says
toooooo much choice!!
says
toooooo much choice!!
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Personally, I agree with BB that ‘Control’ is really all to do with the player in question, and how they can adapt and read the incoming balls etc.
In one of the posts I think Pathfinder was mentioned, where they tested a couple of rubbers with different players, This is Preston Table Tennis Club I believe, they also did some experimental testing with a robot and a static blade with a couple of different rubbers on it. (I was hoping to find some more of their testing of rubbers, but haven’t been able to find any more, they did a good few comparisons of different balls as well).
Fired balls at rubbers, took SLO motion footage, tracked the balls flight path etc and overlaid the results so you could see one against the other. You could see the slightly higher throw angle / arc of the ball, distance travelled etc.
So Rubbers, blades etc just have different characteristics, a ball just bounces off them!! H3 with its tacky top sheet and hard(ish) sponge has a ‘dead’ bounce, T05 with its spring sponge grippy top sheet is very bouncy. Is H3 actively controlling the ball? Making it bounce less, not consciously!!!
As players we have the ‘control’ or in my case lack of control !!! 😀
Some rubbers / blade combos suit us better, we say this rubber has good control, what we actually mean is rubber ‘X’ allows ME to control the ball better than rubber ‘Y’ does. This could also vary depending on the stroke type being played, X may be better for looping, and Y better for blocking for the individual trying out the equipment.
Cars and the new technology currently being used and soon to be used. When we are driving we think we are in control of the vehicle, with stuff like collision warning, emergency breaking, ABS etc we are only partially in control, the CPU’s kick in and take over!!
In one of the posts I think Pathfinder was mentioned, where they tested a couple of rubbers with different players, This is Preston Table Tennis Club I believe, they also did some experimental testing with a robot and a static blade with a couple of different rubbers on it. (I was hoping to find some more of their testing of rubbers, but haven’t been able to find any more, they did a good few comparisons of different balls as well).
Fired balls at rubbers, took SLO motion footage, tracked the balls flight path etc and overlaid the results so you could see one against the other. You could see the slightly higher throw angle / arc of the ball, distance travelled etc.
So Rubbers, blades etc just have different characteristics, a ball just bounces off them!! H3 with its tacky top sheet and hard(ish) sponge has a ‘dead’ bounce, T05 with its spring sponge grippy top sheet is very bouncy. Is H3 actively controlling the ball? Making it bounce less, not consciously!!!
As players we have the ‘control’ or in my case lack of control !!! 😀
Some rubbers / blade combos suit us better, we say this rubber has good control, what we actually mean is rubber ‘X’ allows ME to control the ball better than rubber ‘Y’ does. This could also vary depending on the stroke type being played, X may be better for looping, and Y better for blocking for the individual trying out the equipment.
Cars and the new technology currently being used and soon to be used. When we are driving we think we are in control of the vehicle, with stuff like collision warning, emergency breaking, ABS etc we are only partially in control, the CPU’s kick in and take over!!