[Neptune]

Arkanius,

you are right that 2-3 years might be to late for many players. I think that a lot of them will stop or go on playing illegal long pimples in case nothing adequate comes up from Dr. Neubauer, TT-Master, TSP .......
But the ITTF or the national associations (except England) don't care about players that are stopping. They don't mind that teams are getting split or even total stop playing. They don't care about clubs and their personell and social structures. I even guess that they don't mind about the base. A couple thousand players and their social structures don't count for them. Especially in smaller clubs the situation can be disastrous.
The ITTF thinks that they can make table tennis as popular as tennis or soccer. By now only a very small amount of table tennis players watches games on TV. And that won't change. When I see a team close to me, playing second league, and there are around 30-50 spectators, that tells everything. And those spectators are all table tennis players and sometimes their family. Are there so few spectators because the athlets play frictionless long pimples? Definitively not!!! They all play fast rubbers and fast woods. Defenders or passiv players are exotics. And if there is one he plays pimples on one side. As I wrote before the evolution of material for the aggressive players won't stop but there is nothing done for the defenders or rather passiv players. The only thing they get is a nice new ban.

neptune