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Adham im not sure this has been asked before, so please forgive my ignorance.

Can you put it in a nutshell:

1. Why are frictionless Pimples banned but frictionless Rubbers still allowed?

2. And as a followup, why were frictionless pimples banned in the firstplace?

(since the ITTF only cares about the top international game with regard to rules governing and at that level of play frictionless pimples used to be non existant and were considered a joke)




/almost offtopic (not so serious part):

Oh and since it is Chrismas:
Can we please ban any frictionless playing material to achive consistancy within the Rules? Else i will use glass as a racket covering, wich, this may come as a surprise to you, is entirely possible. I can also further enhance that glass surface with a nano technology cover so it will deterr water and clean itself which is also state of the art technology. Can i use that? No Pimples involved at all, i promise. ther's also room for an ITTF approval stamp.

Seriously if Table Tennis was big enough for Nike or Addidas or Speedo, you would start to see matrerial that blows your mind away so i would be quick on getting the rules ironed out because if by some magic tabletennis becomes really big, we are in trouble. Best material scientist wins.