Gewo Nexxus EL 48 reminds me of a tuned Butterfly Sriver L, which I played back in the days. You can do everything with this rubber from spiny serves, hard pushes and flicks to slow or fast loops. Effortless blocking. Great rubber for allround or offensive strategies. High throw angle. My favorite backhand rubber, very easy to play with.
This rubber is excellent on FH for it has double speeding when it bounces off the your opponent's part of the table. Not recommended on BH for it is not giving high spin even when you fully engage your wrist. This could be said both for pushes and serves. There are many other rubbers more suitable on BH side than this one. I use this rubber 1,9 with Karakasevic carbon blade on FH. UPDATE: I have been using this rubber in 2.1 about 2 months and I can generate a lot of spin now, a lot easier than before with thickness of 1,9. The same goes with all the others hits. Everything goes well with this rubber now and I can not blame the rubber for my mistakes any more. Try it and you will not regret,
The first 2 days the rubber was medium hardness with good spin. The 3rd day the rubber got very firm, I could'nt get the ball to sink into the topsheet, the spin was less. Looping underspin became more difficult. The rubber is fast. On the 4th day, I cleaned the rubber and it got back spinny. It takes time to learn how to play with this rubber.
It is actually an exceptional rubber and I am trying to comprehend it right now. So far I understand that if I get the sponge engaged and have the ball bite into it, everything is easy with this rubber, so far I use too much of the brushing action to be engaged in consistent looping with this rubber but it does provide a nice artistic trajectory, control with normal backhand shots are also exceptional. Overall truly amazing backhand rubber and surely suits top-level needs, used 2.1 mm red on reverse penhold backhand
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