Nexy Poly Balls

I will weigh a few on Monday.

Anyway I liked them (as I have all of the approved seamless balls I have tried) and I can recommend them with no hesitation.

Well Baal, I am happy that the Minnions or Artesians didn't swipe Ur balls from the parcel pipeline, too much scheize tends to happen in the US of A in that respect. (Anyone remember the recently busted Postal worked caught with months of old mail in his car?)

Edited by BH-Man - 02/27/2015 at 3:10pm

bogeyhunter wrote: Also Lakeland TTC http://www.floridatt.com/lakelandtt/news.php

All three are good (and are too everyone at my club who has tried more than one of them, indistinguishable).  Go with whatever is cheaper and if they are the same, I can say that Nexy will be shipped very quickly by a long-time forum member, which is a big plus. 

Kudos to Bogyhunter for pushing for adoption of seamless balls -- affordable, durable, good playing plastic balls.  Boycott seamed 40+ balls!

Seamless is so much cooler. If we must switch, let's make sure there's an improvement. I will never buy a ball with seams again. To me, they are like buying Sportscraft balls or the balls that simple say, "Made in China."

Edited by tommyzai - 03/02/2015 at 12:16pm

Baal, after just doing a sanctioned tourney using the seamed Poly Ball, I triple wanna see these balls declared not fit for competition and re-classified as training balls. Untrue bounce was outta this world bad. I knew before the tourney the seamless balls would not go well with me, but I really wanted to do one tourney. I got what I asked for.

Thanks for checking the weights Baal.

Some information for the people interested in NEXY ball.

1. Even in China, it's getting more and more difficult to buy genuine DHS poly ball with seam, which were widely known as Chinese table tennis assocation's chosen ball for local tournments. People are saying that DHS stopped production, due to the boycott from CTTA, who were not satisfied with too often cracking sounds during official matches.

2. As DHS's official distributor for Korean market, I emailed asking what ball I need to buy in the future market, because I knew that they are trying stripe balls, too. They could not answer what ball will be their final choice yet. And I asked if the sayings about CTTA's boycott was true or not, and the person refused to give me an answer.

3. I heard from someone linked to XSF that DHS was contacting XSF, in order to check the possibility of producing seamless ball.


By the way, in Korea, more and more tournaments are using Nexy balls.
And I wish American people can use NEXY ball, too, to their satisfaction.

Edited by Nexy - 03/02/2015 at 7:48pm

Our club has 5 tables going full time for 4+ hours.  Wednesday night we started with 7 Double Fish, 1 Nexy and 1 Nittaku balls.  At the end of the night we had one Double Fish, one Nexy and 1 Nittaku balls.

I think Nittaku SHA balls are made by DHS.  Nittaku Premium 40+ are made for Nittaku in collaboration with a plastic company in Japan.

By the way, I played with some Butterfly 40+ balls two nights ago stamped XBAE (Feb 2015) that had a decent bounce.  There were still issues with roundness and I can't say anything about durability.  It is possible that some of the Chinese seamed balls may be getting a little bit better so maybe the current horrible situation may get a little better over the coming year.

As far as I am concerned, for now the best 40+ balls are still seamless and Nittaku Premium.

bogeyhunter wrote: http://www.floridatt.com/lakelandtt/news.php

igorponger wrote: January 2015       POLY BALLS. "The reality showed that the introduction of the new balls have caused certain changes, but not as significant as expected, except for the problem of durability. This fact has been reported to the manufacturers in order for them to improve their processes. Testing of these first “non-celluloid” balls, randomly bought from retail stores in different countries, started in November. Some failures have been found and communicated to the brands’ owners for further action. We are in contact with a German company in order to start with a new test for checking the durability of the balls, in order to improve this important characteristic in the near future. Also, as a consequence of the introduction of the new balls, our member in charge of this equipment, Dr. Küneth, edited a Q&A presentation in order to clarify all the doubts regarding these balls. This presentation is available on the ITTF website." Federico Lineros Chair of ITTF EQC

Sure from a myopic ITTF-centric point of view it is understandable that the change is not significant.  They've controlled/limited the balls and brands used in their tournaments.  Their tournaments are sponsored by DHS and presumably DHS bears the burden of cost brought by the lower durability.  I'd also assume that ball selection before matches and perhaps a more frequent changing of balls are practices being employed by ITTF umpires and match officials to mitigate issues with consistency and durability.

To quote an old saying, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."

I will contact you as soon as we have a date for our next tournament.

Edited by BH-Man - 03/11/2015 at 6:43pm