Bring your own tt-balls to the club?

[riemsesy]

When you go training at the club do you have to bring your own table tennis balls, or does the club provide them for you?

 

[mocker88]

My club provides balls. Never a problem.

 

[Lazer]

On all sessions with trainers the club provides balls. On trainerless sessions you have to bring your own.

Cheers
L-zr

 

[Sims]

Our club provides balls but they're shite. Most of us bring our own 3* and then argue over whose balls are better 😂
True

 

[Novarac23]

Yeah my club has solid butterfly training balls. And then for matches we use butterfly as well just 3* or nittaku

 

[Gozo Aruna]

There is a box of training balls provided by the club which is sitting in the box collecting dust. The players are too snobbish to use them. Usually the dude with either the Nittaku Premium 3 star or Butterfly 3 stars newest ball will dictate who start the game. It is the battle of the snobs here I say.

And European brand balls are shun and seen as pariah.

 

[Sims]

There is a box of training balls provided by the club which is sitting in the box collecting dust. The players are too snobbish to use them. Usually the dude with either the Nittaku Premium 3 star or Butterfly 3 stars newest ball will dictate who start the game. It is the battle of the snobs here I say.

And European brand balls are shun and seen as pariah.

Yeah, European balls are not round enough.
We need Rick to show us what Truly Round is in season 8

 

[Gozo Aruna]

Yeah, European balls are not round enough.
We need Rick to show us what Truly Round is in season 8

Truth be told, I do not have an issue with the roundness.
Instead, I find that Euro balls, goes, pfttttttt...... too fast.
Cannot withstand the vigour and rigour of regular play.

 

[riemsesy]

Our club provides balls but they're shite. Most of us bring our own 3* and then argue over whose balls are better 😂
True

what balls brand does you club use then?

 

[Tyce]

I use whatever is available. Especially since I learned about brand snobs, I started to consciously take pride in playing with whatever ball I pick up. There's Tibhar, Donic, Butterfly, DHS, Dandoy own brand and then I probably forgot some.
I do notice small differences, but adjusting to them seems like a much better strategy than learning to play with only one type of ball.

Most of the time I do have a quick look at what ball I'm playing, but I am finding myself to be simply looking for the ball characteristics while playing more often now. I'm usually quick to notice a ball starting to crack, too.

Ball snobbiness is just creating a handicap.

 

[Sims]

what balls brand does you club use then?

I can't actually remember. It's some generic Chinese brand, they must have bought the 100 pack cheap... They're noticeably inferior and break more easily

 

[Lazer]

Truth be told, I do not have an issue with the roundness.
Instead, I find that Euro balls, goes, pfttttttt...... too fast.
Cannot withstand the vigour and rigour of regular play.

Yeah, we ship the bottom of our QC balls your way 😉

Cheers
L-zr

 

[riemsesy]

I have DHS, Yasaka and Yinhe 3*
I like them all tbh

I understand you have to bring you own in stead of the club providing them

 

[Sims]

Yeah, the club provides training balls but pretty terrible ones. I have Yinhe and DHS 1* balls and tbh I can't tell the difference between them and the 3* ones!
I guess I'm just believing the hype a bit when manufacturers say the 3* are more round 🙄

 

[AdamTT]

Ours has a container of Butterfly 3* that we use

 

[Topspinslinger]

I remember warming up in a tournament with a DHS 1* ball, usually i am semi-picky with a warmup ball and he was really picky. Both of us didn't notice it untill half a hour later.

Now we train the youth with cheap huieson 3* 120 pack for €10.
Good enough and cheap for multi ball and robot.

Only ball i can blindly tell in a testing we did is WTT double fish. Never got that one wrong. The rest i couldn't tell. Not the €2.5 dhs balls compared to the regular €0.6 Dhs 3*

 

[Jslick89]

I use whatever is available. Especially since I learned about brand snobs, I started to consciously take pride in playing with whatever ball I pick up. There's Tibhar, Donic, Butterfly, DHS, Dandoy own brand and then I probably forgot some.
I do notice small differences, but adjusting to them seems like a much better strategy than learning to play with only one type of ball.

Most of the time I do have a quick look at what ball I'm playing, but I am finding myself to be simply looking for the ball characteristics while playing more often now. I'm usually quick to notice a ball starting to crack, too.

Ball snobbiness is just creating a handicap.

I agree somewhat. I really dont care the brand of ball so much, but if I have the choice between a new ball and a used ball, i prefer the new ball. Some snobs at my club only like to use nittaku. They would seriously rather use an old smooth nittaku than my brand new DHS DJ40 WTT edition ball. That is just crazy to me.

Also, definitely agree that you have to be able to adapt to different kind of balls, playing environments and distractions. In fact, the other day i was warming up, using my AWESOME DHS ball, and my hitting partner (who wasn't playing in the RR that day) asked if i am worried about using the DHS ball before the RR where i would most likely be having to use a nittaku. I told him now....the difference is so small i would rather be able to make the adjustment. If my mental game is so weak that a different ball distracts me from doing my techniques and tactics, i've got bigger problems.

the same goes with all sorts of other distractions in TT. I train myself to play through these. Sure i might lose some points in a match because i didn't call a let when a ball flies by, but i have been training my mental fortitude and that is worth more in the long run than losing one point in the a single match. Case in point- one of the best players at my local club was telling me how he was up 8-4 at the US open in Huntsville. But then some kid ran behind his table in the middle of a point. He got distracted and so upset that he lost the next 7 points in that game, and eventually lost the match. Yes, that kid should have waiting before he ran to get his ball, but as a player, we have to be indestructible from distraction, and if we do get distracted, we have to let it flow through and out of us so that we can play our best on the next point.

 

[jfolsen]

We always play with a 3 star. If a tournament is coming up we play with whatever ball they will be using. Otherwise it's whatever the players prefer, usual Nittaku or DHS. I have enough trouble with my game, I don't need to add erratic, inconsistent balls.

 

[Lazer]

I agree somewhat. I really dont care the brand of ball so much, but if I have the choice between a new ball and a used ball, i prefer the new ball. Some snobs at my club only like to use nittaku. They would seriously rather use an old smooth nittaku than my brand new DHS DJ40 WTT edition ball. That is just crazy to me.

Also, definitely agree that you have to be able to adapt to different kind of balls, playing environments and distractions. In fact, the other day i was warming up, using my AWESOME DHS ball, and my hitting partner (who wasn't playing in the RR that day) asked if i am worried about using the DHS ball before the RR where i would most likely be having to use a nittaku. I told him now....the difference is so small i would rather be able to make the adjustment. If my mental game is so weak that a different ball distracts me from doing my techniques and tactics, i've got bigger problems.

the same goes with all sorts of other distractions in TT. I train myself to play through these. Sure i might lose some points in a match because i didn't call a let when a ball flies by, but i have been training my mental fortitude and that is worth more in the long run than losing one point in the a single match. Case in point- one of the best players at my local club was telling me how he was up 8-4 at the US open in Huntsville. But then some kid ran behind his table in the middle of a point. He got distracted and so upset that he lost the next 7 points in that game, and eventually lost the match. Yes, that kid should have waiting before he ran to get his ball, but as a player, we have to be indestructible from distraction, and if we do get distracted, we have to let it flow through and out of us so that we can play our best on the next point.

Yeah, that is crazy, very little difference between Nittaku premium and DHS DJ40+. The latter being my favorite. But this is entirely subjective. I just think DHS label is cooler but the quality is absolutely equal. 😁

Cheers
L-zr

 

[Arkady]

When you go training at the club do you have to bring your own table tennis balls, or does the club provide them for you?

My club provides them, but because they buy the cheapest shitty training ones,, I bring my own 3star DHS in ORANGE so I can spot them immediately.