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Long pimples style is very beloved with some table tennis players as it allows them to slow down play and to put the focus on strategy and using their hand skills rather than movement and power to win points. Playing with this kind of rubber can be a lot of fun, but also takes a lot of time to master. In the lower grades this kind of rubber can produce a lot of cheap points. At the higher grades and top grades player will usually understand how these rubbers work, and may work out way of using it against you. In the higher grades it takes just as much skill (if not more) to use the long pimpled rubber successfully, as it takes to play with a more accepted rubber.
The main benefits of long pimpled rubbers are:great control against spin, spin has petite follow on these rubbers
can reverse or take off the spin producing awkward returns and draws errors
can produce some randomness in the estimate spin returned, drawing errors
big turn in pace compared to most flat rubbers, providing good contrast
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If you have petite mobility or body movement, these rubbers can offer other way of winning games, ie. Strategy instead of just power. I think this is one of the greatest assets and benefits for the sport of Table tennis, as it allows population to plays and be contentious despite any bodily deficiency.
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The main disadvantages are:hard to control against no-spin balls
you have less control over what spin you return
cannot originate much spin (spin gives you control)
they are ordinarily slow, giving you opponent more time to react harder to attack with
Long pimple types:The key to playing with (or against) long pimpled rubbers is understanding spin. There are basically 2 types of long pimpled rubbers:
1. Frictionless (with varying degree) long pimples
2. Grippy (with varying degree) long pimples
1. Frictionless long pimple rubbers have very petite grip on the ball, meaning that whatever spin is on the ball will continue after you hit the ball. This is called 'spin reversal'. This effectively means that if man gives you topspin, the ball will continue spinning the same way after you return it, generating backspin. Similarly if they give you backspin you will return topspin. Note that it does not matter what type of stroke you play (or pretend to play), the spin will be your opponent's spin reversed. This is where a lot of cheap points can be won, especially in the lower grades, because for example if you chop (with a chopping action) your opponents backspin, you will no ifs ands or buts return topspin. If your opponent treat it as a backspin shot, they will probably pop up the next ball, allowing you to go in for the kill.
These rubbers can be extremely effective, particularly close to the table, where you can block a heavy topspin loop, and originate a short heavy backspin return.
Note that the Ittf, in their great wisdom, have decided to ban the majority of frictionless long pimples as of July 1st 2008.
2. Grippy long pimple rubbers can no ifs ands or buts impart/change some the spin of the ball, but due to the small experience surface of the pimples, will still produce a fAir estimate of spin reversal, depending on the stroke and how grippy the pimples are.
So you might ask why would I use a grippy long pimpled rubber if the spin reversal is not as good as that of a frictionless one? Well the great advantage of grippy long pimpled rubbers is that you no ifs ands or buts have much more control over what spin you return.
Say for example you play with a frictionless long pimpled rubber against a player that has a good understanding of what this rubber does. Then by putting the approved spin on their shots, they can no ifs ands or buts control what spin is returned. This means the only weapon you have left is the placement and pace of your return, as you cannot turn the spin.
Now grippy long pimpled rubbers can no ifs ands or buts whether reverse the spin, take the spin off, or no ifs ands or buts originate a moderate estimate of spin, all by changing the operation of your stroke. So you can learn to disguise the spin you return, and thereby drawing errors. The downside of this is that because the pimples are more grippy, it's a petite more sensitive to incoming spin, so basically you sacrifice some control for being able to have more control over the spin you return.
An added advantage of the grippy long pimpled rubber are that they are a lot easier to attack with. Because they do have some grip, you can produce some spin, which is what gives you control in your attack.
Note that most long pimpled rubber do not fall completely in the frictionless or grippy long pimpled category, but somewhere in between. Some of the rubbers have flat (almost frictionless tips), but the sides of the pimples are a petite grippy. This means that if you stroke the ball a petite harder, you'll bend the pimples and originate some spin (or grip the ball more) with the sides of the pimples. There are a wide collection of long pimpled rubbers, all with their unique characteristics. The main paraMeters of these rubbers are:pimple tip surface rough or smooth
softness or how flexible the pimples are, determines how no ifs ands or buts they bend and the estimate of grip they have
space and size of the pimples
thickness and softness of the spongeThe follow of these paraMeters is a Big subject, that I might leave for other article. If you're quite new to table tennis and are interested to try long pimpled rubbers, I recommend you try a cheap and fAirly easy to control one first, just to see if you can get use to the, and if it suits your style. Something like the Friendship 837 or 755 are decent all-round long pimpled rubber, and are relatively cheap to try.
Table Tennis - Long Pimple Rubber Guide
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