Hydrogen ion's profile
| Gender | Male |
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| Age | U20 |
| Experience | ６〜１０ years |
User review
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2017/06/23
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.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
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2017/06/19
I bought this on a flea-market app because I wanted to try penhold with a backhand rubber attached.
Actual weight is 63g, lighter than some cheap shakehand blades!
It has 5 plies of wood plus 2 carbon plies built in right at the core as an inner layer, so it's not as stiff as other carbon blades, and it doesn't have as much bounce as you'd expect from carbon, but I think that's a good balance.
It's more of an attacking reverse-penhold blade than a pips-out penhold one.
Since it's an attacking blade with a backhand rubber, I can handle most things with my forehand and short game, so it's fun being able to use combinations that wouldn't work with a normal attacking style using something like a strong tacky rubber. I don't compete in tournaments anymore and I mainly use shakehand, so this is really just a toy for me, but I still think it's a good blade.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommend rubber(Front) Supinpippusu Red
Recommend rubber(Back) NEO HURRICANE 3
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2017/07/07
I used this a lot on my forehand before I started using speed glue.
The sponge is hard, so it left me with the impression of being difficult for the price. If you swing at it half-heartedly you'll just miss, so I don't think it's suited to beginners. If a beginner wants to use it, I'd say wait until you can rally 100 balls in a row consistently first. It's hard, so you need strength.
When you swing through it properly, the ball's carry is even better than the EL, and it really showed its power especially on loop drives and power drives.
Unless you applied the glue thoroughly, coat after coat, it didn't have as much effect as with the EL or FX, but multi-coating Sriver was kind of a mark of an advanced player, so in a way it was a rubber that let you gauge your opponent's skill level lol. Though people who actually did that were usually already well known anyway.
That's the kind of rubber it is.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
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2017/06/19
If you're an attacking chopper, I think you'd go for a tension rubber, a high-bounce rubber, or something like NEO3, and if you're a pure defensive chopper, you'd go for something like the Type I - so honestly, there's no real reason to pick this one for chopping if you're playing in tournaments.
For attacking too, unless you're a physical monster, hitting drives from the back, chopping, and moving your feet with this normally will drain a ton of stamina every time you drive, because the sponge is just too hard.
I'm not playing tournaments so I've gone ahead and applied booster to it, and since the sponge takes booster well, it transforms into a rubber I want to praise to no end - just the right hardness, good control, enough extra attacking power to trade shots, and spin sharp enough to chop cleanly too.
Compared to Booster Taki-D, the other one has finer touch feel, but other than that, I thought this one was better.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket KOJI MATSUSHITA OFFENSIVE
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2017/06/26
Used on the forehand of a discontinued Butterfly ALC.
Since it's billed as German-made and hard, I figured it would be pretty stiff, but it wasn't really like that.
The spin on a thin, sharp-brushed loop drive was quite good, but the amount of spin otherwise felt about average.
When hitting from further back I wanted a bit more grip, so I'd say it's good up to mid-distance, not further back than that.
Pushing and blocking were fine, but I found the stop a bit tricky. The touch on the ball feels very lifeless.
It's hard to do subtle little tricks with it, but I do think it's an honest, easy-to-hit rubber.
Setting the forehand aside, it might be just right for someone whose backhand isn't very skillful.It's not a bad rubber, but it's not one I'd buy at the full retail price of 5,000 yen these days either.
It bounces too much for beginners, so maybe it suits someone who has the basics down and plays close to the table with a fast swing, wanting speed. Even so, you can get a popular German rubber for the same price range.Honestly, I didn't need the bonus protective sheet made for tacky rubbers that came with it. Just give me a normal one.
Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
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