7 Reviews for Victas VS>402 Double Extra

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on December 11, 2022

I was very curious when I saw the designation subtitle of this rubber ("for the flexible allrounder"), which I think, does make sense looking at its playing characteristics. Somehow, Victas managed to produce something rather unseen amongst many ESN produced rubbers. The base recipe is a hefty, but only medium firm rubber topsheet with a hard 50 degree sponge, but there is an additional twist, which is the horizontal pimple geometry of the topsheet (this makes the coupling with the sponge to be felt more direct), which I haven't seen in ESN manufactured rubbers so far. This recipe also translates to a hard enough feeling on powerful strokes, but with good deformation ability and longer ball contact time on less powerful strokes, acting as a dampening buffer zone, which makes execution of good quality underspin/sidespin shots and precise power adjustments (short game, blocking, drop shots) very easy. This dampening effect is most noticeable, when the rubber is new, but is still definitely there later on. However, the sponge underneath is lively enough, so while this rubber is not meant to be used to win points by speed, it is still usable in mid-distance play, and can be effective on both sides for spin-dominant strategies (of course, larger than usual swings are rewarded with greater pressure potential). The throw angle seems to be medium/medium-high, so the arcs are safe. However, hitting countertopspin on low backspin ball feels a bit more difficult because of the lacking initial bounce and longer contact time, but in turn, this makes blocking extra secure, and staying in rally is easy in most of the situations. It's worth mentioning, that while Victas makes silver wrappings for their (at least slightly) tacky rubbers, this rubber is not tacky at all. For people thinking ESN rubbers are too bouncy, this rubber is a good candidate to try, as it plays very reliably to support the player truly as an allrounder (my favourite for this purpose) even at higher levels.

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on October 18, 2019

It is ok

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on April 23, 2019

Fast and high throw rubber, great for smashing and lifting the backspin. Due to the high throw the rubber is only decent at blocking and chopping. The spin is high but slighty less than tenergy. Overall the rubber is better for offensive strokes rather defensive ones. I prefer vs 401.

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on April 20, 2018

Very grippy surface-good spin and loop.....but brush loops slip off at times with a squeaky noise....we need to hit hard,so the ball sinks in th sponge and then spin is amazing,good speed to.Good med high arc,shots land deep,ball rarely goes out as its not super fast.Blocks are good too.But best blocking rubber is rakza 7 soft and gold arc-8.Spin is less than baracuda,but the sponge does not bottom out even on hard hits,catapult is quite good-amazing infact.Ball slips off the rubber if footwork is not good and u can't reach the ball to hit hard---so this rubber will fail if we don't hit hard.So its difficult to get balls on the table unless u are fast and have good footwork to reach the ball to be able to swing real hard and activate the sponge-unlike other soft rubbers that can make shots even at awkward angles.

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on September 28, 2017

A spinny rubber (not so much as 401 but -10% I think), it is faster that 401 and it suits more the allround game. You can attack easy (I have the 1.8 and still have the speed for offensive game and in the same time has good control for block). It is lighter that 401 also. The main problem I think it is that has high throw angle... instead of "medium" ratings that I saw here I see in my trainings that I can't chop with low straight ball like 401...most of the times after a good spin if I try to chop the ball goes up and thats a problem if you want to chop far from the table. Maybe its better for blocking near the table or as a backhand rubber.

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on November 30, 2015

After trying many different forehand rubbers to fitt my defencive tactics I landed on this one. The 402 Double Extra gives you, as a defender oppertunities for supriseattacking and easily controll the speed when you chop. No mater how your opponent loop you can allways make strong backspin chops and still have controll with this rubber. If you are a defender that does not chop with the forehand i would recommend that you consider using a regular more offencive rubber for attacking.

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External Review for Victas VS>402 Double Extra on September 23, 2014

Bevor I tried the Victas 402 DE 2.0, I played Victas VS 401 and Tenergy 05 on forehand. I´m a forehand orientated player with a very strong fast an spinny forehand topspin playing this with chinese technique with a long arm. My german TTR-Score is between 1750-1700.

Topsheet and Sponge: The topsheet is the same like VS 401 completly non-tacky but very very grippy. High elastic with short pips. While T05 has longer pips 0,9 to 0,8mm, the topsheet of VS 402 DE is thicker then Tenergy 05 (0,9 to 0,8mm)The sponge hardness ist 50° shore a bit harder then Tenergy 05 sponge and clearly softer than VS401.

Weight: The 402 is heavy but not so extrem heavy like the 401. The weight with package ist between 107 and 112g. in 2,0mm. I took one with 107g. Without package the weight is 73,3g ...and on my Blade (Nittaku KVU 166x158mm) the weight is 55,5g (Tenergy 05 51g, VS401=59g).

Spin: The Spin is amazing and on the same level like VS401 an maybe a little bit more than the T05.

Speed: The speed on standart topspin ist a bit faster in comparison with 401 because the sponge softer with more speedglue effect. In comparison to Tenergy 05 the 402 DE is a littel bit slower. On very fast topspin with long arm the 402 ist a little bit slower than the VS401 because of the softer sponge. I think VS 401 and T05 are here on the same level, while T05 is faster when the amount of Impact is between 50 and 95 % on Topspin.

Control: This is one of the biggest advantages against T05. The T05 is little bit tricky, you have to stand always very good to the ball with Tenergy 05 and your footwork must be excellent. If not Tenergy ist not very forgiveness when your technique is not perfect. The window of the Bladeangel is much smaler on Tenergy 05 against VS 402 DE. If the bladeangel or racketangel on Topspin dosen´t fit the the ball goes out or in the net with Tenergy 05. This window of correct bladeangel on topspin is much bigger with VS402 DE. So the error-ratio is much smaller.

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