Queries about rubber rating
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Last updated 15 years ago
Lionel Unknown Asked 15 years ago
There are ratings on the rubber, SPEED, SPIN. For a rubber with slow speed, does it mean the ball will stay much longer (longer dwell time) on the rubber before leaving the rubber to the opponent's table?
Please help to reply this with your best of knowledge as I am currently beginning to realize my own preference, and I need to confirm which rubber to choose. Most of the time, when a ball coming to me very fast, I find that I am not able to successfully top spin loop it back to his table, either going into the net, or flies over the edge of his table. So, it seems that I need a rubber which can hold the ball much longer, and then impart my own top spin into it by negating the rest of the spin and speed of the ball. So, a slow speed rating, and high spin rate is good rubber for my preference?
Alois Rosario Answered 15 years ago
Hi Lionel,
Yes go for a more control rubber if you are having trouble controlling the counter topspin.
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Lionel Unknown Posted 15 years ago
Hi Alois,
1) Thanks, take for example, is Yasaka Mark V a rubber which is having good spin, and yet also having good control (not fast)? If it is so, I wish it will provide me the room and margin for "error"....I mean for instance, if I hit the ball at an angle or slightly angled with the top edge away from me or nearer to me, I am still able to lift a backspin ball successfully over the net after looping without flying off the opponent's table edge.
2) I did one experiment recently, I used my own carbon blade Chinese hard rubber racquet trying to loop a backspin serve from my partner (who is using Stiga Wood blade with TSP Bjorn rubber). Then we exchanged racquets. He backspin served to me using my racquet and I looped the ball using his racquet. I pulled the loop with an almost equal fixed stroke and racquet angle to avoid any bias. Now I realized I could not get the ball over the net looping with his racquet. Theoretically if my technique is correct, then what has gone wrong here which I could not lift the ball over the net (a big margin indeed from clearing the net)?
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 15 years ago