Customer review for DHS Hurricane 8 - 40 Degrees

External Review for DHS Hurricane 8 - 40 Degrees on October 22, 2018

This is a rubber quite similar to DHS Hurricane NEO 2, but the speed isn't that high from the beginning. Like the DHSHN2 this rubber feels/sounds a little "stiff" when hitting flat, but that's no problem for me. At first the feel is that it's quite slow, but after a couple of training sessions it comes alive and I felt that the control is much better than the DHSHN2. Much easier to block and to push and chop from near and far from the table. Perhaps a little more spin in the loops than DHSHN2. This was the RED, MID hardness version.

(A couple of months later) Now I bought a couple of H8 2.2mm H40, and put one of them on my old Stiga Allround wood, but they felt totally different from the one I used earlier in the review. They were very bouncy, and the speed was too high to feel that you have good control. So on this old blade there was a huge difference between the rubbers.

I put the H8 2.2 H40 Black on a RITC 729 V6 blade, that theoretically should be a lot faster than my old Allround blade, and it all fell in place. Very strange, but now the H8 is much more nice and controllable, and with a well used H2NEO 2.15mm H39 on my backhand that feels quite soft and full of control, I have a new favourite bat. The H8 could be compared to a H3NEO 2.15 H39, but not as catapultic in the top spin/loop game and a bit more control. I may add that the first H8 at the top of the review wasn't so heavy, but the latter two I got was much more heavy. Weight cut 2.2mm H40: 50-55g. 2.15mm H39: 49-56g

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