Customer review for Donic Acuda S2

External Review for Donic Acuda S2 on November 23, 2010

Fantastic topsheet and sponge. This rubber is an amazing spinny rubber with a throw angle very similar to Tenergy 05. It is a little slower than Tenergy because the sponge is softer than usual although not at all soft like Tenergy 05 FX. If I would compare percentage of speed with Tenergy 05, it would be 95% speed (very tiny variation).
Spin is great and spinny loops jump off of the topsheet. Power loops (drive loops, smash loops, etc.) are amazing when you get the ball into the sponge. Short game is very controlled because sponge does not react like a hard rubber, such as Platin, and, therefore, allows for short backspin returns. Pushing is great because you can control the direction of the ball with the topsheet, not having to contact the ball with the sponge (you can grab the ball with the topsheet to push).
Flipping is not as balanced as everything else though. You can't do a "satisfying" medium flip although you can get a lot of speed by the two other ways. Because of the high spin, you can do very deceptive wrist flips using a very tiny arm movement and get plenty of speed on it. With power flip, like Schlager flip or Suss flip, you get amazing control and feel. However, when you try to combine 50% power and 50% wrist, you don't get the desired speed although this is tiny problem. Difference with Tenergy is that the rubber catapults at all speed of incoming ball and Donic Acuda S2 needs a little more speed for strong catapult; however, when you make a fast ball, it can be faster than Tenergy because sponge really explodes for fast shots.
I don't know what gears are, it is probably an American thing, so I rated average because I do not know. I am going through my 6th sheet in this past 4 months (playing every day at least 2 hours) and I must say durability is impressive, especially better than old Donic rubber. It still does not last as long as the Tenergy 05, but if you compared costs, you are saving around $33 a sheet when you buy from ttnpp.com Percentage for durability compared to Tenergy is 85% and I have not received a bad Acuda S2 yet (I have probably got 1 defect Tenergy 05 out of 40 when I played with that rubber).

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