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What's your opinion on seamless plastic balls?

Hi! I wonder if anybody tried new plastic balls on robots like Amicus from Butterfly or RoboPong? Thanks

Hey everyone, Now the new season is fast approaching, table tennis professionals are training with the new plastic ball. TableTennisDaily managed to interview some of the players currently practising with the new ball. Here are the reviews below: Simon Gauzy (World Ranked: 89) My first...

We have finally released our review of the DHS 3 Star Poly Ball with our equipment expert Matt Hetherington (a.k.a pingpongpom on TTD) Check it out below! Enjoy :)

Just found this article over at forum.tt-news.de where Thomas Keinath tested the new plastic balls with the German National team. We trained with Tibhar ballls, each ball seemed to have a lot of variation, each ball was different. In each training session around 15-20 balls broke. But in the...

What are the best rubbers for plastic ball? Does the Tenergy series will continue on top of decisions? Or is there no big change?

TableTennisDaily's @Dan and @Tom had the fantastic opportunity to review Stiga's latest ITTF Approved Plastic/Poly ball. There has been a lot of discussion around the world and on the TableTennisDaily website recently in regards to how this new ball will effect table tennis players and the...

I just read this posts on OOAK forum and i think it's better to share it with you: "Had a chance to play in the recent tournament in South Bend Indiana.. and during the free time in between matches, i was able to play test the new poly balls.. believe me i thought the new balls were going to...

1. Plastic balls will be used at ITTF Sanctioned events from 1st July 2014 (reference: ITTF BoD decision 2012) 2. As an exception celluloid balls will be used at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (reference: ITTF OPC decision 2014) and at four (4) ITTF Junior Circuit events taking...

Ma Long endorses the New DHS Plastic Ball! 2014 is the year where the celluloid ball will be a thing of the past. July 7th the new plastic ball will come in place in all International competitions according to the ITTF. DHS will be sponsoring all major events including the Rio Olympics...

This interview has been taken from MNNB blog: http://www.dohastadiumplusqatar.com/level-playing-field/ Is the ITTF going to change table tennis balls? From the technology point of view, we’re going to reduce speed. In fact, we’re developing a technology test, which’ll have a bounce limit...

I saw this and thought discussion on the subject would be interesting. http://tabletennis.about.com/od/rants-opinions-philosophy/a/Protesting-Against-Plastic-Ping-Pong-Balls.htm It is worth reading the article. But I will post one part of it that is pertinent here: "Take a Stand and Sign...

TableTennisDaily member Mitz was at the Spanish Open World Tour 2012 between 18th to 22th April and had the opportunity to record Jun Mizutani testing the new plastic ball. In Mitz words "I think it's a cool stuff, because it was a curious situation, Mizutani was warming up when Samsonov launchs...

Some one has a Pic's of the Old Plastic Ball,I think it was during the 40'-50's It was a Halix balls, but I am not sure? the New plastic ball does not spin,it's not round, does not bounce well it bounces high,it's cracks after it play's 6 times, same as the old one's , that why it was...

I played 4 games with this paddle the other night at a club member's basement. He had these Cornilleau Plastic Rec Paddles that was just so weird. I figured they'd play similar to pips, but they really didn't. You had to hit the ball like you would with pips, but the ball acted much...

Hello All, Today was not a good day. After one hour of training I went for a short ball, close to the net. Hit the corner of the table and ripped my FH sheet :( After launching a list of foul words not to be used here, I continued the training, but the trainer was very clear : the damage was...