New Rubber : Adidas P3

Harga : USD40.00 

Origin: Germany

In late 2010, Adidas entered the market of table tennis equipments.Adidas launched four rubbers in two families at first. The two rubber families are P series (Performance series)  and R series (Response series). P (Performance) series are for professional or skilled players who demand good spin capability of rubber. R (Response) series are for amateur players who prefer speed to spin. The most advanced German rubber technology is applied for all these rubbers. So these rubbers provide best performance in respective categories, though there isn’t much room of choice.

P series may be the mainstream of Adidas rubbers. There are two brothers in this family - P5 and P3. This two rubbers are German TENSOR rubbers though Adidas doesn’t use the logo of TENSOR. And, these are classified as spin-oriented tension rubbers (like Tenergy series). P5 has the appearance of spin-oriented tension rubber of “extreme” type (= Tenergy 05 type), but its characteristics is quite different from the rubbers of conventional “extreme” type from the other companies. P3 has the appearance of spin-oriented tension rubber of “intermediate” type (= Tenergy 64 type), and its characteristics is also those of intermediate type. But, P3 is softer and faster than most of the rubbers of its class.

Comments from users...

Have played for about 10 hours with Adidas P3 rubber - max thickness on both sides:
I found it really nice - used to play with Tenergy 05 in the past but was quite bothered by the high throw and a certain degree of unpredictability. With P3 there were so many loops that flew off my bat and seemed to go long only to curve in and land inside. With Tenergy if i did not change the angle of the bat while switching from BH to FH, the ball would go long - P3 is so much more forgiving - a swing is all that is required - so much less to think of the angle while looping Speed almost the same as Tenergy. Blocking however is much better and so is the counter game from close and middle distance. Pushes are spinny and deep and rarely does the ball pop over. Sound is great - kind of like a gunshot when one blocks a fast drive. I for one did not find too much of a difference in the catapult effect of T05 and P3. T05 on the other hand does have more spin in looping and the ball seems to bite deeper in the rubber than in P3. On the whole I found P3 to be more controllable with the speed and spin being right up there which makes me wonder why it is not getting as much publicity as it should get. Where I come from P3 is less than half the price of a T05 and so great value for money.

i have been playing P3 for almost 10 weeks, what i have to say that it is very gooooood...
i would compare this rubber to T64 instead of T05...
it is faster, better control than T64...
not sensitive to incomming spin...
a real excellent rubber...

I played with P3, and it is a good rubber all around, but it does not have the dwell time and spin of Tenergy 05 or 64. It's a really good rubber, especially coming from a company so new to the tt scene, but I can't see players switching from Tenergy 05/64 to P3 until something can be done about the spin and dwell time. Other Euro rubbers, such as Hexer or the Acuda S2 have a little more dwell time and spin imo.    P/S: Saper nak order??? Bagitau aku...kita beli in-bulk, boleh save shipping cost