Slow Speed, High Spin Rubber

Sumit Jangra Asked 7 years ago

Hello Sir,

My question is about combination of rubbers for a particular blade.

After knowing just basic TT at teenage, I started playing regularly at the age of 32. After playing for 03 years with a second hand blade, I gained fair bit of consistency in all strokes except bh loop.

Then, I changed to a new racket as TB ZLC blade with t-05 / tibhar fx-p on fh / bh and its been around a year with this setup.

I knew ZLC is fast and wanted slow speed high spin rubbers.

For fh, T05 looked good to me for all strokes with good control in regular practice. But in game, only problem is that while attacking a long back spin / push , the ball goes long more often or in net.

Secondly, for bh, fx-p seems ok to me in all aspects (yet to learn bh loop) except that it bottoms out while blocking hard drives.

Now, I have thought of changing to 05fx on fh. But will it have similar effect of bottoming out as fx-p on bh. If yes, can you suggest any high spin hard sponge rubber with somewhat slow speed than t05. OR, its just a matter of improving footwork and stick to t05, since I have gained fair amount of control while practicing and its only the game where I falter. Age also seems to be a factor in poor footwork.

Also any suggestions for bh rubber with hard sponge (again not to be too fast).

People in our club prefer tibhar or butterfly rubbers... Just psychological...

SUMIT

Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago

Hi Sumit,

I would stay with the same rubber and continue to get used to it in the match situation  If you feel like it is OK in training, then I think you will be able to adapt.  The less changes you make to your equipment the better.