Most of these pips come without sponge (ox) because it allows me to customize to the specs of each order. If I tried to carry every possible permutation of sponge under each pip I'd go mad. The dawei lightning pip is what used to be called cannon, and even it is at least the quality of sponge as what any of these factory versions would carry if I ordered them preassembled, and mostly better. I have a button below to make it a $4 upcharge using cannon/lightning sponge (38-40deg).

Or if you want to consider some of the higher quality sponges, look on the tops/sponge page. To be honest, at 1.0 and lower I don't really think it matters WHAT sponge you pick. I can't tell the difference when it's that thin anyway. I'll assemble the top to the sponge for you, which by the way is no easy task with some of these thin-backed chinese pips, so please forgive me if it's not quite factory perfect at times. It will be close enough or I'll start over and do it again. I just got in some ultrasoft 30deg sponge I'm calling "dawei butter" that would offer great control with short pips.

Also, I carry a lot of odd pips that I don't have room to list here, so if you have a request, shoot me an email and maybe I have it. Currently I'm carrying galaxy pluto, uranus, neptune, 955, palio 561, dfish 802a, dawei regular 388d1 and c1, just off the top of my head. Most of those are $5 or below without sponge. C1 is a softer medium pip that you can actually chop with a bit that sells pretty well.

For those of you who are "combination players," that is you use inverted on the forehand and some type of "junk" rubber on the backhand, a good friend of mine is putting on an online clinic on the techniques involved in that style of play. If you're interested, check out this link: Greg's Online Coaching Program

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Thickness

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Air Panamera Short Pips - SALE $16
Price: $18 Color RedBlack Thickness 1.51.82.0 Panamera combines a softer, spinnier short pip with a soft 33deg sponge and a thick base sheet. This makes it quite spinny even for a short pip. Very controllable, but with the speed and hitting of a short pip.

AIR UPUPUP - SALE $12 (topsheet only)

Price: $16 Color RedBlack Type U5 MediumUQ SoftUS Combination I'm putting my best long pips topsheet on sale for $10, but only as an ox topsheet. If you want sponge you have to buy it seperately using the add a sponge button above, or by custom ordering your sponge. I have it factory made on 0.6, so if you use the add a sponge button you will get the factory sponge. Otherwise I'll have to glue it myself.

Air Panamera Topsheet
Price: $10 Color RedBlack Long pips This is a wide pip with a thick base sheet. Very spinny for a pip, but still hits with great control

Air Classique
Price: $10 Color RedBlack Med-Short pips This is a short pip designed for classic hardbat play. Medium spin, good dwell. As versatile as a harbatters game. It is ITTF approved and legal in regular events, but not on the list of approved rubbers for US hardbat events. This rubber is designed to use no sponge and I don't recommend it to be put on sponge. Picture coming soon.

National Team Pogo
Price: $8 Color RedBlack Long pips One of the long pips I don't know much about, but was persuaded to carry by long pips users

Dawei 388d-1 Quattro
Price: $10 Color RedBlack Long pips This is a semi-soft long pip that still gives some reversal, so it's kind of positioned between blocking and chopping. If you sink the ball you can get some spin from the sides of the pips. I have it factory made on 0.6, so if you use the add a sponge button you will get the factory sponge. Otherwise I'll glue it here using cannon.

SavigaV Long Pips - OUT OF STOCK
Price: $10 SavigaV RedBlack Long pips Right now I really don't know when or if this topsheet will become available again. I recommend U5 as a replacement.

Bomb Talent
Price: $14.00 Color RedBlack Long pips Another tricky long pips that I've been requested to carry.

XiYing 979
Price: $12.00 Color RedBlack Long pips I'm carrying this pips because two good long pips players have told me this is the slowest pip they know of. So if your aim is to take as much off the ball as possible, this should be a good choice.

Meteor 8512

Price: $10.00 Color RedBlack 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. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS TOPSHEET, I AM CURRENTLY NOT ABLE TO PUT THIS ONTO SPONGE FOR CUSTOMERS...SORRY.

Dr Evil

Price: $10 Color RedBlack Short pips A short pip made of an less spinny 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 due to the thick, inert base sheet.

Peacekeeper OX

Price: $8 Color RedBlack 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.

RITC 802-40
Price: $12 Color RedBlack Short pips A very thick, soft short pip that gives excellent spin. Thick base sheet. Sorry about the price...it costs me more than twice as much as other friendship tops.

RITC 802
Price: $5.50 Color RedBlack 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. I'm also keeping one each red and black of 802-1 on hand as well.

799
Price: $5.50 Color RedBlack 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.

563
Price: $5.50 Color RedBlack 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.

837
Price: $5.50 Color RedBlack Long pips 837 is not a max reversal kind of top. But it's also one of the easiest to attack with and to control in general. So this is more of a long hitting pip.

755
Price: $5.50 Color RedBlack 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 with a 1.0 sponge. And she DIDN'T chop with it.

Doublefish 1615
Price: $10.00 Color RedBlack Long pips A decent reversal long pips with a loyal fan base. Fairly stiff. Seems like more for blocking and hitting to me.