Stiga Mantra Sound

A little softer rubber with nice feeling, but definitely not slow when you play on harder blades. Nice straight trajectory with great control, best-smelling rubber IMO lol, very light, highly recommended.

Stiga Mantra Sound: This is the rubber for players with finesse to their game! Very intuitive with the feel on contact with the ball. The rubber absorbs the ball, giving it a good dwell time and catapults it. You clearly feel the contact with the blade, this making you enjoy your strokes.

It is a close-to-the-table to mid-distance rubber. Good for fast counter-punching close to the table. So good for blocks. The rubber returns fast balls from the where you only extend the rubber towards the ball to your own amazement. Not the fastest rubber out there, but what is fast when you have control? I play it with Stiga Cybershape blade, a sweet combination.

I love this rubber sheet!

Quite a grippy topsheet. Bright red sponge. This is a Daiki-made rubber (Japanese rubber factory). Doesn’t feel like an ESN-made (German) rubber of the same sponge hardness (42 degree). Feels a bit firmer than the 42 degree ESN rubbers that I’ve tried. It also feels more linear than that, and may have even more gears. I prefer how it feels on flexible blades. Stiffer blades don’t seem to add the throw that I prefer. On flexible blades, the “tension” is in the wood—when you engage that, the rubber really throws the ball harder (longer too). Quite like a traditional Japanese rubber.

Speed and spin under control. Very consistent rubber. Medium-high arc.