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Players Choice: Keep Existing Celluloid Table Tennis Balls

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Vishu Kalra
12 years ago

its no more fun playing .. as no spin on new balls !!

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Paul Beck
12 years ago

we had plastic balls with the Barna Super Ball years ago. They were Rubbish. We need to keep the celluloid ball.

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Andy Frain
12 years ago

A further unnecessary and purely political/financial change that is to the detriment of the sport

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jonas
12 years ago

i want to keep the ball we have now!

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Nicolas Revesche
12 years ago Featured

Still a commercial operation ... Passing the ball 38 mm to 40 mm ball was not a success, the game has not slowed, table tennis has not become more telegenic, but we consume ten times more balls ! Besides the initial investment to change all the balls!

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Pls don`t change the ball !!

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mike martin
12 years ago

Why? Manufacturing issues can certainly be addressed with modern safety equipment. Is there someone who is set to make a windfall profit from this? That's the only reason I can think to change.

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Parker Iolite
12 years ago

Bangkok Thailand

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Peter Sandström
12 years ago

Keep the old ball until there is a working alternative. Postbone at least 2 years.

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Xuân Việt Đặng
12 years ago

Please keep the celluloid balls!

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Benjhor Ryan Bongcayao
12 years ago

Please? Retain.

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rob wootton
12 years ago

Please keep the existing balls

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Massimo Conti
12 years ago

My name is Max. I am an italian T.T. player and I am a chemist. (alchemy in life is my blog) As a table tennis player i can say the celluloid ball is good and many equipments ( rubber sheets and blade) have been utilized for many years without any problem.From the point of view of celluloid, as a chemist, I can say it is utilized for many other objects. Celluloid is not less safe than other materials. I doubt an alternative material such as plastic can offer the same characteristics (spin, and speed).

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Peter Anderson
12 years ago

Not all change are good!

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Por Lay
12 years ago

From the desription of the new balls which are not made out to be and I have been playing Table Tennis for the last 30 years with current celluloid balls, why change now. I therefore reject the new poly plastic balls.

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Johan De Schutter
14 years ago

Do not change the ball nto the plastic once. Let's just be hounest there is no reason to do this change. Only thing i can coem up with is that the change is to improve the sales of balls. Can you imagine how many balls will be sold to all the clubs over the world. What i heard is that this ball will be more expensive and it will break faster. It's just a commericial thing has nothing to do with improvement ofthe sport. Greetz

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Jon Gustavson
14 years ago

Broke two plastic balls in one match. Not normally opposed to some changes to make the sport better but I don't see any upside to this change.

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Matt Deane
14 years ago

The new plastic ball sucks! I will just continue to play with the celluloid ball in practice and tournaments. Suck it ITTF! and F the environment!

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Kingsley Chin
14 years ago

I have table tennis robots with hundreds of culloloid balls and it would be very costly to change them