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  1. "Onischenko syndrome" in veteran competitions.

    A good many table tennis veteran players are known for using abhorrent pimples-out when playing in money competitions, reportedly up to 30% long pimples were found to disobey the rules. Want for glory and money is surely the reason for players to use substandard, deceptive rubber materials in...
  2. Wall posters in playing area to instruct people.

    THE BEST TEACHER AND ADVISER. Art posters are known for having a strong instructive potency and more so if placed in public view. Regretfully, a good many players and referees stay unaware of the specific table tennis rules governing the use of racket covering and blade. The posters enclosed...
  3. FITET to boycott low friction players

    Great endeavour indeed. Bravo for FITET. https://m.vk.com/doc199930161_625816581
  4. Devaluation of boosters with top-class players.

    DEVALUATION OF RUBBER BOOSTING WITH TOP-CLASS PLAYERS. DONIC Bluestorm =51* H DONIC BlueGrip C2 =55* H https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN87o-WnvnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKLk6GL2CKY Is the postfactory treatment on rubbers (= oil applications) got now obsolete? Yes, it looks so...
  5. Odd serving by the Ukranian

    Serving the ball deep sideways. Strange and effective. An Ukrainian half-profi player famous for doing odd antics a lot.
  6. Picking up the ball under physical theory.

    I gathered a dozen of broken balls and measured the thickness on the outer shell. Balls with a thinner shell rotate faster. Table tennis is a wonderful sport where the laws of classical mechanics will govern all the things invariably, and I happened to study the subject as a young engineer ages...
  7. How Italians got rid of the LP crooks.

    Good news. A nationwide initiative of fair play is gaining momentum in the northern regions of the Italian Republic ~ I PLAY TABLE TENNIS WITHOUT DOPE AND CHEATING. The FITET National Italian Federation gladly welcomed such an initiative and supports, they allocates money for purchase of the...
  8. T-shaped handle to generate extra power.

    JOOLA innovative product of limited edition first started in 2000. This is specially designed to give you enormous power and ball sense in play, much more power as compared to the conventional trunk-shaped handle . Few people ever heared of the JOOLA K4 limited release.. Yes, sophisticated...
  9. Over 130 rubber brands to be discontinued next month

    Go this way and click the "Expires On" column. http://equipments.ittf.com/#/equipments/racket_coverings
  10. Carbonized plywood innovation

    CARBONIZED PLYWOOD. An innovative material is now growing in popularity for making table tennis blades. In its essence, it is a thermally modified wood known as "carbonized plywood, the thing looks much like a black charcoal. Carbonized (inorganic) wood is far different from natural wooden...
  11. "permanent sponge" rule.

    "PERMANENT SPONGE" RULE Good to hear a novelty Rule to govern the use of sandwich rubbers is now underway. The core idea is that you can't use any of sandwich rubbers unless the Red Circle label is stuck on the retail packs. This is to avoid players inventing some crazy rubber combination with...
  12. Olympic edition of DHS Hurricane 3 rubbers.

    Little wonder they took such a precaution, considering a newly developed detector for boosters is now in place for racket control at any ITTF competitions whatsoever. * * * * FIT now informed to all international members as follows: --In response to the recent instructive letter by ITTF of...
  13. Be alert of the false (untrue) specs on Chinese rubber products.

    Be alert of the false (untrue) hardness numbers on Chinese rubber products. /// ФАКТИЧЕСКАЯ ТВЕРДОСТЬ ТЕННИСНОЙ ГУБКИ. ЗАЧЕМ ОНО НАДО ДЛЯ ХОРОШЕГО ТЕННИСИСТА. Разница в показаниях твердости более 2-х единиц дает кардинально новые игровые осчущения. Это значит что губка 38 и 41 единиц (на одной...
  14. On the factory post-treatment of the sponge layer.

    SOME INSIDER NEWS ON THE FACTORY POST-TREATMENT ON SPONGE. FIT now informed to all international members as follows:
  15. Textile reinforcement all gone. Why so?

    Yes, the rubber-textile combinations all gone out of general use; nowdays no Rubbers marked as Ψ are present in the LARC, sorry to inform you all. Yes, we all liked the robust pips with textile reinforcement very much, and all players now wish the textile to be back on market as before... An...
  16. The rubbers to give you troubles.

    "And Tom Cat listens and continues eating ...." The rubbers listed in the Table with maximum dimensions in thickness of 3.8 and 3.9 millimeters are very likely to incur punishment by an umpire with all the sorts of ensuing nuisanses. Some time ago, the ITTF warned all manufacturers to limit...
  17. Sticky rubbers -- some wonder of chemical science.

    STICKY RUBBER IS A WONDERFUL CREATURE OF AN AMERICAN MAN. This present days, Chinese rubber factories are using three (3) different technologies for the production of sticky rubbers. Of those, the most interesting method is based on the practical researches by the American chemist Hari Fisher...
  18. INVESTIGATION: Knife in the head

    My memory suggests, there was a juicy picture here of a Teddy Doll having bloody knife in the head, a paper wrapping on a table tennis rubber allegedly intended for marketing worldwide. Could you provide a true tradename of the rubber, please? Thanks.
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