Customer review for Victas Curl P1V OX

External Review for Victas Curl P1V on November 13, 2023

Bottom line - this is not the same rubber as TSP Curl P1-R, at least in my opinion. (I play red with either 1.0 or 1.5.sponge). The two rubbers are similar and the sponge seems identical, but the pips are a slightly different colour and feel less flexy on the Victas and are maybe a bit thinner and coarser. The result is that the Victas version is a very stable chopping rubber that can make masses of spin (maybe even more than the TSP), but this is at the expense of some of the effect, and the Victas, at least to me, is just not that dangerous. I did a comparison by playing two matches against a high-level looper at my club, deliberately playing with the pips as much as possible and twiddling - with the Victas it was 3-2 to me, and with the TSP it was 3-0. He said the first match was a "challenge" and the second was a "nightmare". In short, Victas have taken the devil out of the pip, or maybe the devil just got lost. I would guess this is a result of less flexy and more grippy pips. Admittedly, the old TSP had a crazy demon in it for 3 months and then became a bit more stable and played more similar to the Victas, but it still had more effect, especially on chops. That's not to criticise the Victas or to say it has no effect - it is easier to play with and more forgiving than the TSP, and chops (partly as a result of the confidence you have when playing with it) are deeper and even more loaded whilst pushes still give decent wobble. But the funk and dodgy bounces and unpredictability when knifing chops were something I relied on to get pop ups playing modern defence with the TSP, and the Victas does not give nearly as much of any of those effects. Maybe I could activate it better with more table time, but I have ordered a Dawei 388D-1 to see if it is an alternative to the Victas as the TSP is getting more and more difficult to acquire nowadays.

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