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Most amateur players do not have a clue (or knwo but afraid of social repercussions) about how a tabletennis rubber can be used either as a highly functional rubber or as a purely social (dysfunctionla) rubber depending on mode of usage on weakside (usually backhand for most) or strongside (usually ...

The most popular social rubber is the spinverted rubber. Spinverted rubber is commonly known as spinny inverted or smooth or reverse or pips-in rubber. For a player's strong side (usually forehand) , spinverted rubber is practically the BEST functionl rubber (though short pips is theoretcially the b...

Keep in mind this applies mostly to amateur (but competitive) players
1. Using social rubbers as their weakside (usually backhand) rubber
2. NOT using OX long pips but using sponge under long pips (f your rating is below USATT 2200 or so). Does not matter if you are chopper or a blocker