Add Sponge to your topsheet - $4
| Dawei 388d-1 Quattro - OUT OF STOCK IN RED OX | |
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Price: $10 Long pips Dawei's newest long pips. They claim it's an improvement over the SavigaV pips, which are by most accounts pretty good. Dawei says there's more reversal yet more control. I'm not sure this is possible, but they do hint at a difference in surface texture between the tips and the sides of the pips. This makes for trickier guessing on the amount of reversal, depending on how deep the ball sinks into the pips. My designated testor came up with this conclusion independently, so it's probably true. OX (no sponge) price is $10. With sponge is 14. Right now in red I have only 0.6 sponge, no ox. |
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| SavigaV Long Pips | |
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Price: $10 Long pips This same long pip topsheet is sold by another brand for $45! Aggressive long pips with more reversal than other pips made for hitting. Choose no sponge, 0.6, or 1.0 soft cannon. Cost with sponge is $14. Topsheet only sells for $10. |
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| Meteor 8512 | |
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Price: $8.00 Long pips Meteor makes a lot of junky premades and stuff, but for some reason they make one of the best long pips coming out of china. This one is max funky for non-treated and still hits well. It was out of production for a while and a lot of people were sad that it was. As soon as it came back, I definitely wanted to carry it. |
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| Dawei 388b and b-1 | |
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Price: $10 Short pips A high quality short pip that is very spinny. Physical structure between 802 and 802-40, but formulation of topsheet is softer and stickier. Priced lower simply because I get a better price on it, not because of lower quality. Nice looking production and great packaging. Sponge is a very nice 35deg 1.8mm soft sponge. I also have the b-1 which has a wider pip for more spin but less ability to hit through spin. And perhaps the topsheet formula is a bit harder as well, offsetting the size of the pip in terms of spin generation to make them about equal. In fact, the b-1 is virtually a clone to the -40. |
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| Dr Evil | |
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Price: $10 Short pips A short pip made of an anti material to give a bit of reversal like a long pips. Despite not being as funky as most lp rubbers, this rubber is still quite tricky. You can put on your own spin, block back a dead knuckle, or send back quite a bit of backspin if you cut very thinly when you chop. It chops excellently actually. It returns serve extremely well. Many people have tried to put this topsheet on sponge and by all accounts it's terrible. This topsheet was made for OX use and it should not be combined with sponge. Gluing this topsheet onto the blade is very easy compared with most of my other pips ox sheets. |
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| Peacekeeper OX | |
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Price: $8 Short pips Just a little more evil than the Doctor, this is a new med/short pip made for Gambler in the image of DrEvil (by the same company) but with a slightly longer, harder pip, gearing it just a bit more toward reversal effect but still offering way more hitting control than long pips. Made especially for hardbat with a thicker base sheet than the standard version found on sponge. Like Dr Evil, this is made for OX play. Initial reports on this are very good. |
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| RITC 802 | |
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Price: $5.50 Short pips This is a very short pip rubber. Fast and fairly firm. I stock the topsheets by themselves, so can put them custom onto your sponge of choice. I recommend the 1.8 dawei lightning. |
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| 802-40 | |
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Price: $8.00 Short pips This is the highest quality short pips-out topsheet I carry. It's as spinny as many inverted rubbers. The pips are taller and knobbier than the regular 802. The base sheet is thicker. Many people use this on an expensive soft sponge of various types. I carry the topsheet solo because everybody has a different sponge preference. Cannon 1.8 soft is a great choice. |
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| 799 | |
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Price: $5.50 Medium-short pips This pip is just a little taller than 802. It feels a bit softer as a result. Makes a great hardbat pip although currently not on the short list approved by hardbat committee. |
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| 563 | |
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Price: $5.50 Medium pips 563 is a medium pip. Not reversing like a long pip, but more like an anti. It kills the spin and makes kind of a knuckle. Drives with this rubber kind of dip and are dead and very hard to lift. |
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| 837 | |
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Price: $5.50 Long pips 837 is one of the least funky, lowest reversing pips on the market. But it's also one of the easiest to attack with. It's considered the easiest pip to learn long pips with. |
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| 755 | |
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Price: $5.50 Long pips 755 long pips are more reversing than 837 but also maintain good attacking properties. Deng Yaping, the best woman ever to pick up a racket, used this rubber on her backhand. And she DIDN'T chop with it. |
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| Prashida/Doublefish 1615 | |
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Price: $8.00 Long pips Prashida 1615, made by Double Fish and also around in that brand, is considered to attack as well as 837 but be at least as funky as 755. Priced as topsheet only. Lately I have been stocking the Doublefish version, not the prashida. |
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