Friendship/729 Higher

Used on BH with Stiga All Classic for 1 month: Medium sponge hardness with rather compact, yet responsive tacky topsheet results in a (for me) great BH rubber. Easy on short game, good Control when blocking, can create massive spin when Looping. I recommend it a lot if you want to improve your BH strokes.

Cheap average Chinese rubber. I missed spin.

I think this is a good training rubber, but I like the general sponge much better for training or beginner. The one arguement in favor of higher I can see is; if you plan to end up using springy sponge later on, this sponge has a little more spring in it (If that helps anything). But, it "binds up" your stroke more if you are trying to learn a stroke in my opinion. For a tournament winning sponge as a beginner, maybe this would be good also, but I wonder if it is too low performance with too little control for that. To me, it is not enough more than general sponge in performance to merit using it. If you want more performance a bigger step than this rubber might be better.

This was my first BH rubber several years ago based on reviews from this site. I felt it had a bit more spin than 729 cream transcend on my fh.

i tried the higher and have to say its quite spinney but the speed is a bit slow maybe if combined with off blade would be faster.