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    Posted: 11/06/2022 at 12:26pm
Hi JRSDallas!

I enjoyed your deep treatment of the physics of the blade, and I also want to thank HEX for his contributions; even though the discussion between the two had taken on at some instances a highly competitive and confrontational nature. 

I have a somewhat naive question and a comment.

Can you make it plausible to me why the blade has a very noticable impact on the playing properties, given that it is covered by a rather thick rubber?
Seeing the very different rebound velocities of a ball from just wood and from rubber coated wood, I would expect that the rubber has a much bigger impact than the blade itself. And my "prejudice-soaked intuition" would conclude the same, i.e. that the blade properties are "buried" under the rubber properties. And yet I do know from own experience how a blade changes the playing properties. 
Can you enlighten this a bit?

You had posted an excerpt from an article that concluded that the racquet/ball contact time would be 4-5 milliseconds, while in your argument with HEX, he claimed that the interaction time is rather 1ms. 
Before I had read your discussion I had studied this paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305080758_Non_Linearity_of_the_BallRubber_Impact_in_Table_Tennis_Experiments_and_Modeling 
and from analyzing the stroboscope pictures I came to the conclusion that the contact time is indeed just about 1 ms. 
How certain are you about the result in the paper that you cited? 
Would you mind looking at the stroboscope images and giving your feedback on this with respect to ball interaction duration?

Ah, and one more thought/question:
In an article by Daniel A. Russell on vibro-acustical properties of a table tennis racquet ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2018.1462578 ), or his video ( "Acoustics of Ping-Pong" - Dr. Daniel Russell, Penn State University - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekalYkdrwI8 ) I think the conclusion in a passing comment was that the ball playing (or rebounce) properties did not depend notably whether or not the ball was bouncing off of locations on the blade that were vibrational nodes. I would conclude, that vibration cannot really be the determinator of the rebounce. What -if anything- is wrong about the notion?

Ha! And here is one more question:
My reading about balsa properties, and the fact that it is used e.g. by TSP (now Victas) in a "cross cut" configuration, where the grain direction is perpendicular to the plane of the verneer, gave me the impression that there might be a compression/vibration/elasticity component of the blade that comes into play. Somewhere else it was described as a spring force by the compression of the blade material, which was mentioned to be particularly effective/elastic in balsa in the direction of the grain/fibres, ...and hence the "cross cut" / "endgrain" configuration.
Do you have any thoughts on that?

Sorry, as I am writing, more topics come into my head: 
What are your thoughts about the blade impacting the spin-generation potential of a racquet?
The company Re-Impact ( www.re-impact.de ), whose racquets I really like, makes such claims. I have always discarded them as marketing hokus-pokus; but the deeper I dig into the physics of the ball/blade interaction the more I realize how little I understand.
Any thoughts on this? 
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@ JRSDallas - I tried to replicate your XLS table from this picture with formulas embedded




for the column Moment of Area Ik if I try to calculate it via this formula:

Now the moment of inertia I for a beam with rectangular cross section of width and height h, is given by I = b h3/12.   

 

When this cross section is not at the center of the beam (such as will be the case with all but the center ply in our laminate table tennis blade), the Parallel Axis Theorem lets us calculate the moment of Inertia of each ply.  Thus the moment of inertia for the kth ply is then:

 

k = b h3/12 +  bh d 2 

 

where is the distance from the midplane to the center of the kth ply.


the only way I can match your values from Layer Dist dk and Tickness hk column is using 254 for b.
Can you share your XLS? Or was this the formula you used?
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So that EJs alike would understand when their skills are the problems, no equipment could ever remedy that.
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So with all this MIT STANDARD thesis..how can we improve our skills ?
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I actually have a question or two for him.
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I noticed the images on the first page have disappeared due to licencing of the hosting service.
But I had saved them, so here they are again:






BTW, is JRSDallas still around?
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Originally posted by Baal Baal wrote:

Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:


The original comment was that they stop when it sounds right. The point is going much further than the basic well defined vibrational tendencies of the instrument is just going to sound wrong.



I still have no idea what you are talking about.  Confused  Oh well.  In any case, with table tennis blades, they are mass produced in a factory and if you are lucky, you get a really good one.


The main point is that if you sand/plane to the point where it's already the right speed/freq/thickness/etc, going past it isn't going to help. For the instrument makers, they're mostly slowly going to the right point, which is a lot more subtle in their case since it's along one dimension.
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I see my misconception about your equation, and I edited the post like an hour ago.

> (OK tell us all exactly what is an object's "inherent" vibrational frequency?  I know what it is but it has nothing to do with this topic. 

There's one freq per your own formula and many possible speeds depending on place of impact. This is quite relevant to the topic of whether freq is representative of speed: this is clearly a way it's not.

> Please accept my apologies, I had you confused with someone that also goes by the name AgentHEX on the One of a Kind Forum. 

Can you point to where this happens?: "Still your language shows that you still confuse frequency and blade stiffness as being explicitly linked to blade speed or ball impact COR when in fact the linkage one of reducing energy losses which effects COR due to transfer of impact energy to vibration modes of the blade"

I thought I was quite explicit about energy loss above.

> So please explain how does moving a blade faster and faster violate physics?

A ball which rebounds faster than it impacts the blade violates physics.

Look, if you just said that the inertia's for the component slices of beam stiffness and not blade as a whole this would've been a lot easier. The way the integral's calculated for this specifically is not obvious from looking at the result (nor is it mentioned in your prior post). You should be able to see how someone isn't aware of this detail would think the way inertial is being used is wrong. It's plainly obvious the points of contention here are largely conceptual so it's unclear how greater technical detail of, say, how to make freq calc slightly better helps in any case. How exactly does actually taking the enormous amount of time to create a sim advance the point about timelines?

Also, if you're familiar with academia this sort of contentious disagreement shouldn't even be unusual. The only difference is I personally didn't care to be passive aggressive about it.



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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:


The original comment was that they stop when it sounds right. The point is going much further than the basic well defined vibrational tendencies of the instrument is just going to sound wrong.



I still have no idea what you are talking about.  Confused  Oh well.  In any case, with table tennis blades, they are mass produced in a factory and if you are lucky, you get a really good one.
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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:

So your axis of rotation is through the center of each slice while integrating across the beam? The slices that move up and down in y? Are you expecting partial credit for this?  No sorry, full credit is due since as the slices are attached they can't slide past one another and so they cannot move up and down without also rotating about each of their respective axes of rotation.   I think its only fair to also say you get no points again since you done no work at all.

I'm not sure how this can be explained any easier. As a matter of first principles, a rotational inertia only has meaning if the object of interest actually rotates around the axis (instead of, say, the correct axis around the end that the book already assumes for the beam). From basis of basic movement how exactly does each slice of that solid object rotate with respect to these new axis's you use?   Well no one can claim you are not willing to go down with your ship.  The beam is not infinitely rigid so as it vibrates, each slice within it both translates and rotates according to its role in the a particular harmonic oscillation bending mode (Eigen mode) solution.   Now you may not have gone beyond the motion of rigid bodies, so this is not a fair fight, but then again you did start it, so tough titties.   How about you show us your math for the correct moment of area of either a free or cantilevered beam?    Lets see you make a positive and well defined statement for once. 

> There is also the issue of your gloat post that followed your careful explanation but was removed by the moderators. 

You mean this "removed" post?: http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60725&PID=845339&title=blade-performance-vs-wood-type-and-design#845339.   Obviously that one isn't removed.  Lets just agree that you might want to put some clothes on.  Something conservative and less clashy, clashy.

> Both can be true if you use the right equation in the right circumstance. 

No, a given object has an inherent vibrational frequency, (OK tell us all exactly what is an object's "inherent" vibrational frequency?  I know what it is but it has nothing to do with this topic.  Still you'll get partial credit if you can explain it with a formula.) even using your own solution type.  I cannot claim that a solution to a 300 year old equation is my own solution type.  I can only claim that I independently re-solved a well worn problem.  So which side is this frequency/"speed" for in an asymmetrical blade?   Your question is poorly written, are you asking what is the quantitative value of frequency divided by "speed" for different sides of an assymmetrical blade?   Please rewrite your question in a well defined manner, I don't want to interpret your gaps.      

> Many people tried to explain this to you on the One of a Kind Forum as well, but to no avail. 

You have me confused with someone else, so please argue whatever this point is with them and not me.  Please accept my apologies, I had you confused with someone that also goes by the name AgentHEX on the One of a Kind Forum.  I read a long thread that you pointed me to and it had this other fellow who is also called AgentHEX in it.  Lots of argument in that long thread.

> Uh oh, it looks like the rebound speed of the ball vball’ approaches infinitiy when the blade speed approaches infinity! 

Yes, that's why we're using a ratio for speed. The COR ratio also happens to be the correct one for measuring blade "speed" since it cannot excel the limit without violating physics.  So please explain how does moving a blade faster and faster violate physics?

Honestly I expected better from someone who can at least look up the equation above. For example, it was explained why a sim should be considered instead of just static calcs (to establish a correct timeline which is easy to forget when using time-invariant equations). Or what the shape (ie. order) of an equation means, which is a pretty fundamental consideration whenever math is put to science. None of this is remotely difficult to grasp for the technically adept.  Agree but you have shown yourself to be technically ill-adept at understanding or presenting any bit of it as a written or math argument to even first order.   You just misuse words to create gibberish such as your question above.   You never answer a single question with a firm fixed answer or even the simplest equation.   Just words that allude to every one else having conceptual shortcomings relative to your own ODIN like but objectively given the written record, gibberish filled grasp.  

Now perhaps English is a second language for you (and that is an important point so if it is I owe you slack on your ability to communicate), and your ego may also be a handicap (and this may be culturally based since I don't know what your background is) but ego is your own problem and I don't have to cut you slack on this.   Still is is possible to assert that you are being misjudged, and it is clear that you are enthusiastic and that is always a huge positive.   So you have published technical articles?  Do you have patents granted?   Can you just stop trying to say I am wrong on something that I am not wrong on so that we can talk constructively?  I understand every one of your points but I am not going to accept having points accompanied with an insult.  Not going to happen.    
 



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Originally posted by Baal Baal wrote:

Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:


With a musical instrument the notes required are standardized frequencies which human hearing can be well attuned to.


I can't figure out what point this comment was supposed to be making since some stringed instruments are clearly better than others and there is a lot of variability (especially when, as with table tennis blades, they are mostly made of wood).  And of course, musical instruments don't produce pure sine waves, which is why a lute and a violin sound different even when they play the same note.


The original comment was that they stop when it sounds right. The point is going much further than the basic well defined vibrational tendencies of the instrument is just going to sound wrong.

Technically all sound is a composition of pure sine waves, which is why a freq-codec + speaker can reproduce all sounds within reason.
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Ok, I see what's going on and I'm wrong on that point.

> There is also the issue of your gloat post that followed your careful explanation but was removed by the moderators. 

You mean this "removed" post?: http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60725&PID=845339&title=blade-performance-vs-wood-type-and-design#845339

> Both can be true if you use the right equation in the right circumstance. 

No, a given object has an inherent vibrational frequency, even using your own solution type. So which side is this frequency/"speed" for in an asymmetrical blade?

> Many people tried to explain this to you on the One of a Kind Forum as well, but to no avail. 

You have me confused with someone else, so please argue whatever this point is with them and not me.

> Uh oh, it looks like the rebound speed of the ball vball’ approaches infinitiy when the blade speed approaches infinity! 

Yes, that's why we're using a ratio for speed. The COR ratio also happens to be the correct one for measuring blade "speed" since it cannot excel the limit without violating physics.

Honestly I expected better from someone who can at least look up the equation above. For example, it was explained why a sim should be considered instead of just static calcs (to establish a correct timeline which is easy to forget when using time-invariant equations). Or what the shape (ie. order) of an equation means, which is a pretty fundamental consideration whenever math is put to science. None of this is remotely difficult to grasp for the technically adept.



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With a musical instrument the notes required are standardized frequencies which human hearing can be well attuned to.


I can't figure out what point this comment was supposed to be making since some stringed instruments are clearly better than others and there is a lot of variability (especially when, as with table tennis blades, they are mostly made of wood).  And of course, musical instruments don't produce pure sine waves, which is why a lute and a violin sound different even when they play the same note.
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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:

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I mean what you said is clear and the meaning not in dispute, and it seems you understood what I meant, too; Yes I have shown that your point-by-point critique of frequency as an indicator has been wrong point by point, the combination of which is a christmas miracle compared to most of these discussions.   Nice put down, but as my equation has not changed…the accurate statement is that you have stopped disagreeing with me.        

For example no one is disputing that frequency is some indicator, only how good it is.   You originally disagreed that frequency was even an indicator of blade speed and you still don’t understand why it is.   You are now just frustrated with having your arguments picked apart by someone who is both unwilling to be trolled and is capable of defending themselves.     

This is not a trivial question given the nature of the problem as mentioned, and thus not conducive to easy answers.   Yes it is not trivial but it is possible to solve for an idealized situation in order to gain useful insight.      

>JRSDallas said:   However since our beam is a symmetric multi-layer stack of rectangles (of different material), and having correctly applied the Parallel Axis Theorem, the correct moment for each layer is as I previously presented....A page from Stokey Chapter 7 Vibration of Systems Having Distributed Mass and Elasticity shows that I have used the correct axis of rotation and have correctly calculated the moment for a cantilever.  By extension, this means my equation is correct and that the effects I calculated based on layer placement are correct.   

HEX said:   Note that page doesn't contain your specific sub-equation for inertia of the sublayers. You know, the part that uses the PA theorem. I pointed out specifically why just that part is wrong, in very explicit detail. To be clear, I'm not contending the rest of it.   Let me just note that I am underlining what exactly what it is you claim that I have done wrong.   I took the time earlier to ask you for a clear explanation, you provided one, and I have thanked you for it.   I underline the above again to make sure it is real hard for you to deny your position and claim I am have twisted your words.    Sidebar: There is also the issue of your gloat post that followed your careful explanation but was removed by the moderators.  Removing it was the right thing to do, but as I had already read it, and it is now insanely funny.    

I’ll explain more in an ELI5, but for now I just say that the page from the textbook shows the moment of a simple rectangular beam and that the calculated moment for that beam is only possible when the axis of rotation for the PA theorem is where I have shown it to be.  If we use your explanation, we cannot reach that same answer for even the text book beam.   

You added that part, which is why I called it a corrective factor (to the original equation such as in the book), because it tries to "correct" the original inertia var. Again, the contention is that the bit you added is done incorrectly, specifically because you don't use the same axis of rotation with that PA theorem subequation.

Again, it would really help if you just drew out where the axis around which the inertial is calculated for the original equation and your two PA axis's (you know, the ones mm's apart). I'd do it but this is one of those things which is more illustrative if you did yourself.   So what you are actually saying in your coded language is: “Alright, I HEX am still confused, but will never admit it.  Please show me a diagram while I pretend that I am giving you a lesson.”  

OK here is an ELI5 response:



 



Let's go through the logical steps one by one: OK but only because you’ve asked me to.

1. Your claim is that frequency is a good indicator for speed [Yes], “ostensibly because it accounts for ply depth [Incomplete statement = Gibberish] (and you certainly made sure of that in your equation modification)” False statement since I did not modify the equation, I only showed how to apply it.  The above ELI5 shows this in even more detail, but the fact remains that the original equation is not changed so your statement is FALSE.    

2. However, it also gives the same answer for two sides of a blade with complete different material on each. [Misuse of the equation that only proves you don’t understand it. Solve the Extra Credit problem from the ELI5 and then use it to explore asymmetric plywood construction.]  A vibration frequency is inherent to the object and can't be "extended" away.  [Gibberish to confuse readers from the fact that you are actually saying gibberish.]  

3. Clearly 1 and 2 cannot be simultaneously true.     Both can be true if you use the right equation in the right circumstance.  Still your language shows that you still confuse frequency and blade stiffness as being explicitly linked to blade speed or ball impact COR when in fact the linkage one of reducing energy losses which effects COR due to transfer of impact energy to vibration modes of the blade.  Many people tried to explain this to you on the One of a Kind Forum as well, but to no avail.  

What you nor anyone else have discussed, is that COR and the efficiency of collision energy transfer to any particular blade vibration mode will vary as the point of impact of the ball on the blade changes.  

Furthermore, even when we impact the ball at the same spot on the blade every time, the COR of the entire racket assembly will decline as the energy of impact increases due to increasing inelastic deformation losses in the ball, topsheet with pips, sponge, blade and hand.   Ball on racket impact physics that includes the effects of the normal and tangential COR’s of the topsheet with pips and normal and tangential COR's of the sponge and the normal COR of the blade is a far more complicated topic than my simple equation (that has caused you so much grief) so any exploration of it would only be more painful. 

Still the interesting question raised by Krantz on if a loop drive could impart more total energy to the ball than a smash can would be a cool one to actually solve.  Others have noted that it would be good to understand collision and if it can be if done to the level of providing a useful insight, then it might be worth the trouble.

I've only pointed out a sim to speak of how a solid collision actually happens [So how are you coming with that sim approach? When can we expect you to have results?  How are you linking it to conservation of energy and momentum?  What does the speed of sound in wood tell you about how big the particle count in your sim has to be?  Have you estimated a sim calculation time?  How big is your particle size in your sim?  Since you were so taken with the low count hard sphere particle model of a bouncing ball, is your model based on hard sphere and a repulsion force in the manner of a computer game?  Are you using different particles for different materials?  Do you consider an FEA to be equivalent to a particle sim or are FEAs for quitters since they are not the end all in physical modeling?], and how it's nothing like how your frequency "extension" attempts to correct for it. [A two for one: (1) Gibberish and (2) proof that you were lying at the beginning of your post when you said you were not disagreeing!] Usually when two things are correlated in a relevant way in the natural world they work through similar mechanisms. [Gibberish with a glimmer of hope that you might be trying to say we should consider the physics behind an issue.] That's for example one way we can tell piracy and global warming aren't.  [Whoo hoo – Recognition that causality and correlation are not the same!]

> So when I followed your link it did not lead to a plot, just an equation with no discussion of causal parameters. 

Just FYI, but Wolfram Alpha by default plots any sane equation [You’ll have to post an equation before claiming it is sane.] as it d, which is why I used it for illustration. [You’ll have to post an illustration before claiming it shows something] It's not meant to be causal [So you've just admited that you make no causal physics claims and instead are using gibberish that is no more illuminating than how the number of pirates effects global temperatures], just a point that the right answer for speed vs anything is that general shape thus anything quite dissimilar is well off. 

The only reason why stiffness or freq even work at all is because COR for a TT blade is somewhere in the ~0.5 ballpark where all these indicators have slopes close enough to ~1 to not matter too much.   [All talk, no physics.  Let do just a bit of physics.  Hmmm….the equations for simple head on elastic collision between two masses mblade, mball with converging velocities vblade and vball =0, (ball at rest) shows that the ball rebound velocity  vball’ = 2* mblade * vblade / (mblade + mball).    Uh oh, it looks like the rebound speed of the ball vball’ approaches infinitiy when the blade speed approaches infinity!  The rebound speed of a ball is unbounded!  How can this be when both HEX and COR says nothing about the possibility of unbounded rebound speed!  It gets worse, since for any COR value greater than zero, ball rebound speed still approaches infinity as blade speed approaches infinity.   Clearly COR is no indicator.  COR is bounded between 0 and 1, and without additional information it doesn’t seem to explain anything about actual ball rebound or blade speed.  But hey wait a minute, frequency is unbounded also, oh and so is blade velocity, oh and so is the length of an imaginary line, oh and so is the happiness in a child’s smile, and …..]      

The other related point that was probably missed is that if you simply transform whatever other "kind of correlated" indicator into that shape it'll give much better estimates. This can be done with any number of methods just as subbing x for y in a plot mirrors along the y=x axis.  [The correct statement is that I have not missed the point that physics is tied to physical parameters and that I unlike you, have not relied on as you say “kind of correlated” indicators such as pirates versus global temperatures or your admitted reliance on “it’s not meant to be causal” gibberish.]



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I am also very interested in the feel of the blade, but don't know how to measure it or describe it. They say every instrument they make is unique. A lot of what they do is by feel. One mentioned, he doesn't measure the thickness of the wood - he just feels for the correct stiffness - when gets there he stops. 




This is surprisingly true for blades too considering they are fairly mass produced. I have a bunch of Viscarias and two feel much h better than the others. Its not just weight. I guess that is what happens when you make things out of wood.
It's very much an art rather than science. 
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Originally posted by jrscatman jrscatman wrote:

I am also very interested in the feel of the blade, but don't know how to measure it or describe it. They say every instrument they make is unique. A lot of what they do is by feel. One mentioned, he doesn't measure the thickness of the wood - he just feels for the correct stiffness - when gets there he stops. 




This is surprisingly true for blades too considering they are fairly mass produced. I have a bunch of Viscarias and two feel much h better than the others. Its not just weight. I guess that is what happens when you make things out of wood.
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> However, the problem I have here is that the OP title is - to me - actually misleading. For I do not care that much about blade performance (does anyone?) Rather, I care about racket performance.

The same aforementioned restitution ratio exists for rubber, except since the ball grips the surface the input parameters of spin and angle need to be characterized in addition to speed alone.

> I have been watching lot videos about luthiers on youtube. They say every instrument they make is unique. A lot of what they do is by feel.

With a musical instrument the notes required are standardized frequencies which human hearing can be well attuned to.
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I am also very interested in the feel of the blade, but don't know how to measure it or describe it. I have been watching lot videos about luthiers on youtube. They say every instrument they make is unique. A lot of what they do is by feel. One mentioned, he doesn't measure the thickness of the wood - he just feels for the correct stiffness - when gets there he stops. 


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This thread is interesting if you are going to make your own blades.  Other than that most people will find a blade that feels good and play with it.  If one puts identical rubbers on two similar blades they won't play that differently and there is no impulse ( trajectory ) that one paddle can generate than another can't.   I don't feel there is much difference between my Samsonov Alpha with H3 Neo than my TBS with S2 on it.  Yes they feel different but I can play the same way with both.  People are very adaptable.

I find the blade makes more of a difference when playing hard bat or with long pips 0X than with inverted because there is no sponge to mask the performance of the blade.


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This is a fantastic thread. Some people well familiar with Newtonian physics take on the aspect of how blade design will affect it's performance. Great, and thank you, and please continue... 

However, the problem I have here is that the OP title is - to me - actually misleading. For I do not care that much about blade performance (does anyone?) Rather, I care about racket performance. Although the influence of the rubber sheet(s) has been, shyly, mentioned here and there above, there is this formidable component conveniently dropped from this discussion altogether: the quality and quantity of the glue layer(s). Oh, and the various types of handles, too, and also how the type of rubber on the other side affects the performance of a given racket side...
Oh, boy... I do have a problem, I guess because I play with a racket and not with a blade...
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It's worth taking another step back for a meta-discussion of this topic. The holy grail we're after is the ratio of the ball's speed coming off the blade divided by its speed going in for all such speeds. This can be done by a machine which controls for and measures ball speed, or equivalently by drop the ball from ever greater heights.

Since such a contraption is a pain to build, and meticulously dropping and measuring heights is also bit annoying (the ITTF does this for one height on the sanctioned balls against a hard platform, effectively placing a ceiling of ~.85 on the ratio above). Thus all these other numbers advanced are just somewhat more amenable proxies for this value. They're useful enough to indicate this blade is likely faster than that blade, but even in a more limited capacity they each have advantages and drawback. Personally I just look at the thickness with some adjustment for harder or softer plies (esp composite ones), and it's ~80% effective for <<20% of the work.

As to playing differently, other than this speed metric it's just a subjective feel of what happens after the ball's left the blade. Some people for whatever reason don't like certain sounds or vibrations; for example I've been told ~ALL wood blades feel hollow, and a hard sponged Yinhe Moon I just tried on a Sweden Classic sounded broken/cracked etc.  This has a significant internalized effect on confidence to swing for shots, etc; and because of that discomfort we're not likely to put in time to get used to a setup (compare this to folks expending considerable effort adjusting to pro setups obviously too fast for them, for similar psychological causes).

Of course there's no social currency in presenting this as a largely subjective evaluation, so there's a tendency to attach "reasons" via peudo-technical terminology to support a personal bias. Blade X is good because of this and that nebulous aspect. As mentioned manufacturers are more than happy to play this game of attributing near-magical properties to a very easy to make piece of wood/fiber.


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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:

Originally posted by jrscatman jrscatman wrote:

This is quite interesting, so from a blade design point of view: what are the most important things a designer should focus on when building the ideal wood blade. 

Also thought a short film interlude might help everyone to relax a bit: enjoy voilin wood resonance.


The thing is it's pretty easy to make a TT blade because the ball doesn't stick around for the vibration/resonance or other wood properties. It does change how you feel/perceive the equipment, but not so much the shot.

It's understandable that's not what anyone least a community heavily invested in equipment wants to hear. But to be fair, I also have a rather large bag of TT blades and rubber (really they wouldn't all fit in any bag).
But you must agree, each blade plays differently, how would you account for the difference? JRSDallas suggested frequency, is there some other property or properties we can use to measure blade performance?
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Originally posted by jrscatman jrscatman wrote:

This is quite interesting, so from a blade design point of view: what are the most important things a designer should focus on when building the ideal wood blade. 

Also thought a short film interlude might help everyone to relax a bit: enjoy voilin wood resonance.


The thing is it's pretty easy to make a TT blade because the ball doesn't stick around for the vibration/resonance or other wood properties. It does change how you feel/perceive the equipment, but not so much the shot.

It's understandable that's not what anyone least a community heavily invested in equipment wants to hear. But to be fair, I also have a rather large bag of TT blades and rubber (really they wouldn't all fit in any bag).
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Originally posted by fatt fatt wrote:

It is harder to be the one starting with an allround classic + moon and discover with the same setup overtime new sides of the game as they get slowly better.



I think it's easier to learn a slower setup since it provides a larger range of physical motion to work with. A racket that doesn't allow the user to manipulate the ball as much least they miss tends to nudge players down a more tactical path. But this is still a sport where physical motion is more foundational
given that better players can easily beat lesser ones with simply better shots, whereas the same can't be said for strategy as anyone who's ever been beaten by a kid with a proper loopdrive can attest to. That's why effective development programs mostly focus on getting the quality shots down first, and it's just easier for the less than athletically gifted (perfect timing, perfect swing control, etc) to do so with slow control equipment.
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This is quite interesting, so from a blade design point of view: what are the most important things a designer should focus on when building the ideal wood blade. 

Also thought a short film interlude might help everyone to relax a bit: enjoy voilin wood resonance.


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Originally posted by pnachtwey pnachtwey wrote:

Obviously frequency isn't the only indicator.  I have mentioned damping before but this topic always seems to be ignored.  A few pages back you posted a series of wave equations but there was no damping term in those equations.  If there were there would be a exp(-t/τ) where the tau in the denominator is the time constant of decay.  Anything that vibrates has a damping factor or it would vibrate forever.

In practical TT player terms, hands provide damping.  A lose grip (more damping ) results in a slower return than a tight grip ( less damping).

My Toxic 5 video shows the blade vibrating like crazy but it is in a vice.  I doubt it would vibrate like that in my hand.

Here is an example of what I am talking about
http://ldf.mendelu.cz/und/sites/default/files/soubory_akustika/acoust_lect_damping.pdf
There is more.  Those that want to can find the rest of the document.


The long term effects of dampening (ie on vibrations) wouldn't affect the collision since the ball is well and off the blade as you're aware of. However the immediate dampening/inelastic effect of material, mostly the rubber and wood, would effect the energy lost during collision. That's why I mentioned thinking of this like a simulation rather than modeled equations, mostly to consider the details of what's actually going on during the relevant timeframe.

In this case what's going on is the ball is largely the object doing the bouncing (deforming and rebounding with its own dampening), and everything else is better framed as a modifier to this behavior (in this case the dampening providing some "cushioning"). That's actually part of why these loosely affiliated indicators sort of work out: incidentally because nobody thought to change the main body of relevant factors. That and they're being used in the "slopey" part of COR, where any positive slope we're comparing against close enough to 1 has the appearance of sane results.

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It's also worth stepping back and considering why these indicator happen to work. For frequency it appear for an object of given size, higher vibrational freq are correlated with lower energy loss. Something like elastic stiffness is similarly correlated with kinetic energy loss (of the ball here) in inelastic collisions. Note both of these are inverse correlations with the ball's collision COR. For visual thinkers, their inverse correlate to the loss, in a COR plot the space between that wolfram function and y=1.


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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:

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 With a TT blade that rotational axis is nearer the end of the blade (where you presumably hold it) and the line to its center is along the length of the blade. But JRS is calculating that line from the center outward towards the face. From first principles when you move the object (plies in this case) in same direction as the one the object swings in, it doesn't really change inertia at all which so the correction was unnecessary.
(...)

Calculating the distance from the center towards the face is crucial for measuring the stiffness of the blade and I am surprised that you seem to ignore this fact - properties of such composite constructions are being deeply studied in modern technology and manufacturing in things like rocket fuel tanks, super-light sport yachts and even cars bodies. If you mean that these calculations are wrong then please say exactly where the mistake is, because so far you are only presenting puzzles to readers and giving some homework to OP and personally I wouldn't even expect to get a serious answer for such nonconstructive critique.



Someone asked for a simple summary to help grasp what's going on. Please at least try to understand the easy explanation before criticizing the original arguments. The basic physics of beams and inertia have nothing specific do with composite constructions and applies to any and all physical matter.

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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:


Let's go through the logical steps one by one:

1. Your claim is that frequency is a good indicator for speed ostensibly because it accounts for ply depth (and you certainly made sure of that in your equation modification).

2. However, it also gives the same answer for two sides of a blade with complete different material on each. A vibration frequency is inherent to the object and can't be "extended" away.

3. Clearly 1 and 2 cannot be simultaneously true.
Good one AgentHEX.  I love it.

Originally posted by AgentHex AgentHex wrote:

For example no one is disputing that frequency is some indicator, only how good it is.
Obviously frequency isn't the only indicator.  I have mentioned damping before but this topic always seems to be ignored.  A few pages back you posted a series of wave equations but there was no damping term in those equations.  If there were there would be a exp(-t/τ) where the tau in the denominator is the time constant of decay.  Anything that vibrates has a damping factor or it would vibrate forever.

In practical TT player terms, hands provide damping.  A lose grip (more damping ) results in a slower return than a tight grip ( less damping).

My Toxic 5 video shows the blade vibrating like crazy but it is in a vice.  I doubt it would vibrate like that in my hand.

Here is an example of what I am talking about
http://ldf.mendelu.cz/und/sites/default/files/soubory_akustika/acoust_lect_damping.pdf
There is more.  Those that want to can find the rest of the document.




   


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Originally posted by AgentHEX AgentHEX wrote:

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 With a TT blade that rotational axis is nearer the end of the blade (where you presumably hold it) and the line to its center is along the length of the blade. But JRS is calculating that line from the center outward towards the face. From first principles when you move the object (plies in this case) in same direction as the one the object swings in, it doesn't really change inertia at all which so the correction was unnecessary.
(...)

Calculating the distance from the center towards the face is crucial for measuring the stiffness of the blade and I am surprised that you seem to ignore this fact - properties of such composite constructions are being deeply studied in modern technology and manufacturing in things like rocket fuel tanks, super-light sport yachts and even cars bodies. If you mean that these calculations are wrong then please say exactly where the mistake is, because so far you are only presenting puzzles to readers and giving some homework to OP and personally I wouldn't even expect to get a serious answer for such nonconstructive critique.

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