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(UpSideDownCarl). The ITTF says they are doing this to increase fairness in the sport and to bring down the overall level of play so that the sport is more viewer friendly for the television audience.
Balls.
You will find no more zealous advocate than I for increasing fairness in a sport that snatched me from my first love, tennis nearly six decades ago, but April fools' joke or no April fools' joke I don't think that anything like coloring ping pong balls pink is gonna come anywhere close to making pong any fairer or more sensible or more viewer friendly.
Maybe making the table a lot larger as was proposed by the ITTF same time last year. Hey Justin, a double shot of Mylanta. On the rocks.
I am excited about this change. DHS is sending me a batch of the new pink D40+ ASAP. Trouble is, it seems that, so far, each company has a slightly different shade of pink. And I think ITTF is concerned to have everyone get the color right.
But I’m also told that ITTF is going to ensure that the balls from each company have to be distinctly different enough in bounce and spin characteristics in order to make it harder to adjust from one brand ball to the next. They decided that, to date, this was too easy an adjustment.
In conjunction with this move, ITTF plans to change ball brand randomly throughout matches so that, from one point to the next, players have trouble adjusting to the change of ball.
The ITTF says they are doing this to increase fairness in the sport and to bring down the overall level of play so that the sport is more viewer friendly for the television audience.
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We can't have players sand-papering the ball for extra spin!
Hahaha thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if it would work in TT if we used sandpaper to clean "old" balls whether they would start spinning more like cell balls!Yes, the Australian has to explain this haha - the Australian cricket team just got caught cheating doing this. Huge scandal. Though, its a bit like boosting in TT, it goes on a lot...you are allowed to "clean" the ball with your shirt or a towel, but everyone on the team will only ever clean one half of the ball...sandpaper is too far though!
I feel like cricket bowling tactics are very similar to serving in TT, the psychology, rhythm, setting up and breaking the pattern, spin deception etc. Back to TT haha
Yes, the Australian has to explain this haha - the Australian cricket team just got caught cheating doing this. Huge scandal. Though, its a bit like boosting in TT, it goes on a lot...you are allowed to "clean" the ball with your shirt or a towel, but everyone on the team will only ever clean one half of the ball...sandpaper is too far though!
I feel like cricket bowling tactics are very similar to serving in TT, the psychology, rhythm, setting up and breaking the pattern, spin deception etc. Back to TT haha
Guy's don't pay any attention to der_echte's post as usual he is pulling Dan's leg because he is based out of England and Mr. Echte is sitting in "Sunny California" welcoming in Spring .. but I think the real discussion should be on the color .should we not call them purple ? ... I did check the photo very carefully and according to me its definitely purple not pink !!
Dan, I think that you meant to say, soared.
Soured, is the opposite
Why can't people let the gag go on !!!! Of course its a first of april joke but it was one of the best Dan has come up with , and so many people were falling for it, I even took the time and effort to carefully undermine the hints Der_Echte had put out there .. but somebody had to be the wise guy !
Neon is probably a better choice since kids seem to love it.
I've read somewhere that yellow would provide the best contrast and visibility. To be honest I would welcome more colors: orange (loved them in celluloid era), yellow, magenta, pink, mauve, neon, whatever... Clubs with less than ideal wall colors would welcome it.
I think it's a shame that after so many years (what, 3 by now?) we still only have different shades of white to choose from.
funny how the video shows the pink balls were magically white...nice art work!!!
they should make luminescent balls, table and net edges for playing at night. How cool would be that?