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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | U30 |
| Experience | More than ２０ years |
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- RAKZA X table tennis rubber from Yasaka is the latest addition to the popular and highly successf...
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2020/07/29
Max thickness, 50g. It's on the heavy side.
- The ball sinks into the sponge really well, so it's totally usable on the backhand too! Because of that good grip, ball retention is great too!
- The feel is quite different from the Raizer Pro 50 - it's a light, snappy rubber suited to quick consecutive hits!
- Easier to put spin on than the Raizer Pro, and it puts plenty of spin too.
- It has a Tenergy-ish feel! If we're just talking spin, it leans more toward the 05.
- The feel of the shot is more like Tenergy 80. Receive topspin drives tended to fly a bit too far, and overshoot misses stood out to me.
- Knuckle-type flicks are very easy to pull off!
- Honestly, it's quite similar to the R48.
Two things bothered me.
- It was hard to chop pushes and stops low, and they tended to float up.
- Loop drives might be a bit lower quality - the ball feels light. Since the ball tends to rise, it seems better to swing more forward.
Right after gluing it on, it produces a really lively ball, and the person I was hitting with said they felt quite pressured too.
The way it puts spin on the ball is clean, and it doesn't have the roughness of the R48, which made it easier to handle.
Hope this helps as a reference.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
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2020/08/22
2.1mm at 47g.
- It's a tacky rubber, but speed-oriented techniques are surprisingly easy to do!
- Pushes and stops stay low!
- On the forehand, I could just barely pull off heavy loops and serves, and power drives were also easy to hit.
- Counter-driving is quite easy to do.
It suited my forehand better than my backhand.
Here are my complaints.
- Despite being a tacky rubber, the spin is weak.
- Pushes and stops stay low, but I felt the spin on them was lacking too.
- On the backhand the ball leaves the rubber quickly, so even when I thought a drive would land, it often went long.
Personally it's the type of rubber I like — tacky, sticky-feeling, and easy to put spin on — but within the Q series it's the most speed-oriented rubber, and I felt the spin was a bit weak.
I think it would suit a wood blade better, where it would grip more spin.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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2020/06/30
MAX+ comes in at 50g! I've got Dig 05 on the other side.
The way the ball sinks in is different, but this rubber felt really close to Tenergy 05 Hard!
- The sheet is strong and the pip shape gives a real sense of holding the ball, which makes it easy to hit topspin loops over your opponent's spin.
- If you let the ball sink all the way into the sponge you get distance and speed, but if you hit off just the sheet you can pull off dead-stop stops and pushes — it manages both at once, which feels like a contradiction!
- I used to mainly play with Tenergy 05 Hard, but I switched to this rubber!
It's a hard, spin-oriented tension rubber that also makes speed easy to generate, and it's a fantastic rubber that still comes in at 50g.
One thing that bothered me: because the sheet is so strong, if you try to add spin after letting the ball sink in, the spin doesn't seem to grip as well there, so you do need to properly generate spin and arc with your body.
Rather than sinking the ball in and adding spin, if you use it with the mindset of spinning off just the sheet, you can get a lot of spin and hit a heavy ball.
I think a lot of people would like this rubber, but it's not very well known, and I think people are scared to take the plunge and try it.
But there won't be many matches in 2020 anyway, so maybe this is a good chance to give it a shot!? Hope this helps.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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2020/09/19
Max thickness weighs 49g.
- It's harder than the GT-H47, yet speed drives are easy to hit!
- Stops and pushes hold well even though speed drives are easy to hit!
- Counter-driving over the top at the peak of the bounce is easy!
The overall feel was excellent.
Even hitting it as hard as I could, there was no sense at all of the rubber fighting back against the blade.
So even when hitting drives with a flatter, punchier stroke, it still grips the ball and stays stable.
Compared to the GT-H47, the amount of spin and speed were both better.
Since it's hard, I sometimes felt a lack of impact on the backhand, but it wasn't unusable.
The overall feel was excellent.
I really understand now why people compare it to Tenergy.
Since it's a German-made rubber, I think it's clearly less affected by the opponent's spin than Tenergy is when counter-driving and so on. That was a big plus for me.
The pip density feels close to an 80, and it's a rubber that balances spin and speed well.
Pip shapes close to the Tenergy 05 seem rare among German-made rubbers.
Hope this helps.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Zhang Jike ZLC
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2020/08/06
Max thickness, 52g.
Good points
- The ball is heavy! Compared even to the JP01 Turbo or Blue Storm Z1 Turbo, you can clearly get heavier drives and serves with more spin.
- The sponge is hard, so stops and pushes sit dead. Spin is decent.
- Counter-driving is fairly easy. I did feel a bit of that German-rubber-style insensitivity to the opponent's spin.
- Maybe it's partly the summer heat, but the feel on contact didn't feel muffled or "muddy." If anything, it's easy to handle for a heavy spin-oriented rubber! The concept is different, but I felt the contact feel and ball-holding were better than the Omega 7 Tour.Downsides that probably apply to the whole "blue" rubber lineup
- The potential is easy to bring out, but I feel the ceiling is lower than other high-end rubbers. For example, the Omega 7 Tour has a higher ceiling when you hit it well, and I feel like you can get spin and speed at the same time with it.
- It suits a style of table tennis where you wear the opponent down through rallies and repeated hits. There's a chance to punch through, but it's not a rubber that wins through raw power.
- There's word that the lifespan is short.Out of the blue-series rubbers, this was my favorite. Considering the value for money and price, I'd choose this one over the Rozena.
Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
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