Review of the Stiga 40+ ITTF Approved Poly Ball

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zeio wrote: In case Dan reads this thread, the term "poly ball" is strictly reserved for the seamless ball.

Edited by Tommy16 - 06/26/2014 at 1:21am

Talking about tt materials is just a useless speech unless contains a decent set of numbers. yes.


Through being a graduated engineer, I only trust the numbers, I love the numbers.

Human's body natural senses are fairly deceptive. No two man will feel alike.

One man's softish feeling of the ball is another man's hard feeling. So is the ball speed, spin, bounce, etc.

Hence, my first and foremost necessity when reading all the reviews on table tennis materials is the exact numbers from laboratory material tests.
Numbers and numbers only will tell you whole of truth.

So far, I have only got a bulk of waterish, blank words about the plastic balls. Multitude of meaningless and obscure phrases, no numbers.


BALLS MEASUREMENTS I'm LOOKING FOR.

Diameter to 0,01 mm
Mass to 0.01 g
Geometrical Hardness (standard testing machine) to 0.01 mm.

Please, take care to provide for those numbers in your reporting of the plastic balls.

Thanks.
Igor NOVICK

Building Constructions & Materials proficient.

Edited by igorponger - 06/26/2014 at 2:45pm

If we followed Igor's prescriptions for equipment and ball reviews on this forum, there wouldn't be any (except possibly from manufacturers).  After all, my thought was the same as Zeiop's -- who among us has the equipment needed to measure hardness accurately?  Of course, if we followed all of Igor's recommendations to the ITTF on rules changes and equipment changes, the game itself would suck so much that even the great Chinese players he seems to despise would just quit in disgust.