Punch OX rubber black review:
Pips are small to medium and on the medium / harder feel.
Pushing and service return:
Just fine, ball goes low over the table, quite insensitive to spin. Little bit of grip to be able to start an attack immediately. Pushing is good too. A lot of options when returning the serve. Easy to do. If you serve long and deep with a sort of cutsideserve with this pip these are sometimes direct points for you, so serving yourself is easy too.
Attacking + counterattack:
This is were the rubber really shines… Never been able to attack so confidently and easy with adjusted technique than with this one. Path is also disruptive.
Acceleration is easy to do. A lot of options here too… And this for a long pip, this is just wooow… Very impressive. It seems you can attack with a little bit of adjusted medium pip technique: ball dives and comes back a little bit higher to start up your FH attack.
Chop block / chop / blocking:
Chop block is easy, just had a little bit of problems to keep them short, but I only have to blame myself because that needs practice and training.
Normal (passive) blocking is just fine, when you have the right angel you can counter attack too which causes a floating sinking action of the ball, really deceptive.
Chopping with this is good, good control and able to put the ball on the table if you are in second zone. Reversal is good, not huge in first and second chop but in third chop can be massive and causes troubles for opponents.
Do not expect the high reversal of Hellfire, D Tecs and Dorneglanz. The reversal is good in the first 2 chops of the Punch rubber but not at the high choplevel of those 3 pips.
Deception + summary:
I was very impressed by all the things this rubber has. It is all in one package. This pip suits players with an allround game close to the table.
For players who rely on attacking shots with long pip this is the one. If someone is looking for a (avarage) deceptive long pip that really can do it all: Punch rubber is the way to go.
Chop block close to the table + putting pressure like the package said.
On the defensive side it has it variability too. But If you only rely on chopping and high reversal there are better pips for that. Control is average in general and need some time to adjust. Troublemaker has more control.
I played a lot with medium pips. Never thought that I would play long pips again but the punch rubber makes me doubt. Especially the deception and the allround + sometimes disruptive quality makes this one so good. You can’t find disruption and allround ability’s and attacking opportinities all in one rubber. This proves the opposite and can be a new hype in tabletennis World for the allround attacking player with LP, only defense in emerengy situation + for players who have a strong forehand and good footwork. It has some nice secrets inside and needs a little time to break in. It has a little bit of everything but not everything is at the highest level. This is also not possible because nowadays there is no holygrail in long pips in tabletennis. Your personal skill with pips only makes you better and you have to decide which part in a pip you want or not.
This can be my new rubber for the next season. I’m just going to train with it more and we will see…
