glue in table tennis: effect of glue layers

table tennis rubbers are lined up to show the doming effect of increasing layers of glue

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• sport
• table
• tennis
• rubber
• chack
• ITTF
• speed
• glue
• bat
• paddle
• racket
• table-tennis
• ping
• pong
• ping-pong

[adaolo002]

this is such a stupid test I can´t belive it! Tabletennis is about playing, it do notmake sence if the rubber are sticky or not! You have to look at the changing playing properties ( like speed and spin) this test is useless....... one not to stick rubber can be much better than the sticky one!

[TennisSal]

@adaolo002 Thanks for your comment. It was not a test, it was a demonstration.

[milotist]

i have a question an original size racket how much is thick i mean 1.3 cm or 1.5 or what?(sorry for my english )

[TennisSal]

they are rubbers only, not rackets; no record was kept of the thickness of each rubber. I believe it is a random mix of thicknesses.

[STIGABOY123]

soz i don't no the point of the vid soz i ain't tryin to be rude i jus wanna guess r the smoother rubbers more efficent or more helpful or the sticky ones???

plz tell me =]

[TennisSal]

Thank you for making this point. The point of the video is purely to show how layers of glue change the shape of the rubber; no implication that the stickiness is correlated with rubber efficiency is intended.

[mahdimaktabdar]

I m using voc free glue n i never seen my rubbers sticky after removal , is sticky layer is bcz of speed glue ????

[STIGABOY123]

thnx thts a kind of a smart experiment =]

[TennisSal]

This video was made just prior to the introduction of regulations limiting the use of speed glue and the practices surrounding gluing up rubbers before competition.

The new ITTF-approved water-based glues have playing characteristics favourable for the defensive player, similar to those in use prior to the introduction of speed glue in 1996.