SHINING DRAGON Ⅱ

Everyone's rating [Hardness] Medium hardness
[Performance] Control and Spin to have excellent
SHINING DRAGON Ⅱ

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Averages reviews points

  • Rating: 8.45 / 10
  • 11 reviews
    • Speed:7.82
    • Spin:8.73
    • Control:8.82

    Reviews of SHINING DRAGON Ⅱ. Players who use Rubber evaluate various points such as hardness of the sponge, speed, control, spin, and feel at impact thoroughly.(Page 2)

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    Specifications

    Price
    5,000 Yen(Include tax 5,500 Yen)
    Producer
    Yasaka
    Product code
    B-54

    Players use SHINING DRAGON Ⅱ

    Customer Reviews SummaryAI Summary
    This adhesive rubber is highly valued for its ease of use on the backhand and excellent spin performance. Its soft sponge and superior control appeal to players from beginners to intermediates, though its tendency to lift the ball and difficulty on the forehand are notable drawbacks.
    ■ Frequently Mentioned Points
    • Ideal for backhand with excellent spin-focused play
    • Soft sponge enables easy handling for women and beginners
    • Stable drives with elasticity despite being adhesive rubber
    • Affordable price with excellent cost-performance
    • High-lifting characteristic reduces net errors
    ■ Representative Voices
    ▲ PositiveHigh arc stability with excellent matching between sponge softness and spin performance, making it sufficiently playable even for first-time adhesive rubber users. The affordable price makes it a cost-performance champion.
    ▽ CriticalThe ball lifts excessively, requiring controlled strokes in loop drives and top-spin rallies. The excessive softness causes significant loss on forehand drives, and it is completely unsuitable for counters or speed drives.

    Reviews by user

    • visitor

      Nori (Experience: 11〜20 years) Feels great to hit

      Reviews by user

      Test hit for about 10 minutes.
      I've bought Shoryu and Shoryu 2 before.

      My honest impression is that it's pretty much the same as a softer copy of Shoryu.
      Compared to Shoryu, the hitting sound is higher pitched, the ball feels a bit lighter, and it feels like control has improved.

      I think this would be just right as a stepping-stone rubber when transitioning from tension to tacky rubbers.
      Once it starts feeling insufficient, you can move on to Shoryu or Shoryu 2.

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      2024/08/16
      All
      6/10
      Speed
      6
      Spin
      6
      Control
      6
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use Zhang Jike ALC

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      Table tennis lover (Experience: 2〜3 years) Flies off the racket!!

      Reviews by user

      I used to use Q Quality before. This is my first tacky-type rubber, but even someone used to tension rubbers can use this just fine with a bit of effort to adjust their drive technique to the tacky style, as long as the basics are solid. Spin and speed are more than satisfactory.
      That said, it bounces really high (seriously, more than you'd expect), so you need to hold back a bit on loop drives and topspin rallies. I still haven't gotten used to that, so I'm struggling with it (/‐\)
      Also, definitely don't put this on your backhand. At least not with a middle schooler's level of impact, it's just not manageable

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      2024/08/01
      All
      7/10
      Speed
      9
      Spin
      8
      Control
      8
      Hardness Little hard

      Racket recommended use Swat 5

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    • visitor

      Ashita (Experience: 6〜10 years) Not much different from the original Kiryu

      Reviews by user

      I'm a bit of a Yasaka believer, so I used this on the forehand side of my Arnide, an outer ALC-type blade
      The listed hardness was 45-50, but it feels really soft to me
      Because of that, topspin drives with moderate power really fly
      Drives that emphasize spin with more of a grazing stroke rather than hitting hard work really well
      Since it's technically tacky, loops do have decent spin, but the spin ceiling is lower than I expected
      It's completely unsuited for counters or speed drives
      If you don't swing all the way through on a counter it drops short, and even with a full swing there seems to be some loss so it doesn't have that much power
      For pushes, the downsides of soft tension rubber outweigh the benefits of tacky rubber - it's sensitive to spin but tends to float, though skill can compensate to some degree
      Using it on the backhand doesn't really require this softness combined with tackiness, but backhand drives really flew and were fun
      When you back away from the table, shots get shallow and it gets tough
      Even when you're not putting in full effort you can still hit decent quality balls, which is a nice touch, but its suitability for hard hitting is low - it's a completely different type of rubber from Shoryu

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      2024/06/15
      All
      7/10
      Speed
      7
      Spin
      7
      Control
      9
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use ALNADE

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      Monotori (Experience: 2〜3 years) Easy to handle

      Reviews by user

      The arc is very stable, and even though this is my first tacky rubber, it's easy to handle.
      It's cheap too, so it's the best value-for-money rubber - the sponge and the spin match up really well.
      The sponge is soft too, it's a great rubber.

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      2024/05/26
      All
      10/10
      Speed
      9
      Spin
      10
      Control
      10
      Hardness Little soft

      Racket recommended use Swat

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