Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "supernovanexus" 
<supernovanexus@y...> wrote:
> I first started out using Terry Bozio Bulletheads from Vic Firth. 
> Well, I didn't like the feel very much. Now I use and love my Vic 
> Firth Hickory 5A Dip Sticks. Feel great and have a rubber coating 
on 
> the bottom half for grip...and seems to me like it also takes some 
of 
> the shock away, although there isn't much shock from rubber pads.
> 
> -Zack-

Has anyone tried the rubber-cored Zildjian sticks? If so, is 
their "shock absorbtion" claim credible?