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DHS Gold Arc 5
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Review of DHS Gold Arc 5It is really good rubber. I played the 47.5 degree hardness with both max and medium thickness. Not on the top shelf like popular Butterfly rubbers, but comparable (if not better) to average ESN rubbers with little or no tensor effect. I like grippy, but linear rubbers - not a big fan of tensor effect. So this rubber is great for me, it can be fast, but in a linear way. Control is great. Spin is also very good. In general it is not too difficult even for begginers (you can try softer 42.5 deg one). It reminds me Rakza 7, but for half the price. I tested this rubber on inner carbon blades, Andro Treiber FI OFF (average speed, hinoki outer layer) - it was great. On faster, more direct Anders Lind Hexacarbon with Koto outer the Max version was even little too fast for me. Played boh on FH and BH, some may prefer softer version for the latter.Mar 18, 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sanwei Gear Hyper Hard
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Review of Sanwei Gear Hyper HardI've been using this rubber as my main BH rubber for some time. I use it normally on inner carbon blades with either limba, koto or hinoki outer ply. Both cases play similar, I used H39. I also had it on one outer ALC koto blade, although I used softer H37 version. I all cases I was very happy with it. It has everything I needed from BH rubber, great spin (even on serve it is good considering the surface is completely non-tacky), great control and quite good speed. There is some bounciness, but not visible in short game when you use passive strokes so serve receive is quite easy with it. On harder strokes the speed is really good, there is small catapult effect, but not big (I don't like ESN tensors on BH because of too much catapult destroying control). If you prefer reasonably fast BH rubber, but still the one where you have control over how much speed you get - it is for you. I tried it also on FH, but there I prefer even more linear rubbers like Goldarc 5 or Rakza 7.The bad sides: the rubber quite easily crumbles on the edges, but it mostly happens for me with red colored one, edges of black were little better. I use either wider edge tape or two layers of edge tape to completely cover side of rubber to prevent this. All above describes rubber with big G on the cover. I also twice bought on ali rubber of the same name with big gear on the cover. Once I got rubber with same quality and once I got the apparently counterfeit one. It had same markings and number, but was very tacky and slow like ordinary chinese rubber. Since that I am only buying on official sanwei store. Apr 29, 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
