Table Tennis Rackets and Table Tennis Rubbers
Table tennis is quite popular as a sport, particularly in the Eastern portions of Asia. As a sport, its origins date back to 1880 England, where Victorians played table tennis as an after dinner recreational pastime. Back then, because of the absence of more specified table tennis equipment, a number of household items were utilized in facilitating a table tennis game. Items like books were utilized as nets and table tennis paddles, while knotted strings or corks of Champagne bottles stood as the balls in a table tennis game.
As the game style became more and more popular, manufacturers then started on the production of more specific table tennis equipment, which eventually paved the way for table tennis into becoming one of the most popular of sports in the world today.
Before celluloid gas-filled novelty balls were discovered to be ideal table tennis balls, table tennis rackets were similarly constructed to that of the regular tennis racket. A piece of parchment was rigged around a frame, which was connected to the racket's handle. When the celluloid gas-filled class of table tennis balls were popularly being used in table tennis games, a more solid class of table tennis rackets were being utilized, and have become the status quo style of table tennis rackets until today.
The most basic of table tennis racket construction involves the use of wood pieces being shaped in the form of a small paddle, wrapped on one or both sides with a sheet of rubber. Commonly referred to as table tennis rubbers, these table tennis rubbers come in many varieties, each affecting a table tennis player's ball control capacity, which is quite an important factor in a table tennis game, where speed and accuracy matter a lot.
The most popular of table tennis rubbers include the Inverted Pimple (non-Chinese) Class of Table Tennis Rubbers, the Inverted Pimple (Chinese) Class of Table Tennis Rubbers, the Short Pimples Class of Table Tennis Rubbers, the Long Pimples Class of Table Tennis Rubbers, as well as the Anti-Spin Variety of Table Tennis Rubbers.
The Inverted Pimple Variety of Table Tennis Rubbers have smooth surfaces, with pimples facing towards the racket's surface. The feature enables for high levels of spin and speed. The Chinese Variety of Inverted Pimple Table Tennis Rubbers are much more tackier, resulting to more speed and control features. The Short Pimple Table Tennis Rubbers are designed with short pimples, which don't generate much spin as the inverted table tennis rubbers are known for, while the Long Pimple Table Tennis Rubbers are a combination of short and long pimples, allowing for more flexible "feeding off" an opponents ball spinning movements. The Anti-Spin Variety of Table Tennis Rubbers, are non spin table tennis rubbers, letting users produce no spins at all.
In choosing the right class of table tennis rubbers, users are advised to note which class best complements their playing capacities to the most maximum of degrees.
