Stiga Mantra M

Customer Reviews

All reviews listed are from verified customers who have purchased this product.

11/01/2024 Best backhand rubber ever? Review by icontek

Quality

At an intermediate level, this rubber performed admirably on everything from 5 ply wood to 7 ply and inner carbon designs. Best service receive of any rubber I have played with. Rubber ignores incoming spin, then produces it's own when you execute. Blocking control was excellent. Flat hitting was strong. Opening topspins had enough bite to have great control. Not the spinniest, but if you play close to the table, you still won't hit long. My **ONLY** complaint was that I could not serve with this rubber to save my life. I would get poor contact, and sometimes even miss the table, and had difficulty getting the rubber to bite. In retrospect, if this were still readily available I would be using it for BH and simply using my FH rubber for service and twiddling for 3rd ball.

02/03/2023 Very fast Review by Uda Bhagya

Quality

A powerful rubber with great spin and speed. Not recommended for beginners but if you're an intermediate or a professional, this rubber is for you.

30/12/2022 Excellent Review by Borys Bidii

Quality

I have been using this rubber for the last five years and very much appreciate it. Very spiny, fast, and reliable, even if it sits on a fast blade with a hard surface (Stiga Intensity Carbon). Tackiness is good for looping against backspin balls. The counter loop is also good. It certainly is not soft rubber, a through angle is low or medium, and I hit highballs very easily on the table. If you have good technic, it is certainly one of the best offensive table tennis rubber that suits you.

23/11/2022 Good value for money Review by Derek Pema

Quality

Reasonable priced rubbers with good feeling.Using with viscaria blade .Good for both attacking and control.

03/10/2022 Excellent Rubber for BH Review by WH

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Great rubber for use with BH. Good spin and gets the ball onto the table. Speed is decent.

01/10/2022 Direct rubber for my backhand Review by Leonid Leibman

Quality

Very good direct feeling with this rubber. Trajectory is quite low which gives you options of putting lots of spin on the ball. Great backhand rubber.

16/09/2022 Speed and very easy to control Review by HOANG VU LE

Quality

I've used Stiga Spin, Stiga Sound, Genesic M ... But I was not satisfied until I used Stiga Marjtra M, very easy to control, when touching the ball it sounds very exciting, in terms of speed it is also good

16/09/2022 Satisfied Review by Khusan Rakhimov ( AB1791861 )

Quality

Good as always

25/02/2022 Best rubber for my bh Review by Khusan Rakhimov ( AB1791861 )

Quality

This is the best rubber for my backhand so far, I tried a lot of other rubbers but I got the best results with this rubber. It can be a little hard for the attack, you will need proper technic, but it is very easy for blocking and return services

27/01/2022 Good control oriented rubber Review by Ralph Taylor

Quality

Good control-oriented rubber.
Not as bouncy as Raxza 7, not as spinny as Nittaku G1.
Bit slower than I wanted, to be honest.
Not very sensitive to incoming spin is its best feature.
(I believe STIGA are discontinuing this product)

09/08/2021 great rubber Review by Ezequiel Correas Espeche

Quality

The best rubber for me. I tried with T05, Bluefire M1, Blue Storm Z1, MXP, but I got my best results with this rubber. Perfect balance between speed, spin, and control.

16/01/2021 Great backhand/forehand rubber for a control game Review by Sambit Banerjee

Quality

This rubber is really insensitive to incoming spin, so it's great for blocking, and for a more control game. I use this for my backhand, and my backhand topspin is a bit weak, so I tend to block a lot. This suits my backhand a lot. Wouldn't recommend it if your strength is your backhand though. Or for an attacking game. Definitely not for forehand. Get a faster rubber for those. This is great, as I already said, for a control game and provides a very nice feel of the ball, very easy placement, and decent speed and spin.

26/10/2020 Good Review by Irvodon club

Quality

Men yana buyurtma bermoqchiman.

25/09/2020 Good BH rubber Review by Ratmir Imangulov

Quality

Good responsive BH rubber with medium hardness - very controllable. Recommended if you want to look in the right direction for your BH rubber. I like how it plays, a little bit more grip will be appreciated.

14/07/2020 Its good Review by Heng Socheat

Quality

It's good not so heavy I used it for backhand.

24/06/2020 very good rubber Review by Zaharieva

Quality

I achieve a very good spin and control with this rubber.

24/02/2020 So far my favorite backhand rubber Review by Vasile Lupu

Quality

Great rubber, I'm using it on the backhand, with Stiga Allround Classic Carbon blade + Stiga Mantra H on the forehand.
I've used before on my backhand: butterfly Flextra, Hurricane 3 Neo, Yasaka Mark V (in this order)
Because I'm using the Allround paddle, I didn't have enough speed in my backhand, especially when I was out of position. Mantra M has much better speed compared to all the above rubbers and the grip is also great so it also produces great spin.
It took me a few 3-4 weeks of playing about 1h/day, to get used to it, but I loved it from the first day.
Compared to Mantra H, it has the same top sheet with berry good grip, only the sponge is slightly softer, this allows the ball to sink in slightly more. This helps to produce slightly better spin even when you don't hit the ball very hard.
The backhand shot has less power compared to the forehand shot.
I feel that since I started using this rubber, my backhand goes much better and I'm really enjoying going for the backhand shots.

17/02/2020 tt Review by Khusan Rakhimov

Quality

Used it on my backhand and it didn't fit for me I found it bouncy fast.

23/01/2020 Great rubber for a BH Review by brandt winchell

Quality

I have been playing this on my BH for almost a year. I play a punch type BH or drive. This rubber provides a lot of speed and spin but still great control.
Friends that play a BH loop like this rubber too.

12/01/2020 Linear All round fast rubber Review by NS

Quality

This rubber has a good top sheet grip even after a few months of usage. It's consistent and linear in its spin/speed qualities, so your blade brings out the true characteristics of this rubber. In my personal use between a SZLC and IFALC, I like it on my IFALC due to more dwell. I use the rubber on my backhand now for more than 4 months and I am happy with it.

24/12/2019 Quality Review by takeo gagro

Quality

Mantra M is a really good rubber a recommend it to any player this rubber can spin slap and really do anything

22/11/2019 Good Speed, Moderate Control Review by Elias Gatos

Quality

This rubber is very fast with medium arc and produces less controlled shots. Recommended for very aggressive players that prefer speed to control.

30/07/2019 Linear fast Rubber Review by Niranjan Sivaraman

Quality

Topsheet is of good quality and the rubber is linear, fast. I had paired it on a fast carbon blade and this rubber has less dwell, so it was too fast for my liking. However, if you pair this one with an all-round or off- blade, it might still be easier to control. I haven't played with it for more than a week so I can’t speak for its life, but I like its linear nature of spin production.

18/03/2019 Very good Review by Darko Veselinovic

Quality

Good control and spin, speed as well. Mid hard sponge. Not to sensitive on incoming spin.

21/02/2019 Stil satisfied Review by Gert ELLEGAARD

Quality

You never know about the rubber. Is it the rubber that makes you lose matches, is it the wood or is it yourself? My experience with Mantra is that it is myself!

30/01/2019 Great rubber Review by Dessen Ramen

Quality

Really nice rubber..good control despite, being grippy.

27/01/2019 Very good looper's rubber Review by Mark Kinlocke

Quality

This has been my main rubber on both sides of my Butterfly Timo Boll Spirit for a year now.
When I lend my bat to high standard players, it is a monster comparable to any other attacking combination. Yet, to me as an amateur player, I was surprised at how controllable this rubber is. Even on the emergency chops and pushes that us amateurs often do. It does not have the readily available high spin as from Chinese stuff neither the instant pop as from the Tenergy series. It is a linear output rubber. That is, you will get what you put into it. Slow topspin stoke results in slow loop and so on.
I like this rubber a lot.
Amateur players will love this rubber, biggest reason is that it does not require the high skill to play well as compared to the Tenergy 05.

13/01/2019 Excellent medium rubber. Review by Cesar Gonzalez

Quality

I use this on my bh, on a Tibhar Offensive Classic Black Edition. Victas 01 on my FH. If blocking and placing is your game, this is your rubber.

Not very sensitive to incoming speed, very consistent (not like Airoc Astro M). It's okey on bh openings as well.

If your game is very agressive on your bh, you may need something faster like MXP, or even Mantra H; something that has a wider range of offensive strokes.

I wouldn't advise this rubber for your fh, there's many better options that offer same or higher control, and provide more speed. Unless you're developing your game and learning the sport, in that case, set a pair of these babies on your blade and you're good to go.

Update: I changed to Clipper Wood this month (OFF+), and now I get more offensive options, but still, for an offensive bh, go somewhere else. For placing and active blocking, this is a beauty.

12/12/2018 Amazing rubber Review by Sudheer Varma Dantuluri

Quality

I am using this for this the first time. Amazing rubber. Speed and spin are very good. Not as fast as MXP, but adequate to finish the point. Not very durable.

21/08/2018 One of the best out there Review by Anand Akella

Quality

Excellent offensive tensor rubber very good for blocks close to the table and great from mid distance for offensive looping.

16/08/2018 Good for soft blocks Review by Igor Solovyov

Quality

Tried as replacement for T05 on 7ply wood blade.
Much slower, much less bounce, less spin. Sure much more control.

Good for soft blocks on the table. From middle distance you can hit the ball as much as you can and it will never come out of table (if you brushed).

As for me it's not a pro rubber, at list on wooden blades.
Played one time and took it off.

17/06/2018 Great rubber Review by Paul Henderson

Quality

Good rubber best stiga rubber when compare to air roc etc .

28/05/2018 Good Review by Herrera Omar

Quality

Good

07/05/2018 Perfect Review by Gert Ellegaard

Quality

This rubber combines a very good control with lots of spin and speed as well. Perfect for my backhand.

23/04/2018 Control and spin Review by Gert Ellegaard

Quality

I'm very satisfied with this rubber. A lot of control without loss of spin or speed. However, I'm considering to change to Mantra H in backhand as well as my experience with such a change for my forehand was very sucessful.

09/02/2018 Great for backhand. Review by Roger

Quality

Perfect.

05/02/2018 Excellent all round of play Review by Ray Berketa

Quality

I would say probably the best off. rubbers around - for speed, spin, loops, blocks etc,. coupled to my Carbonado 290 which produces so much speed from the blade alone, combined gives such ease of control of all round play.
The only slight negative I find is that the rubber feels a bit fragile maybe it's just me but still excellent rubber and a lot better than the Airoc.

05/01/2018 Delicate Review by Anik Mallik

Quality

Delicate. Good for spin.

04/01/2018 good Review by Valerie Smirnov

Quality

an excellent rubber. very tenacious

23/11/2017 What a beautiful medium rubber! Review by Cesar Gonzalez

Quality

If you read my review at Stiga Airoc Astro M, you will see how delighted I am with that rubber. But let me tell you, Mantra is definitely a huge improvement.

This is a superb medium rubber, taken to the highest levels. Not sensitive to incoming speed, very good feeling; the tensor is not a huge problem, it is very controlable. Looks nicer, has a higher durability. It's an improvement in every sense!

I use medium rubbers for my backhand, and recently changed to fh as well. This can definitely be a high performance rubber if you're looking for 45-47.5 degrees rubbers.

Totally recommend.

30/10/2017 ok Review by david redmond

Quality

prefer lt or lt sound mantra doe have more spin but less speed

01/07/2017 Не разобрался. Review by Ivan

Quality

Интересная накладка, катапульта довольно сильная, больше чем у Tenergy 05, пока снял( не смог справиться) Оставлю на потом.