Customer review for Yasaka Rakza XX

External Review for Yasaka Rakza XX on August 1, 2024

I was playing with Rakza from the early beginning, last half a year with hybrids (mainly with d09c), and now switching back to tensors
So glued Rakza XX on both sides to the Yasaka Reinforce AC blade (82g).
From the first shots, it was clear that the speed is on another level after previous Rakza rubbers. Then I realized that having adopted the technique to hybrid rubber for spinning the ball with the forward movement the Rakza XX is a beast - it generates tons of spin and speed. And unlike hybrid rubbers, you can spin the ball even without engaging the sponge (09c can't do that) to play the soft spinny ball with high trajectory of just a short spinny ball.
After some time it is easy to get used to it on a forehand and serves, on a backhand I feel much improvement in a counters game, speed game, but still, I am not used to it when looping the ball from backspin on a backhand side. Still have to use to it a little for that or move back to a Rakza X (but again with Rakza X I will lose in speed and counters game).
But my forehand became a beast with that rubber.
So in short - a good combination of elastic and soft topsheet with a slightly harder (compared to Rakza 9) but still highly porous sponge with big bubbles gives a way to improve your game after you get used to it.

I think that the past experience with the Dignics 09c rubber have a positive effect when switching back to Rakza, because with Dignics you are learning to play all the strokes forward (more or less but the forward part is necessary), otherwise the ball was falling from the rubber with loud grippy sound. Having this applied to Rakza XX and the Rakza's possibility of playing the ball without engaging the sponge gives a perfect rubber for the all-round game with the focus on attack

After switching to this rubbers I become more unpredictable to opponents, faster and more stable. As as a result I have grown in table tennis ranking in my country

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