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In that case buy a new blade. It's not worth the hassle if you reach a final and an opponent decides to lodge a protest.

If you are not a senior National or international player, I wouldn't worry about it. Umpires are very wary of players doing funny stuff with their bat. I can envision JHB having trouble explaining the plastic wood repair if challenged by an opponent. But fixing a clean break should not be a...

BBC and TT I agree about the ITTF's poor TV work. Just look at the excellent TT coverage by the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/commonwealth-games/28216426 But then again, the BBC is still the standard for TV broadcasting

Someone on another forum identified that there are only 4 manufacturers. Most of the European makes (seamed) are re-branded DHS balls. They they may differ slightly because they submitted their own specifications to the manufacturer. Edited to add: According to forum wisdom, none of the...

I doubt that that would be reason enough to ban manufacturing. After all handling any petroleum product, manufacturing explosives or even nuclear bombs are very dangerous yet ways are found.

Speed glue ban has not changed the game at elite level I believe that the effect of the loss of speed of speed glue is very low compared to that of changing from 38mm to 40mm ball and banning the no-see serve. Speed glue was simply replaced by boosting. Ok, not as great an effect, but close...

No. The cel-ball will still be legal for play. The ETTA wants to make it mandatory to use the poly ball only even though the cel-ball will still be legal for play.

For low level amateurs like me, I don't think switching between poly and plastic will be a big deal. It'll be much easier than flitting between hardbat and sponge. But I take your point as the advanced players will hate doing that.

It's more the background that's the problem I used to play TT in a squash court. I generally had no problem when looking downwards at the table using either colour ball. But once I was back from the table looking upwards I lost track of the ball whether orange or white. This is not scientific...

It's the priniciple My beef with the TTE is that they intend to make the Poly balls mandatory for all competitions. I pointed out to them on FB that the cel-ball will still be legal for play. Thus it should be left to local event organisers whether their tournament is cel-ball or poly ball...

OK, cheers.

Carl, interesting post but I don't quite get what you are saying here. Could you simplify a little?

I am surprised that the balls weighed the same.

I agree about the injury risk. I have seen TT players use the barriers much like Linford Christie practised plyometrics here:

Easy. Simply make an observation when it hits the net. Dan's videos may only be a few minutes long but there are many hours of tests that he does before condensing it all to those few minutes. There will be numerous 'net' balls in those few hours.

The glue is not the problem Some rubbers are worse than others when it comes to these shrinkage problems. It happens to both VOC and non-VOC glues. You can try a number of methods to get around this. 1 Allow for a longer drying time for the glue, like 1 -2 hours depending on ambient...

Seeing the ball well on TV depends on the camera equipment and the background light colours etc. I have loads of probs seeing tennis balls during play all the time. There are many videos out there where the production was so good that seeing the ball was no problem. And I'm talking about the old...

Tennis is suffering the same problems as TT in attracting new players. There are thousands of tennis courts all over England, yet it is rare to see anyone actually using them. Also tennis has been around in more or less the same form for about 400 years. Compare that to the 100 or so years for...

Agree especially with Ezra Develop your own set of exercises but; Before play (match or practice) do dynamic exercises similar to sprinters high knee stuff and shoulder swings and waist twists. Don't forget the wrist warm up. Keep the movement going during intervals, notice how high level...

Was there an incident that made Wang Jian Jun act so discourteous?