boosters illegal or not

 

As JimT has said, you are okay if you are not participating in any approved tournaments.

 

 

 

As long as Adham, Odd and their Equipment Committee let Stiga sell "Boost" TP and TC rubbers and let Joola sell their clearly-tuned Express II and Green Energy rubbers, then voc-free boosters are not illegal and never were by precedent as practiced by the ITTF.  Laws that allow exceptions to a few companies to apply voc-free boosters and tuners freely to their $55 rubbers, plus letting them stretch the topsheet and sponge in the factory at will are not worth the paper they are written on.  Don't worry about Enez.  Enez can't detect any voc free boosters because there's no voc to detect, lol.

The question should be, "Are there boosters that don't get detected by Enez"? and thus you cannot get disqualified.

 

I did try rubbers that were boosted by Falco and I brought the racket to the US Nationals and had it tested with their Enez and it passed.  Falco's process is supposed to last for 3 months, I used the racket for 1.5 months, before ruining the rubber and it still had the same boosting affect.

 

 

Did that happen naturally, or did you break it or something like that?

 

 

Please post a list of the VOC free boosters and tuners you are speaking of.  Thanks.

 

 

Please explain how players using clearly stretched and boosted $55 rubbers provided by manufacturers are not cheating vs. those who use $10 rubbers who tune themselves with voc-free products.  The ITTF has banned stretching and tuning for everyone.

 

No it has not, at least for the time being.  ITTF has defined the equipment rules and issued subsequent interpretations thereof by Adham and Odd.  Those interpretations by the ITTF permit tensors and any other rubbers that a player uses as delivered by the factory/manufacturer.  They have also clearly stated that a player, store, etc. cannot tune a rubber.  As per this interpretation of the allowable rubber rules by ITTF, tensors and similar rubbers are legal as long as you do not further modify it and therefore using them is not cheating.  Self tuned or post manufactured tuning not done by the factory as part of assembling the final rubber sheet sold to the public are illegal.  So if you use such a sheet it is not considered legal, and therefore is cheating.

 

Adham had a lot of postings here and in other forums.  Not sure in what context he may have stated what you wrote above.  However, ITTF publishes a list of approved racket coverings.  Tensors such as Andro Plasma are on the latest list.  Whatever the manufacturing process Andro uses for producing Andro, it must meet ITTF approval as that tensor is approved for use as long as you use it as it was delivered in the package without any further modification to the sponge or topsheet.  If ITTF has an issue regarding a racket covering, it gets removed from approved list (I think they now have instituted a grace period before its removed.)