Yinhe Moon 12 Blue Japan Reviews by International Table Tennis Player Shayan Farooq with ITTF Coach Mian Absar Ali.

Tested and in use on Yinhe Balsa as FH rubber.
Testing period: Around 16 traininghours so far.

Sadly rubbers are advertised way too exaggerated or without any information these days. Often with number which mean nothing and confuse more than they help you find a decent peace of rubber. Especially on the Moon 12 information is rare, and the little you might find is misleading and garbage.
Therefore i felt the need to write something about this rubber.

Some basic information first
The rubber just comes in blue color.
You can chose from medium soft and medium hard version (mine is medium soft).
Completely non-tacky.
Pretty light (sadly i failed to remember to weigh the rubber before gluing it, but my setup with BD 2 weighs 186g which is the lightest i ever played).
Medium high throw

Overall impression
This rubber is actually slow. Probably the slowest offensive style rubber i ever played with.
But dont get mistaken, this rubber doesnt feel numb and is not really good for chopping. So what can it give you?
First of all you get a really consistent rubber, with a decent sweetspot and a really good feel. I actually never had this high amount of controll because of a rubber. Because of its softness it really grabs the ball and gives you much time to propperly direct the ball where you want it to go. On top of that you get a huge level of errortolerance. I could counterattack balls with it, i can only sometime hit in the perfect training environment.
Another good aspect of the rubber is, that you can easily create huge amounts of spin. Even slight brushes can get really dangerous, as long as they come over the net^^


Drive
Easy to peform. Naturally with a more controlled rubber i can perform way easier and way more consistent. Because of how well the rubber grabs the ball you can easily redirect a shot and decide how fast you counter the opponents shots.

Block
This is where the rubber actually excells. I often struggle in that department because i usually try to attack everything. Therefore i lack training in blocking things.
But this is the first time i got the feeling of being capable to blockout my opponents.
Additionally this setup is spin insensitive even with the Nittaku premioum 3 star balls i could easily handle loops and hard topspins.

Chops
Yeah as i said above not the best property of the rubber. If you do it slow the ball bounces of too hard, although the rubber is slow enough you lose controll here. You can only work around here by brushing the chops with a fast stroke. The moment the ball penetrates the rubber to deep it will get rough to bring the ball back the way you intended to.

Topspins
This is where the fun starts. Although the rubber isnt really fast itself, the moment you penetrate the rubber, the shots start getting decisively faster. Maybe it is their "max tense" technology or whatever, but by spining and performing harder shots you are still able to compete with faster rubbers like G1 or Vega pro, but only to a certain extent. The high end speed of these rubbers are beyond the Blue 12.

Flicks
There is close to nothing i can not flick with this rubber above the table. Hitting the ball here feels like putting it in your hand and throw it over the table (maybe a bit exaggerated here^^). But be aware that these flicks will be dangerous in terms of that they are quite spinny but far from being fast. You wont be able to hit hard enough with this shot to press the ball into the rubber hard enough to generate good speed.

Loops
That made way more fun than i expected. Even from a distance you can lift the ball and loop with beautifull arcs and great spin. I would advise though to use the wrist with bh moves here, otherwise the shot will become more of a lob to the other side. Easy to bring it over but nothing dangerous for your opponent.
Several of my training partners had huge issues of blocking the loops just because of the amount of spin i could produce with it. Especially because i can swing harder without being scared of shooting way over the table as per usual.


Conclusion
if you want to relearn techniques or you have to develop certrain skills, especially on bh, this rubber will definitly help you do exactly that.
With a slower blade this rubber could even get used by beginners quite fine. It will provide the controll and feeling and therefore the feedback needed to learn.

And one more thing - i tested this rubber for an hour on fh and really hated it. For some reason on fh the sound this rubber makes is damn weird. Beside that it is just too soft for that.
Maybe, just maybe if you only play with your wrist or have a special fh technique anyhow, then you might be able to use it, but i definitly cant recommend it. With my strokes it felt to mushy, just like i hit more with the wood and carbon of my blade than the rubber itself.

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