Blade rules
Table Tennis Rules
Last updated 7 years ago
ahmed samir Asked 7 years ago
If i made an ping pong blade of 8mm thickness without putting on the rubber it suposed to be butterfly tenergy 05 is that legal...?!
Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago
Hi Ahmed,
You are allowed to make your own blade. It just needs to be mainly made of wood. Here is the rule:
| 2.04.02 | At least 85% of the blade by thickness shall be of natural wood; an adhesive layer within the blade may be reinforced with fibrous material such as carbon fibre, glass fibre or compressed paper, but shall not be thicker than 7.5% of the total thickness or 0.35mm, whichever is the smaller. |
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ahmed samir Posted 7 years ago
Thank you very match
But anotther question i heard that blade which more than 7mm is offen used in blocks is that right...?!
And what is the perfect blade thickness
ahmed samir Posted 7 years ago
Sorry thank you very much
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 7 years ago
There is no perfect thickness, just what feels comfortable for you.
The type of wood else effects the feel of the bat.
Deighton King Posted 7 years ago
In reference to the following rule, how do the officials test the blade to prove that it is 85% natural wood. How would they know if the blade was made of a higher percentage carbon fiber? This question was raised at our club, and I suggested that a non destructive way to do this would be to use a spectrometer, but I doubt that this is used. do you know what the procedure is?
Jean Balthazar Posted 7 years ago
I guess no manufacturer would risk to mass produce a blade that wouldn't comply with this regulation, but if the test is only visual, for a top player custom made blade it would be easy to hide a thicker layer of composite material by just not making it expand to the contour of the blade... Maybe they randomly sample a bat here and there from a tournament winning player and tear it apart?
(they're not like us, they're sponsored, they wouldn't care...)
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 7 years ago
@Deighton, Great point... and Jean... come on
...tear it apart...
The thing is that it really doesn't make enough difference for players to want to cheat on this.