OOAK Table Tennis Forum

I've got an older black and red sheets of 1.5 that are cut for a small blade.

You have any used thin (1.7 or less) Raystorm/Flarestorm or Challenger Attack (or other short pips in thin sponge) to trade?

I think 802, being a little spinnier is closest. Let me see how big my sheets are and what would be a fair price. I also like the Spectol myself.

I've got an older black and red sheets of 1.5 that are cut for a small blade.

You have any used thin (1.7 or less) Raystorm/Flarestorm or Challenger Attack (or other short pips in thin sponge) to trade?

I wonder if the white sponge spectol is still available, I saw a player of the best taipei tt club with this SP on his fh like li jiawei

btw antonny i have a pic of lijiawei raquet and the spongeis clearly over 1,.5mm

Just for grins I bought a sheet of 755. I'm gonna try and play like Deng Yaping for an afternoon, see if it works.

Ive tried Spectol 21 1.7mm for chopping awhile back. Its really hard to slow down the ball, unlike long pips it doesn't do anything for you. The harder the incoming chop the faster your stroke has to be to match the incoming rotation. Also the blade angle is incredibly important, just a slight miscalculation and the ball sails high, long or in the net.

Generally the consistency in chopping with short pips is quite poor and alot harder to do. With long pips I could chop all day giving heavy/floaters back. With short pips I'm struggling to put the ball on the table and most of the time it goes back with no spin, with the extremely heavy back once in a while (out of my control).

Ive found that its better for aggressive chopping. Ive seen videos with hou yingchao (a chinese chopper at the top of the world using the same rubber) chopping with it easily. I have no idea how he does what he does, just way too hard

Oh and as for 799, tried that before in 1mm for chopping as well. Same effect, incredibly hard to control. Its more of a medium-short soft control pip. Compared to 802 its much softer and forgiving.

Overall for short pip chopping I find that under 1.5mm sponges work against you as the blade speeds up the ball. A 1.6-1.8mm slow sponge would be ideal IMO.

Perhaps you liked Spectol better because it was softer than 802.

You might try 799 in a thin sponge as it is softer and with narrower pips, so is more like Spectol. It's cheap too.

-- Andrew