Butterfly Table Tennis Rubbers in America and Japan

March 5, 2010

One of the benefits of being a table tennis player that reads Japanese is being able to compare prices and information for table tennis rubber in both Japan and the United States. I can also pass off this information to readers to do with as they will… For this post, I’d like to take a [...]

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Brodmann Blades Glove Type Table Tennis Racket

January 28, 2010

I wrote before about unique table tennis racket designs, and here is another. I actually first heard of this through a Japanese table tennis site despite the fact that Brodmann Blades seems to be based in the U.S. This particular table tennis blade has not yet been approved by the ITTF, but they claim that [...]

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Does the Color of Table Tennis Rubber Affect Its Properties?

December 27, 2009

This is a question I also had when I started looking for the kind of table tennis rubber that would be best for me. I wondered if choosing which rubber to order in red and which rubber to order in black would have any effect on play. That brings us to the scientific question of [...]

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How to Choose Sponge Thickness for Table Tennis Rubber

August 13, 2009

One could argue that the thickness of the sponge under the rubber is as important as the table tennis rubber itself. I’ll do a brief introduction to the sponge thickness, but as a quick note, your sponge will usually come with the topsheet you choose. Simply put, thicker sponge makes the ball bounce off the [...]

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