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Friendship/729 729 OEM
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Review of Friendship/729 729 OEMI am testing Chinese tacky rubbers for the last 12 months. Using the Friendship 729 RITC (which I think is the OEM) for the last 7 months.Usually I order it from here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-pieces-of-RITC-729-Friendship-General-A-Pair-Rubber-pips-in-table-tennis-pingpong-rubber/32830057948.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.FZqYHj I paired it with Stiga Allround Classic. It is a perfect BH rubber for me. Serve, serve receive, spinny push, flip, drive, block - excellent. Wrist action is crucial due to tackiness. Spinny serve receive is always a failure if not countered with my own spin. Long backspin push works great and often results in an opponent fault or high ball which I like :-) I can generate moderate top spin with it. On a FH I was lacking the power to finish a point. Also the lops were not that great and I switched to Palio AK47 red. 729 provides better control and leads to better consistency but in this instance AK47 scores me more points. Each 729 topsheet lasts me about 100 hours. It looses tackiness after about 10 hours. It becomes less grippy after about 50 hours and after 100 hours is non playable any more - no grip. I clean it with water daily. I am on my 4th topsheet and already ordered another 2. Hard to find a better tacky BH rubber for under £5! Oct 11, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||

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Palio AK 47 Red
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Review of Palio AK 47 RedIn short: fantastic rubber.The story: I used to play with Chinese tacky rubbers like yihne, friendship, kokutaku, etc, for 12 months. My favourite was friendship 729 RITZ (hard sponge, tacky topsheet) I use Stiga Classic Allround and I have a solid allround game with a focus on consistency and placement. I was lacking the skill and power to finish a point so rallies would go until opponent made an error. Here comes AK47 Red. Since I switched, I lost a minimal amount of control but I gained a huge amount of power and spin. With a little effort, I am finishing the points now due to increased speed and spin. My timing is better and this is, I think, is due to better grip of this rubber so even if dwell time is shorter the strokes are more "forgiving". Loops, drives and smashes are effortless. Pushes and chops require more attention but since the spin is tremendous - still rewarding. This rubber is not for beginners IMHO. Oct 21, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Palio AK 47 Blue
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Review of Palio AK 47 BlueIn short: fantastic rubber. The story: I used to play with Chinese tacky rubbers like yihne, friendship, kokutaku, etc, for 12 months. My favourite was friendship 729 RITZ (hard sponge, tacky topsheet) I use Stiga Classic Allround and I have a solid allround game with a focus on consistency and placement. I was lacking the skill and power to finish a point so rallies would go until opponent made an error. Here comes AK47 Blue. Since I switched, I lost no control but I gained some power and spin. With a little effort, I am finishing the points now due to increased speed and spin. My timing is better and this is, I think, is due to better grip of this rubber so even if dwell time is shorter the strokes are more "forgiving". Loops, drives and smashes are effortless. Pushes and chops require more attention but since the spin is good - still rewarding. This rubber is good FH for beginners and intermediate players IMHO - when fitted on allround blade. I tried on BH but reverted back to tacky 729.Oct 27, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
