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Actually, I wonder if the Triumph rubber wasn't this:



(from the ITTF site.)

There's quite a bit of starter rubber that's been approved. I'm pretty sure this is starter rubber, and I'm pretty sure that's the supermarket chain:



Iskandar

USATT isn't strict at all for the lesser tournaments. Plenty of illegal rubbers in use.

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Not checked by officials at our club, but there are some zealous members who will spruik a rubber is not allowed...usually pips of some variety. I know one time when a member told another his rubber had been made illegal....I think it was 802 (Of courseI had to set them straight).

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Ooh that's a dirty trick... "Say, bud, isn't that rubber illegal?"

Iskandar

BOMB Epoch of China, Beijing is now using the term of "tension rubber" in naming their own products.
The BOMB product quality is much the same as original ESN "tensor".

Our league that is based in the south west of the UK stipulates that the rubber shall be ITTF approved and that the colours should be one red and one black.

It rarely gets mentioned apart from when someone is having a bad day or feels like winding up the opponent.

We have one member that really should know better who has had the same rubbers for about 20 years apparently and I swear that his black rubber is actually a red rubber that has been coloured in with a black marker pen !!! No-one ever says anything to him and they just accept that he has some weird anti-spin rubbers??? They aren't, they are just very old and very dead, but he loves it and wins with it.

Most players in our league buy from the major suppliers who tend to only sell approved rubbers, so mostly it self administers???

Our league requires conformity to ITTF LARC and rules, but in practice, as no one ever asks to see the opponent's rubbers, who knows? There are many people using very old setups, some of which I am sure are no longer on the LARC, if they ever were.

The only time anyone ever asked to see my bat was at a training camp, when a playing partner asked to make sure I wasn't using "funny" rubber.

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I played someone in a league match last night who had the oldest rubbers I think I've ever played agains. By his own admission they were 40 years old - he said they were antiloop and certainly they played like very slow anti.

To be fair I couldn't think of anything I'd rather play against and I won very easily. I suspect the rubbers wouldn't be on the LARC and certainly wouldn't have the ITTF approval stamp on them. Would I have compained if I'd thought I might struggle? Probably not on balance although I might if I thought they'd been deliberately "doctored" but that's a different can of worms.

That's very similar to my region. Official umpires do check the rubbers, but I've never seen one compare it to the actual current LARC, so as long as it looks ok and has the ITTF logo, I would expect they'll pass it.... unless someone asks them to check.

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