The most popular rubber among j-pen players
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eduardo espinosa Asked 12 years ago
Ever since speed glue disappeared from the market and the new rubbers showed up I have struggled finding a substitute rubber for this difficult style of mine, same rubber for both backhand and forehand. Do you, j-pen experts, know what I'm talking about? (or anyone who happens to know).
Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago
Hi Eduardo,
I will put it out there for discussion.
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eduardo espinosa Posted 12 years ago
Hello...? Am I alone in this world?
Kevin Long Posted 12 years ago
I've spent the past 2 weeks on exchange in Japan (with 4 more to go) and the most popular rubber amongst J-penholders at the school's TT club seems to be the Nittaku Fast-Arc, I recently had a go with it, and it felt perfect for that type of play, good traditional backhand control, and fast spinny loops on the forehand. Touch shots are probably the only problem the players have with it, so you need to work on your control a lot more for it. About 60% of the J-pen kids here play with Fast-arc, and a few shakehanders.
Jonathan Huynh Posted 12 years ago
what are j-pens?
Kevin Long Posted 12 years ago
These type of penhold blades, due to the make up and design of the blades, a certain type of play style is easier with Jpen
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I.4693811652265711&pid=15.1
eduardo espinosa Posted 12 years ago
Thank you, Kevin. It's a very valuable information to me because I'll never be able to go to Japan to find that out. Nittaku Fast Arc G-1 is one of the rubbers I have been following in the blogs. Other prospects are the Adidas P-5 and the Donic Bluefire M-2. What I'm looking for is a rubber w/. a reputation of being a good "backhand" rubber w/. a medium hard sponge and a very spinney topsheet and grippy.