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Hello!

I would like to know about Globe rubbers. Which of them is suitable for control looping for BH with more or less compact stroke, not too heavy and not needing to be glued heavily. (I play perfectly OK with non-speedglued non-boosted Donic Vario Soft or DHS Memo3 or Tackiness D). This means lively sponge

I am making a fun Cpen setup, so I wanted to find something cheap and nice. Locall seller sells Globe rubbers, that are the cheapest around.

Particulary I am interested in following:

Globe Gold Whirlwind
http://www.globe999.com/upload/201011010538440.jpg

Globe MagicWand (no pic on official Globe website, probably discounted?)

Globe Prize
http://www.globe999.com/upload/201011010607520.jpg

Globe Taiphoon Gold
http://www.globe999.com/upload/201011010508160.jpg

Globe Tropy
http://www.globe999.com/upload/201011010609180.jpg

I examined photos hard, but still can't see which ones are tacky and which are not. Gold Whirlwind looks tacky for me, but I can be mistaken
I think if rubber is not very tacky, it will not feel taht dead if not speedglued.

Thanks in advance!!!

i suggest friendship cream MRS. stands for magic red sponge, and it really is magic. very good control for close to medium distance looping, not to tacky but tacky, medium in weight.

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SPW/Solo

The best Globe is the 999.
Forget the rest.
Try the Juic 999 CHN which is very good. (or some other 999 version from Juic)

Brahms

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Blade = Butterfly Kong Linghui 'Special'
FH = 61 seconds Super 999T-1 2.2mm
BH = Yinhe Pluto 1.5mm

But Gloge 999 must be speedglude or tuned, otherwise it is dead.

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Klopic
Avalox Blue Thunder 550
F - Palio Blit´t - Max
B - Palio Blit´z - 2,0 mm

Juic CHN is factory tuned.

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Blade = Butterfly Kong Linghui 'Special'
FH = 61 seconds Super 999T-1 2.2mm
BH = Yinhe Pluto 1.5mm

How many Chinese sponges are suitably lively enough to not speed glue? 99.9% of Chinese sponges without speed glue are terrible. Globe is no different, and in fact they seem to be the last to come around to the idea of tuning their sponges so in essense they are basically 100% bad sponges. It's a shame though cause I absolutely love their topsheets.

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Photino
My rubbers are 9 years old. They won’t be there long.

Thanks for input! So I am currently thinking of IQUL, Cream MRS, 729 Super FX EL, and some softish tensor a la Coppa Silver.

Your ideas?

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Once a mediocre player (the highest league I attented was 'Verbandsliga' in Germany about 15 years ago) I've made recently a comeback after a break for nearly five years and merely for fun.

Nevertheless, I've tried different rubbers over the past weeks on my forehand: classic Japanese ones like old-fashioned Yasaka Mark V, Coppa & Sriver. Some modern developments like Andro Hexer with a little integrated tuning, and also a few Chinese brands like Taiphoon Gold from Globe.

In the nineties, I played Butterfly Kawatsuki Sriver (with a nearly 50° sponge) on both sides of an old Stiga Alser wood from 1971 (bigger blade, 94 g) in combination with speed glue (forehand only) - total weight: 205 gramme.

Since my wrist power & springiness is not the same anymore I was searching now for a lighter racket of about 190 g overall. After some testing I've picked a slightly smaller and lighter Alser wood of 92g, blade: 163 x 153 mm. On the backhand I use classic Friendship 729 FX black , 1,5 (blue sponge) - and on the forehand Taiphoon Gold red, 2,2.

Even without glueing the Taiphoon Gold in red comes closest for me to the dynamic and feeling in the old days. All the other above mentioned rubbers I've tried were either too light, too soft, too slow, or too springy.

Like many other brands: the hardness of the Taiphoon Gold's sponge varies. I think not only between the official 46-48° but in fact between 44 to 49°. Out of more than 20 sealed TG's of the same thickness in a shop I've weighted: the lightest was 84 g - and the heaviest 98 g. On the blade there is still a difference of about 10 g between the two: 46 g versus 56 g.

So I've chosen finally a medium hard sample: 92 g in the package, 52 g on the racket without glue. This will be around 47°; not too soft, and not too hard.

Sadly, and similar too many Chinese rubbers, the quality of the black surface of Taiphoon Gold is not the same as in red: too sticky and too slow for me - and significantly softer than the red one.

That's the reason I've switched to classic Friendship 729 on the backhand: today its surface is not as sticky and slow as some years ago (at least in the series I've got in Germany), and the surface is also rather hard in black....

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Welcome to the forum Quentin Compson, and a great first post!

Yes I've experienced the same... the rubbers are not as tacky, and the consistancy varies a lot.

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Thanks.


One more remark about Taiphoon Gold :

Compared with a Japanese rubber like Sriver, the pimples of the surface are a little bit shorter. This makes the touch more direct, the rebound angle a little lower.

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Still using Globe Taiphoon Gold in Red 2,2 as my favorite forehand rubber. Meanwhile on a 48 year old Stiga Johansson Wood from 1968 (weight: 94 g).

In my opinion a very good combination: backside rubbers with a slightly sticky surface made in China combined with harder sponges (around 47°) made in Japan - on a classic, thin (5,35 mm) and whippy ALL+ Wood which provides a strong feeling and long touch of the ball....

Very old thread. It is worth noting that the Taiphoon is still in the LARC, but where the heck do you buy it? Eacheng doesn't have it, neither does ttnpp. Some of the opinions on this thread seem strange indeed to me - Chinese sponges being "100% bad sponges", for instance... I certainly haven't seen THAT opinion expressed here in the last couple years!

No mention of the very similar rubbers from the "999 corporation". I've tried them (but not the Globe 999) - just a mite too slow. Even Seamooned.

Iskandar

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Well, I'm buying Taiphoon Gold regularly from Sport Schütt:

....... https://www.schuett-sport.de/tischtenni ... phoon-gold

Although the price in Europe rised from 11,90 to 13,90 in the last three years, this rubber is still a great countervalue in my eyes....
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Quite interesting. Most of the Chinese rubbers available on that website are available via Eacheng, but not Taiphoon Gold, or Awala. Maybe Globe only makes a small amount and exports it all to Europe...

Interesting to see all the sheets from Imperial. I got a few sheets of Imperial Fire cheap from when ASTI went out of business around 2000 - apparently it was OEMed by ASTI (the only American-made rubber).

Iskandar