modern table tennis. Weaker spin compared to tension rubbers, and overpriced relative to other beginner rubbers.

    Reviews by user

    • visitor

      t-my (Experience: 2〜3 years)

      Reviews by user

      This rubber is recommended for beginners. It's well suited to learning all the basic techniques. Receives and blocks are easy and go in reliably. Once you've picked up a certain level of skill, I think it's good to try Fly Att or Factive. It's also recommended for anyone who wants a rubber that goes in consistently.

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      2018/03/16
      All
      5/10
      Speed
      2
      Spin
      2
      Control
      8
      Hardness Soft
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    • WAON

      WAON Control

      Reviews by user

      Speed and spin aren't especially great, but it's stable and easy to control.

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      2018/02/11
      All
      7/10
      Speed
      5
      Spin
      6
      Control
      8
      Hardness Little soft
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    • Hydrogen ion

      Hydrogen ion (Experience: 6〜10 years) Until processing was banned, I used this with glue or booster all through my school days

      Reviews by user

      It's nostalgic remembering how putting on booster made the max-thickness version go over 4mm. That's how strong the booster effect is.
      Just like the Mark V, it sells on name alone these days. It used to be 2940 yen, so who's even buying it now...
      For a beginner, something like Vega Europe, or even Hamond, would still be a better choice.
      As many people say it "doesn't grip the ball" - if your spin technique isn't developed yet, you won't get much spin out of this rubber without glue or booster, so it can work as a kind of benchmark for that.
      If you use a full-body swing rather than a small, compact drive, you can bring out the best of the Sriver. Hit it well and you'll get the deep, sinking drive the Sriver is known for.
      But away from the table, if you don't have much power the bounce isn't enough, so it's probably not suited to players who move around the whole court.
      For a weak first-year junior high kid, I think the sponge on this rubber is still plenty hard.

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      2017/06/23
      All
      6/10
      Speed
      5
      Spin
      5
      Control
      5
      Hardness Little soft
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    • Sho-go

      Sho-go (Experience: 11〜20 years) A great first rubber for starting table tennis

      Reviews by user

      Many people start table tennis in junior high, and I think this is a good rubber even for those beginners.
      Speaking of the Sriver series, back in the glue era it was a powerful rubber, but now that spin-oriented tension rubbers are the mainstream, it counts as an easy-to-handle rubber with modest bounce.
      That said, the plain Sriver is quite hard, so if a beginner is going to use it, I think the EL version is the safer choice.
      If you pair it with a soft wood blade, using Sriver EL on both sides should be fine too.
      Also, since it's cheaper than spin-oriented tension rubbers, I think it's a good rubber for when you're just starting out and money is tight.

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      2017/05/21
      All
      7/10
      Speed
      5
      Spin
      5
      Control
      8
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use KORBEL

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    • Sergei

      Sergei Frankly, not for beginners.

      Reviews by user

      Back in the day, beginners used to use this a lot (or were made to use it), but honestly, it's not that easy to use nowadays, right? (lol)
      If anything, it's more of a quirky rubber that lets you produce balls that are hard for opponents to handle, thanks to the low trajectory and heavy ball quality.

      And yet it lets you return consistently over the table, so I think it's perfect for a technician type who wants to induce opponent errors.
      Also, backhand chops are actually really easy to do with it! The bite is good, and you can produce knuckle balls too.
      Reflex blocks are super slow with it, but surprisingly that ends up scoring points sometimes lol

      It grips the ball well and you can even lift backspin balls, but the spin itself isn't great... lol
      For some reason it just goes in so well. So you can swing through with confidence.

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      2017/03/07
      All
      5/10
      Speed
      4
      Spin
      5
      Control
      8
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use Joo Saehyuk

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    • visitor

      De-beginner (Experience: 4〜5 years) For beginners

      Reviews by user

      For anyone who just started table tennis and wants to build fundamental skills,
      I'd recommend this rubber.

      It's not especially outstanding in speed or spin,
      but since it's a soft rubber, its control performance is
      high.

      I think it's good to start with this rubber and then
      step up from there.

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      2017/02/27
      All
      7/10
      Speed
      5
      Spin
      6
      Control
      10
      Hardness Soft

      Racket recommended use Maze Performance

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    • I love Table Tennis

      I love Table Tennis (Experience: 4〜5 years) If you're a beginner, this is it!

      Reviews by user

      It's easy to control. I think it works well on both forehand and backhand.

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      2017/01/22
      All
      6/10
      Speed
      6
      Spin
      5
      Control
      5
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use Maze Performance

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