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Having some issues with my elbow, so swapping to a more classical defense scenario for awhile.

I usually use a pretty zippy forehand rubber for loops, fishes and chops now and then.

But for the mean time I'd like to use a slower rubber, one specifically good at chopping and pushing. I have quite a few of the older chop rubbers - juic 999 elite defense, tackiness chop, etc. Yet those all seem to lack surface grip in comparison to things like tenergy or mx-s.

Is there anything new being made that has a super grippy top sheet with a relatively slow sponge? Or are the older generation rubbers seen as just as good as they were?

Victas 401 about an good as it gets?

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TSP Triple Spin Chop is very slow, IMHO. Should have lots of spin, I guess ('triple'!), but I took it off my blade too quickly to find out.

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LKT Pro XT black topsheet on 1.0 mm.HRS sponge is as ''spinny'' as 401 and Triple Spin-Chop.
Not to forget Sauer Troger Secret Flow 1.5 mm. black.

If you want slow and spinny, many tacky Chinese rubbers would do that nicely.

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Ckylin. Lots of really spinny Chinese rubbers, but this is the SLOWEST I've ever come across. Pretty much useless for a lot of things, but might be OK for chopping.

Iskandar

Blocks well too and absorbs a lot of pace because of the slow sponge.