OOAK Table Tennis Forum

Yes classic sponge rubbers like Musa & Gewo return drive need at least an all+ blade

Xiom Asia df in 1.8mm is very grippy and good for chopping as well as attacking.

Why is that?

To generate enough pace with the polyball on defense blades for modern defensive one really needs to use a fast rubber.

I like both Musa and Gewo on fast balsa blades but on slowish blades not enough pace for forehand attack.

Donic Bluefire JP 01 was used by Shiono for chop/attack on Defplay not so long ago and I noticed a good offer on TTNPP with free delivery,I may try this myself eventually
I did try Marder 2 on Defplay and the combination did not work for me

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Tsp Black Balsa 3.0 Tenergy 05 1.9 388d ox black

That makes sense to me, and with the setup I have, I still do have enough pop, especially with the Tenergy 80fx, which is really lovely on this blade. I also cut the defplay down to a standard size blade, and it changed a bit. I am playing Air Defence on the backhand now, and have tried short pips before, which was ok, but I did not find I had the attacking capacity with it as I do inverted.

I do appreciate all the suggestions, so keep them coming!