Fabian said:
Every match I have to play with different balls here in Germany, celluloid, ABS, seamless or even CA. There is no continuity. It’s not only the missing spin, the ball also bounces a lot higher.
It is just a mess.
In the USA, there are players I call "NBS"... that stands for Nittaku Ball Snob ™
These are players who absolutely refuse to play with nothing but Nittaku 3* Premium. When they come to the table, on the first bounce of the first hit, they will check the ball. If it isn't NP40+, they toss it back to you and trudge grumpily back to their gym ball and dig out a NP40+. They would like to prefer to use yours, but will fight a hoard of California Druggies to get one if needed.
I can see where they come from in the sense of demanding a high standard, and a consistent one... but the NP40+ isn't the ball used in even 1/2 the tourneys in USA. Some pretty crappy Seamed 40+ balls are tourney balls. These NBS will TRY to use the tourney ball a week out from tourney.. but why? If it is a crappy ball, it will bounce all over the place anyway.
I am more like Baal in my 40+ playing preferences, as long as the ball is of reasonable quality and consistent bounce, I can quickly adjust. I am not gunna cry about the lack of spin or plastic ball slip on fine contact... You get over that with your impact. You can't get over that if the ball does crazy random crap every bounce.
Of course the NP40+ is the ball among the lowest chance of that crap, but there are other decent 40+ balls that bounce acceptable well too.
The higher bounce, if it is like that on slower passive shots, it is a bonus for the one not doing that shot - a prime offensive attacking chance, so it is not such a big deal. If the ball doing the higher bounce also bounces like it has a Mexican Jumping Bean inside it to make it bounce every which way but loose, then yeah, that could suck... the Joola 40+ seamed balls used in many USA tourneys from 2014 onwards were like that... heck, even the Flash 40 balls from Joola had real poor QC... you had to dig through 12 of them to find a halfway round one... and the ball wouldn't last the match. The 2016 Joola Teams in USA, you spent more time waking to the control desk to exchange a broken one than you did retrieving balls by the barrier.