ITTF has sanctioned friction tests on pimpled rubb

As I said before (& many many times) these are strategies & techniques developed by  smooth rubber radical extremists to terrorize the second class citizens of table-tennis (pips/defenders) .........that is impose maximum possible visual & mechanical inspection with no associated fair chemical inspection.

If I was playing in Italy, I would first ask them to show me a chemical test equipment that will test for reasonable combinations of VOC compounds (if not all) for speed glue AND boosters , even those could be in millions BEFORE I would submit my racket to ANY sort of visual or mechanical inspection.    

Then again, this would never happen because pips / defenders are spineless cowards (with no self-esteem) who are willing to submit to all forms humiliations devised by smooth rubber radical extremists (who make up the majority of general council, and all special committees of ITTF) such as these to try to prove in vain that they (pips /defenders) are worthy of love & admiration of smooth rubber radical extremists ..................while the simple fact remains that there are 10000s of  glue cheats for every pips offender.  Keep in mind that ITTF claims (to get IOC funding) that NO form alteration of the rubber (sponge and or top sheet) is allowed as of from 10 years ago.  The original problem started with the  failed Aspect Ratio change attempted at the 1995 Tianjin BGM which had to be tried by Dr.Rufford Harrision  because he had to make some peace offering to smooth rubber radical  extremists (for having the balls to try to ban regluing....which was of course immediately repealed due to politicians like Bruce Larry, super-radical extremist Lee Edwards Esq. who also confessed openly his hatred for (long)pips etc, who threatened to form their own association)  like Bruce Larry to keep his job, though this was Eberhard Scholer's idea (claiming there were millions of pips users who were microwaving there pips while it was probably less than hands on your finger) . Rest is history as the SuperSecret 1988 Durban Aspect Ratio "regulation" which Bruce Larry used to claim till few months ago (after 21 years) that it was a regulation. 

Also , who approved this testing gadget ? Did the Italian National Association approve this gadget ? Who are the members of the council of  Italian Association ?  Let me guess, the majority of the members of the (Italian) council are smooth rubber radical extremists.......well well well  what else is new   

I agree. This device does not look very scientific. It looks like a child's toy.
If they want to measure friction, they should use a device, that shows the exact values of the friction of the rubber. And when they include a minimum allowable friction value in the rules, they can start penalizing players.

The amazing thing is that I think you only need about 30 players (any players any skill level) & an attorney to bring a class action lawsuit against the USOC or IOC (I did not say ITTF or USATT) to have table-tennis removed from Olympics (or at least suspended from 2020 Tokyo Olympics) but the problem is that you can talk a big game in a forum but are you willing to walk the walk. ? But I doubt it because as I said pips players are just spineless cowards & act like they don't understand the oppressive abuse and won't do a damn thing. I am not going to get into why a class action can be filed against IOC / USOc but part of it a severely tilted playing field in favor of smooth rubber radical extremists, in gross violation of Olympic ideals but major reasons I won't get into here because there won't be even 2 pips players who would sign up for this. Oh well  

I keep hoping that there would be a pips / defensive players uprising against the ITTF just similar to how the smooth rubber radical extremists led by Bruc Lary brought the ITTF into submission in 1995 to repeal the glue ban. Obviously that is not happening.  But nothing would bring me greater pleasure than pips/defensive players miraculously growing spine and forcing the IOC to remove table-tennis permanently from the Olympics. Table-tennis richly deserves that for all the oppressive abuse dished out at the pips / defenders from 1983 not with 1 or 2 or 3 changes but 7 disgusting changes

Oh yeah ......how clever ?   cannot come up with something intelligent to say other than repeating what I said........how sad    

I was told that the frictionless LP's could produce an effect much like a rubber that had uneven wear.  Essentially it was claimed you could not be sure of the spin even if you watched the stroke technique closely.  This does not happen with frictionless anti.

Note: I have also been told by LP players that the above is not true.  I never played with or against the pre ban frictionless  LP's so everything  above  is second hand knowledge.

Mark