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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | U30 |
| Experience | More than 20 years |
User review
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2018/08/21
As a VO101 user, I tried this one right away. I used 1.8mm on the forehand side of a 7-ply penhold blade.
First off, unlike the 101 or 102 where something stands out but something else is lacking, everything here is at a high level and the control range is wide.
【Speed】Compared to the 101, thanks to the finer air bubbles in the sponge (higher hardness), there's no mushy give, and the initial speed felt higher. Angled shots felt more stable ◎
【Spin】Even choppy, broken pushes come up easily. Unlike the 102 where everything gets spin regardless, you can control the spin amount by how much you brush it, which is also a plus ◎.
Serves bite well too.【Push】This is the performance I liked the most. Since I consider it my first attacking shot, I put a lot of weight on this, and it lets you get deep, sharp, well-cut pushes in easily ◎◎.
【Knuckle】When I hit forehand shots, my opponent kept hitting the net. On the other hand, when I closed the racket face slightly on impact, the ball didn't slip and landed on the table with topspin instead, causing the opponent to go long. Blocks are the same way.
If you're the type who just gently touches the ball on receives or attacks, you'll find it hard to control since the rubber's elasticity will send the ball flying on its own ×.
I'd recommend this for players who have mastered impact-based technique.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Recomend racket REVOFUSION MF J
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2018/08/15
*Note: if you're overshooting a lot, swing all the way through to head height and it'll land on the table. If you stop the swing halfway, it flies off.
It doesn't suit a blade that's meant for holding and flinging the ball with flex.
I tried it on a relatively hard blade and it was great.[Speed]
Even hard hits drop at the end (not quite an arc, but close), so there's a sense of stability.[Spin] If you have the basics of short pips topspin down, the ball won't slip off, and you can make your opponent overshoot their blocks. Mixing this with knuckleball drives lets you keep the opponent off balance.
[Serve]
A long knuckleball serve deep to the backhand is a dangerous weapon. It wobbles and drops, and at district tournament level I've never seen it returned cleanly.[Block, Counter]
It feels like you can send the opponent's speed straight back at them. If you take the pace off, you can even produce short blocks that feel like underspin.[Receive]
If you relax and just meet the ball with the racket face, it becomes nicely insensitive to spin, and stopping the ball is easy too.
Pressing into it half-heartedly doesn't work.This isn't a rubber for someone who just switched to forehand short pips or hasn't mastered the fundamentals of short pips play yet.
Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Soft
Recomend racket REVOFUSION MF J
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2018/08/20
I've played penhold with short pips exclusively for about 20 years, and this is my first 7-ply blade.
I also have experience with special-material blades and single-ply wood, so I'll review this in comparison to those.[Characteristics] For a reverse-style penhold blade, it's very light. It says 80g on the spec sheet, but I picked one that came in around 75g. The grip is easy to hold steady too, and it suits a variety of techniques like the short game and chiquita.
[Speed] It doesn't have the kind of rebound you get from special materials, nor the grab-and-launch speed of single-ply wood. But the control is good, so modern high-bounce rubbers cover for that just fine.
Short pushes tend to lose even more pace, so I'd recommend using the backhand side for those. That said, blocking knuckle serves is very easy with it.[Spin] Because it doesn't fly too much, drives and serves are very easy to spin. You can mix heavy and no-spin serves off the same motion and really confuse your opponent.
It's an all-around racket, so I think the advantage is that beginners can build fundamentals with a low-bounce rubber, and once their skill improves, they can move straight to a tension rubber without needing to switch blades. So far, it pairs great with any rubber.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little hard
Recommend rubber(Front) VO>101
Recommend rubber(Back) NITTAKU HURRICANE 2
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2018/08/20
I'm using this on the reverse side of a penhold-style short pips setup.
*Since I'm using the thin version, I'll rate it a little more conservatively than its true performance.[Speed] It's not a speed-oriented rubber, but if you hit it with a solid impact you can get a decent amount of speed out of it.
[Spin] Chiquitas and topspin drives are both very easy. For drives, both the arc and the speed come out exactly as you picture them. The feeling of the sheet grabbing the ball matches your image well.
[Block] If you send the ball with the image of standing the racket vertical and pushing through, apparently a really heavy ball comes back (according to my opponent).
Also, if you flick your wrist lightly on impact, a satisfying counter is possible.[Bonus] When I get pushed to my backhand I sometimes chop, and this produces a nice, low, sharply-spinning ball in return. It might already be a well-known classic, but I can see why choppers love using it too.
Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Recomend racket REVOFUSION MF J
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2018/08/20
This is a review using it with vertical pips (tate-me).
My first impression is that it's strong against short pips' number one enemy, humidity. It's great that it doesn't get slippery even in bad weather.[Speed] If you hit with a lot of impact you might feel some loss of power. The characteristic is that it gets speed even on light shots. It used to pair amazingly well with a single-ply blade, so it might suit a softer blade. With a hard blade, the rubber deforms a lot and you probably lose power that way.
[Spin] With vertical pips it's really easy to get spin on the ball. Drive to the opponent's backhand or deep middle, and when they block it — snap, it's a real short-pips setup shot. Very easy to pull off.
[Block, Counter]
Blocks come out as a real knuckleball. Even if you counter with a bit too much force, it still lands on the table rather than flying off, probably because of that power loss I mentioned. Pushing deep, looping, and then countering as a setup shot is also easy to do.Right now I'm using the Vo101 because I want more power on my initiating shots, but I'd really recommend this to anyone who plays off their opponent's blocks or return loop drives.
Might come back to this one again during the rainy season.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Recomend racket REVOFUSION MF J
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