729 Higher and Faster series

higher and faster II, III are recommended for bh. II III are faster than I. Generally, Higher is grippier than faster. That's all I know

but II and III are for bh.

They produced Faster on ESN a while ago. The sponge is a masterpiece. Ball can easily embedded into the sponge (not because of its hardness, rather with its construction). Cons: quite heavy.

Transcend is a chinese sponge developed by 729 in-house. It's elastic. Hardness is around 40ish. Great glue effect.

And yes. Higher & Faster both have thin topsheets. Similar to H2, H3, G666 in terms of structure. They all have thin topsheets.

It doesn't have any chacteristics of euro/jap rubbers. 1st it's tacky, that's what generally a chinese rubber is like. 2nd for it's weight, I wouldn't say it's as light as Japanese made ones.

If you like close to table attack, chinese rubber is the way to go. I've seen people that do not play close to table attack hate Chinese rubbers.

Higher is tackier than faster. Faster is not neccesarily faster than higher. Don't get fooled by their names. I have both. Higher is quite good for looping. However, it's too elastic for smashing.

That's all I know about higher and faster. Cole_ely & Londonletdown can give comments to you.

you got the bad version of higher the tackspeed2000 on transcend version not the green sponge tension version correct alink?

yeah thats normal transcend that is untensioned just has a euro LIKE feel

well techincally there not they are using 2000 on trancsend and in china restamping it as higher

transcend -3 is medium.  the pink sponge is much lower.  Geo tacky is spinnier but slower than eihter of the above.  Both due to softer sponge and tackier topsheets.  And much lighter too so maybe because of faster handspeed.

cole i just got my hands on a new geospin tacky and i find it very slow , slower than both jap and regular taiphoon and its too soft for the backhand, i tried looping it on the forehand and its good but on the backhand it lacks power.. i  think im shifting to faster with transcend on bh... the spin of geopspin is good though but not as spinny as dhs h3 or h3

Got some reviews on Faster III from a friend, if any one is still interested, also a review on Focus II:

Review of Friendship 729 Faster III rubber
Review of Friendship 729 FOCUS II rubber

Well the Higher III has a Japanese sponge and the Faster III has a german sponge, so they will play a little different.

I find both the higher and faster series of rubbers only mildly tacky...not to different from cream really...

I didn't think these rubbers were hard. Weight perhaps a little on the heavy side. Compared to the rubbers I use often Bryce, Ekrips, and Hammond X the throw angles were higher. I glued Faster 2.2/Red to a taco-like state and it was extremely fast, although I could not control it.