charmander defender wrote: ■ Whether resulting from natural wear or from deliberate treatments, all the rubbers having friction below ITTF technical standard shall be disqualified from the match and player has to play with another racket.
If they ever ban the natural wear and tear , some LP players may stop playing in competitions forever.We , amateurs , cannot afford to buy a new rubber every time it loses the estimated friction by the ITTF standards.How do we know if the rubber is illegal after using it for some months? .
It is clearly obvious the ITTF wants to kill the lp game forever both for cheaters and even those who abide by the regulations . We cannot let this happen and must force the ITTF to change this ludicrous policy.
For example, stop playing in competitions making the federations earn much less money.Stop buying products from the different brands so they have massive losses.Convince the pros to help us in this cause if not, tt will be like the circus.The amateur world is the one that makes tt alive, the pros are just the show business. Especially,brands live on US - the amateurs- .
I suppose (adding fuel to the fire) I should point out that "Whether resulting from natural wear or from deliberate treatments, all the rubbers having friction below ITTF technical standard shall be disqualified" is not the same as "ban(ning) the natural wear and tear". It's only natural wear and tear that is so extreme that it reduces friction below the approved level that is "banned". And if it were possible that "natural wear and tear" could cause such a big reduction in friction, you wouldn't have people trying to do it by using UV light, or special juice, etc.
One must admit.. Igor's trolling has really succeeded in stirring up a tempest in a teacup here, with his dubious "evidence", which I must remind you, was posted on a website of doubtful provenance. Heck, he might have written it himself (or got someone to write it). I actually find the above quite amusing.. really, I mean.. "kill the LP game forever". "We cannot let this happen.... force the ITTF to change this ludicrous policy." I suppose we would first need to determine if there really IS a policy. And that would require more than a couple of web pages which may or may not be genuine.
Even if it does happen, if ITTF starts testing bats for friction (or rather, the lack of it), do you REALLY think your racket's going to be tested at your next league night? Or even if you're playing in the U-2000 at the US Open? Heck no. You will be able to continue playing with whatever pips you have as long as it's listed in the LARC, even if it is five years old and has been sitting in your hot car the entire time. Are you REALLY going to "stop buying products"? REALLY? What are you going to play with? Huieson? What about the pros? The pros won't care, no one uses the rubbers in question at that level anyway, and THEY certainly don't use them until the pips drop off, or put them out in the noonday sun.
To be sure, even if your bat will never get tested, ITTF's policies and rules DO have an impact, even on lower level players. Try playing in your local league with a one-color bat, for instance. You can't, because ITTF passed a rule that says you can't. Your opponent would have a fit and refuse to play against you, for starters. You can't even BUY those frictionless long pips with the epoxy smeared on the pips any more, because ITTF deemed them to be too frictionless. And you can't smear the epoxy on yourself, because your clubmates will see it and you'd get shunned on club nights, especially if you're good enough to beat them anyway. (On the other hand, if you're a lousy player and lose to everyone, you can play with anything you like..  ) As for "frictionless anti" being "unfair".. why would it be, if YOU can buy them, as well as anyone else can? If ITTF passed a rule saying that only, say, the Chinese could use such rubbers, then that would be unfair.
Iskandar
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