7/31/2010

PingPong Equipment

1. Pingpong TABLE
    •  The top surface of the table (playing surface), square-shaped, with length 2.74 m and 1.525 m wide, and should be laid  flat, as tall as 76cm from the floor.
    • Playing surface must be no additional parts are attached vertically at the edge of the table.
    • Playing surface may be made of any material, and must produce uneven bounce, which is about 23cm when a standard ball is dropped onto the table from a height of 30cm.
    • Playing surface must be dark and visible / non-glare, with the side line (side line) 2cm wide and 2.74m long on each side of the table, and along 1.525m at each end of the table (end line).
    • Playing surface must be divided into two courts with the same size, using a net that is placed vertically and mounted parallel to the end of the second-line (end line), and should reach the edge of the blank space on either side of the table.
    • In a double game, each part of the table must be divided again into the same half-section bounded by the white center line, 3mm wide, parallel to the two-line edge of the table; the center line should be regarded as fully part of each half section table.
    2.  Pingpong NET
    • Net assembly shall consist of net, net hanger (suspension) and the pillar (supporting posts), including clamps that is attached to the table.
    • Net must be hung strain (suspended) by rod on each end that is attached perpendicularly along the buffer (post) 15.25 cm tall, the buffer outside pole is 15.25 cm from the outer edge of the side line.
    • The top of all the nets should be as high as 15.25 cm above the playing surface.
    • The lower part (bottom) along the nets should be as low as possible to the playing surface and both ends of the net section (net) must be as tight as possible with pole-buffer.
    3. Pingpong BALL
    • The ball must be round-shaped hollow, with a diameter of 40mm and weighs 2.7 grams.
    • The ball must be made of celluloid or similar plastic materials and must be white or orange, and not slippery gloss (matt).
    4. Pingpong RACKET
    •  Racket can be of any size, shape, or weight, but the blade must be flat and rigid.
    •  At least 85% of the thickness of the blade must be made of natural wood, any additional layers may be added as a reinforcement, made of fibrous material, such as carbon fiber, glass fibers, or compressed paper, but should not be thicker than 7.5% of the total thickness or approximately 0.35 mm, or even thinner.
    • Side of the blade that used to knock the ball should be coated, either with regular rubber speckled (ordinary pimpled rubber), in the form of spots out (pimpled outwards) with a total thickness including adhesive of not more than 2mm, or sandwich rubber with coated into or out of spots that have total thickness including adhesive of not more than 4mm.