Who needs a bat. Unbelievable Table Tennis Shot With Hand!

[TableTennisDaily]

Who needs a bat. Unbelievable Table Tennis Shot With Hand! Table Tennis player Alpha Hirokazu Tateishi pulls of this never before seen shot using his hand!

What do you think? Legal?

Pretty impressive don't you think

[TTHopeful]

What! Is this allowed it looks like opponent was annoyed....

[fanTT]

Ofcourse illegal. Rules states that clearly.

[Tommy16]

Ofcourse illegal. Rules states that clearly.

Is it really? If I remember corrctly at some point in this kind of situation you were allowed to hit the ball with a hand which held the racket last.

[Lucas Nascimento]

An interesting article about it: http://tabletennis.about.com/od/importantrules/a/importantrules_3.htm

[Boogar]

If the racket leaves your hand the point is over. However if you hit the ball for a winner with the racket and then lose it, its fine.
As he hit the ball after the racket was dropped, i think its illegal.

[Ilia Minkin]

What kind of rubber is on his hand?

[CroneOne]

What kind of rubber is on his hand?

Skinergy 05. Too expensive.

[genrel001]

That should be illegal. There's a reason why ITTF only allowed rubbers with ITTF logo because that's the only thing that should legally hit the ball, the rubber. But I don't know maybe he's hand is registered in the ITTF and has the ITTF logo and product number.

[Sali]

of course illegal. Few years ago some rules have changed about playing with finger, it is legal now on one circumstance that you hold the racket with this hand. If the racket is not in your hand you cannot play.
There was a situation I think about one year ago when FZD was smashing ball and XX was far away. With his smash FZD lost the racket which went far away, XX with high lob put the ball on the table, and FZD couldn't do anything just wait for the ball and go for the racket. If playing with hand was legal he would definitely did it.

[Musaab]

Skinergy 05. Too expensive.

actually it is the cheapest one, anyone and everyone can afford it

[Tinykin]

Player hit the ball with his hand thus point to opponent.

[Ilia Minkin]

actually it is the cheapest one, anyone and everyone can afford it

But it looks like a National Team version of it, should be very expensive.

[BeGo]

actually it is the cheapest one, anyone and everyone can afford it

Disagree.

The cost of replacement can easily cost someone an arm and a leg.

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[Michal_Z]

The player immediately showed to the umpire that he hit the ball with the hand, so the point goes to the opponent.
You can hit the ball with the racket and the playing hand up to your wrist. Somehow like that is the rule.
And definition of the playing hand is - the hand that holds the racket. So if you lose the racket, you do not have playing hand anymore, so you are f**ked

[Michal_Z]

Disagree.

The cost of replacement can easily cost someone an arm and a leg.

True, but how do you tune that rubber?

[BeGo]

True, but how do you tune that rubber?

With Synthol injection,

Which already banned.

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