All table tennis tournaments should use only LIGHTWEIGHT BALLS to boost long rallies, techniques, physical strength, and attractive playable table tennis. Who win, it is not important, but attractiveness, spectacular game show with exiting running around courts are more important. NEED TO BAN HEAVYWEIGHT BALLS IN TABLE TENNIS. The reason is that heavyweight balls ignore all other techniques and RUNNING AND ATHLETIC SKILLS, but require more only reactions. Because heavyweight balls are not effectively be slowed down by air resistance. So heavyweight balls often fly so extreme fast beyond human reaction. Heavyweight balls reduces players ball controls and ball feeling, too. You know that, if you can not react, so you can not apply techniques effectively. You can easier earn points by your strokes because of your opponents can not react fast balls, but in other turns, you can not catch and react to return fast balls from your opponents, too. It leads to very short ball episodes, with more reaction requirements and less other techniques, so very bored matches. New players just leave table tennis sport after some tries, because they can not feel sport playing, which requires unhuman reactions and difficult ball controls and ball feeling. Lightweight balls are quickly effectively slowed down by air resistance. Air resistance is the most important factor for speed. So lightweight balls fly more slowly, in the possible human reaction. You can apply techniques only when balls fly with speeds in possible human reactions. Besides, lightweight balls increase players ball controls and ball feeling, especially in fast rallies. So various techniques will have chance to show : running, athletic skills, spin, long topspin rallies, physical strength, long ball episodes. It is more difficult for you to win by your fast strokes, but in other turn, it is easier for you to catch and react to return from your opponents fast balls. It leads to more long rallies with athletic skills . Besides, players improve their skill to increase ball speeds time by time. Rubbers help improve ball speeds, too. So now and very soon, ball speeds are beyond possible human reaction. It means that table tennis sport stops contest. To prevent this sport dead, there must be new standard lightweight balls, for example 1.5grams balls or 2grams balls, BUT NOT THE CURRENT 2.7GRAMS BALLS. At this moment, just do not use some heavyweight balls, which are a little heavy than other normal balls.

I agree with you. Table tennis changed and watching the pros has become boring because they can hardly keep the ball on the table. Epic rallies are rare these days.@@abstractexchange5057

Christopher Rid Der könnte doch locker Regionalliga spielen oder?

+Maddin ?? locker aber ist auch Trainer in Fürstenfeldbruck soweit ich weiß hauptberuflich und spielt so nebenzu

But he is 2 years older.

parc m he is playing in German league since 2009 if i am right. Maybe he got the German passport

If so, he's got all three of them (Hungarian, Belgian and German). Which make him 'multinational' :-)

parc m kinda yeah :)

Maybe they got the flag wrong?

LUNTE1337: I think so! Same colors mixed up a bit and turned 90 degrees to the left. Quite a famous joke these days (during world football championchips) to “recycle“ our flags or merchandising stuff. 🙈

Podpinka played his career for Belgium, but since retiring now lives in Germany so represented them in WVC.

​I remember he as a young player from competition in Hungary

You are a complete idiot.

What do you mean uncommon many tall european players had similar techniques during the 80s and 90s and pod played during Gatiens time

To dry off sweat or clean some possible dirty spots

Евгений Р Перссон на 2 года старше Подпинки

that is why I am not saying sorry

In 2001, Andras Podpinka was ranked 60th in the world. His last ITTF ranking was 97th in the world in 2004.

Which old man? Persson is older than Popdinka. I'm 4 years younger than Popdinka and 6 years younger than Persson. I think I'm looking a lot more like Popdinka, though...

NightcruiserMA I thought he was the backyard club player. His strokes look kind of funky, I was surprised to see him compete with the other dude who is a bona fide pro

joseppi4cinqua lol, I hear you. Search his name on KZfaq and you'll see him in good matches in the early to mid 90's.

Persson is 52 (born 1966) Podpinka was born in 1968..…..is also the nephew of Tibor Klampar…… Podpinka won a silver medal at the 2001 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Martin Bratanov, Marc Closset, Jean-Michel Saive and Philippe Saive for Belgium

He is older than Podpinka.

He's actually younger than Persson.