Table Tennis Blog

Recently Table Tennis Sales have been down drastically because people aren’t worried about what there child may want for Christmas they are more worried about how am I going to keep my home if I lose my job. The key is that we need to think positive because if we don’t we are only going to get deeper.
Recently Woolworths, a huge high street retailer announced that they are going to go bust and thousands of there employees are going to lose there jobs unless someone buys out the company. Now is this really what we want to be hearing on the news and in the media, it is not going to help the situation we are in.

Recently I have started to noticed on our online Table Tennis shop that people are only buying Indoor Table Tennis Tables which is quite obvious why, however there are many ways to maintain an outdoor table tennis table, for example get a cover this will stop it from being effected by frost and rain, although most outdoor Table Tennis Tables from Table Tennis Table Shop come with Panel Laminated Resin and protected melamine.

Lately I have stated to compare Table Tennis against the other sport categorys around and I feel like Table Tennis should be bigger than it is take basketball for example, basketball is a huge sport and if you say to someone name a basketball team they will almost always answer with an actual team where as if you were to ask someone name a Table Tennis team they would not have a clue. So why is Table Tennis not as popular as the most dominant sports my only answer would be that it is to confusing the leagues are not as well talked about and the way table tennis is played extermly odd.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has, as of September 1, 2008, banished a wide variety of solvents used to apply table tennis equipment rubber to rackets. The following is text verbatim from the Chairman of the ITTF Equipment Committee, Odd Gustavsen.

We would like to draw your attention to the decision made in Guangzhou, valid from September 1, 2008 (The Law 2.4.7.):

The covering material should be used as it has been authorised by the ITTF without any physical, chemical or other treatment, changing or modifying playing properties, friction, outlook, colour, structure, surface, etc.

This means an absolute ban for the use of boosters (tuners, enhancers, improvers, etc.). The purpose of a booster is to change something – if not, what would be the intention. You may find such products claiming to be harmless, to be allowed by ITTF, or to be without VC (volatile compounds), etc. There is little reason to believe this is true. Please be very sceptical since these are generally bad for your health, even containing poison in some cases.

According to our tests there is no way that a sponge can be treated separate from the covering; refer the usual way a booster is applied, i.e. on the sponge.

Boosters represent a messy, time consuming, costly, unhealthy, and now illegal way of achieving spin and speed, and you may be detected in a tournament. Other and better ways exist for the same purpose.

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Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Veteran Men’s Singles, Veteran Women’s Singles, U21 Men’s Singles, U21 Women’s Singles, Men’s doubles, Women’s Doubles, Veteran Men’s Doubles, Veteran Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

The Venue Ponds Forge International Sports Centre:

Sheaf Street
Sheffield
S1 2BP

Winners:

Mens Singles Paul Drinkhall (Cv) Womens Singles Helen Lower (St) Mens Doubles Paul Drnkhall (Cv) Darius Knight (Sy) Womens Doubles Helen Lower (St) Natalie Bawden (E) Mixed Doubles Darius Knight (Sy) Kelly Sibley (Wa) Under 21 Mens Singles Darius Knight (Sy) Under 21 Womens Singles Kelly Sibley (Wa) Veteran Mens Singles Joe Kennedy (E) Veteran Womens Singles Shu HUANG (E) Veteran Mens Doubles Clive Carthy (E) Joe Kennedy (E)

I noticed that I Haven’t wrote a Brand vs. Brand section in a long time now as I have been busy lately, I am still going to stick to the 3 makes Kettler, Cornilleau and Butterfly but I think this time the rankings have changed.

Although Butterfly have just released a new range of blades rubbers etc I prefer Cornilleau and Kettler as there unique quality is unlike most Table Tennis Brands. Cornilleau Promote the family values of Table Tennis as you will be able to see in most of there advertising as well as being the Sponsors and Official table tennis supplier of the World Team Cup 2007 - 2009 - 2011. Kettler has however started to drop of the edge of the modern Table Tennis Brands but it is still fighting strong as most of the old fashioned Table Tennis Players prefers them on top of any Table Tennis make around because of there excellent value and amazing quality.

Recently I noticed that Table Tennis Table Shop has hit high on googles front page although it isnt number 1 its only position 8 it is still an achievement and a breath of fresh air as I thought the website was dropping down googles rankings however I have been proved wrong. this will mean more visits to our website and it will make this blog popular in the table tennis group circles.

The special properties of the rubber are seen by the external material surface weaving and to a lesser degree from the kind of sponge used (for rubbers with sponge). The rubber surface plays an important role in its special properties. In this category we have pimples-out rubbers and inverted rubbers.

The pimples-out rubbers differ in the shape and size of the pimples. There are rubbers with conical or cylindrical pimples and large or small pimples. Each one of these has different characteristics. For example, the big, short pimples give greater speed and spin to the ball whereas small, long pimples have the opposite effect on the ball.

The inverted rubbers differ in terms of degree of friction. Generally speaking, this type of rubber gives a greater spin to the ball compared to pimples-out rubbers. This is because inverted rubbers have no gaps on the surface and so there is more rubber contacting the ball. These rubbers, however, come second in speed compared to short pimples-out rubbers. This is because with inverted rubbers, the ball gains speed that comes only from the sponge pressure, while with pimples-out rubbers the final speed of the ball is not only given by the sponge but from the pimples as well.

The rubbers that do not spin the ball are of a special category. These and some types of pimples-out rubbers are used by defensive players and offer good control against offensive strokes. Before the implementation of the bicolor regulation (one side of the racket has to be red, the other black), using different rubbers on the same racket was a great weapon of the defensive player who could easily trick his opponent by altering the side of the racket he used. These players would spin the racket by the handle so their opponents could not keep track of which side they were using for the forehand or the backhand stroke.

The sponge is a kind of porous pressured rubber with the addition of some chemical substances that form small gas vesicles, which give it certain specific characteristics. According to its density, weight and width, the sponge can give more or less speed to the ball. Generally the hard and thick sponges give greater speed to the ball and the soft and thin sponges have the opposite effect. The major factor affecting ball speed, however, is the weight of the sponge, which is directly related to the sponge thickness. That is why the offensive rubbers are harder and heavier than the defensive ones. The thickness of the sponge varies from 1-2.5mm (0.04-0.1in) while the total “sandwich” rubber thickness must be no more than 4mm (0.16in).

It is necessary for a table tennis player to know the characteristics of rubbers. Firstly, because he should be able to choose the appropriate one for his own playing style and secondly because he must know how to counter opponents using different rubbers.

The coach knows more on this subject because he must guide the player in choosing a rubber with attributes suited to his playing style and he must instruct the player in how to counter opponents who use rubbers with different attributes. The coach must follow some rules to vouchsafe the proper instruction of the basic techniques for the beginner. On the other hand, the seasoned player has adopted his own specific playing style, and only he can choose the blade and rubbers that suit him.

Rubber care

The specific qualities of a rubber are lost over time. With proper use, the rubbers retain their qualities for a longer period. Exposing the rubbers to the sun and to high temperatures should be avoided and after each match the rubbers should be cleaned with cotton and water. There are special cleaning fluids available but using them frequently can destroy the surface of the rubber. For this reason these fluids must be used before a match only.

Info From : http://www.tabletennis.gr/articles/details.asp?id=8

Table Tennis is awesome as it is but when you combine it with science it becomes so much more

This is just a range of ping pong videos I saw they have some skills but they have more spare time I think