OOAK Table Tennis Forum

Carsten and Herbert Neubauer have kindly agreed to an interview with us!

If you have questions to ask him, please post them here and I will organise them and put together the questions for the interview. Once completed I will post the full interview here.

I don't think they need an introduction in this forum, as they are very well known and highly regarded for their great innovation with pips and antispin related equipment

So post your questions here please...

Regarding his history and evolution as a player --
What style did he play as a junior and when did he start with Long Pips ?
Did he have any mentors in the learning and development of Long Pips techniques ?

Excellent!

Five questions for Dr. Neubauer:

Q: I have your excellent LP training DVD and am an avid fan of your offensive LP playing style! So I ask you, why do you think top professional players like JOO Se Hyuk and CHEN Weixing use their LP almost exclusively for chopping and not in a more offensive or varied manner?

Q: Can you lend some insight into the design process you go through when you're developing a new pips out rubber?

Q: I have noticed that many of your company's blades are very light (sub-70g). What is your ideal weight for your assembled racket?

Q: Do you prefer OX or sponge LP for your own racket? Have you always felt that way?

Q: Why are your company's rubber sheets so expensive? I've been intrigued by several of them over the years but have always been put off by the cost.

Please share your views on frictionless pimples and the ban on them.

Here's a set of related question: Do you believe an LP or antispin close-to-the-table blocker playing an active, aggressive blocking style could ever get as high as the world's top 10? If not, why not? If so, what qualities/techniques do you think such a player would have to possess? Do you think that rising to a high level with this style is more or less possible in the aftermath of the frictionless ban?

Is the owner of Scholer & Micke your friend on Facebook?

(There is a rumor that he influenced the ITTF rule makers to ban your equipment, because of a personal dispute.)

I've read somewhere that DR Neubauer uses different set ups for different opponents. Is there any truth to this? If so, does he recommend this for everybody or are there some pitfalls in doing this. Basically, what does he feel the advantages and disadvantages of changing equipment are to suit an opponents style.

ROFL!!!

I want to know what is the DR? stand for medicine,law or a nick name?

Do you think it is still possible to play pushblock style, at a higher level competition whilst keeping in equipment regulation proposed and enforced by the ittf?

Is there any good quality available videos of you playing?

Can you make a video for Fighter?

Also, are techniques for the ABS or Grizzly ABS much different from what you demonstrated on your first anti-spin video? Any new shots you can tell us about?

Do you see a day when ITTF oppression against disruption players ends and the ban against frictionless long pips is revoked?

Apparently a lot of players at the recent world championships in Hohhot were using equipment the ITTF would classify as illegal. Was that your observation as well?

Hi Doc

What do you think has change over the last 10 years in Table Tennis?

what's your level with double grippy inverted rubbers?

I can't really see the point of that question... it's like asking you what your level is with frictionless LPs.

I expected a response like that. I would like to know how he does with inverted. Who's saying he's so bad with inverted?