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Chinese Table Tennis Sweden is created to be able to offer many variants of Chinese table tennis products to players, and at decent prices. We order home the products we know are good and affordable and will in time expand the range with more products. If there are requests for products we do not have in the store, get in touch at [email protected]. Most things should be possible to arrange.
We mostly take home products from the Asian market, which not many others market. Many have similar product variants, but may not specialize in different sponge hardnesses and variants like us.
Here you will find cheap blades and rubbers, which are often suitable for young people and beginners, but also more advanced products for players who have been around for a long time and play higher up in the league system. We have many tailor-made solutions for clubs that need a simpler racket for beginners and younger people. Instead of buying factory-ready solutions, which are perhaps more suitable for the leisure center, or the home player, you can get really good durable equipment here, which is ITTF-approved at a very favorable price. Then it is much easier to change the rubbers on a racket we put together, than a factory-made one that is not made for this purpose.
All rubbers / rackets are approved by the ITTF for international competition play unless otherwise stated in the description.
Many products' reviews are personal and some are downloaded from forums such as https://revspin.net/. This is to be able to give as good a picture as possible of the properties, but we can not stand for external sources' opinions, so read it with a pinch of salt :) The knowledge about the Chinese products at Chinese Table Tennis Sweden stretches from 80- century, so we know what we are talking about and evaluate new products as they appear on the market.
Differences between Chinese and European backside rubbers are largely that the Europeans often have a tensor function, which means that you get a little more than the force you put into your strokes, while Chinese rubbers are usually more linear in their structure and you get back what you puts in. European rubbers are then more often "bouncy", easier to play with when you do not need the same force in the strokes as with the Chinese, but on the other hand, the Chinese are usually easier to play a shorter game, as the ball does not activate the sponge in the same way and is more efficient when you as a child and young person develop your technology.
If you look at the newer euro / jap hybrid rubbers, they have harder sponges similar to the Chinese, but usually the sticky surface layer is a little more elastic than the Chinese, so the function is a little different anyway.
As for the hardness of the sponge, there are different scales in which it is measured. This is different between the different manufacturers, but if you look at e.g. Andro Rasanter R50, so there is a hardness of 50 in the sponge that is measured in the scale Shore O. This is a fairly hard rubber with a more elastic surface layer. A DHS Hurricane 3 NEO rubber with a sponge hardness of 41 is measured on another scale, Shore A. This rubber has a hardness corresponding to around 54 in Shore O, and the fact that it then has a harder surface layer makes the feeling even harder. This is good to know when comparing Chinese and European rubbers. The fungus hardness of the Chinese rubbers is sometimes not exactly science, so it can differ somewhat from one rubber to another, but from what we have experienced, you end up about right.
Hope we can be of help :)