Low Friction Table is a crap...

LOW FRICTION TABLE IS A CRAP.
The researching group of Japan has proved this recently.
Most of the plastic laminates to cover up on table's top is the low-friction material with very poor dynamic traction beneath 0.2

Should you like the crappy ball bounce, than go and have a play on the slippery plastic covering CoF <0.2

NOTE, PLEASE
Great number of pingpang tables now in general use worldwide producing poor, erratic and wild bounce due to the overly slick playing surface COF<0.2
Such is the latter scientifical findings by the Japanese testing group.

ULTIMATE RESOLUTION BY THE JAPANESE RESEARCHERS.
    --The best playable tables are those producing COF= 0.4 -0.8

GOOD LUCK.

They are used at a lot of recreation centers in USA since they are durable.

Edited by LUCKYLOOP - 10/18/2015 at 10:07am

http://tabletennista.com/2015/8/gardos-about-the-lcd-table-very-fast-but-balls-are-not-jumping-good-video/

ITTF TO REVISE THE LIST OF APPROVED TABLES.



Brazil formal move to exclude all the low-friction and bright glossy pingpang tables from international sport.
This proposal was now enacted by ITTF BoD into a law..
The plastic-coated lowfriction tables COF<0.5 would not be admitted for ITTF events any longer, from 2018 most likely.

This is a mechanical theory of how a low traction playground would wreck the tennis game utterly. The same theory applies to table tennis game.

http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/webproj/211_fall_2014/Max_Hesser-Knoll/max_hesserknoll/Slide6.htm

It was recently developed from experiments - the low traction plastic-coated tables would produce a weird and erratical ball bounce to wreck your game utterly.
Brazil researching team now advised that ITTF should take off the veriest slick tables from ITTF approval List.

The low friction plastic laminates (COF 0.2-0.3) is now reported to reduce rallies playing time dramatically which makes very much to the public's vexation and dissatisfaction.
This is the very reason for ITTF to revise the list of sanctioned tables by the end of 2016. Get ready.

Edited by igorponger - 01/17/2016 at 6:59am

Does the table manufacturers disclose the friction rating of the table tops? Never actually bought a high end table so not sure if it's in the spec.