Loki Arthur Asia

I tried this in max (forehand) on a DHS Power G 5X blade. There is carbon in the sponge if I understand it right. Well. It's heavy. 80g uncut and 54g cut. The sponge is so very hard. I'm used to DHS H3N 41deg, but this feels much harder. Compared to H3N, this one has less spin, not very much catapult. Can't say that the control is so good. The top sheet is quite hard as well, so that could be why spin isn't that high. A bit of a disappointment to me. When playing away from the table you have to concentrate on be able to hit the ball so hard that you get it over the net, so the brush looping is just not an option any more.

Uso questa gomma sul rovescio. La mia opinione è questa: sono rimasto molto colpito dal controllo e dalla velocità di questa gomma. Non ha una velocità da 10 ma puoi mettere la palla esattamente dove vuoi con molta potenza. Non romperai il tavolo i tuoi colpi avranno tanto spin e profondità. Per chi proviene da gomme tensore e vuole provare una via di mezzo con una cinese potrebbe essere perfetta. Da provare senza dubbio.

LOKI, a new brand for modern table tennis and the NON-CELLUID ball era. A popular brand among many Elite and Pro players for the high performence, many options, new unique technology. LOKI Arthur Asia rubber, made in germany, comes with a new typ Of carbon sponge and unique tech. The LOKI - ICT - Internal Carbon Force tech. The ICT carbon crystal sponge is very hard and heavy. Gives you very high speed, very good control and extremly good spin serve/returns, loops. The rubber acts good control drive, smash, returns and blocks. But its much less bouncy, less tensor effect compares to ”eurorubbers” also less bounce than LOKIs other rubbers such as Loki GTX Pro, Nano 80 with more. This Arthur Asia rubber its a good turn over if you come from softer, slower rubbers and want a fast rubber with good control an precision, balance very good with hard blades and also worh softer blades wood blades, but recomended with harder wood, carbon blades such as Loki black flame, Violent 9 or Wang Hao honour or classic blade. I havent tried this with ulz, alc, clz or super clz blades. Speed, spin and control are excellent, less bounce/tensor than other rubbers with softer sponge. The rubber ”forms, suits” better after a few sessions of training. The price are very very good, durability are good. If you want more bounce/tensor tuning, factory or own tuning recomended.

Some of the reviews gave 10's and 9.8 for speed. That is very overrated. This should be a 8.5 for speed, in my opinion. It's faster than H3, Target, but it is slower than Big Dipper, Battle 2, Bloom Power, Moon Speed, AK47. The speed is good, spin is fine, but the control stands out in my opinion. It's relatively easy to execute drives, loops, blocks with consistency. Balanced rubber. The biggest issue is that it is extremely heavy. Maybe the heaviest rubber I have ever seen. If you need a specific weight, this rubber will mess up your overall weight badly. Depending on what you want, there may be better and cheaper options. But if you really need control, this rubber leaves a strong impression.

Hard rubber, FH, and I use for my Nittaku Basaltec blade and works very Good. Super Spin!