All About Table Tennis Return Boards

What is Table Tennis Return Board?

If you are first time hear this name and having no idea at all of what is a table tennis return board, it's generally some sort of board where a player can hit a ball to the board and it  will return back the ball like you are playing with a real player. Technically, you can treat the board as your opponent.

In another word, it is actually a board that built to return or bouncing the ping pong ball back to the player if a player is playing alone without any partner. It is good in helping someone to practice and master the skill. As of now, there are many different return board that you can find in the market. Some people would love to get a homemade or DIY their own and it is totally workable. You can learn how to make a table tennis return board by referring to the video.

 Now, let's us just take a look of some of these products that are readily available for sale. I tried to search at Amazon and eBay but found there is none of such item for sale on their websites. Thus, I think most of these items are being DIY or homemade by ping pong enthusiasts and they are selling them as something that they think is worth it and can provide value to people who want to practice with the game alone.

TSP RETURN BOARD

This item is very flexible and is adjustable. For those beginners, it is an ideal product for them to use to practice with different playing style and it is really suit for schools. The TSP return board is features with 6 sheets of rubber which is sufficient to help out with coaching simulations. Anyone can now playing alone if they can't find a partner to play with them and this can have them train in good shape. When you purchase of this item, you will at the same time receive a training CD. However, the CD is purely available in German language but this shouldn't be a big issue for you as you can view the video and you can immediate get the idea and know how to use it.

Wally Rebounder Trainer

Wally rebounder is having a great quality of rebound board for you to train your ping pong skill. This product can be ideal piece to aid you to improve your game playing style. It is the sincere and loyal partner that will play consistently compare to a real player and it's constantly down to play steadily.

The Wally Rebound board tend to not as the same compare to other boards as it is built primarily as a supreme training kit. When you purchase this board, you will get the board, tripod stands, as well as a mounting & tilting system. The mounting & tilting system is the uniqueness of the board and it is pending for patented at the moment. So, we can foresee that the company will going to release a better one in future once their patent is being approved and they may become the top product on the market.  If you wish to rotate it, it is possible and you don't even need to put an impact detector in it.  It is built with advance yet simple technology that it moves back and forth. At the time it hitting an end, the motor will immediate turns around and hit back the ball to the player.

You are going to have a very good practice with the products as discussed above. Either go for TSP or Wally Rebounder is definitely up to you. You can make your own comparison or find out more from the site and make your final decision yourself. Last but not least, there is also another prototype of return board that is under development which is known as P3 Rebound Board that is developed by Table Tennis Partner. You can read more about the board and see what features they have.

Butterfly Table Tennis Table – Top In The Market

One of the best table tennis table manufacturers will be the Butterfly brand. If you are one of the millions of people all over the world who enjoy playing the game of ping pong, you know what having good equipment matters. A good paddle will help your aim out greatly. A good ball will fly straight to where you need it to be. But a good table is the most important part and those who demand he best will purchase only a butterfly table tennis table.

Get Good Quality of Playing Surface

Some people may wonder why your playing surface matters. After all, you could just string up a net across anything and play, right? Actually, that is not the case. You need to experience this in order to feel and classy and greatness of a butterfly table tennis table but you do not have to take my word for it but rather you try and tell me what you think.

Many apparently even surfaces are not as even as they look. Little things such as scratches, dents, and dimples can and will change the way things land, effecting your serves and bounces for the worst. The effects range widely depending on the imperfections varying from loss of power to complete loss of ball control once it has bounced.

Having your playing surface be level is also very important. Any small variations in the area will result in normally controlled bounds flying off in unpredictable directions leading to out of bounds balls. It is also possible to have the ball ricochet in an unexpected angle, allowing your opponent to score points against you! This type of table for table tennis is one of the reasons that most players say a lot about this brand.

Mediocre Table Surface Can Screw Your Practice

Uneven surfaces and non-level playing fields are not only bad during actual play, they are terrible for practice. The body has something called muscle memory which builds up as you are training. This allows you to make excellent moves without needing to think. As a consequence, having a lot of practice on a bad playing area will lead to even more inaccurate shots than not practicing at all!

Butterfly table tennis table is not an advertisement  made great, but rather proven its mettle through time. All of these problems can be avoided by simply selecting the best playing table, and a butterfly table tennis table is the best that money can buy.

Other than the company is famous for their table products, they also famous for other ping pong equipment such as their Butterfly Innerforce Blade Series which being used by a lot of top notch players around the world.

Top 5 Outdoor Table Tennis Tables

I just create a list of my personal top 5 list for the outdoor table tennis tables which I think they are qualified for.

I will choose one table each from different supplier and share with you the relevant videos to let you inspect and figure out yourself.

Well the list are as below:

Butterfly Octet 25 Rollaway Table

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Kettler Champ 5.0 Outdoor

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Joola Nova DX Table

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Stiga Instaplay Table Tennis Table

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Cornilleau 500 M Outdoor Table

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These are the top 5 from different companies where I think is good for professional players.

Kettler Stockholm Outdoor Table Tennis Table

The Kettler Stockholm Outdoor Table Tennis Table is a high-ranking variant of the Riga Outdoor Table Tennis Table. With features like: Upgraded leg assembly, compared to being dissembled in the Riga Table Tennis Range, the ping pong net and posts stay in place even when the Kettler Stockholm Outdoor Table Tennis Table is folded for storage . The surface is made from a 22mm weather-resistant aluminum table top which weights less and is care free. The special dazzle-proof playing top coat and folding technology with dual safety catch make it an ideal multi-purpose joy and safe, recreational table that can be used under the sun. If the family happens to leave you or one of the children would like to coach for the next friendly, there is a playback mechanism built in to the table tennis table consenting you to train anytime needed.

From my personal experience, this is probably one of the most valuable Christmas presents I have ever received. Assembly was not a hassle so long as you had adequate forbearance to follow manual guides. You cannot anticipate to have a tough, weather-resistant, quality game table and manage to assemble it like lego’s.

Majority of setup can be performed by one person but there are things that necessitate, or are at least eased, by a second individual. Once the table is put together, folding and unfolding is easy even for one person. Actually, levers have been strategically placed specifically for helping one-man operation. I really cannot think of any particularly noticeable drawback  for this table. The fact that setup is necessary isn’t really a disadvantage, especially when not purchased in a store and it has to be expected.

The Kettler Stockholm Outdoor Table Tennis Table has brought a real fun to me, my family and relatives. My uncle Husin, who is a local ping pong old timer also praised this tennis table. He said that the ball-bounce was steady and the sound the ball made when it hit the table top shows that the material from which the table were made are of superior type. He also said that even his little twin sons could easily roll the table away to the house compound for our playing.

In fact, this Kettler Stockholm Outdoor Table Tennis Table is available in two colors, green and blue. However, I prefer the blue one since it looks more elegant, elite and sporty.

If you house already have a billiard table and you still wish to play ping pong, but is having limited space, and you are only want to get a ping pong table to play the game for fun, you may consider of buying the table tennis table conversion top to place on your existing pool table and you can start to enjoy playing.

Indoor Table Tennis Equipment

Let’s talk a little bit about the equipment you need for table tennis. You may think: “why on earth is this guy talking about a couple of paddles and a ping-pong ball? I can get all that stuff together for $ 5,00 at my deli around the corner!”. And you are right you can. 

Therefore, you might be surprised when I tell you that I used to spend about $ 200 a month on my table tennis equipment. Yes, that’s right. It was $ 200, and sometimes even more like recently I just bought a Stiga Pro Carbon racket for myself which has cost me about $70 just for the blade. I guess the same is true for all different kind of sports equipment. I don’t know anything about baseball. So to me all the bats look exactly the same. But even without knowing anything about it, I am sure that my theory is wrong. 

Very likely, there are huge differences between the various types of bats, the wood they are made of, size, weight, etc. So for table tennis, it’s exactly the same story. Let’s start with the paddle. A paddle consists of the bat (which is made of wood, or sometimes a combination of different woods and other materials). Now typically, each bat also comes with different handle shapes, such as straight, concave, etc. 

Each bat has two sides and in 95% of the time, both sides are covered with a rubber. There are some players who only cover one side, because they only use one their forehand and therefore don’t need to cover the backhand. One side has to be black and the other one has to be red. There are no exceptions to this rule. 

The table tennis equipment suppliers provide each of their rubbers in both, red and black. Typically, each table tennis rubber has a spongy kind of layer attached underneath. That layer comes in various thicknesses. The thinker, the fast is the rubber.  The rubbers differentiate from each other in tackiness and density. Both factors play an important role as you develop your game. Some players use a lot of spin on their shots; others prefer more the straight shot variations and therefore don’t need as much grip as others.

There are two general categories of rubbers, the inverted ones and the pimples. The inverted ones are by far more popular. The pimples, or also called long pimples, are mostly used by players who prefer a rather defensive tactic. I’m going to talk about the different playing styles and the relation to equipment in another article.

Table Tennis Rules - Service and Score

Do you really know the rules regarding indoor table tennis? Or do you just THINK you know them? Well, we shall see. I’m about to explain a few rules to you including some of which you might have never heard about before. In order to win a match, a player must have won 3 out of five games. In order to win a game, he must have won 11 points. That’s right, not 21 points. That rule has changed a while ago.

Okay, so again, a player needs 11 points to win a game and he/she needs to have 2 points more than the opponent. So for example, let’s say the score is 9:9. If you make two more points, the game is yours. But if the score is 10:10, you also need two more points in order to win the game. That means theoretically, a final score could be 17:15. So let me sum that up for you again:

A player needs 3 out of five games to win an indoor table tennis match.

In order to win a game, a player needs to score 11 points minimum AND 2 points more than his opponent.

Now let’s move on two the next rule. The service rule for table tennis. Most of the people got that wrong, too. Before you start a match, each player picks a side and coin will to be flipped. If you picked the right side, you have the right to start with the service.

However, that doesn’t mean that you have to actually use your right. Maybe you feel more comfortable to start a new match by returning your opponent’s service. In that case you can hand over the right of serve to your opponent. If your opponent was guessed right on the coin flip, it’s exactly the other way around.

Once it is decided who starts the match, he has two services. And then it keeps alternating all throughout the game, always two services at a time. The old rule was five services per player each times, but that was when a game still consisted of 21 points. Okay, so let’s say your opponent won the right of service to start the first game.

Once the first game is finished, you will have the right of services to start the second game. And for the third game, it will go back to your opponent and so forth.

Zhang Jike With a New Backhand Rubber

I don't know how many of you have already realised that, but the 2013 World Champion Zhang Jike has changed his backhand rubber. As Sun Tzu on TableTennisDaily shows, the rubber Zhang has been using since the WTTC is Tenergy 05-fx, could you notice ?

I had no idea that happened, it seemed like he played his usual table tennis to me. But as we can see, he did not. The Butterfly Tenergy 05 in general, being a hard rubber it best known for it's adaption to a close play. In which case, is perfect for the Chinese player. He always tended to play his backhand close to the table.

He rarely ends up playing a counter topspin with it, mostly flips, simple topspins or stuff like that. He also likes pushing the ball a little bit sometimes wich is perfect with the rubber. What had he been using before the change, you're asking ? I have no idea, tried to find it out on the web, but came up with nothing. If you know or found it, please write in the comments to let us know.

Anyway, his forehand rubber is the Chinese Hurricane 3. Never heard of it actually and never tested it, so I'm not going to say anything about that, not to spread false informations or stuff. And that's actually everything i have for you at the moment, stay well and expect more infos coming soon !