2 Sponges with one top sheet?

[speedplay]

I got this crazy idea, what if I did put two different sponges and attached them to each other and then to a top sheet, would this be legal, if the thickness stayed within the limits?

Or are there perhaps already manufacturers who makes sponges this way, with different hardness?

My idea was to put a hard sponge close to the blade, then a soft sponge and then the top sheet. The idea would be to create something soft and very controllable for short game and increased possibility for creating spin while the hard sponge would add speed once it was called upon.

Genius or silly?

[Der Echte]

I would have to relook the rules. Off the top of my head, it seems legal if the sponge/rubber stay within the 4mm tolerence. Now here is what I think... If this double sponge technique was even any improvement (if it was indeed legal), it would have been tested and used/marketed by the major TT powers already. So, I think that although this idea might be worth checking out for giggles, it is not gonna do much, unless one wants to just be and look different - nothing wrong with that.

[JKC]

It has been discussed on another forum and there is a little known rule somewhere which says the sponge can't be made from more than one piece. I don't think it would be easy to spot though not with edging tape on.

[alfie]

The idea would be to create something soft and very controllable for short game and increased possibility for creating spin while the hard sponge would add speed once it was called upon.

Genius or silly?

   harder sponges are more controlable in the short game,people mainly use a soft sponge to get dwell time.
        It's a good idea but would imagine it would take some getting used to as not every swing would go through to the hard sponge

[priior]

you could put a super soft sponge a 1/2inch perimeter all around for serves... then put ur sponge thickness of choice in the middle for shots.. that's genius! :)

[speedplay]

you could put a super soft sponge a 1/2inch perimeter all around for serves... then put ur sponge thickness of choice in the middle for shots.. that's genius! :)

LOL, had to read it twice to understand, English isn't my first language but laughed MAO once I got it.

The rule is something about continuous layers or something like that, they way I read it, all it says is that the sponge should act the same all over, meaning it shouldn't perform different around the edges compared to the center. Pretty much the same rule as there is for blades and it's allowed with multiple layers in them.

@Der_Echte, yes, one would think that the major comapines had tried it all, but every now and then a crazy mad man shows up with a unique idea that no one has thought of before. Look at the way Dr Evil was created. Sounds easy enough, but it wasn't a major TT company that invented it. So I think that a sponge with high density close to the blade and low density close to the top sheet (Or reverse it?) could be something useful...

Wtf?!? Why am I posting this here, I should mail the info to BTY, get them to release a new Super Bryce speed touch of Sriver EL speed glue incorporated tensor BIOS rubber, charge tons of cash and give me a small % so I could go to some sunny deserted Island with lots of Aloha girls who thinks that I'm the best thing since sliced bread!

Quick, off to the mailmobil got to earn papa some money

[priior]

lol remember ur friends when u get rich!!