@cheftrainer:
I agree with you. Furthermore the ban of frictionless long pimples is another step to help our sport getting less fair. You only need one player that starts cheating (by after-treating an unknown but regular chinese pimple) and you will have more and more to follow. Because they feel that the cheater has an advantage that can not be controlled. How can the 25Mn be controlled at an event? This will not impact the top players (or say only 3 or 4) but many people at the base. Players with pimples already were accussed that they "can not play" and so forth before the ban. Now if you win with pimples, next question is: "Are these pimples regular? They seem much to smooth for me..."
This brings more aggression to the matches at the bottom level which I personally do think unnecessary.
My personal step was to play a very known pimple "Feint Long II" from Butterfly, because I don't want to be accused every time we have a match. But that is not the rubber that supports my style of play best. If I spend my time in the gymn than I want to have fun and I don't want to be blamed as a cheater. But this situation was constructed by the ban and so I still do not understand it...
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