Hello from ITTF President

[Uli-Noppe]

i have played frictionless pips for a verry long time and i optimized my style to play fot these kind of rubber. So i need muce time to cance back - i think a few years!
Also i optimized my Blade - i spend muce time to build a blade by my owne, special for frictionless pips and my style to play. All these time i cant use for normal long pips.

To play aganst frictionles pips is not so hard - if you think about it! The problem from some Topspin Players is - they dont want to think about ther game.
There are many players with frictionless pips and so they are abel to play verry muce against frictionless pips - but some players dont use their opertunity and loose- because they are not thinking.

Please allow the frictionless pips again. Ther is no need for a ban. People don't understand the ban and even don't follow it


Cheers Uli

Sorry for my english

[RedStar]

frictionless long pimples had been a good material for older players to be able to keep up with the younger and physically stronger players by ball feeling and experience. It is very unfortunate that this possibility now does not exist any more. In my eyes with this ban gets lost some attraction of tabletennis. I have watched this games always with pleasure to see which generation can assert his style of playing tabletennis.

I dont care about Tabletennis on TV. I dont care about the visions of Mr.Sharara to improve TT. I dont mind if he succeed and you can watch TT on TV more often. It makes no difference for me, because i dont watch TT on TV.
But I am worried about continually improving the physical skills and to depreciate the ball feeling and experience skills. And I am worried about what comes next. Ban of Anti-Spin Rubbers?
In my eyes it is the great social characteristic of TT, that 18 year old Players meet 70 year old players at eye level to play and have fun together. This is only possible because there exist several ways of playing table tennis. Please dont kill this wonderfull characteristic of TT.

EDIT: Date: 11.11. Time: 11:11
HELAU

[Neptune]

You are so right, RedStar.
But unfortunately nobody cares about that. They just look at the first league and the top players of the world. In the top league you can 99% see just one style but in the base you can see so much more. Young and old players, players with all kinds of material, players with so many different styles. And it's good like that. The ITTF forgets about the faszination of our sport, it's social characteristics and our social structures. What about the hundredthousands of older players that are using their rubbers for many years? Will their inward pimpled rubbers, their long pimples, antis.... be banned soon because their material is to old? Oh I forgot, their material is already forbidden, because it changed by using it.

Neptune

[akosch]

Zitat von Neptune

Young and old players, players with all kinds of material, players with so many different styles.

That you can see in the DTTL, too.
For example Waldner - Matsudeira.

Just a little joke.

[Tackiness]

Zitat von Arkanius

Dear Mr Sahara,

Zitat von Uli-Noppe

Dear Mister Sahara,

How about getting his name right first of all? It's Sharara, or just Adham.

[Cogito]

Zitat von adham

.... I also believe that defensive players should be able to make a comeback now that we no longer have VOC glues and if we control the use of boosters better in the future. ...

Dear Mr. Sharara,

this will definetely turn out to be wrong !

Perhaps the changes made by the ITTF (=> larger ball, no speed glueing or boostering) aimed at a deaccelaration of the game to increase the fraction of long rallies. However, look at the results:

The speed is still the same !

This was made possible by the development of faster rubbers & sponges as well as of faster blades.

But let's have a closer look on the only physical parameter that indeed changed: the spin of the ball ! First the high spin of table tennis is the very unique characteristic of our sport. What a pitty that you are going to diminish this fascinating feature. Second, spin is the absolute necessity for all defenders. Take the spin a away and you will sacrifice the defenders !

Summary: defenders are more hampered then before and a comeback is farther away then ever.

p.s. if you don't believe a low class amateur then ask for example Chtchetinine; he said about the same in St. Petersburg

[Noppenprimus]

Hello to everybody,
I would only like to inform here that the ban of the non-friction Noppen has killed a large part of individual and play-strategical play variations. It was a great and exciting competition with the non-friction Noppen walked along. It was not everything to the advantage of the non-friction Noppen player separate also gave problems with the material. But now these individual and diverse plays were demonised and decimated! Why I cannot catch it, unfortunately, yet. and if this still hopes this sometime again is made, or I pull to England dear ones Lars Koglin greets

[noppen-lord]

Cogito is right I think sometimes it is a little bit higher may be because they use all boosters and tuners....

This is the same as with the long pimples and here my question again Adham:


how will you controll busters and tuners ?

how will you controll the 25mN on long pimples?

And normally first is to find a perfekt method to controll second is changing the rules.

best regards

[noppen-jedi]

Dear Adham,

I think you heard a lot of weird oppinions and got "thrown in the dirt". And now here is my look at the rule changes, and how it works:

First, there was a Ball with 38mm. This Ball had speed and spin. It was good for all defenders, cause only with spin they're able to play their game on a high level.

Then there was the decission, to take the 40mm Ball. You tought the game will be slower and more spinny. But the 40mm Ball is as fast as the 38mm Ball. It's getting harder for the Defenders.

But, the 40mm Ball had less spin, so the weapon (A Magnum) from the defenders (the Spin-Change) was tradet for a little Water-Gun

Then the long pimples had to have a other aspect rotatio. Less danger for the Attacker, more work for the defenders.

Now the ban of the frictionless long pimples. I still don't understand why. If you play a Topspin, you got Backspin from the Pimples. If you play Backspin, you got topspin from theire pimples. It is not as difficult as du discribe it. And, the most attacker know this, and played good after some games against LP's. Only some ware victims against LP's (Long Pips).

If you ever played a long frictionless pimple, you should know, that it is not easy to play with this pimples. If it is hard to controll for your opponent, it is hard to controll the pips as well. It doesn't work to get your racket in the ball, and the ball will fly like magic on the other side and will have unknown spin.

You talked about the issue, to get more defenders to fit the game to the TV-watchers. But, what is more exiting as a match between a good Attacker and a good defender? Nothing, you're right.

But all your new rules make the life harder for defenders. The rubbers for the Attacker get faster, and faster an faster. The Defenders got no new rubber-type for 5 or 6 years. and if there were new things, you "killed" it, because is was tooooooooo dangerous for the attackers.

For frictionless pimples
For maximum 2,0mm Rubbers
For Rubbers without Speed-Glue-Effekt
For the Glue Ban

Have a nice day,
Kai

PS: There are many people who want to start a new foundation, withput the ITTF. If you get more reasons to found it, it will happen.

[Käthe]

@Noppenjedi




So it is !