You need to get onto blue, mate - the gap between the tack on the white and blue RKEP would make you think they were different grips, never mind different colours. Blue Ultimate with resin... you can pretty much open your hand in a rally and it won't fall out.
just put the white SOFT 0.75mm one and the initial impression is great. Stretches very well (unlike G09 elite that doesnt stretch at all) and the thickness is just perfect for me on G5 handles. Not very tacky but might become better with some sweat.
Which blue? I think there's two? I had a bunch of colour G09 and gave most of them away (without trying them) as I only like using white. Might have a few left. Not keen on using resin or powder myself as my hands are very dry and hardly ever sweat during play so I need the tackiest grip available! At the moment, that has been the Artengo grips... not only have they been the tackiest so far, the tackiness lasts for a long time. I'll see if I've got any other colours left and try. Shame the white G09 isn't very tacky.
Also if you use them as undergrips under a replacement grip, when you swap them round the glue adds to the tackiness /facepalm. I think I recycle grips too much, or change my setup too often.
Isn't it better and more sensible to use the replacement grip directly on wood as it's meant to be, and then use the overgrip on top of it as an overgrip as it's meant to be...
Probably, but I didn't like G11 so put it under karakal pu super for my favoured feeling on the top I've now got like 10 half used grips of different size and colour etc and still not sure I'm happy...
There is no such thing as "light blue" G09. It's bl00dy lavender (was once described as light blue for the G09L, hence I have half a box of lavender grips)
The grip is practically that colour (a little lighter). If you want to call it something else, you can call it thistle or mauve. But in no case is it any shade of blue . I assume he uses the factory provided colour names(?). I did put up a comparison before and expecting the G10 light blue to be close to the right: (I should take another pic of the G09 here, doesn't quite look the same as when I'm holding it up against the screen right now because of reflection, etc.)
Pantone 270C looks reasonably close right now or 271C ... I guess those are in the twilight zone of purple (violet) going into blue (but nothing I would ever call light blue) . http://www.visionms.net/colors.html
I'll have to check if I have that "lavender" grip at home. Meanwhile this is Eric's listing photo, looks light blue to me.
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^ wow, I like that water blue! as luck would have it, having those two pics back to back makes it easier to compare G09 and G10.
Why do you think I bought them in the first place ? (really quite different from it irl, perhaps caused by the flash) But yeah that water blue G10 is awesome and what I have been waiting for There are many shades of lavender in the world of colors, so just to illustrated the basic lavender: The G09 still looks closest to the pantone 270(C) imo
Mark A (and others), after reading about your good experiences with the Ultimate grip, I decided to purchase a few. My previous grips were Karakal (I still have three left actually). Initial experience with the Ultimate was good. It was as good, if not better than the Karakal in terms of tackiness and non-slip. I was sold. However, now that the weather has warmed up, I am sweating more and noticing much more slip. There appear to be only five colours available currently - black, white, red, blue, grey. I have mostly blues and greys left. I didn't realise different colours would have different feel/tackiness to them - that's a bit odd and sounds like sub-optimal quality control to me. Anyway, which colours have the best tackiness in your experience?
Blue - by a MILE. The white is almost as good early on, but the tack dwindles very quickly (as does the colour, actually). If you need more tack, get hold of some resin - it's very cheap and improve the situation dramtically.
That's a pity, as I've been using a couple of blues and they have been a little disappointing. I'm going to try out my Yellow Karakals today and see if they are actually better. I do want to like the Ultimates because they are much cheaper, but I suspect I initially liked them only because I used them during the cool season and I wasn't sweating much anyway.
