ABNORMALLY THICK RUBBERS GOT REJECTED.
A time ago, ITTF invited some mastery players to enter a testing session with nonstandard Tenergy rubbers having extraordinary thick sponges 2.5 / 3 /3.5/ 4 mm. with the idea of prospective change of the actual thickness limits 4 mm to a greater...
SOME WHISTLE-BLOWERS WANTED!
https://www.ittf.com/2025/10/07/new-confidential-reporting-channel-launched-to-strengthen-integrity-in-table-tennis/
Most beloved incumbency of mine. 🥰
Мind your head posture. ITTF gonna to revise the service rule.
2.6.4 From the start of service until it is struck, the ball shall be above the level of the playing surface and behind the server's end line, a̶n̶uud̶ i̶t̶ s̶h̶a̶l̶l̶ n̶o̶t̶ b̶e̶
h̶i̶d̶d̶e̶n̶ f̶r̶o̶m̶ t̶h̶e̶ r̶e̶c̶e̶i̶v̶e̶r̶...
Nothing new, but great hype by Butterfly brand.
All the manufacturing patents aforementioned have got developed and owned by Giant Dragon, the famous China rubbermaker exporting rubber products worldwide in plenty. Just take a look at the GD package annotation.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
said so means that if you do not punish a child when they do something wrong, they will never get what is right.
24 сент. 2025 г.
INSIDER NEWS.
New service rule is under study within ITTF URC.
PROPOSITION BY ITTF URC.
📛 2.6.4 [..... ] When the ball is struck it shall be within the space between the server's end line and server's body other than the hip, the leg and the head.
2023 ITTF Statuses Page 69
2.6...
IDIOTIC STANCE ON THE RECEIVING.
The service rule only count for realistic situation in play. Yes, you may try for any idiotic stance to receive serve, say knee down on the floor, and then you will get penalized for bad discipline. 🤩
https://en.butterfly.tt/weight-selection-rubber.html
Till recently, the option to have all one's rubbers of one same weight was not available for a casual customer. It solely was a privilege for those players contracted to Butterfly.
Since recently this is an open option for all, just for...
An outlaw child by Yinhe, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009958965234.html
Ittf gives free rein to China manufacturers by offering indulgence too much for the bastard rubber products , without good reason.
LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS THING.
One ought to use a correct camera, on left or right, when viewing a service action. The camera man was NOT instructed in due manner.
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🇷🇺 RU Patent illustration #045328.
Roller optimal diameter 14 cm.
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Be happy all
Yes, the outer part of the roller should have an embossed pattern, eg. imitation of a goose skin.
TTR IS AN URGENT NEED.
What about employing TTR system for T2 events , even if the low-cost TTR Lite version by SLOMO. CO?
Japan umpires did seem to forgive the cheating servers oftentimes. Sorry.
https://slomo.tv/products/videoreferee/videoreferee-b/description
HAPPY CROOKIES
Kick out cheaters in door, and they will come back in window. WTT did now set up TTR video control purposely, to get rid of the crooky savers, and they still unable to cope boosters and low friction materials inside the playing court. They even didn't make a slight...
WHAT's THE RULE OF "OPEN SERVE"
https://www.mltt.com/news/open-serve-doubles-mltts-rule-change-that-demands-better-communication-strategy-and-precision
Need some more amount of tlme for having a better study of the rule. So far I can't see any good reason for the allowance to freely serve...
It seems to be a practical trial of the earlier proposal as submitted by Iranian Association for ITTF AGM 2021. Some further amendments to the proposed rule were made by Major League on their own. Quite debatable innovation by ML, at any rate.