The best poly balls

Hello Friends, which poly balls do you thinhk are the best for matches, and best poly balls for training with a lot of balls?

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CalibraTT wrote: Hello Friends, which poly balls do you thinhk are the best for matches, and best poly balls for training with a lot of balls?

We use Kingnik, Yehne, Nexy and the Nittaku and none of the players seem to notice the difference.  The cost of the Yehne and Kingnik is much lower so we use more of them than anything else.

Wturber, there was an update to a leaflet somewhere which made allowances for official events to have their own logo added.

At first when G40+ came out I did not like it that much, now after playing with it for few months I think it is the best ball available. I will have to add that Butterfly quality control for this ball is a big question mark? !!! Whenever I buy a 12 pack, it seems as between 5-7 balls are perfectly round, the rest is not (I do this by performing simple spin test with fingers on the table). I also do not like that when you hit an edge with this ball, there is simply a mark/line on the ball so you can simply toss it! Or you can try to play with fire (matches / lighter) or heat gun/hairdryer but I doubt you will ever get 100% back of the roundness.
Overall once this ball is new and it confirms with the spin test and therefore it is round it is the best ball out there. Simply generates more spin, feedback and is accurate!

For me it's...

Edited by suds79 - 08/11/2016 at 3:49pm

I broke FOUR Nittaku NP40+ Premium in the last two sessions...brand new ones...they didn't even last five minutes each.  I had to use XSF instead.

roundrobin wrote: I broke FOUR Nittaku NP40+ Premium in the last two sessions...brand new ones...they didn't even last five minutes each.  I had to use XSF instead.

I almost never crack any of these balls.  Clearly I suck. Plus I brush the ball too much.

Edited by cole_ely - 08/11/2016 at 6:03pm

roundrobin wrote: I probably had a bad batch...need to order more but now I am not sure I want to... Some new ones that my buddies brought recently sounded kinda weird, like "tiny"...

[QUOTE) TT became more expensive for me after the new ball.[/QUOTE]

TT became less expensive for me after the new ball.  The balls are cheap and last much longer.

wturber wrote: roundrobin wrote: I broke FOUR Nittaku NP40+ Premium in the last two sessions...brand new ones...they didn't even last five minutes each.  I had to use XSF instead. In our last two-day tournament with over 60 players, I only needed a few more than one dozen NP40+ balls.  Breakage for us has been pretty rare.  Likewise, the 2* Nittakus that I'm using are holding up for long periods of time. They will crack from time to time, but not frequently - and I'm using hardbat.

We use Nittaku NP40+ Premium at our club and I don't remember any broken balls during game play. That has to be some kind of record among the balls.

On the other hand, I have stepped on many balls and that seem to be only way to break them for me...

PS   The last nittaku premium and the last G-40 Butterfly ball I played both broke in less than 5 min of warm-up play.     I don't think any seamed ball can compare with the seamless balls on the durability issue.

wturber wrote: CalibraTT wrote: Hello Friends, which poly balls do you thinhk are the best for matches, and best poly balls for training with a lot of balls? On this forum, the general consensus is that either the Nittaku Premium 3 star or one of the seamless ball from Kingnik, Xushaofa, Yinhe, etc.  Are the best.  The Nittakus are generally more consistent and carry a bit more spin, while the seamless balls have a bit more bounce, aren't generally as consistent in roundness, etc. and carry a bit less spin.  And while the seamless balls are generally very similar and perhaps were once all identical, there now does seem to be some variations between different seamless brands even though we think they are all made in either one or possibly two factories. Also, the new Yinhe seamless in the red "international" box are thought to be slightly smaller and to carry spin a tad better than the blue box Yinhe balls. In the past, any seamed ball from China was considered poor quality.  But these have improved some. Perhaps some brands have improved quite a bit.  Nonetheless, I've seen more ball breakages using the DHS ball in the Olympics than I think is typical.  I saw two ball breaks in one match.

Thanks Turber, that's a very informative post...

Edited by Schlager72 - 08/12/2016 at 12:39pm