Tibhar 5Q review

I have stuck the same sheet of Omega IV pro 2-3 times onto blades with Klebstoff Imperial (regular voc glue not speed glue), no shrinkage or problems there. I always use this glue a water based glue is too much hassle.

Edited by riker71 - 06/08/2012 at 8:14am

and i also want to prove to some people who blame the glue for their rubber's forming bubbles after 3-5 days of use because they didnt use wbg. also the shrinking of the rubber can be minimized if you dont glue your rubber immediately and if you dont press your rollers too much on the rubber when you attach it

after 2 weeks of using this rubber i can say its a goo alternative to T05. what i like about it is that its not too fast like the tenzone but offers the same spin. it seems very durable and would last for about 6 months to average players. 

yogi_bear wrote: after 2 weeks of using this rubber i can say its a goo alternative to T05. what i like about it is that its not too fast like the tenzone but offers the same spin. it seems very durable and would last for about 6 months to average players.  this would be best for medium hard blades or blades that are not too stiff. works well with blades having koto, limba ad cypress outer plies

So perhaps for a flexible ALL+ blade 1Q would work better? That's harder isn't it?

how is 5Q compare to Sigma Pro...? in spin, speed , control, sponge hardness....
thanks...

Edited by bagung - 07/12/2012 at 9:57pm

havent tried the sigma pro

Using 5Q on my Tibhar H 3 9 (which I'm using from 15 days or so). Very happy with the 5Q on the backhand. In addition to being a great rubber for backhand (and near to table play), it gives a tremendous underspin that is very deceptive.

Hi Yogi,

Edited by pak abu - 09/11/2012 at 9:12am

Thanks.. need to make up my mind again. As I feel the speed of rakza 7 is right for me. But the spin of 5Q attract me to it....

yogi_bear wrote: the 5Q is not mushy. its a medium rubber. its fast on a 1 ply hinoki

5q is softer than rak7 and genius but hardee than t64? Not possible

at last I've played with 5Q and its not what I expected.

They say its the softest rubber of the Q family. So I expected a mid soft rubber like aurus soft, rakza7 soft, tenergy 05 fx etc... But its hard. Lets say mid hard like t64. And its really heavy. Its much much heavier than tenergy 05 fx.

So:
Speed: Its a fast and bouncy rubber like tenergy. But feeling is between tenzone and acuda series.  And red sheet of 5Q looks like very much tenzone sf and acuda series. Speed is just a bit slower than tenzone and acuda s1 turbo. but still its a fast one.

Spin: Its very very spinny( like tenergy) But somewhat its not that sensitive to incoming spin. Lots of people would like this but I dont. I'm a spin based player and I like to use my opponents spin to create speed and rotation. With 5Q you have to play a bit more active...

Throw: Its between t05 and t64. But closer to the t64. So throw angle is a bit flat. Blocking and smashing is much better than t05.  Its just not so sensitive to the incoming spin so sometimes if you're a bit lazy than your topspins goes in to the net.

Other stuff: Its a heavy rubber.
Loud when you block+smash but its not soft.

Its much heavier, faster and harder than I expected so I got some issues with the control department.

Does 5Q suit nittaku violin 5 ply ? 

right2niru wrote: Does 5Q suit nittaku violin 5 ply ?  I intend to substitute genius regular to 5Q (1.9) on my BH and my strength is my open loops , drives and BH punch , does those stroke this rubber ?