My review on Bomb Mopha
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Topic: My review on Bomb Mopha
Posted By: ttrubberman
Subject: My review on Bomb Mopha
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 10:47am
 Simply says: A wonderful rubber! This is an European style Chinese rubber made by Epoch. I�m interested to try it because this is one of the Chinese rubber tested in the national team (team 2), the other brand is DHS. When I opened the package, I found that this is a very fine rubber, nice and detail topsheet with smooth soft sponge. The rubber is really soft, but I�m not so confident it can work on my penhold forehand. In my experience, not many European rubbers can work well on Chinese penhold style. I�ve tried Andro Plasma 430 but I think this rubber is too soft. How about this mopha? I tested it on Friday, and I�m impressed. It really work very well as my DHS provincial H3! Although it is much softer than my H3, the reaction is really fast, there is no delay (seems to be) when the ball is hit. How about looping? It is wonderful! I can feel that the ball hit into the sponge and then going out, and it can make a good loop easily. This is a complete European style rubber, it is soft and very powerful. The tension effect is really really amazing! Any drawback? Yes, the ball is easy to get high near the net because the rubber is too powerful. I can say, this rubber is better than Andro Plasma 470, Donic F1 and Nittaku M2000NX. There are different version of mopha, this time I have tried the most expensive commercial version (Mopha Tension Professional). This rubber and sponge are made in Germany but assembly in Chinese. How much is it? It�s really expensive if you compared it with another chinese rubbers, $24 + shipping! Yes, provincial and national versions are available, the price of them are $30 and $40 respectively. They are much expensive than DHS national version H3. However, I must say that this rubber maybe more and more popular when you find that they are used by the national team members. I�m going to try the other rubbers from epoch (Bomb), the UFO. Hopes I can write a review on it soon. http://blog.ttrubberman.com/?p=24 - http://blog.ttrubberman.com/?p=24 |
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Posted By: JKC
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 11:21am
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Where did you see them at $24 TTR, because you could get them just a bit cheaper at presports (depending on the shipping of course). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34kRbLNCcpk" rel="nofollow - Fred 49 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGShBxEKnDk%20rel=" rel="nofollow - I once could serve |
Posted By: dalamchops
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 11:32am
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Is the surface tacky?
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Posted By: ttrubberman
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 11:33am
Not tacky. |
dalamchops wrote:Posted By: dalamchops
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 11:35am
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sry for another question, what thickness did you use?? And do you feel that it's heavier or lighter than a H3??
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Posted By: ttrubberman
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 11:47am
| 2.2MM, as light as European rubbers. |
Posted By: Jeff(ATTC)
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 12:32pm
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Which type of Mopha is it? J, G, or regular?
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Posted By: dalamchops
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 12:32pm
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it's professional tension, black package. ------------- Stiga Titanium 5.4 Cpen Andro Hexer Pips 2.1 Donic Acuda S2 Max |
Posted By: ttrubberman
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 12:34pm
| yap, professional version, g-tension sponge. |
Posted By: bbkon
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 2:22pm
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" used by the chinese team�" is the cheapest marketing tool, any brand can claim that, stiga said zhang jike played with 2 stiga rubbers and checking with some junior players that played zhang i found stiga lied, i still cant get how a grown up can buy that marketing hoax |
Posted By: ttrubberman
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 8:03pm
I agree with that, even national version H3, I don't know how many is the REAL national rubbers. Many manufacturer claims that their equipments are used in the team, it may be true, but only in a small proportion. However, this is not an advertisement made by the manufacturer, I found this information from a report made by team members, which is published in the Chinese Table Tennis World. Of course, they didn't mention the real name of the rubber, just stated "Bomb pro", but there is only one professional rubbers made by them. About this table, it lists a series of rubbers tested by the team 2 members to find solution without using speed glue. |
Posted By: rossicarbon
Date Posted: 03/15/2008 at 9:51pm
I have heard of this version in early 2006 through HK admin as BOMB put in a tender for the HK team but it was not up to the standard for international competition. They said it is good rubber but not as execptionally as H3 or KIng or Reactor or SKitt.
The best BOMB rubbers that designed for the players would be the 729 SHENFENG.
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Posted By: ttrubberman
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 12:03am
1996?  |
Posted By: rossicarbon
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 12:50am
Sorry.. Typo error.. i meant to say 2006
 By the way, this rubber is cheaper than the H3 national.
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Posted By: sadius
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 1:26am
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Hi Rossicarbon.
I keep seeing that you mention SKITT rubber. Can you tell me where can i get more info about that rubber like company , speed, control. Thanks
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Posted By: rossicarbon
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 3:39am
To be honest with you .. i do not know about the company that manufactured that rubber. All i was told that hk got new samples of the rubbers and i was lucky to get them. All i know was chinese topsheet combined with german tensor.
In terms of the characteristics, you could imagine skitt is just similar like DONIC F1 but except with a tacky topsheet.
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Posted By: Skyline
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 6:47am
| so does it really have build in glue effect like your tuned rubbers ttrubberman? Does it suit a smashing game? |
Posted By: ttrubberman
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 10:44am
They are different type of rubbers. Bomb mopha is really powerful, but the spin should not compare to H3. Yes, bomb mopha is a very fast tension rubber. |
Posted By: dalamchops
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 12:37pm
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i ordered a sheet of it from presports, along with Vortex 218 of Double Fish. ------------- Stiga Titanium 5.4 Cpen Andro Hexer Pips 2.1 Donic Acuda S2 Max |
Posted By: cmetsbeltran15
Date Posted: 03/16/2008 at 11:49pm
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Where can you buy this? ------------- ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ take my energy ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ |
Posted By: Skyline
Date Posted: 03/17/2008 at 3:12am
presports
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Posted By: cmetsbeltran15
Date Posted: 03/17/2008 at 9:43am
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Thanks. I have never dealt with Presports before, are they reliable? How fast is shipping to Canada approximately?
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Posted By: dalamchops
Date Posted: 03/17/2008 at 9:50am
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very reliable. Shipping is very slow, takes about 2 weeks.
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Posted By: Skyline
Date Posted: 03/17/2008 at 10:47am
| yes they're reliable |
Posted By: legout_de
Date Posted: 03/26/2008 at 3:42am
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Hi guys, anybody tested other Bomb rubbers already, like Rex or Ufo? Thanks |
Posted By: dalamchops
Date Posted: 04/02/2008 at 5:15pm
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i just picked up my sheet of the Mopha PRO today, it's med soft, listed at 40degrees, it feels as hard as Sriver. The surface is really weird, it seems like it sticks to the oil to the hand, so if i wipe it w/ my hand the topsheet becomes slick. I haven't had a chance to hit w/ it yet
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Posted By: topspinschuss
Date Posted: 08/24/2008 at 7:07pm
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Any updates on this? Has anyone else tried any Bomb rubbers with built-in glue effect like Mopha, Rex...etc.? If so, how do they compare to the ESN made German rubbers and Tenergy in terms of speed? |
Posted By: chris06
Date Posted: 08/29/2008 at 10:51am
| I have never used the German rubbers or Tenergy. The last rubber I used was Inspirit Quattro, and I think the Bomb Mopha is definitely faster. Spin is about the same, and control is actually quite good. |
Posted By: Gabcsi
Date Posted: 08/30/2008 at 5:49am
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Great review, thanks. As you compared it to H3, does it mean it has a high-ish throw? Was thinking about trying the DHS TNT but low throw does not really suit my game... This Bomb might be good. And the variant, just to clarify > I see there is a the black `prof. tension`, and I see a similarly named `prof G-tension`, it`s colored package, not black. Ratings are different somewhat. You tried the non-G then in the black? ------------- Galaxy W6 Palio GP3 sponge 2.2 mm + CJC top FH/ LKT XT black BH 2.2mm Galaxy 896 Joola Mambo max FH/ 2mm BH DHS 126g blade XT red 2.2mm FH, 6512 2mm BH |
Posted By: Klopic
Date Posted: 09/25/2008 at 3:14am
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Is it possible to compare Bomb Mopha Pro with Xiom Omega III, II, or Zeta?
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Posted By: peterko
Date Posted: 09/25/2008 at 3:40am
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I try Mopha PRO and Mopha G tension and i have to say if you do not use booster it is not comparable with guled rubber. With booster it is other song. and MAX without booster have more than 4,0mm -this is big problem |
Posted By: cole_ely
Date Posted: 09/25/2008 at 9:40am
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What hardness do you think the sponge is on the sheet you got? Mine was around 42 I thought. I thought it was a good rubber, but at the price I figured most people would just go up to name brands.
Answering a question from a post well above, skitt was a european brand that was popular in the 90's. It was somehow connected to donic. It's flagship rubber was coppa, but somehow coppa got taken by donic. I had a skit coppa tenero and it was at least as good as the donic version. I have also had skitt glue at a great price though megaspin as recently as like 4 years ago. But I haven't heard much from them since. They have a pips called anaconda or something like that. That's about all I know about skitt. Kind of like Banda, but banda made an attempted comeback. ------------- Wavestone St with Illumina 1.9r, defender1.7b Please let me know if I can be of assistance. |
Posted By: Kalin
Date Posted: 09/25/2008 at 9:56am
| I also played the Mopha Pro and it was the best non tacky chinese rubber that I tried. Especially the red one seemed a bit better. (quality wise) |
Posted By: peterko
Date Posted: 09/25/2008 at 3:51pm
| I write my opinion about Mopha like rubber for non speed glue era. |
Posted By: Table_tenis_champ :D
Date Posted: 08/09/2010 at 7:11am
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With the site, does anybody know when PS restocks? Because they are all out of the red rubbers and i need a bit slower backhand. So if anyone could answer it would help. Thx.    |
Posted By: Table_tenis_champ :D
Date Posted: 08/09/2010 at 7:21am
| By PS i mean Pre Sports, just so ya know... |
Posted By: chuthanhdat
Date Posted: 05/31/2011 at 1:59pm
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Do you know website of Bomb ?thank alot
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Posted By: igorigor
Date Posted: 07/01/2014 at 4:57am
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http://www.epoch-tt.com/english/company.html" rel="nofollow - |
Posted By: zhuangcorp7
Date Posted: 08/27/2021 at 10:36pm
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I know this is a really old thread, but how fast is this rubber compared to newer Chinese rubbers like AK47 or Moon Speed? The rubber is pretty old, but is it still good for today?
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Posted By: zhuangcorp7
Date Posted: 08/28/2021 at 12:11am
| Why is it not spinny? The surface doesnt have grip? |
Posted By: zhuangcorp7
Date Posted: 08/28/2021 at 12:13am
| On Aliexpress the J version is $13 and the black Pro version is $17, is it worth the extra $4? |
Posted By: zhuangcorp7
Date Posted: 08/28/2021 at 5:14pm
| Have you tried the J version? Is it still fast? |
Posted By: zhuangcorp7
Date Posted: 08/28/2021 at 8:12pm
| But would it still be fast today? Have you tried more recent rubbers? |
Posted By: zhuangcorp7
Date Posted: 08/28/2021 at 8:53pm
| What rubber are you using now? Why dont you use Mopha anymore? |