Heck, I don’t even train professionally and I change rubbers every day! Come to think of it, that may have a different reason…
The sport you want actually exists: it's called tennis. And some are complaining since a decade in that sports about the surfaces getting slower and slower because of that "we the audience want ralliiiies !"
At the controversial 2011 US Open, many players complained that the court had slowed. Played on DecoTurf II since 1978, the US Open has traditionally been considered a fast hardcourt event. But adding sand to a court’s paint can greatly affect the speed of the ball after it bounces, and Roger Federer was one player who believed this ratio may have changed in 2011.
“The issue for me more is maybe did they make a mistake. Maybe they did paint the court a bit too rough,” Federer said after his first round win. “It's just unfortunate. I think that maybe all the Slams are too equal. I think they should feel very different to the Australian Open, and now [here] I don't feel it really does… . I'm not sure if it's really what the game needs.”
Mardy Fish, who reached the fourth round of the 2011 US Open, agreed with Federer. “This was definitely the fastest Slam, surface-wise, that we've had,” said the then-top-ranked American. “Now with it being much slower out here this year, it fits right in with Australia. There are a lot of really slow Grand Slams now surface-wise.” in http://www.tennisviewmag.com/tennis...urt-surfaces-slowing-down-game-does-it-matter
I guess it's what the ITTF wants table tennis to look like indeed.
When rules and regulations are made so to please the audience, it's only money driven. And it's not good, at all.
Long Pips no. It actually needs a few days to soften to get to the best stage of use. and from about a month, it can start breaking.
Some blockers that punch, I've seen girls break pips in the first week.
For Long pips, the players will know when to change - you can feel the ball not going out normal. Or the pip is broken.
3 months ago, there was one girl in the team, who told me her pip is broken - 2 days old.
I was maybe the 3rd person she shown.
I looked at it and I can't see any missing pip.
She said, it is about to break, she can feel it.
The other coach (former top 30 in the world) said, its in your imagination that is broken, because she literally couldn't train properly for that whole hour and keep looking at her pip to find that broken pip that isn't there.
A week later, she was still using that rubber. No broken pips, but what I do think is maybe quality control problem and I advise her to go for something else next time.
if you talking about pros using inverted rubbers, most competition are only 3 days long.... they won't change during competition. However they would have at least 2 bats to use. Some 3, some 4.
new rubbers put on few days before competition.
Training life span for rubbers is around 2 weeks ~2 month for males, or it doesn't feel right any more (what ever comes first)
Table tennis rubbers is okay. Girl friends - maybe you shouldn't do that too quickly.
I wish!
Which brands don't have pips breaking - I have not seen one yet.
I think I recognize some faces, is there a higher resolution photo?Which brands don't have pips breaking - I have not seen one yet.
The power of those flat punches, sooner or later it will start breaking.
In case you don't know, other than coaching players in Africa, I am involved with an elite table tennis junior girls team in Asia. USATT 2500 junior national player comes and trains there and are on par with the better girls.
Its not just US players, the likes of your main Japanese senior girls team have visited a couple of times too.
The male player (pink clothing) standing behind the first row lady on the right with white top has a win over Dima
link here
Dayum!
It wasn't a proper tournament, getting amateur to play against pros etc, Dima lost more than once to an amateur/semi pro.
However, Dima was world ranked 1 during that time, so Li can say he beaten world number 1 😁
8 new girls formally joined (6 been training with the team for past 3 years already)
of the 8, 4 are pips players. 2 long pip choppers as I mentioned before. and 2 more short pip attacking players.
4 girls graduated (1 sp fh/lp bh player), so team is now the full time 18 Ive talked about.
We would also get 3~6 players joining from the U15 team at times and another 5 boys from another school to come as training partners 3 times a week, making the 10 table training base (30+ hours training a week) very busy and lovely vibe to be in.
There are a lot more pips players than yester years (totally writing off our friend Carly's assumption of pips is #$^%@^@$# - won't repeat all the things he said)
Sounds like a very solid team 👍It wasn't a proper tournament, getting amateur to play against pros etc, Dima lost more than once to an amateur/semi pro.
However, Dima was world ranked 1 during that time, so Li can say he beaten world number 1 😁
8 new girls formally joined (6 been training for past 3 years)
of the 8, 4 are pips players. 2 long pip choppers as I mentioned before. and 2 more short pip attacking players.
4 girls graduated (1 sp fh/lp bh player), so team is now the full time 18 Ive talked about.
We would also get 3~6 players joining from the U15 team at times and another 5 boys from another school to come as training partners 3 times a week, making the 10 table training base (30+ hours training a week) very busy and lovely vibe to be in.
There are a lot more pips players than yester years (totally writing off our friend Carly's assumption of pips is #$^%@^@$# - won't repeat all the things he said)
