This is my first post here. I started a free online petition a few months ago on different forums. Please help by signing the petition, it is FREE to sign. Please help spread the word to everyone you can!
My quest to stop the ITTF from mandating the ball change was also printed in the July/August issue of the USATT Magazine
Just think. This ball change "may" make your current equipment non-competitive with the new equipment made specifically to use with the new poly ball. Buying all new equipment, buying the new ball, who is this benefiting?
Here is a thread from the main forum I visit.
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/foru...st-say-no-to-the-new-poly-balls-sign-petition
Here is what it states:
My name is James Lindberg and I play at the Baton Rouge Table Tennis Club (http://brttc.org/ ) in Louisiana, USA.
Although I'm relatively new to organized table tennis and am a low level player, I grew up playing table tennis or "ping-pong", as we knew it, in my basement in Michigan. I'm 49 now.
I wanted to contact you in my effort to keep the current celluloid ball. The ITTF is going full speed to introduce the new poly (plastic) ball on July 1, 2014. I've started a petition to try and keep the celluloid ball.
At the minimum, my hope is that the ITTF doesn't make the change to the new poly ball until the playing characteristics, durability, and cost of the ball are identical to the current, traditional, celluloid ball.
My stance is, we need a voice and I'm looking for 10K signatures on the petition so I can distribute it to the ITTF, USATT, and other TT organizations worldwide.
The petition has been posted on OOAK, Mytabletennis , Pingskills and tabletennis.about.
Here are some links on the topic:
The petition itself: Do NOT PAY anything! Also, I've implemented the blog tab and will keep posting information as I receive it.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keepexistingtabletennisballs/
A recent review of the PREVIEW poly ball:
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50534&title=new-poly-ball-review
and
http://tabletennis-reviews.com/poly-non-celluloid-table-tennis-ball-review/
An article written by Greg Letts (Greg Letts is a world ranked table tennis player, an Australian Level 1 table tennis coach, and an internationally qualified table tennis umpire.) on the protest of the ball, referencing my petition:
http://tabletennis.about.com/od/ran...rotesting-Against-Plastic-Ping-Pong-Balls.htm
My quest to stop the ITTF from mandating the ball change was also printed in the July/August issue of the USATT Magazine
Just think. This ball change "may" make your current equipment non-competitive with the new equipment made specifically to use with the new poly ball. Buying all new equipment, buying the new ball, who is this benefiting?
Here is a thread from the main forum I visit.
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/foru...st-say-no-to-the-new-poly-balls-sign-petition
Here is what it states:
My name is James Lindberg and I play at the Baton Rouge Table Tennis Club (http://brttc.org/ ) in Louisiana, USA.
Although I'm relatively new to organized table tennis and am a low level player, I grew up playing table tennis or "ping-pong", as we knew it, in my basement in Michigan. I'm 49 now.
I wanted to contact you in my effort to keep the current celluloid ball. The ITTF is going full speed to introduce the new poly (plastic) ball on July 1, 2014. I've started a petition to try and keep the celluloid ball.
At the minimum, my hope is that the ITTF doesn't make the change to the new poly ball until the playing characteristics, durability, and cost of the ball are identical to the current, traditional, celluloid ball.
My stance is, we need a voice and I'm looking for 10K signatures on the petition so I can distribute it to the ITTF, USATT, and other TT organizations worldwide.
The petition has been posted on OOAK, Mytabletennis , Pingskills and tabletennis.about.
Here are some links on the topic:
The petition itself: Do NOT PAY anything! Also, I've implemented the blog tab and will keep posting information as I receive it.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keepexistingtabletennisballs/
A recent review of the PREVIEW poly ball:
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50534&title=new-poly-ball-review
and
http://tabletennis-reviews.com/poly-non-celluloid-table-tennis-ball-review/
An article written by Greg Letts (Greg Letts is a world ranked table tennis player, an Australian Level 1 table tennis coach, and an internationally qualified table tennis umpire.) on the protest of the ball, referencing my petition:
http://tabletennis.about.com/od/ran...rotesting-Against-Plastic-Ping-Pong-Balls.htm
