Adidas P7 durability

I have had the same sheet of P7 for 7 months and incessantly abusing it with hard drives, FH loops, spinny opening loops, smashes and the lot. I played 3 times / week (10 hrs weekly) for the 1st 4 months and then 6 times a week (20 hrs weekly) for the next 3 months. I reglued the rubber around 6 times over these 7 months - for various reasons.

After the 1st 2 months there was a drop in performance of 20% - it lost some kick, some pace and some of it's vicious spin. I felt this to be quite sudden, as though some factory tuner had run out. Then over the following months it only lost another 10-15% and it lost it very gradually...no sudden dips in performance.

At the moment, it can still opening loop vs heavy underspin like a dream - a wrist flick is enough when not in position - of course with proper positioning and stroke - the loop is deadly and very very variable still (slow spinny, or fast loop drive or anything in between). Counter looping from far still works very well - the sponge still has enough of it's power when hit hard with spin, although the smash is a lot slower than it used to be. Short game is great. Spin on pushes and serves not so great... spin now needs faster racket speed to be generated and is no longer automatic as the rubber is notorious for when new. 

It looks a bit pale and faded, but no splits or shrinkage, no pimples coming off. 

The reason I know it is now come to the end of it's glorious life is that it no longer sticks to the blade well - the sponge is so battered that the edges keep coming off, forming air bubbles. 

I am still training with it, but have a new P7 on the way and can't wait! Was using 2.0mm and giving Max a try this time.

Hope this helps people who were looking into getting a P7 as their rubber.

Durability thumbs up!