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What do you need to start playing table tennis?
Beginners, parents of children who want to start playing table tennis and everyone else who is wondering.
Many people think about what you need to get started and have fun and develop in the world of table tennis. We intend to split up some important things to think about and without fussing over a lot of different technical features that all manufacturers implement in their blades and rubbers.
The most important thing to understand when it comes to table tennis is that it is a sport where it takes a long time to develop technique, so you should not be in a hurry towards more advanced sets of blades and rubbers. When you develop the technique and after a while feel that you can handle something faster, more grippy, it is good that in consultation with the coach and / or us see where you are going and what type of equipment could suit you / yours children. But especially. Do not try to take shortcuts and buy blades and rubbers that the world stars use for a 10-year-old who played table tennis for a couple of years. Then it becomes very difficult to develop in the right way, at the right pace.
The advice below is quite general and there are always exceptions, but by and large you should think about this way when it comes to children and young people's table tennis.
When you are a beginner
Are you a beginner and may have attended ping-pong school in your first year. You start to develop some technique and think it's fun. What you need to develop your technique is a racket that is not too fast. It should not play by itself, so to speak. So do not have too fast, stiff blade and no tensor rubber, which means that you get more bounce than the force you put in.
A suitable setup is a 5-layer allround wooden blade such as Sanwei - Accumulator S, LOKI - Violent V5 or Sanwei - Fextra Allround. These blades are fast enough for a beginner and excellent for practicing the technique with. The most important thing about the rubbers is that they are not too fast but are linear, which means that you get what you put in. They do not bounce unnecessarily much but become very controllable. The grip in the rubber is of course important, but it must not be too grippy, as it will be very difficult to play. Untacky rubbers such as Palio AK47 and 729 Focus III Snipe have a soft sponge and a not too grippy top sheet. At the same time, they are lightweight and can fit younger players better. An alternative to these is a slightly harder variant such as Sanwei Ultra Spin or LOKI Rxton I where the sponge is slightly harder and the surface rubber slightly more grippy.
Of course, there are factory made bats to buy from around SEK 100 and up, but these are usually much heavier than a self-assembled one. Then when you want to change rubber, the blade is usually nothing to build on for a young person who develops, plus it can be half impossible to detach the rubber due to the factory glue used in the assembly, so it's a bit of fooling yourself if you buy one. Certainly. For ping-pong school and leisure centers, wear and tear and home use, they work great.
After playing for a few years
If you have played for a few years and developed a good footwork and a good feeling both in the short game, loops and services, you may often need some more demanding equipment to get ahead. To take advantage of the better technique and movement patterns, you may need more advanced rubbers that are suitable for this and the greater power you use in your game. You can still use the same or similar blade as before, or a slightly faster one, depending on how much you have developed. The most important thing here is not to make too big changes and e.g. switch from a slower 5-layer wooden frame to a fast, stiff carbon blade immediately. Then it could be very difficult to continue your development from where you were.
As for the rubbers, there are different ways to go. If you like the slightly softer rubbers with more controllability, there are e.g. 729 Presto MAX Spin / Speed, Sanwei Gear Hyper Soft / Medium / Hard or Palio AK47 Red. If you liked the feel of Ultra Spin or Rxton I, you can go further with LOKI Rxton III, Sanwei Target 90 or Yinhe Big Dipper, which is then a little harder in feel and can generate even more spin than the previous ones, with the right technique.
When you look at Chinese rubbers, they are generally more linear in their structure than European / Japanese and can, as you develop, feel a little too slow for the 5-layer wooden allround blade, and you can definitely think of a 7-layer wooden blade that Sanwei - Fextra One, DHS Power G7 or Haitian - Y-III. An alternative to these is e.g. Inner Carbon blades such as Palio - R57, Haitian - Y-II, DHS - Power G5 or Sanwei Feather Carbon. These are usually slightly stiffer than wooden blades and give a stable, but still soft feeling due to that the carbon layer is a little further in towards the core and you get the softer wood feeling with the outer layers, but a slightly stiffer and less vibrating blade with the help of the inner carbon layers.
When you have advanced further
As footwork and technique works better and better. When you might play higher up in the series system, etc., you might still have a pretty good idea of what you need and start to refine details and variants of, above all, rubbers. Blades in all glory. There are many models and types of blades, but when it comes to rubbers and combinations with blades, there are almost endless variations.
Say you have a Palio - R57 blade together with Yinhe - Big Dipper 39deg (forehand) and 729 - Presto Max Spin (backhand) and like that set, but are looking for something faster and a little sharper. Usually it is enough to change the blade to a slightly faster type Sanwei - F3 Classic, Yinhe V14 PRO or Sanwei HC-5S to get a completely new feeling and all of a sudden you can play a faster game with your technique. Of course you can replace a rubber like Big Dipper 39deg, which is a little softer with a 729 - Battle MAX PRO, DHS Hurricane 3/3 NEO or LOKI N80 to get an even more offensive rubber on the forehand. Now you are inside and poking at details really, but table tennis is such an individual sport in terms of technique, gameplay and ability, so once you get here it is probably best to try a little but at the same time not make too big changes .
To think of
// Chinese Table Tennis Sweden