Stiga Optimum 3 Star 40+

Hi!
The ball got it's ups and downs and overall I wouldn't prefer it. It's bounce is irregular because the ball isn't evenly round and hard. It's sad because the ball got good spin, and from sight you can see quality. Im a very sensitive table tennis player so this affects me. But as said it has it's ups which is that it has a good spin and feeling though the inconsistency.

The Stiga Optimum 40+ is not a really bad ball now, or at least not as bad as when it first came out! The first 4-5 batches (of 72 balls) were absolute rubbish, you could break the ball by blocking, and most of the boxes had like 3-4 really good balls (out of 72 balls!!)

Nowadays they are getting better and better and some of the balls even lasts for two weeks before they break! The speed, or the lack of it, is not easy to adjust to, but okay when you're used to it. The spin ain't that bad, but it's definitively harder to spin good..

Unfortunatly this is the ball we use in ALL the tournaments in Norway, from nationals to hobby, this is the ball. And now as i've got used to it, I kinda like it, but the ball is really bad compared to some of the other plastic balls out there, and not to mention the good old cell balls

The spin is what troubles me, my game depends on spin so I was really dissapointed with this ball, but overall it is quite durable but nothing special.

Like all seamed plastic balls the Stiga plays slower, with less spin and cracks just as easily as the rest.
Normal we would loose about a quarter to half our balls during a 3-4h training session and this is ofc. unacceptable.

I reviewe STIGA's latest ITTF Approved Plastic ball with @Tom. In this review we look at a variety of characteristics of the new ball in comparison to the celluloid ball, how it performs and more.

- The STIGA poly ball has a seam and weighs 2.8g
- The ball seemed very durable and did not break throughout