Sauer & Tröger · Modern Long Pips · Long pips
Monkey
A highly disruptive modern long-pips rubber with strong control, wide-bending pimples and a dampened sponge option.
Monkey uses widely spaced, relatively wide pimples that bend significantly under pressure. It combines high disruption and reversal with a softening response during stronger impact. The 0.6 mm sponge version adds damping while preserving close-table control, so the OX and sponge builds are best treated as two distinct feels.
Also written as Monkey Long Pimple · Monkey Long Pips · Ape · Sauer & Tröger Monkey
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Official Sauer & Tröger data
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Construction characteristics
- High pimple aspect ratio
- Wide pimple spacing
- Wide pimple heads
- Slightly roughened pimple heads
- Dampening sponge in the 0.6 mm version
TTDNA ratings
TTDNA values are TTDNA's own editorially normalised 0–100 ratings. They are never an official Sauer & Tröger rating and never a conversion of the Sauer & Tröger manufacturer scale. Spin reversal is the returned rotation of the incoming ball. It is stored separately from the TTDNA spin rating, which measures the rubber's own spin production.
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: Sauer & Tröger official product data · Retailer spec listings — weight, sponge hardness and thickness · TTDNA ratings — derived by TableTennisDNA, not manufacturer data
Sources: Sauer & Tröger official product data · Retailer spec listings — weight, sponge hardness and thickness · TTDNA ratings — derived by TableTennisDNA, not manufacturer data
Strengths
- Very high disruption
- Strong spin reversal
- Excellent passive blocking
- Useful active counterattack
- Blue colour option
Weaknesses
- Requires specialised timing
- Less predictable than Easy P
- Limited conventional spin production
- OX and sponge versions feel substantially different
Best for
- Close-table long-pips players
- Disruptive blockers
- Players mixing passive and active strokes
Not ideal for
- Complete long-pips beginners
- Players wanting maximum classical chopping control
Data confidence
Variants and configurations
2 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.
Black · Red · OX
Standard · No sponge (OX) · Topsheet only
Speed 36 · Spin 16 · Control 100
Black · Red · 0.6 mm
Standard · Sponged · Medium
Speed 48 · Spin 24 · Control 91
TTDNA ratings
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: Sauer & Tröger official product data · Retailer spec listings — weight, sponge hardness and thickness · TTDNA ratings — derived by TableTennisDNA, not manufacturer data
Known users
Defenders, choppers and disruptive blockers who rely on spin reversal rather than their own topspin.
Sauer & Tröger publishes no athlete roster for this sheet, so TTDNA shows the player profile it is built for instead of invented names.
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