Customer review for DHS C8

External Review for DHS C8 on January 23, 2012

I sometimes read that DHS C8 is not good at chopping. I am a defender, and I tried many LP (Grass D-Tecs, P1R, Octopus, Feint long 2, Neptune, Piranja Fd Tec). The fact is C8 is truely excellent at chopping with a pretty soft blade like Matsushita Pro, but not as effectice with a hard one like Joo Se Hyuk Blade or Toccata.

With a "soft" wood (or medium-soft), C8 with 1mm sponge (or 1,2mm) provides very hard-to-read backspin variations. Sometimes the ball is highly dangerous with a lot of backspin, sometimes the ball is nearly a dead one. It depends on the incoming spin and how strong you chop the ball, of course. This phenomena is far less effective with hard blades, but is very deceptive with Matsushita Pro (best balde ever IMO^^) or Tibhar CO-S 3 for example, or TSP Balsa 3,5.

Returning serves gives headache to opponent since C8 is not sensitive to incoming spin, and can allow high backspin pushes as well as no-spin balls.

This LP is quite a "speedy" pimpled rubber if used with hard blade ; with a soft one, the "brushing time" while chopping is by far longer and makes a hugje spin reversal, even on the very first chop (increasing to reach undescent backspin).

Chhose a soft blade, and give it a try! Chop chop machina woooooot :)

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