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If you agree the rule should be rewritten for clarity. And you keep focusing on what the rule bans that you find important, but not on all the things the rule also bams that you find unimportant, do you understand at least why no one can take you seriously?

It very well does. If cleaning my racket is prohibited by an interpretation of the rule, the rule is too broad to be taken seriously. It is like having a rule that says it is illegal for people to give birth to a child outside a medical facility. If that prevents people from giving birth at...

No it is not, Chemical is a universal term applying to just about anything. Even sweat is a chemical treatment. Things considered and not considered chemical treatments need to be specified. I clean my racket with my breath all the time. That is not a chemical treatment? Or using plastic...

It prohibits it by players and is silent on its use by manufacturers. And this is because? If the rule prohibiting this can be seen as a rejection of cleaning your own rubbers, it needs to be rewritten quite frankly.

I have played high level rec players who hit good balls and are very consistent and would arubaly be USATT 1400 or 1500 even with crappy paddles. Even when I was already 1500 USATT, I would occasionally struggle with someone who came in with a spinless paddle because I didn't know how to adapt...

As written it clearly does.

This interpretation - where did you get it from?

Yes but if you argue over this, don't be surprised if people don't take you seriously. The rule is hard to justify once VOCs are taken out of the equation and rubber thickness limits are not exceeded.

Another issue is who coaches you especially in situations where you can't pick your coach. In India for example, many players learn pips because their coaches use pips. That is a technical limit right? If you watch the match between Waldner and the Korean defender Li Gun Sang, the...

I know the man and I'm pretty sure he didn't, he pretty much wanted to play with his personal grip rather than traditional shakehand, he mostly plays with the inverted side for both forehand and backhand and uses the anti as a change up to hold the table when he is on trouble and doesn't want...

The devil is always in the details, but the issue is probably more with taking the ball early, but there is nothing wrong with extending as long as you don't break the arm structure. It's more of a feeling though the elbow is stable with it. Also thr ability to fish and loop and block...

Oh, I know what I mean when I say you don't know enough players. You do too. Do you think Danny Seemiller used anti because of technical limits? And if someone tried to play like Danny Seemiller or Eric Boggan and used anti, was it because of technical limits? You can replace this with He...

Exactly. I know players who wanted to be defenders. I know players who idolized others who used pips. You just dont know enough players.

Do you know any players who wanted to become choppers or play like Wang Tao or Deng Yaping or He Zhi Wen or Johnny Huang? Maybe you just dont know that many players. Ai Fukuhara and Mima Ito - you think they were influenced by Deng or some prior player or you seriously believe they don't know...

And if you use rubber cleaner, which can increase or reduce the tackiness or oil content of the rubber, you are not?

You can argue all you want, but almost all professionals are boosting in one way or another. It is hard to play table tennis at the top levels without well boosted rubbers either by the manufacturer or in may cases yourself. All the ITTF can measure is racket thickness. They should have made...

No, I think there are good reasons to ignore an unenfoeceble rule, especially one badly written, in an age where we see the serve rule is terribly enforced and the rule was made largely to keep TT manufacturers profitable and little elae.

No need to try to make this sound like the people who disagree with you don't know something you do. It's always been clear that in addition to being unenforceable since the use of boosters largely replicate manufacturing processes of boosted rubbers, the language around racket treatment is...

Most people who know the lady pictured above and that she used long pips on her backhand would realize how ridiculous the technical argument is without context.

Elbow positioning is 95% of this, but I don't remember you blocking weird. If you have the right arm structure, everything tends to work out whether you take the ball early or late. But the arm structure and elbow need to be in the right place.