Review: DHS Hurricane 3-50

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al3ash8 wrote: I just received my DHS Hurricane 3-50 today form tabletennis11.com they are best tt shop I did deal with the topsheet is tacky and the sponge medium hard H37 and it's look like tenergy sponges! you can see the pores in the sponge i'll try it on my BH next week

Nice review schen! After reading your review, i've ordered 2 pieces of it to try on my crw and kokutaku :-)

GeneralSpecific wrote: Nice review, thank you schen but very disappointing at how it still requires speed glue/boosting. The whole point of this rubber was so you DON'T need to do anything to it. More reviews and opinions need to be posted but from what you say this rubber has definitely let down a lot of people who don't want to boost.

Got it!  I just put 2.1 black forehand, 2.0 red backhand on my trusty clipper CR wrb FL legend (87 grams)

I've ordered some stuff on Friday from tabletennis11.

Mine have just arrived! Still excited to try them out on both wings. Shame they didn't arrive yesterday - my league season is over and our training night is Monday. Will be a week before I can try them properly. I'll try to sneak some robot time in before then...

schen wrote: I also want to point out that H3.50 is nearly 2 grams heavier than the H3BS cut. And I'll be holding on to all my blue sponges for now still - I may return to them in the future when my game improves and calls for something more powerful ;)

Hi Schen are you a good level player?

bump, any updates from ppl who have got their's? still waiting on mine

So I just got back from a lesson attempting to use the H3-50, and my coach told me to go back to the H3BS with good reason.  It seems that H3-50 doesn't suit my stroke very well, and it became really apparent when I could only loop 5 quality balls with H3-50, but 20+ with H3BS.  I had better success pretending H3-50 was tenergy and making my stroke more compact, but my naturally more extended swing is rewarded much more by using H3BS.  I could get away with using the H3-50 against lower level players, but against my coach and higher level players I couldn't put a single ball away convincingly.  

Edited by schen - 04/03/2014 at 6:01pm

schen wrote: I had better success pretending H3-50 was tenergy and making my stroke more compact, but my naturally more extended swing is rewarded much more by using H3BS.

Here's a pic of a few DHS rubbers:



From the top down, we have:

Skyline TG3 Neo - Black
Tin Arc - Red
Nittaku H3 Neo - Black
H3-50 - Red

I've had a 2 hour robot session with the red one, unboosted, on a Viscaria, with the Nittaku H3 Neo on the other side for comparison. I like it so far - it's more forgiving on bigger shots than regular H3, and has more of a modern arc to the flight of the ball (up-down rather than a flat, skiddy one). It does lack top-end speed, which may or may not be a problem depending on the speed of the blade. It's slightly bouncier than the H3N in the short game, but that's a very slight difference - it's nowhere near as bouncy as ESN/Tenergy.

Further in comparison to the H3N, it lacks that metallic crunch feel when hitting hard. I get the impression (as schen said) than passive blocking is going to be an interesting experience.

Serves really well. If you play with big swings from mid-distance, and actively close to the table, it could definitely work. It produces good spin and arc, but loses speed when driving. This makes it feel safe and secure, but I wonder how threatening it will be?

I'm looking forward to getting a human at the other end of the table next. It's definitely a hybrid - H3 on an elastic, modern sponge. But it might be too slow...

schen wrote:  If paired with a low throw and fast carbon blade, I feel this will make up for problems in speed.  I put mine on a TB ALC-cpen FH instead of my YEO for now and will try it again today.

You know, it's funny. Before your test, I was thinking that a YEO would be a good all-wood for H3-50, but now I can see that it needs something faster/stiffer/harder than that. Some of the hardwood Stigas might work, or a Ma Lin Carbon.

I like the "raw" feel of the Viscaria when I use it with tensors, and it works well with the H3-50. But the harder feel of the Boll ALC might be a better match overall, so I'm looking forward to the results of your next test!

qualizon wrote: I'd think a rosewood blade might be able to balance this rubber out :-) I'm going to put it on my rosewood clipper when it arrives.

Ooooooooooo yeah. That's the stuff.

@schen

Edited by O! Ju Qian - 04/06/2014 at 3:47am

H3-50 is faster than h3 comercial?