[Pushblocker]

Adham, you know very well that at the ITTF level, there are maybe 1 or 2 players who used frictionless long pips. The rest of the frictionless long pips playes played at national level in various countries. So, why go through the trouble of passing a rule that will only affect one or 2 players at ITTF level? At national or local level, there is also no objective test to test for friction level and I doubt that there will ever be one. There is a million ways of changing the friction level of ANY rubber, many of those treatments are not visually detectable and can only be objectively enforced with a readout. There aren't even any posted standards on how the test is performed. For example, what pressure is applied to the ball when sliding it over the rubber for a friction test? Of course, friction level changes as you apply more pressure.. Well, anyways, this information would be worthless if you don't have a device that applies that specific pressure and also has a readout. All other methods are subjective. Is there a plan to come up with a device that will measure friction? Will there be a database of rubbers with their friction level to see if the properties have been changed? As the rubber modification rule (that it's not allowed to change the rubbers friction) also applies to inverted rubbers, there should also be a database of friction level for inverted rubber and a way to measure actual friction level on all rubbers to equally enforce the rules. I doubt that any of that will happen. I don't see the sense of passing rules that are impossible to OBJECTIVELY enforce. I doubt that a referee can OBJECTIVELY determine friction level by sliding his thumb over a rubber etc.. There has to be a standardized test to OBJECTIVELY test rubbers to enforce the friction rule.. If there is no such test, the rule is completely worthless..