I have quit table tennis because of the plastic ba

Get yourself some Nitakku 3 star 40+ Premium balls. They play the closest to the celluloid balls. And I believe they have become the official tournament ball for the U.S. 

The game has been evolving since the beginning. I mean, we are not using those battledores any more, are we?!?

Fulanodetal wrote: Get yourself some Nitakku 3 star 40+ Premium balls. They play the closest to the celluloid balls. And I believe they have become the official tournament ball for the U.S.  I bought a bunch of them and they are the best ones. F.

I was just about to suggest this.

Fulanodetal wrote: Get yourself some Nitakku 3 star 40+ Premium balls. They play the closest to the celluloid balls. And I believe they have become the official tournament ball for the U.S.  I bought a bunch of them and they are the best ones. F.

I suspect his decision was because Nittaku balls weren't being used in the tournaments in his country.

I think it is harder than giving up speed glue since Tenergy came out shortly after that. but quit the sport? I will play as long as I am able. No other sport is as fun for me.

Baal wrote: I think it is harder than giving up speed glue since Tenergy came out shortly after that. but quit the sport? I will play as long as I am able. No other sport is as fun for me.

Edited by patrickhrdlicka - 12/31/2015 at 7:32pm

I have lost around 100 rating points since new ball, from 2030 to 1930. It's clearly fault of new ball.

I played against some same players before and after the change. Before I won a girl clearly, she got like 6 points in the whole match. After change to new ball I barely managed get a win. My pip disturbance and serve effectiveness let me down.

Everything in the new ball seem to work against me.

1. I play ox pips for deception. That effect has diminished a lot and it's the biggest drawback with the new ball.
2. I have very spinny serves that are no longer as effective as before.
3. I have very spinny loop (more spin than speed). It's not as effective as before.
4. I don't have great athletic abilies or stamina to run around, which is needed with the new ball.
5. My ox pip serve receive was one of the strenghts, but as the serve receive is easier for everybody, that gives me not much advantage.

I have changed rubbers and blade. Faster blade was needed and my Rakza 7 had to go because of slipping issues and Tenergy for replacement. I am probably trying to play more straight forward FH attacks instead of spinning the ball.

Now I am happy with my equipment and I can't find fault in it, so it's either me or the damn ball.


Edited by RoyPips - 01/01/2016 at 3:29am

Agreed!

Edited by CroNone - 01/01/2016 at 3:54am

Yes. Sorry. MX-P.

About  3 months ago, I was on the verge of packing in myself, so I can sympathize with the OP particularly as I play the same way. In my experience, the players who seem to see little difference between plastic and celluloid are either lower end or young fit developing players, most advanced players have had considerable adjustments to make. How easily and if they make them depends largely on how much will power they have to bother. Personally for me, Having gone through all of the changes since the 40mm ball introduction, and being fully aware of what is required to keep myself inside the top 1% of players nationally, where I have been for over 20 years, it just feels like a bridge too far and it would be easy to say I have not got the time, the truth is I have lost the will power probably because of my age. What is natural and normal is to see a gradual reduction in competitive success over time as a player gets older, but when big rule changes are enforced older players who have been treading water hanging on to a level of play they are slipping below, by using their experience, start to sink. I only hurts if you are one of those players, everyone else is just getting on with it and couldn't care less, particularly the young/improving because these times of change always bring a clearing out of the 'old school' 

JKC wrote: I packed in playing competitively again at the end of last season. It's the best thing I ever did. I urge you all to give up playing. There' some great TV on.

APW46 wrote: Baal wrote: I think it is harder than giving up speed glue since Tenergy came out shortly after that. but quit the sport? I will play as long as I am able. No other sport is as fun for me.  That is exactly the conclusion I have arrived at Baal.

Edited by skip3119 - 01/02/2016 at 11:27am

+1

AndySmith wrote: skip3119 wrote: APW46 wrote: Baal wrote: I think it is harder than giving up speed glue since Tenergy came out shortly after that. but quit the sport? I will play as long as I am able. No other sport is as fun for me.  That is exactly the conclusion I have arrived at Baal. ============================= Agree with you guys 100%. Just because some players that I used to beat and started beating me - that's a poor reason for me to quit.  I play for fun and for keeping good health. As they say "the best exercise is the exercise you like", I happen to like TT. And it's the same for me - fun.  And it has to remain fun, or I won't play any more.  Everyone has their own personal concept of where the "fun" stops and starts.  I don't find the constant swapping between different balls each week much fun, for example, but my local league has made sensible steps towards limiting issues around this and so I play on.  It is tolerable.  I would have stopped playing competitively for a while if they had not done this - I'm sure I would have been in a minority, but that's where I feel my line is.  And the OP has their own line, personal to them. Plastic balls are a fairly major change, and so this kind of thing is inevitable.  Sad, but inevitable.  Certain styles are impacted more than others, and among those groups a percentage will be more disadvantaged in closing the gap due to circumstance, and among that smaller group some will be disillusioned enough to step out of the game.  I hope it's just a temporary thing for the OP, but in my experience some never come back because they move to a different sport which doesn't change so regularly.

I haven't tried MX-S.  NL will have tried both.

Baal wrote: I haven't tried MX-S.  NL will have tried both. I like T05 best.