What will happen to boosting?

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Yes exactly. And a part of me believes this is another step to try to limit Chinas dominance again. They use equipment that don't function very well without boosting, at least not at top level.

Companies will still continue to boost the rubbers in house and will just find ways to go around the rule.
 
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Nothing. They're addressing boostering. There's no boostering in table tennis. There's only boosting! There's no after treatment in table tennis. There's only post-factory treatment. Whoever wrote this article should be fired.

Whatever. Factory tuning is just fine. This superficial test is a frigging waste of money to pamper the crybabies. Spend it on VAR, MF!

“It’s important to note that if we were to change the rule, we would not only be allowing boosters, but any after treatment on approved products. This would pose significant issues, as the ITTF is responsible for ensuring that there are no health risks related to our equipment or our sport as a whole. If we allow after treatments, how can we keep control of which kinds of substances will be used? This is simply not an option. Chemicals must stay in the hands of the professional manufacturing companies.
 
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If ittf only way to check for boosting is to measure the thickness of rubbers it will not change anything. Pro players will just be more thorough and keep their rubbers within 4.0 mm. As they already do now.

The other method ittf talked about we have to wait and see what it is.
 
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They will also check the sponge for gas levels.

If ittf only way to check for boosting is to measure the thickness of rubbers it will not change anything. Pro players will just be more thorough and keep their rubbers within 4.0 mm. As they already do now.

The other method ittf talked about we have to wait and see what it is.
 
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Why did we forbid booster in the first place? was it unhealthy as the speedglue? Can not remember.
 
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Was the speedglue that unhealthy in the first place? Can't remember any kid from my era falling sick. I think that would have kind of made the headlines.

VOC are quite possibly carcinogenic. Kids from your era dying of cancer, seemingly unrelated to their hobby, would most probably not have made the headlines. Of course it was never "breathe in and die on the spot" ...

Boosting - with harmless substances - was quite probably forbidden because the industry had the speed glue effect rubbers to sell, but boosted classic rubbers were superior to the first generations of those. I remember one particular player boosting Speedy Spin even when Tibhar Genius was already out ...
 
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Nothing. They're addressing boostering. There's no boostering in table tennis. There's only boosting! There's no after treatment in table tennis. There's only post-factory treatment. Whoever wrote this article should be fired.

Whatever. Factory tuning is just fine. This superficial test is a frigging waste of money to pamper the crybabies. Spend it on VAR, MF!

I think the same guy/girl writes all the ITTF articles. I recognise the poor grammar and backwards sentence structures. Reading ITTF.com articles is headache-inducing because of it.
 
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VOC are quite possibly carcinogenic. Kids from your era dying of cancer, seemingly unrelated to their hobby, would most probably not have made the headlines. Of course it was never "breathe in and die on the spot" ...
Well I'm quite probably wrong on those. I usually am after all :) But I'm pretty sure there's more pressing cancer-giving stuff to tackle before taking care of speed glue :)
 
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Those DianChi and Kalin famous boosters. It is a poison. As for chemical composition, it is pure mineral oil as derived from a crude petroleum. It is an inedible product anyway, it is explosive under heating. Keep children away from the product.
 
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Why did we forbid booster in the first place? was it unhealthy as the speedglue? Can not remember.

Oh, the horrible memories. Back in mid-2008, booster was already widely practiced as an alternative to gluing. Adham Sharara's first attempt to outlaw the practice was to define booster as an "additive" after rubber approval.

They claimed the early-day boosters contained harmful VOCs and came close to the limit of the ENEZ(1st-gen VOC reader) at the time, 5ppm(?). When the next-gen boosters came and the ENEZ couldn't detect it, they turned to the rhetoric of toxic chemicals. Host associations were forced to upgrade to the "super-duper-latest-and-greatest-sensitive-and-expensive-af" ELIZE and RAE and so started the cat-and-mouse game of lowering the VOC level until 2011 to 2ppm(?) when they started getting false positives. IIRC, CTTA was so upset the folks put in a proposal at the AGM to get them to ****ing stop messing since London Olympics was so close.

The witch hunt died down for a while until 2013 when JTTA put in a proposal and hired a bunch of eggheads to come up with the ill-fated bounce test. They spent another 2 years(?) drafting that crap and then came to the conclusion it wouldn't serve its purpose of creating an even-playing field.

It's been a long time so the order of events could be wrong, but it's a ****ing mess. Total waste of money and time. People literally confronted Sharara on the few major forums he participated because he kept speaking out of both sides of his mouth, like how factory-tuning was fine, or how non-VOC booster could be allowed if there was one and all that shit.
 
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ITTF WOULD IMPOSE NO RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMON POPULES.

All the recreational players are free to boost on their rubbers without restrictions, and it is not the case with money players as Timo Ball and Ma Long.
Lets invite MaLomg to enter our discussion.
 
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Zeio, what do you think is the reason for ITTF wanting to ban boosting? What's the harm in players boosting, really?


Oh, the horrible memories. Back in mid-2008, booster was already widely practiced as an alternative to gluing. Adham Sharara's first attempt to outlaw the practice was to define booster as an "additive" after rubber approval.

They claimed the early-day boosters contained harmful VOCs and came close to the limit of the ENEZ(1st-gen VOC reader) at the time, 5ppm(?). When the next-gen boosters came and the ENEZ couldn't detect it, they turned to the rhetoric of toxic chemicals. Host associations were forced to upgrade to the "super-duper-latest-and-greatest-sensitive-and-expensive-af" ELIZE and RAE and so started the cat-and-mouse game of lowering the VOC level until 2011 to 2ppm(?) when they started getting false positives. IIRC, CTTA was so upset the folks put in a proposal at the AGM to get them to ****ing stop messing since London Olympics was so close.

The witch hunt died down for a while until 2013 when JTTA put in a proposal and hired a bunch of eggheads to come up with the ill-fated bounce test. They spent another 2 years(?) drafting that crap and then came to the conclusion it wouldn't serve its purpose of creating an even-playing field.

It's been a long time so the order of events could be wrong, but it's a ****ing mess. Total waste of money and time. People literally confronted Sharara on the few major forums he participated because he kept speaking out of both sides of his mouth, like how factory-tuning was fine, or how non-VOC booster could be allowed if there was one and all that shit.
 
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Zeio, what do you think is the reason for ITTF wanting to ban boosting? What's the harm in players boosting, really?

The glorious motive is for health reasons and sport image, often citing the Agenda 21. The ulterior motive is to slow the game down, as Sharara put it on multiple occasions. There are also conspiracy theories that manufacturers like Butterfly and/or ESN want it banned for various reasons.
 
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