H3 National Version, HK Version review

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   Hi guys, just want to share my opinion and experience with these 2 rubbers. A friend of mine recently went back to HK and so I asked him to get me some national team H3 from HK, I only asked him to get me 1 sheet. So 2 days ago he came back with it and the 1st thing I notice was that it was HEAPS lighter compared to my commerical H3 and my friend national H3. When I think about it , it feels and looks very similar to something I bought off Cole (H3 on cannon sponge) except the sponge on this one was orange just like regular H3 except it was softer, more smooth, doesn't have that gainy texture look. This one is the one that ttman sells and rossicarbon talks about, the one with a stamp at the corner of the rubber sheet with degree of hardness, this one shows 41, sponge thickness. There was a picture posted of this one on this forum somewhere. I went to look for it but no luck. If anyone can find it can they post it here?

I was able to get my hands on a chinese national team version from a reliable sauce. This one looked like the commerical H3, when I went home to compare it with my commerical H3, which is brand new still, the topsheet of the national one was darker. Flipped it around and the sponge of the commerical looked darker. When I pressed down on the  the National H3 ,40 degree , was slightly softer than my commerical H3, i got this from cole think it was suppose to be 39 degree but not sure, but still medium-hard. The national team one has the regular serial stamp at the back and then it has another set of serial slightly smaller stamped just above that and then it has a red square stamp that you get on the provincial with the degree stamped on it. I've also seen a picture of this rubber before on this forum but I haven't had any success in finding these. Actually I might take some pictures and post them up of this one as I have another sheet uncut.

Now when I played and compared the two, the Hk team version I would think would be a gluers wet dream because the sponge is so soft it wouldn't take many levels of glue before it started to dome. But I'm not a speed gluer so I can only give a review on using normal glue. When I first hit around with it, I was wasn't surprise that this felt exactly like H3 on Cannon that I had bought from Cole recently. The feel and play is identical to that. Because the sponge is soft the ball sinks into the sponge more when you hit hard, because of this softer sponge you can't get the same speed you do as with the harder sponge also  when your relooping a loop you can't hit through as much as when the sponge is hard, because the effect of the incoming spin is felt more because the ball sinks into the sponge more. but it's not impossible to do it. Last thing I notice was the throw, although still high throwing it wasn't as high as my commerical H3.

When I played with the Chinese national team version, the 1st thing that hit me was how tacky the topsheet was compared to the commerical versons I have tried. The topsheet is that much more tacky and according to my friend who's had his national team version for over 1 and 1/2 year it's stay tacky for a long time. His national team which is 1 1/2 years old is more tacky then my 8 month old commerical by a long shot. When I play with it, it feel just like a tackier version of commerical. Well thats how it feels to me. So the quality is in the topsheet. I can see why people would want this because if the rubber last longer and stays tacky for a long time they wouldn't have to replace the rubber so often, but if I was speed gluing I would probably get commerical. I love how with H3 commerical or chinese national you can hit through anything be it heavy underspin or topspin, if you hit through the ball the incoming spin doesn't effect you if you go for a full swing. But where as the soft HK team version you can feel the effect of the incoming spin.