Speed glue effect, but without speed glue

Alois, Jeff,

The past weekend, I managed to peel off the Sriver red from my blade, and reglue it due to the formation of air bubbles between sponge and blade.  Owing to curiosity, I did try gluing with Butterfly Fair Chack, which is a speed glue I think.  I places the racquet under a big pile of documents to have an 8-hour pressure on the rubber.

I played table tennis on Monday for the first time after this gluing, and much to my amazement, I could not believe the rubber suddenly came alive, looping using soft and light touches (almost not hearing any ball knocking sound) on the ball during brushing could still produce amazing great amount of top spin and the ball cleared the net with higher % of success even on incoming backspin ball.  Jeff used Sriver glued before, and now I fully understand and appreciate the meaning when Jeff mentioned we could tend to be "lazy" not needing so much of focus and accurate precision of bat angle, knocking/brushing ratio to get a ball looped successfully. 

Anyhow, this speed glue effect only last one day, and just hours ago Tuesday, I need to place so much attention again on how I loop and techniques become important again.  In this way, no speed glue effect might be good for training and progress, but I love and miss that feeling... I understand there are tensors or high tension rubbers around which is legal now...but I wish your advice if I can give another trial to the gluing of the rubber but this time using fit chack or clean chack (both ITTF approved non speed glue currently), but I have to manually stretch the rubber to make it expand before the sealing. 

Question is, will this method create the so called speed glue effect to the rubber?  And will the rubber tends to recover to shape after gluing? (since rubber is elastic, I stretch it, but I think it may recover to the original size) 

Thanks, Lionel....

Hi Lionel,

Whenever you glue a rubber it will liven it up a littele as the glue will have effect on the sponge.  Most gluse effect will only last a little while and it won't be the same as a speed glue effect.

You can stretch the rubber when gluing it and they will return pretty much to their original shape.