new ITTF ban poll

 

read the original "a hoax? complete ban on boosters?" thread - and it has (close to the end) a letter from an ITTF official, more or less stating that, for now, ITTF is not banning tuners/boosters... but they are looking into that. They are banning treatment of the surface - like Spinmax, burning or otherwise plasticizing pips or making them frictionless etc. and they will be checking the 4 mm rule...

 

Will it apply to you?

 

I assume most players here are regular tounament players, but I don't know.  I'm expecting the venues I play at to at least check the rackets of the winners, but don't know what to expect.  The deal with tuners is that they can easily expand the sponge to a point that the "max" rubbers exceed 4mm.  Still, others just want to make sure they play fair at their regular club meetings.  Like I always said when I played golf, if you don't follow the rules, you're playing a different game.  Besides, even if the OP started yet another thread about the ITTF's position on rubbers, that's their perogative as there are still new posts.  Sometimes when I see a thread I don't care about, I just skip it and don't read or post on it.

 

"regular tournament players?"  what is that?? 

 

the people who will get checked in the future will be the exact same people who get checked now--top players (int'l or nat'l).

 

just playing at any ol' tourney is not gonna get your racket examined for chemicals.

 

as for the sponge expanding over the legal limit, i don't see the point of worrying about that, nobody is gonna get an advantage from that anyhow!

 

 

 

  hi bruno, will you attend the brazilean open? there will be a lot of stars to watch,you can ask the players what will they use to glue

 

your racket will never be checked for chemicals, so why even bother thinking about it??  you can go on gluing just as you have been before...

 

as for the ball size change, i don't think that was stupid at all.  the rallies are longer now than before though one could make a valid argument that that is not only due to the bigger (and, therefore, slower-moving) ball, but to higher-quality players.

 

as for the ittf making money, that's something you absolutely, positively should support, that is, unless you're a basement player and don't care about the game.

 

I'm not sure I understand what you just wrote.  Most of the conversation on this and serveral threads has been about the ITTF banning things that enhance the performance of the rubber, namely speedglue but possbily, as has been mentioned, tuners.  The speedglue will no longer be available, and VOC-free glues do not provide the same performance-enhancing effects.  (THIS is what folks have been complaining about!)  Recently, rubbers with this effect built-in and other tuners have appeared on the market which are safe, but the latest talk is about banning the special tuners, too.  So I think the guys here have plenty to discuss as to what they will do to get that same performance-enhancing effect in the absence of speedglue (and possibly tuners).  It doesn't sound like you use either of these, and if you did, it doesn't sound like you care about playing by the rules.  I'm sorry to understand that about another TT player.