The beginning of inverted rubbers is/was in another era.
You see, people didn't moan and table tennis become one of the biggest sports in the world.
inverted rubbers at that time was "technical equipment" and who ever used it, gain huge advantage.
If TTD was around then, we would have a thread about "banning inverted" lol
and ERA it is, and table tennis has grew from there.
If any - the banning of things and rule changes in a space of 10 years probably hurt table tennis's growth by quite a bit.
As you know, there is a table tennis association where they even organise world championships for SP without mousse.
yes, and people like TB should go there and play because everyone is using the same racket. FAIR is what he wanted.
Let's all go back to that! No problem! If we want to see table tennis as a full-fledged sport and not as a pub or garage skill game, there have to be certain rules. These are sorely lacking in current table tennis. It remains a mix of sport and game.
WCPP is actually very well marketed. Not sure if you been to one, but maybe TT people should hire WCPP people, and it could become a full-fledged sport.
Even in darts, the rules are stricter and 15000 people come to watch big tournaments. They are more professional there than Olympic sport table tennis.
darts is probably more famous than many olympics sports.
talk table tennis vs table tennis.
why some country can do well and some can't? same rules.....
But I'll give a damn. I am now too old for this kind or games. I had a good time, got a good education, was among the top-200 players in my native country. Being able to play against JM-Saive and A. Podpinka. Met many nice people and for much of my life table tennis, sometimes with pleasure sometimes with great annoyance, has taken a lot of free time from me, even now. At my current location, we have no one in the club with technical equipment. Nor would the two head coaches who train the youth here want or promote it. And that's the way it should be!
I would never lower myself to resorting to technical equipment to score points that we might not be able to make with an inverted rubber. Training always pays off, sooner or later!
Well, i'm young and many coaches around me are young.
We are forever adapting to something new and learning.
Getting stuck in the same dimension or style for decades will only lean to "falling behind" the world trend.
Speaking about that, India's top 3 junior girls are currently in Taiwan, and my friends players are getting a nice time "getting used to them".
and just few days ago, Japan's top junior (cpen) penholder was in Taiwan (he left back on the 31st of March). I actually have some nice videos of him.