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Fair Play First
Tʜᴇ Gʀᴇᴀᴛ Mᴀssᴀᴄʀᴇ ᴏғ 2008
(brief retrospection of the largest banishment of toxic rubbers from the sport).
Back in 2006, a small rubber brand-owner with a head office inside England came up with the innovative idea of coating rubber pimples with epoxy resin. There then was confusion and disorder in the sport — the ball bounced like mad horse, the game lost control and turned into a continued sequence of mishits. The ITTF immediately took administrative measures and banned all the rubbers once they got an additional coating. , Enclosed here is an unique vintage document from where you can see how many "glassy" pimples got banned in 2008.
However, the sellers of rubber materials did kept looking for easy profits. They came up with a non grippy anti-rubber , now known as Anti Spin Flanti. This rubber is very unhealthy for the game, because the rally outcome becoming much like a funfair lottery , -- the bounce of the ball is chaotic and unpredictable.
Nowdays, Chinese stand strongly against such a low friction materials and they propound to ban the most outrageous frictionless, such as antispin-flanti. The proposed ban would be only partial, meaning that only materials with a CoF of less than 0.30 will be banned.
For example, the notorious ABS-3 rubber is supposed to incur revision first and there are also a couple of similar products. Thank you, China.
(brief retrospection of the largest banishment of toxic rubbers from the sport).
Back in 2006, a small rubber brand-owner with a head office inside England came up with the innovative idea of coating rubber pimples with epoxy resin. There then was confusion and disorder in the sport — the ball bounced like mad horse, the game lost control and turned into a continued sequence of mishits. The ITTF immediately took administrative measures and banned all the rubbers once they got an additional coating. , Enclosed here is an unique vintage document from where you can see how many "glassy" pimples got banned in 2008.
However, the sellers of rubber materials did kept looking for easy profits. They came up with a non grippy anti-rubber , now known as Anti Spin Flanti. This rubber is very unhealthy for the game, because the rally outcome becoming much like a funfair lottery , -- the bounce of the ball is chaotic and unpredictable.
Nowdays, Chinese stand strongly against such a low friction materials and they propound to ban the most outrageous frictionless, such as antispin-flanti. The proposed ban would be only partial, meaning that only materials with a CoF of less than 0.30 will be banned.
For example, the notorious ABS-3 rubber is supposed to incur revision first and there are also a couple of similar products. Thank you, China.
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