Tackiness Chop

Everyone's rating [Hardness] Pretty soft
[Performance] Control and Spin to have excellent
Tackiness Chop

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Averages reviews points

  • Rating: 7.51 / 10
  • 41 reviews
    • Speed:3.83
    • Spin:7.59
    • Control:8.51

    Recommended for the player who aims to create heavy under spin against a variety of shots.
    Quite favorable results occur when using a combination racket with Anti-Spin or Long Pips rubber on one side.

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    Specifications

    Price
    2,800 Yen(Include tax 3,080 Yen)
    Producer
    Butterfly
    Product code
    05450
    Speed
    6.5
    Spin
    10.0
    Hardness
    32

    Players use Tackiness Chop

    Customer Reviews SummaryAI Summary
    Highly rated as a stability-focused rubber for beginners in cutting, but opinions diverge on its limited attacking performance and low bounce unsuitable for drive-oriented players. The balance of affordable price and spin control is attractive, but intermediate and advanced players may find it underwhelming.
    ■ Frequently Mentioned Points
    • Excellent control and stability due to low bounce
    • Defensive techniques like cuts and pushes are easy to learn
    • Excellent spin generation with sharp serves
    • Soft adhesive makes it beginner-friendly
    • Good quality at an affordable price
    ■ Representative Voices
    ▲ PositivePerfect for cut beginners. It helped me develop proper cutting form with excellent stability, making net errors easy to adjust. Counters work smoothly and I'm very satisfied.
    ▽ CriticalSeverely lacks bounce and power in driving attacks, unsuitable for modern cutting styles incorporating offensive play. Durability is relatively short.

    Reviews by user

    • visitor

      Table tennis rubber tester hunting researcher (Experience: More than 20 years) If you play matches with this rubber, I recommend extra-thin.

      Reviews by user

      Among the classic old-school rubbers of table tennis, this is a rubber whose whole game is spin, using spin to toy with the opponent. Tackiness Chop doesn't get affected by the opponent's spin at all, and it can send back a sidespin that curves like a huge snake, confusing the opponent with spin they weren't expecting.

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      2018/04/01
      All
      10/10
      Speed
      1
      Spin
      10
      Control
      10
      Hardness Soft

      Racket recommended use Hadraw Shield

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    • I love adhesion

      I love adhesion (Experience: 2〜3 years)

      Reviews by user

      It's a slightly tacky rubber that people who've just started chopping tend to use.
      It doesn't bounce much.
      It's good for sinking the ball in and chopping.
      The lifespan is on the short side.
      For drives, it doesn't bounce much, but it was easy to use.
      Hope this helps!

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      2018/03/10
      All
      2/10
      Speed
      1
      Spin
      3
      Control
      3
      Hardness Soft
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    • visitor

      Jun (Experience: 6〜10 years) First off, it doesn't bounce much

      Reviews by user

      With this rubber, I'd say the image isn't so much putting spin on with the sheet as sinking the ball in and wrapping it while you apply spin.
      Because it doesn't bounce much, you can really sink the ball into the sponge and chop effectively.
      However, you shouldn't expect too much from topspin drives with it. The ball goes in fine and it's actually reasonably fast, but the shot ends up too straightforward, and I have to question how nasty or deceptive it really is. Even when you try a counter-drive, the rubber absorbs the power of the opponent's drive, so it doesn't stay stable.
      As for serves, needless to say, short serves like backspin serves are extremely stable and let you put crisp spin on the ball.
      However, once you go for a long serve, the lack of bounce means you end up feeding a lot of easy balls. Honestly, it's not suited to the modern chopping style that incorporates attacking play.
      It really is a rubber for beginner choppers, or, since the spin itself is easy to generate and it's stable, maybe also usable by beginners who play a drive-oriented game. As a side note, this was actually the first rubber I ever used, and I think it's what taught me basic ball touch and control.

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      2018/03/05
      All
      3/10
      Speed
      1
      Spin
      3
      Control
      9
      Hardness Soft

      Racket recommended use Def play Senzo

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    • visitor

      Oops (Experience: 2〜3 years) Perfect for close-to-the-table drive backhand

      Reviews by user

      I'm a drive-style player.
      I have it on my backhand side.
      The amount of spin on pushes, serves, and so on is amazing,
      and my opponent occasionally nets the ball outright.
      Besides that, the amount of spin on topspin drives
      and the high stability of the chiquita mean that even someone like me who doesn't chop can get plenty of use out of it.
      The thing that surprised me most after putting this rubber on
      was the power of backhand drives from away from the table.
      Since the sponge is soft, if you sink the ball in
      and brush it, you get a shot with a high arcing trajectory.
      First gear is slow, but second gear is great, and the ball has incredible extension.
      It's also good in close-to-the-table rallies and for some reason grips easily off the block, so the ball comes out with a bit of a knuckle (no-spin) effect.
      On blocks, being a chopping-oriented rubber really shows
      it stops the ball dead.
      If you feel your backhand spin isn't enough, I'd recommend this.

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      2017/11/23
      All
      8/10
      Speed
      3
      Spin
      8
      Control
      10
      Hardness Soft
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    • visitor

      Ikuya Tokuya (Experience: Less than a year) The best rubber for those starting to chop

      Reviews by user

      This rubber has amazing bite on chops, pushes, and serves — it puts so much backspin on the ball that just chopping is enough to make most people net it. I've only been playing table tennis for four months, but I've been winning up to about the 5th round in tournaments. It's like an oni with an iron club, except it's a beginner with an iron club... that's the kind of rubber this is.

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      2017/11/11
      All
      10/10
      Speed
      5
      Spin
      9
      Control
      9
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use KOJI MATSUSHITA

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    • Tats

      Tats (Experience: 2〜3 years) Has good grip

      Reviews by user

      I use it thin on the backhand side, playing an inverted-inverted chopper style.
      I think the advantage of inverted rubber on both sides is how easily you can switch into attacking, but there's not much speed so it's hard to punch through with a hard shot. It doesn't bounce much, which makes things like chiquita easy, so when attacking you basically have to go for spin and placement instead. Chopping is easy and stable with it.

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      2017/10/20
      All
      7/10
      Speed
      4
      Spin
      8
      Control
      9
      Hardness Soft

      Racket recommended use KOJI MATSUSHITA DEFENSIVE

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    • Yet

      Yet (Experience: 6〜10 years) A rubber for beginner choppers

      Reviews by user

      This is a rubber I'd recommend for anyone starting out as a chopper. It gets a decent amount of spin, and since it doesn't bounce much and is highly stable, you can grind out long rallies in a match.

      ■Push and chop
      It's a really stable rubber, so I'd recommend it to anyone chopping or pushing for the first time.
      As a beginner, you can win matches just by grinding without making mistakes, but as your opponents get better, they stop making mistakes too, and once they realize you're not attacking, they'll keep feeding you easy balls to try to draw out an unforced error.
      So once stability alone stops being enough to win, I'd recommend gradually increasing the thickness, moving to a bouncier chopping rubber like Morist DF, and then eventually switching to an attacking rubber to raise the ratio of aggressive play.

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      2017/05/09
      All
      9/10
      Speed
      3
      Spin
      8
      Control
      10
      Hardness Soft

      Racket recommended use HADRAW SR

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