Customer review for XIOM Vega Pro

Review by boblobw for XIOM Vega Pro on June 13, 2019

TL;DR: Get the Europe instead unless you are very strong.

I've played with this for a year thinking I would eventually grow into it and I never really did. I thought it might be a reasonable upgrade from Mark V on my dominant side (FH) on a relatively soft blade (primorac wood) but for me it's way too unforgiving. It works well if you brush the ball extremely quickly, and some days I feel like I can do this with reasonable consistency. My issue is that when I start missing, I want to be able to switch to some more controlled shots and then work up the speed. With the Europe I can do this, but with the Pro, moving the bat slower doesn't really add much accuracy because the hard rubber doesn't "activate", so I just continue to miss and miss.

From my perspective, the Europe is *almost as good* at super fast, spinny shots, and much safer and better at everything else. Lifting backspin is a totally different experience--you can really feel the ball and lift at a variety of different speeds, whereas with the Pro you must strike it extremely fast to lift above the net, and it's just so hard to do this consistently, even on my dominant side.

I don't have experience with a ton of different rubbers so I fear this may be more of a review of a "hard rubber" vs "soft rubber", but nobody told me what I needed to hear, which was to stick with softer rubbers even on a pure wood blade on FH, so I thought I'd put it out there: If you're not an experienced competitive player who drills difficult shots multiple times per week, you'll enjoy much better accuracy (and very good speed and spin too) with the Vega Europe.

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