Donic Acuda Blue P1
Rubber description
This rubber is a tensor-style sheet characterized by a balanced, medium feel and a focus on spin-oriented play. It features a grippy, semi-tacky topsheet paired with a porous sponge that provides high elasticity. The rubber is designed to be highly effective for players who prefer to stay close to or at a medium distance from the table, offering a blend of speed and precision that suits both forehand and backhand applications.
Performance and Playing Characteristics
- Spin and Control: The rubber offers high spin potential, allowing for easy looping and effective ball placement. It is noted for its ability to “grab” the ball, which makes it particularly strong during touch play and short-game scenarios. Users report a high level of control, attributed to a linear response that provides predictability during shots.
- Speed and Trajectory: While capable of producing significant speed close to the table, the rubber requires more physical effort to generate power from long distances. The ball trajectory is generally described as a low to medium arch, offering a stable and reliable flight path.
- Feel and Responsiveness: Despite its efficiency, the rubber avoids an overly hard sensation, maintaining a comfortable medium feel. It replaces the aggressive, erratic catapult effect found in some classic tensor rubbers with a more consistent, dense, and linear response, making it easier to handle modern poly balls.
Also Known As
- Chinese: 蓝火P1 (slang: Acuda P1, 蓝火)
- Japanese: アクーダ ブルー P1 (slang: ブルーP1)
- German: (slang: P1)
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Recent Reviews
#1 — October 2026
I tested the Acuda Blue P1 for approximately four or five training sessions on a Butterfly Harimoto ZLC blade. By that point I already had plenty of experience with the original Acuda S series, so I was interested in finding out whether the Blue P1 was a genuine step forward or simply a different interpretation of a familiar formula. Unfortunately, I found it to be a step backward.
My biggest problem was the lack of a clear, defined feeling on contact. Hitting the ball felt almost like hitting it into a gummy candy: soft, vague, and with very little useful feedback. Close to the table and at mid-distance it was reasonably playable, but nothing stood out. Farther from the table, it started to feel distinctly underpowered. For something positioned as an offensive rubber, it never gave me the decisive attacking response I was looking for.
The original Acuda S family was not perfect, but it had character. I particularly liked the S1 Turbo and S2; even the S3 was a perfectly respectable rubber. The standard S1 was probably the weakest of that range for me, yet all of them were fundamentally usable attacking rubbers. I expected the revised sponge and topsheet geometry of the Blue P1 to build on that foundation, especially for the plastic-ball era. Instead, the changes seemed to work against each other.
Although the P1 has a nominally 47.5-degree sponge, its topsheet felt too soft for that sponge. On impact, I could feel the topsheet yielding first, followed by a delayed and poorly integrated response from the sponge. The result was not a satisfying, unified rebound. Sometimes the ball seemed to drop off the racket unexpectedly. At other times, a stroke that should have produced a powerful, high-quality attack gave me little more than a modest increase in speed. Extra pace is not particularly useful if the quality and reliability of the shot are missing.
Overall, the Acuda Blue P1 was a clear disappointment. After four or five sessions, I had seen enough and moved on.
#2 — February 2018
Easy to play with
This rubber is easy to play with, especially with the current poly ball. It’s very easy to loop the 40+ ball and spin.
Consistent performance
I felt like I wouldn’t go wrong using this rubber. However, it’s hard to play in long distance.
Versatile
I’m using this rubber on both forehand and backhand.
#3 — January 2018
Very good rubber for both forehand and backhand.
It has great speed and touch, giving excellent control. The speed is there, the spin is there, medium throw, but it shines in control, amazing. Kinda soft.
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