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Topic: Texturing a Pips-in Topsheet

Posted By: tommyzai
Subject: Texturing a Pips-in Topsheet
Date Posted: 12/07/2007 at 11:44pm

Has anyone heard of anyone doing this in USA?

A friend in China said that some players at his club are "texturizing their" by putting the smooth topsheet face-down onto materials with various textures, then putting weight on top and letting it sit - pressurized overnight. The result is a textured pips-in that they claim has many benefits, including:
Increased grip, spin, control, etc.

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Posted By: mdjenders
Date Posted: 12/08/2007 at 12:48am

sounds illegal

Posted By: BAND!T
Date Posted: 12/08/2007 at 12:50am

what kind of textures? like paper vs foil vs napkins vs cloth, or like.. am i totally off..

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Posted By: bbkon
Date Posted: 12/08/2007 at 3:43am

texturing the pips or the smooth side? yes when i clean my globe999 and put it under weight it will bcome tackier

Posted By: theman
Date Posted: 12/08/2007 at 5:45am

under a clicky press?

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Posted By: dimitris
Date Posted: 12/08/2007 at 7:39am

I do not know about texturing, but a guy in a club I was before would use sand paper to create "texture" in his older flextra rubbers and that would create more spin. I do not know about control (and I do not see any reason why it should increase). Obviously something like that decreased the life span of the rubbers considerably, but of course they were already old.

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Posted By: bbkon
Date Posted: 12/09/2007 at 2:29am

no,i mean clean the rubber and put something like plastic sheet and slighly wet and put many books on it, it always works for me i get a scotch tape like gripyness

Posted By: PingPangQiu
Date Posted: 12/09/2007 at 2:54am

wont the top sheet turn back to its normal shape after a while? e.g. stretching a rubber band?

Posted By: Leon Reid
Date Posted: 12/09/2007 at 1:03pm

im just wondering if what these people have been sayin is what you were thinkin of tommy??

i mean obviously by placing rubbers onto certain substance it will icrease there takinesss but the question would be what substances and how else will they effect the rubbers.

have you asked your friend any more about it since??

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Posted By: Leon Reid
Date Posted: 12/10/2007 at 10:35am

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