Here are my proposals for rackets and racket covers:

http://www.usctta.org/pag/game/equ/padls/g_e_rackphant.html

Hermann ;>)



--- In hardbat@yahoogroups.com, "ewq30131" <wylie8034@...> wrote:
>
> Let's call the for-profit hard-bat group the
> APPA (Am. Ping Pong Assoc.)
> and
> get Parker Brothers to sponsor it!!!
>
> I am half-joking...but only half...
>
>
> --- In hardbat@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Berger" <aprilsound@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bob and all:
> > These thoughts have been bandied about since at least '87.
> > There are two problems that I have with the whole rubber issue.
The
> first is
> > that there is NO leyland, save a few sheets left over from
the '60s
> that are
> > held by Marty. My second problem is that there were always
several
> choices
> > of pip size and width to choose from. The fact that most
everyone in
> america
> > played with "Hock" rackets equipted with the "Leyland" of our
youth is
> > ireivent to the fact that there WERE choices. Now I will admit to
> not being
> > sure of any rubbers befor '52, but I do have evedence that Tomita
> and Hirose
> > were playing with a rubber sheet much like the more modern
{latex}
> rubbers
> > of today. I also know that at least on some of the "Barna" Bats
> {though the
> > pips were the same type of rubber as "Leyland"} the pip was very
> large and
> > as so was much bouncier than the "Leyland" on the "Hocks".
> > There is nothing available that feels-plays like the Leyland
that
> we are
> > most familiar with, though Scott sent me a sheet of "Dr. Evil"
that
> might be
> > pretty close, but I need another piece to give it a serious
chance.
> > I do have a couple of posible other solutions.
> > One is to use rubbers that ARE available that clearly made to be
> used as
> > "othadox" rubbers {Have linen backing} ie: Butterfly "orthadox"
> {there used
> > to be two types, large pip and small pip, maybe still in
Japan?}, Joola
> > "Amigo",Barna classic or what ever its called now............
> > The other is to just allow any short pip so long as both sides
are the
> > same. I would even say that both sides should be the same color
as
> in some
> > cases the different colors play slightly differently.
> > A third soultion is to start a FOR profit group, have rackets
and
> balls
> > produced, market the sport as a great new recreational sport to
be
> played be
> > the masses {I'm serious here!} some of you have heard me say
these
> things.
> > Sell these in large chain stores with membership applications
right
> on the
> > packages. Then hold a world championships with REAL cash prizes.
I do
> > believe that when real TT {our TT} is seen, it holds much more
drama
> and
> > interest that there TT.
> > All we need is money and a name.
> > I'VE GOT IT PING PONG!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > EX- CHIMP
> > By the way Bob, I'm the skinny blond kid from Reismans who always
> wore a red
> > white and blue headband 35 years ago. Or at least I used to be
him.
> Now I'm
> > just a decent aging ping pong player.
> >
>