friendship 755 faster

Has anyone tried this rubber? What are your thoughts on it? Do the pimples fall off as easily as 837 and 755.

Thanks Andrew for your comments on it

Andrew, I am a penholder with long pimple on my backhand. I am learning RBP, is it practical to use 755Faster for both hitting and topspin loop.

1.How much spin reversal is lost compared with 755 with 0.6mm sponge ?

2.I used to receive serve with 755, and is very effective to absorb the spins. How much loss in control if I switch to 733Faster? 

I haven't used regular 755 so I'd go with what Haggis said. I can only loop on forehand with spinny short pips, like 802-40 and Joola Tango Ultra. I also recieve serves with my short pips and they work fine for that.

I use inverted on my penhold backhand as there's more spin variation. 755 Faster is pretty much just for hitting and blocking. I've tried short pips on my backhand and could see how they could work too for that.

-- Andrew

Thanks all for sharing the experience using 755 and 755Faster. I am still in the trial and error stage. I want to reinforce my penhold backhand, that is why I go for RPB. But I don't want to give up my long pips, which helps me with lots of easy points and control when receiving spinny serves. Based on your info that I will lose a lot of control if I switch to 755Faster makes me hesitate. I might just stick with my 755 on sponge. Using it as RBP, although I find it quite difficult to hit balls especially when you are running around. Still thinking how to get a good solution.   

haggisv,I watched a lot of good RBP players like Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Li Ching, Feng Zhe.. all of them use inverted (on both BH and FH). Even Liu Kuo Liang, a pips player, used inverted BH. There must be  reason(s) for that.  May be without topspin (or looping), the effectiveness of RBP is heavily penalized.

However, in the amateur level, a RBP with only hit, blocking ability is better than no backhand at all.  What brand name of short pips (or medium pips as you mentioned) can do a good job on RBP and good control in receiving serves. BTW, I would like to keep the weight of the racket light. N.B. I can twiddle very well.

 

Borrowed a Yasaka PB-1 2.0mm sponge and used as RBP. I could hit 10 times easier. That is good.  But, there is  minimal spin in the shots, especially when I tried to topspin a downspin ball, my opponent just smash it back. In addition, the control in receiving spinny serves is nowhere close to long pips. Is there a proper way to make short tips RBP shots more awesome, like the inverted ?  

My friend in the club recommended me a mdeian pips RITC 799 to me this evening. I could RPB with it so confidently, and it seemed quite fast. On the adverse side, I didn't feel any long pips effect when returning serves. Seems that control is even worse than inverted?! Anyone has experience using RITC 799 before? Please share your experience.

Also, Andrew recommend 802-40. How good it is for control in returning spinny serves?  

Actually I recommended regular 802, 802-40 is spinnier and tends to come with thicker sponge.  799 is even a little less spinny than 802 so should be fine.

If you want easier service returns and a "weird" effect  then you want a spinless rubber and if you want a better RPB you'll want spinnier rubber, probably an inverted so it's a tradeoff between the two. 

I use the backside of my penhold paddle for opening loops, not for service return so inverted makes sense there.  As the RPB blade angle tends to be naturally closed inverted helps you lift the ball over the net. 

If you just want to use the backside for service return, you can keep using long pips there, but I doubt that is optimal.  I find it harder to adjust blade angle on the backhand so I return all short serves with my forehand side, where I use short pips.  That also gives me the option of attacking with a flip or loop.

-- Andrew