Feint AG [Discontinued]
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[Hardness] Little soft [Performance] Speed and Control to have excellent |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed:7.44
- Spin:5.89
- Control:6.89
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Feint AG features softer more flexible pips and Butterfly's famous High Tension technology.
The result of this combination is a rubber which can produce a wide variety of spin returns and also produce fast attacking strokes.
- Long pimples
- Unusually high speed and offensive power for pimple rubber
- Excellent bounce and easy handling due to tension system
- Versatile switching between knuckle balls and attacks
- Wide range of techniques like drive and chiquita possible
- Control difficulty until players adapt to the rubber
Reviews by user
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Yutchi @ cut Better for close-to-table play than chopping
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2016/05/19
I think this suits an all-round close-to-the-table style more than a chopper. The chop isn't especially sharp — it's more of a type that wins points through variation and attack. The attacking side is especially impressive. If you've used Feint Long II you'll know that rubber is also crazy easy to attack with, but this one goes beyond Long II! Once you get used to it, it goes in more reliably than inverted rubber!
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Racket recommended use Def play Senzo
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Anonymous (Experience: ２〜３ years) An unusual long pips
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2024/12/01
I use the medium thickness.
Pushes are affected by the opponent's spin but come out reasonably fast,
and on the backhand, if you swing like you would with short pips, it goes in easily.
Seems like it'd be fun once you really master it.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Soft
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Wakatokun (Experience: ２〜３ years) Long pips that are easy to attack with
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2024/10/18
I use the extra-thin sponge.
It's very soft, and the speed is fast for long pips.
Since it's a tension-type, it has bounce, but you get used to it quickly and it's easy to handle. The variation is about average, maybe because the sponge is thick, and I think of it as an unusual long-pips rubber that specializes in attacking.
Highly recommended for penhold long-pips players.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Soft
Racket recommended use TSUBUDAKA BLADE C
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Out of print (Experience: ４〜５ years) Easy to attack with
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2022/07/01
I used to use Vega LPO before, but this one is even easier to attack with, and the variation on the ball is pretty good too.
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Racket recommended use Latika Carbon
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Pig face butazura (Experience: ６〜１０ years)
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2021/08/28
It's a rubber with a kind of strange feel.
Performance-wise it's somewhere between short pips and inverted rubber.
It suits close-to-the-table all-round play more than chopping.
If you're a short-pips player who's good at pushing,
I think you'd find this easy to use.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
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Grain height person (Experience: １１〜２０ years)
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2020/09/04
My main requirement was being able to vary the pace with long and short balls, cut sharply, and produce knuckleballs, plus being able to attack with long pips on the backhand without having to turn around or flip the racket. That's how I found this rubber.
Other variation-type long pips didn't quite click for me — Curl P4 and Vertical 20 were pretty good too — but for ease of attacking, Feint AG felt the best to me. (I used the medium thickness.)
With this rubber you can generate your own spin, so you can even chiquita with it, and instead of just grinding it out with pushes and blocks, you can hit topspin drives back against your opponent's drives, which really widens what you can do with long pips.
Chop-blocking is easier with Curl or Vertical, but Feint AG can do it well enough too.
Pushing is so-so (lol). But even though it has that long-pips feel, you can put topspin on it like short pips, so I'd recommend it to anyone looking for more attacking power out of long pips.
Maybe because it's a pricey long-pips rubber, I'd never actually seen anyone use it in tournaments or practice, so I was honestly a bit worried, but it turned out to be a great rubber! It's not for everyone, but if you like it, you'll really like it.All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Racket recommended use Innerforce Layer ZLC
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OkuT (Experience: More than ２０ years) A hitting feel right between long pips and short pips!
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2017/10/07
I bought it yesterday and practiced with it for about two hours.
Push: if you try to put cut on it you get a decent amount of cut, and if you brush it softly it turns into a knuckleball, so I could switch between the two as needed. Being a tension rubber, I expected a gentle stop shot to be hard, but it was easier to control than I thought.Short/block: return it in a knuckle-like way and you get a knuckleball, swing lightly and you get a soft floating ball — I could produce whatever ball I wanted depending on how I handled it. Blocking a strong topspin drive just by touching it isn't quite enough — you need to consciously drop the racket a bit or hold back from pushing forward, or you'll get overpowered by the spin. That said, it was still easier to block with than short pips or inverted rubber.
Push/smash: for a high floating push, just sending it out lightly gets you a nice knuckleball that leaves the racket cleanly. You can also return a floating ball normally with a backhand swing and get a normal return. It doesn't let you miss a chance ball.
If you're someone who feels held back playing with regular long pips but doesn't want to give up the knuckleball effect, this is the best rubber for you. You won't get the kind of variation where the opponent can't read the spin just from you touching the ball, but for someone who likes to build the point and attack, I think it's very easy to use.
All Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
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