Customer review for Stiga Airoc S

External Review for Stiga Airoc S on December 2, 2019

Stiga rubbers used to be for me like revelation. When I first tested Innova Ultra Light, it was for me like an upgrade in my playstyle. From that time, I developped very good serves and spins. My game and level increase such as my adversaries', so did my material. I went to Calibra LT, with an ALL+ wood and that was terrible ... So for this season, I changed everything with Stiga Offensive CR WRB, mounted with Airoc S on both sides. New revelation ! New pleasure at the table ! Lot of winning serves, mid and away of table topspins are amazingly spinny and precise. Feel like I can put everything on the table, due to the security lead by the throwing angle quite high. It's almost like you have the ball in your hand.
I can also spin cut balls with ease. Lot of control while blocking. Perfect for agressive gameplay, against modern players.
Of course, such as most of soft blades (all?) it's quite hard at short game with no effect. The high throw angle is hard to control (with hard blade of course, but with soft blades, it's less interesting at topspinning) - so the ball often goes up and turns to punishment. I'm bad at smashing, and this rubber adds to this difficulty due to high trhowing angle. On high balls you almost have to smash it on your side if you want the ball to hit the table. Even if I'm bad, I have a percentage of missed ball of almost ... 95%. Speed and angle obliterates the control and high balls must be played another way (even if I must be a large part of the 95% XD)
Last point, I mainly serve and attack forehand, which is required in 85% of my power shots. After 6 month, 1 training session a week + matches on the weekend + 2 tournaments on the period, my forehand rubber is quite marked ! Still spinning, a bit harder and not so trustworthy as it was at first. Throwing angle faded a bit too. It's still a good blade, I'm not changing it now but will come back when it's time for me to change.

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