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Palio Thor's impressions and reviews |
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icontek
Premier Member This is FPS Doug Joined: 10/31/2006 Location: Maine, US Status: Offline Points: 5222 |
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Welcome back! I'm not sure how many years you have been gone, but like you, I had a hiatus from the sport (3-4 years). Here's a quick recap: Palio was a trendsetter. I can't speak to the current Thor's quality, but I will tell you that the market is now FLOODED with Chinese-style topsheet/German-style tensioned sponge hybrids rubbers that were inspired by Thor's. Joola's Golden tango feels legit like a boosted H3. Tibhar's K1 Hybrid has a range of variants from Euro feeling to Chinese feeling - my favorite control rubber. Chinese companies have stepped up their game as well though! A while back, Sanwei made an interesting hybrid rubber Target National which has a touch gear and a driving gear. DHS is no slouch either, producing rubbers for Stiga (Genesis M, which was like a quality controlled version of DHS TinArc) and even updating their beginner rubbers like PF4 with an elastic sponge. Also, Kokotaku Tuple 007 Pro has a distinct hybrid feel (Chinese topsheet, tensioned sponge) - my favorite attacking rubber. Cheers! PS: the ball is still not as well made/consistent as celluloid: Nittaku Premiums play more DIFFERENTLY from any other brand than celluloid 2* vs 3* did. DHS also makes some good balls, but you have to pay NITTAKU Premium prices to get them. Other companies, like Butterfly, still make gimmicky feeling balls like the G40 (wow-the sound!) and S40 (wow-the spin!) series. |
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Ndragon88
Silver Member Joined: 12/18/2008 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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Haven't played Since 2014! Except 2 and half years ago for a few months before having my last 2 knee operations. A lot has changed, I didn't keep up to date with TT much tbh, just watched some pro matches here and there. I have seen very recently a lot of new rubbers its crazy, also the price of Tenergies and this new Dignics! Well now that I have no £$£$£ to spare anymore I will not be EJing at all anymore. Was playing with my old league bat Donic WSC, Regular H3/Thors until I settled on playing with the faster blade Stiga Clipper with the only brand new rubbers I had left. I will stick with what I got until they die (which is like 6-12months lol). I don't know how any of these new rubbers play now but Thors is about as fast as I'm willing to go tbh, it's very quick on my Clipper. If i don't get chances to try any of the new rubbers I will very likely just stick to Thors and TG3 Neo (maybe just use either one on both sides even), or perhaps try Hurricane 8. I would love to learn about some of the rubbers though. Friendship 729 08 looks interesting, tibhar hybrid k2 looks VERY interesting but a bit pricy. As I read through this entire thread again I saw that Thors has been changed, wondering if anyone has tried the new one? Edited by Ndragon88 - 10/26/2020 at 6:43am |
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SmackDAT
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Hi Nick, it's Kevin from Ellen! I would recommend Rakza Z on FH and MX-P on backhand, they're the rubbers I've been using for the last few months :)
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Ndragon88
Silver Member Joined: 12/18/2008 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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No way! Small world. Although part of me not surprised coz I definitely had you down for an EJ haha I no longer have the desire or cash to EJ or even try something new. Especially these euro jap rubbers, so expensive now >.< But I will happily try your bat one day if the opportunity ever comes up Edited by Ndragon88 - 10/26/2020 at 3:51am |
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