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SANWEI · 388 Long Pips · Long pips
388D-4
The most disruptive sheet in the family. Long thin pips give maximum spin reversal and the widest chop margin, with very little own speed.
Official SANWEI specifications
Official SANWEI models collected from the current manufacturer catalogue: the Target inverted family, the Gear and T88 families, the Pistol sheet and the 388 pips families.
- Series
- 388 Long Pips
- Category
- Long pips
- Official sponge degree
- 32° ±2
- Hardness scale
- Official SANWEI sponge degree (Chinese scale, no named standard)
- Published thicknesses
- OX · 0.5 mm · 1.0 mm · 1.5 mm
- Published colours
- Red · Black
- Technologies
- LONG PIPS GEOMETRY · FRICTION REDUCED SURFACE
- Country of manufacture
- China
- Sponge description
- Very soft long pips sponge (sponged versions)
- Topsheet description
- Long, thin pips
- Lifecycle status
- Active
- Last verified
- 1 August 2026
Sponge degrees are published by SANWEI on the Chinese degree scale without a named laboratory standard. TTDNA stores them exactly as published, with the published tolerance, and never relabels them Shore A, Shore C or ESN.
TTDNA ratings
TTDNA values are analytical 0 scores derived from official specifications, construction and verified category data. They are never official SANWEI ratings and are never shown as manufacturer values.
TTDNA ratings are normalized comparison values, not laboratory measurements. They are built from published specifications, technical sources and structured product evidence, converted to one 0–100 scale. Where a directly comparable measurement is unavailable, the value is an evidence-based estimate. Overall-style scores are composites of several characteristics. Methodology
Sources: Sanwei official product data · Retailer spec listings — weight, sponge hardness and thickness · TTDNA ratings — derived by TableTennisDNA, not manufacturer data
Physical characteristics
Playing characteristics
Pips characteristics
Spin reversal is the returned rotation of the incoming ball. It is a separate value from the TTDNA spin rating, which measures own spin production.
- Disruption
- 95
- Spin reversal
- 96
- Attackability
- 46
- Chop control
- 96
Confidence: high
Variants and configurations
8 variantsColour, thickness and configuration are variants of one model — never separate products. Colour never changes a rating, MAX and OX stay qualitative labels, and OX carries no sponge hardness.
Red · OX
Standard · No sponge (OX) · Topsheet only
Speed 35 · Spin 44 · Control 96
Red · 0.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 32° ±2
Speed 42 · Spin 52 · Control 94
Red · 1.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 32° ±2
Speed 47 · Spin 54 · Control 91
Red · 1.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 32° ±2
Speed 50 · Spin 55 · Control 89
Black · OX
Standard · No sponge (OX) · Topsheet only
Speed 35 · Spin 44 · Control 96
Black · 0.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 32° ±2
Speed 42 · Spin 52 · Control 94
Black · 1.0 mm
Standard · Sponged · 32° ±2
Speed 47 · Spin 54 · Control 91
Black · 1.5 mm
Standard · Sponged · 32° ±2
Speed 50 · Spin 55 · Control 89
Surface classification
Long pips
Surface classification (grippy, hybrid, tacky, very tacky) is a TTDNA editorial classification, not an official SANWEI metric.
Price
- List price
- Varies by retailer
No verified official SANWEI price snapshot is stored in this import, so prices are shown as varying by retailer. CNY and EUR prices are never converted into each other.
Playing characteristics
- Skill levels
- Advanced · Elite
- Play styles
- Classic defense · Modern defense · Disruptive
- Aliases
- SANWEI 388D-4 · 388 D-4 · 388D4
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Known users
Defenders, choppers and disruptive blockers who rely on spin reversal rather than their own topspin.
SANWEI publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.