I believe the color of the rubber on the bat may be the same on both
sides, or may be different colors, so long as no rubber is white,
orange or yellow which may make it harder to see the ball. The
important thing is the rubber must be the same brand and type on both
sides of the bat, so that flipping the bat doesn't make any
difference in the playing qualities of the rubber that is hitting the
ball. There is a difference in the National Open tournament, which
requires red and black rubber according to ITTF rules. This makes no
sense because a legal hardbat has the same kind of rubber on both
sides, so regardless of color or bat flipping, you are getting the
same kind of spin and speed from both sides of the bat. Marty
Reisman was challenged on the red/black ITTF rule in the last
National Open, because his bat was blue and red. After some
arguements the officials ruled he could play with the bat, because it
did not cause any confusion for his opponent. This was born out when
his opponent won the match rather easily.

--- In hardbat@yahoogroups.com, eric jensen <kozackpathfinder@...>
wrote:
>
> i bought a rubber from friendship 755 .for my hard bat. i
use that right now. but i looked on the rules for classiacal
hard bat this rubber is not on the list. ????????/////// also i
bought it in two different colors no knowing that the rules say
it has to the same color. i also use a pin holder blade
double happiness which is not on the the list either. why is the
rules so strict if if fall into a all wood blade, and the rubber
does not have rubber sponge under it.. i come back to the
hard bat to work on my form and play in a tournment or to.
eric
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Johnson <manxpingpong@...>
> To: hardbat@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2007 2:06:40 PM
> Subject: [hardbat] Valor table tennis
>
> Hi Alberto, I just thought I would let you know as there were no
> League Matches this week, we gave the Stingray a test using my
Andro
> Classic rubbers I peeled off the Andro Victor (same size),I can
tell
> you now that the rubbers are not going back on the Andro (previous
> favourite commercial "hardbat"blade) I found the Stingray has
> fantastic control using either defence or attack,it just feels and
> sounds (no cheap high pitch "ping" sounds) right straight away and
> can honestly say it has increased my enjoyment of playing,laughing
> at my new found ability to chop back seemingly impossible
> smashes,while flicking and driving loose ball point winners freely.
> Being neither too fast nor too slow, it just feels like an
extension
> of my hand, very impressive.
>
>
> I am now on a search for rubbers that will complement and fully
> cover the blade on the "Big Stick". I have found a Hong Kong
> website called www.table-tennis. hk that stocks the TSP millitall
> that many have said have small/ soft Andro/leyland type pips and
> plays classic, also they have Miracle super which again has
> soft/small pips, not the large stiff type that standard Miracle has.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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