4 New Colour Rubbers Confirmed!

ArturS said:

I actually did a little research and what I read is that the pigment that will be used to make black rubber pink, green etc. is same as the one that makes black rubber red so the there will be no difference between pink and red or green and red. Maybe some of You dont know but the original rubber color is black and pigment makes it red and this pigment is available in red and these colors that ittf will make legal. This pigment also makes the rubber a little bit stiffier, amateurs dont see the difference but that is why pros always use black rubber on their better side (Zhang JK played with black on BH and Ma Long and Fan ZD and many others have black on their FH). Making long story short, the colored rubbers will feel 1:1 like red rubbers but I still think that it wont bring anything to Table Tennis and if ITTF want to make TT more popular they should develop other things, not the color of the rubber.

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lodro said:

the original rubber color is black .........................well, any drop of latex that i have seen dripping out of the tree in the plantation was actually white not black.

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ArturS said:

Actually I ment that the outer layer which is hitting the ball is originally made in black and after this they are colored red using pigment which also has green, blue, ping and purple version. Maybe I wrote it bad but I think that you know what I mean. On many hurricane 3 You can see on red rubber that there are black spots on edges because they dont apply pigment carefully.

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