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Yes I am talking about those with what you call "integrity", especially those who admit they might play better with boosted rubbers, but don't do so for reasons of "integrity". I get that in your view of morality, people who have families to feed and might be able to feed them better by...

There is lots of additional context that would also permit boosting in addition to the other chemical treatments like using sweat or breath once you expand your imagination. Usually, when someone says "I do not see how..", it is less a fact of reality than just limited imagination, whether they...

Yes, this is true. But if you believe that one of the goals of rules and of regulatory bodies is to promote fairness/transparency while balancing other considerations, this rule and its lax enforcement promotes some of the things that encourage the gap between the game we enjoy and the game the...

There are players who follow the rules for personal moral reasons. Or who do not have enough sophistication to know the nuances. People are being forced into moral conflicts where it isn't clear these conflicts should exist.

"Potentiallly". Okay.

Again, semantics over substance. Based on a rule that would prevent us from even breathing on our racket or cleaning it, we have deemed boosting illegal. When we look at it in practice, the result is that if you are a top player with manufacturer support, you can legally do things to your...

Not really, I think that using semantics to adjudicate an issue without looking at implications is a dangerous approach to many things. Viper is more comfortable with the fact that the boosting is illegal than the implications of what he is claiming on the lives of individuals and TT players...

And maybe every time you glue it at well. Isn't gluing a chemical treatment? Especially when some of these glues have different levels of adhesion with the sponge and the blade?

The LARC are tested as a rubber and a sponge, but in reality the manufacturers are able to send in topsheets with a particular sponge for approval and sell other things combinations using the same topsheet. They are not forced to submit every single combination of rubber and sponge for testing...

Do you acknowledge that following that rule as written would prohibit a large number of perfectly reasonable things that you and all players do that would be deemed perfectly legai by you and which you have argued are perfectly legal based on the same rule?

Usually I judge by whether people are liking your posts. My discussing with you is just about the last word phenomenon, your arguments are precisely the kind that most serious organizations gave up on using years ago in their ethical manuals. By this I mean that if you join an association of...

But some players do this to keep their self image untouched by the losses, which may be their mental strength. Context matters, it comes back to whether the player is doing anything to play better when things are wrong, but what they say and what they do can be completely different.

This is a very dangerous topic and I find it unfortunate that world class players performing at the limits of their physical ability can be deemed mentally weak by outsiders without any context into the full picture. We are all guilty of it, I get it, but we should be careful and more aware of...

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.