Plastic and Celluloid Table Tennis Balls Compared: How it may affect your game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2014
- Part 11: Possible changes you'll make to your technique
1. How our tests were done 01:15
2. Our results
- Speed 02:23
- Ball trajectory and bounce 03:56
- Backswing and follow through 06:32
3. Conclusions 10:07
How similar, or identical does the plastic table tennis ball play compared to the celluloid ball?
In this 11 part video series, Preston Table Tennis Association conducted random sample testing of Joola's Super-P 40+ plastic ball and for comparison purposes, Joola's Super 40 celluid ball using the same guidelines the ITTF use, Technical Leaflet T3 - The Ball.
In the remaining 3 parts we get some player feedback on how Joola's plastic and celluloid balls compared. - กีฬา
Very good scientific explanation!
Excelent video and great explanation
I think the celluloid ball is dropping earlier because of the magnus effect (the topspin). Because when I play I sometimes don't even it the ball when directly changing from the celluloid ball to a plastic ball which is definately an indicator for a lower bounce. It's strange to see that the ball bounces higher in this video.
I tried it first time a little while ago with a plastic ball. I play very defensively. PLastic sucked so hard. Well the guys I where playing with where top 3 in my area, and they have been playing all their life. Me. I'm pretty good for a player who have not played a lot. But those balls made it super hard when you are not used to them.
Well now that we are playing (us the bottom players) witth the plastic ball we note that some are really of poor quality - for instance the butterfly training is just awful. And some balls are of reasonable quality for instance the Nittaku 3 * whereas some other 3* balls are just crap.
I'm disappointed with your so thorough and scientific analysis that totally miss the point for the average player like me because from the time I've been looking at your analysis I thought "Well we may find out it is worth playing with this new balls" - but in fact it really sucks playing with this crap we are imposed to play with nowadays:
- Plastic balls are very expensive
- Plastic balls are often of poor quality - they break, they floated, they are not consistant
- There is no pleasure in playing with most of the plastic balls
- Training plastic balls are really crap - and it is a shame to let us play with such sucking balls
- Only a very few balls 3* are of reasonable quality but they break really easy
So this is not highlighted enough in your study.
To give an example - I was referee today at a regional level for match opposing two teams using Stiga 3* balls and 5 balls got broken during the match whereas before there would be none or one during the day.
The rationale behind the change are very bizarre and resulted in replacing a great low price ball with a crapy expensive ball.
Many thanks for sharing!
the pleasure factor is key for me. I still have a few 38mm balls left and I'm gonna stock up on 40mm celluloid balls, so I never have to play with all the future varieties 45mm, 50+, ITTF can go and do one!
Me too .... This is not scientific
We should modernize and introduce carbon fiber to the ping pong and the badminton games, so to improve the quality of the ball in the air, on the table, and with the racket contacts and impacts.