Victas Triple Extra
Rubber description:
The Victas Triple-Extra is a hybrid rubber featuring a hard sponge and a grippy, slightly tacky topsheet. It occupies a performance space between modern tensor-style rubbers and traditional Chinese-style hard-sponge rubbers. The rubber provides sufficient dwell time for effective looping, yet it is less âbouncyâ than many other hybrid options, offering a more stable and direct feel for aggressive play.
Playing Characteristics
- Spin and Dwell: The topsheet offers reliable grip for spin generation, particularly on serves and loops. While it possesses a slight stickiness, it does not require the extreme arm speeds associated with traditional Chinese tacky rubbers to activate its spin potential.
- Speed and Control: It is characterized as a medium-fast rubber. Due to the hardness of the sponge, it rewards players who can engage the rubber with proper technique. It provides a more predictable, flatter trajectory on smashes compared to softer Chinese-style rubbers, making it effective for flat-hitting and close-to-the-table aggressive play.
- Suitability: The rubber is well-suited for forehand use, particularly on stiffer blades. It is also utilized by some players as an inverted backhand option for aggressive play, including âtwiddlingâ strategies for long-pips users. It responds well to boosting, which can enhance its overall responsiveness and liveliness.
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Recent Reviews
#1 â April 2023
Review
Overall, I am giving this rubber a 10/10 rating. Of all the rubbers I have tried on my forehand (H3N/palioak47/friendship super fx/pf4/Bluegrip C2), this is the best so far. It is also a good backhand rubber, but only if you know how to play with it. I am using it on my forehand because it has a similar construction to Chinese rubbers, but the sponge is livelier. My playing style is âkung fuâ table tennis.
This is just my first day using this rubber, so I will provide an update later.
Characteristics
- Black/max/black sponge
- Looks durable
- Topsheet similar to Donic Bluegrip C2, but I think it plays better
- A bit heavy, but not as heavy as Hurricane rubbers
- Skyline tg3 on backhand is a little bit lighter
- Very spinny, but the speed can be overlooked
- Glued with Revolution No. 3 (2 layers) on an old PG7
- Good for chops, pushes, and serves
- Works better on smashes than Chinese rubbers
#2 â March 2023
Victasâ Triple-Extra rubber fills the gap between tensor-style rubbers such as Victas V>15-extra and V>20 and harder-sponge DHS H3-type rubbers including Victas Triple-Double-extra and Nittaku Pro III turbo-blue. Itâs described accurately in the Victas catalogâs âRubber Performance Table,â except for slip-resistance which is greater than V>22âs grippy rather than tacky/sticky top-sheet. Triple-Extra is appreciably less âbouncyâ than so-called âhybridâ rubbers including Tibharâs Hybrid K3 and Yasakaâs Rakza Z rubbers even when theyâre boosted. Itâs less tacky than DHS H3 âNationalâ blue (DHS #22), Nittaku Pro III turbo-blue or Victas Triple-Double-extra â but sticky enough to provide valuable dwell-time for effective looping without the need for the high arm-speeds necessary to use Chinese-type tacky-topsheet, hard-sponge rubbers effectively. As such, itâs an excellent forehand rubber for reasonably stiff blades, such as Nittakuâs Goriki-Super-Drive, especially when theyâre used with 0x long pips backhand rubber such as Tibhar D.TecS or slower Victas Curl P1V. Additional benefits of Victasâ Triple-Extra are that itâs (1) an excellent forehand rubber for blocking and (2) a useful transition backhand rubber for aggressive close-to-the-table, long-pips players who twiddle between backhand chop-blocks or âJakartaâ jabs using pips and backhand drives using inverted rubber. As with other Chinese-style hard-sponge rubbers, itâs much more effective when boosted and glued properly (e.g., using Falco Tempo Long or Premium boosters and Nittaku Fine Zip or DHS aquatic #15 glues).
#3 â February 2022
This rubber is very hard and not very tacky. I see no reason to use this over Victas Triple Double Extra. I think Iâd need to try boosting it to get anything out of it.
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