Is table tennis the most equipment sensitive game?

agreed, literally THOUSANDS of combinations, with different effects

I'd say table tennis, then tennis. 

but in terms of these qeuipment factors, regarding blade,rubber, ball AND table, god its a whole new ball game.

Golf is, by far, the most equipment-sensitive sport.  You can't even hit a ball straight if you're using clubs too advanced for you.  Give a forged blades are far more difficult to use than oversized cast cavity-backs.  The difference is dramatic at not being able to even keep the ball in play.  At least in TT, you can hit easy and still keep the ball on the table.

I think that this is the most equipmet sensitive sport.

Archery is another that is Very sensitive to equipment. Just having a nick in one vane on an arrow makes a difference.  400g arrows are matched to =/- 1g.

Table tennis is the sport that I pratice that is the more equipment sensitive! I don't know a lot of sport that the equipment the other is using has importance, but it is in ping-pong. You don't play the same way agaisnt a long-pips/med-pips/short pips/anti/inverted. The big importance of spin, adds a lot to the importance of equipement. Having to watch Speed, Spin and Control makes the choice harder in ping-pong than others racket sports.

If you compare to other sports, it's quite evident that your ping-pong equipement is more important in ping-pong than in soccer, volleyball, handball... sports that you only need a pair of good shoes to enjoy.

Compared to sports like baseball, hockey, it is still more equipement sensitive, but the call is closer.  Forgetting my baseball glove was such a drama for me, bigger than foregettion my racket, and you know that you hit better with apecific bat, and uses it all the time.  Like in ping-pong, sometimes when you struggle, you say to yourself "let's try another bat", and sometimes it works and you start to play well again.  Same thing in hockey, that a specific stick give you more confidence in your shots and deke. Those two sports have a close relationship with equipment, but less sensitive.

Golf is a complex relationship, because of the number of clubs involved. Personnally.. I tend to says that the price of equipement don' allow me to do experiment... After buying a 800$ set, I just said to myself, stick with it.. and if everything goes wrong in my game and I think my clubs are the source of my problems, I say to myself, "stick with it and it will soon be ok again". Yes sometimes when trying a friend driver you say, oh wow... It be so nice to hit 300 yards every time... but at 500$ for the beauty, I stick with my clubs!

Archery, shooting... things like that must be very equipment sensitive.

But, imho, the more equipment sensitve sports (if we exlcue motorsports) is cross-country skiing. The fact taht you have to deal with weather conditions put it in a class apart. Waxing is so important! If you don't take the right one, it's really the difference between finishing first, and not even be close to a podium. Biathlon would be in the same case, as it combine shooting and cross-country skiing.

baseball is pretty equipment sensitive. The higher the playing level gets, a slight change of the bat weight as little as high an ounce could completely screw up a batter's timing.

Imzadim wrote: I don't think any sport gets close to TT! Think about it, if you forget your golf clubs, or your tennis racket you can still borrow a "club" cheap equipment and still have fun. But if you go and play TT and someone gives you a old racket with dead rubbers, or -God forbid- a pips our racket!, you are better of playing in a backyard BBQ with some drunks friends. At least that way you will have fun...

I could not "have fun" playing tennis without my proper racquet.  Tennis equipment is very important, particularly the strings, with a staggering amount of options.  Imagine if table tennis rubber became unusable after 8 hours of play, well that is what happens with many polyester tennis strings. 

For lots of people that are serious about a particular sport, whether it is tt, tennis, golf, baseball, etc (as mentioned by other posters), knowing about equipment and choosing the right stuff is really important to play your best.