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So just to be clear, your objection isn't actually with people using long pips, but rather your objection is to the notion of unfit and unskilled people picking up a racket to begin with. So the title of this thread shout really be "Banish unfit and unskilled players", and not "Banish long pips".

Yes that's right, Violet and a couples of others from our club played in the Warren Springs tournament (I used to play for Warren Springs a few years ago in local league, hence the connection)

That's a different tournament. This is a recording of the final from the Butterfly National Schools Individual Championships from back in April, not the National Championships that were held last weekend. It's actually the same venue, but the Schools event has a lot more participants which...

What match did you watch? I thought the courts were plenty big enough. Maybe it's just the angle of the video you were watching? I would say the courts were at least 3 table lengths long and I would say 3 table widths wide. They seemed to have plenty of room to me and weren't running into...

Just a quick shout out to my daughter Violet-Lily who is now a double National Champion in England having just picked up Gold in the girls U12 and U13 events at the National Championships held over the weekend. Still a long way to go on this journey but it's great to see all her hard work paying...

T05 was designed for the old celluloid ball. The Dignics range is designed for the new ball, so for that reason alone I would lean towards trying one of the Dignics over the T05. Or if you did want to go with a Tenergy, maybe consider the T19 which is the newest addition to the Tenergy range...

Max thickness of only 2mm? Anyone know why that is?

Nittaku Goriki Kaisoku might be worth a look.

If we let people off for this sort of thing, then what's next? Before we know it we'll be turning a blind eye to players that boost their rubbers. Oh, wait a second....... :ROFLMAO:

I didn't weigh the handle separately, but its solid with no hollowing out so will be heavy as far as handles go.

It's not a jointed top ply; just the natural colour variation in the limba.

No, its not a jointed top ply. It's just the colour variation in the wood

I make blades as a hobby. You can see the most recent one I made here: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/havent-tested-this-one-yet.33312/ I agree with you about the brand issue. I don't expect to sell any of my blades to youngsters - they all want Butterfly! My market is older...

This is a problem. In the modern game the most effective way to play the sport is to be an attacking two-winged looper with fast high -spin rubbers...but that isn't the most attractive of styles to watch unless you're really into the sport and know what you're looking at. It's too fast and the...

I'm not saying there's a problem with accessing and applying to play in WTT events. I'm saying that the cost of doing so is prohibitive unless you're in a position where you can spend £1000+ per month on your child's table tennis. I'm aware of Archway and that they sent players to these...

One "easy" fix would be to get the UK properly on the WTT circuit so that our youngsters have easier and cheaper access to international events. My daughter is highly ranked in England in her age category and should (based on her playing ability) be active on the WTT circuit, but for me to put...

I've not seen anything to suggest there is "overwhelming support" to get pips banned amongst the global table tennis community....and of course the membership of this forum is not representative of the global table tennis community, so even if the entirety of people posting here wanted pips...

What type of spin is a LP player receiving such that they can produce a topspin ball by pushing it? I used to play with LP's and to produce a topspin ball I would need to play a conventional topspin stroke...but it would only produce a topspin ball if the ball I was receiving was a backspin...

And there is probably a small percentage of pips players out there than have never used anything else. I myself was first introduced to the sport with what would be described as a "modern defensive" set up (inverted on FH and LP's on BH). I spent the first couple of years of my table tennis...

ITTF wouldn't like my price...but I'd work pro bono for the players. ;)