5 Reviews for Donic BlueGrip S1

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External Review for Donic BlueGrip S1 on December 20, 2023

Good rubber! The average user ratings are about right. Good at about pretty much everything with good technique. Although the rubber is fairly quick It's a rubber that's primarily focused on good spin and control. I appreciate that it's pretty linear. 1400-1700 usatt loopers would like this rubber a lot. Lots of gears. Losses a bit of tackiness but seems to keep playing the same.

In my opinion it plays like a softer nittaku hurricane pro 3 orange sponge

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External Review for Donic BlueGrip S1 on June 29, 2023

At first I felt this rubber was a bit slow for bh, but it started to grow on me. It's a tradeoff. With the extra tackiness, you get more control on opening loops, serves, pushes. But you lose ease of block, you lose some speed compared to standard ESN rubber.

Over time this rubber really grew on me and I started to love it more and more. Basically with this rubber you can play 5% slower but 15% higher quality. To really take advantage of the rubber, you need to play more active with more loops, more flicks, etc. Using the rubber to actively spin is the key. The rubber doesn't not block and play straight as well as the type of G1 or MXP rubber.

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External Review for Donic BlueGrip S1 on May 21, 2023

Topsheet is rather tacky and soft. The rubber as a whole plays a little softer than the medium hard sponge suggests. Catapult effect is at the lower high end. Spin production at low speeds/serves is very high. Spin at high speeds is moderately high. Spin definitely needs to be generated by using the topsheet to brush the ball.
Throw angle is not too high which i like.
But both the throw and speed have a huge range due to the very effective hybrid construction, so it adds a lot of variability to your strokes. Short game is amazing with this rubber with lots of control and spin if you want it. Rather insensitive to incoming spin as a tacks rubber should be.
I played it on my BH and liked it more than on FH as the catapult unlocks more gears for BH than FH. It can both kill balls and brush spinny loops while at the same time having a very good short game and serve.
i definitely see it more as a BH rubber.

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External Review for Donic BlueGrip S1 on January 19, 2023

Bluegrip S1 is good transition between chinesisch rubber as Big Dipper and euro rubber as Dynaryz ACC. Slightly tacky surface with high grip , enough speed , very good spin. Sponge 47,5 from Acuda S1 , blue color. This rubber has good control in passive shots and sufficient speed and power by powered shots. Spinny loops und service.

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External Review for Donic BlueGrip S1 on October 27, 2022

Throw angle is roughly the same as S2.
The throw distance for topspin is definitely longer and faster than S2.
Overall a good hybrid to transition to higher degree sponge hybrids, from say 42.5 beginning with the S2.

My plan is to use this as a step stepping stone to ~50 hybrids like K3 or 09c.
For weight reasons probably the former as the K3 is significantly lighter than 09c.

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