Weekly Table Tennis Advice - November 20, 2016

Pips structure is somewhat of a mystery as to how much do they truly influence the ball bouncing on the topsheet of the inverted rubbers. Note that pip structure, pip density, topsheet thickness/thinness are all somehow interconnected. I doubt if there is a detailed analysis of how they interact due to the complexity of isolating and negating other factors such as sponge hardness, density, elasticity etc.

I would recommend trying out various rubbers and determine your own interpretation of how each rubber behaves. Note that the human element also makes each rubber unique to each player. For example, I think Tenergy is way too overpowered and too fast for me to ever develop my game better. 729 rubbers have been excellent for me. Almost definitely none of any top TT players use 729 anymore for the past 10 - 15 years! So I can still play and hold my own using 729 against Tenergy rubber users. Similarly I know of players who use MarkV exclusively and they too find Tenergy way too overpowered and too fast but they have gone on to win tournaments using the same rubbers.

So pimple structure has too much subtle interaction in TT rubber technology to be thoroughly understood and what information we do get is subjective.

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