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Below are the 13 rule / regulation changes that were passed by the robotNazi controlled ITTF since 1983 that fully or partially aimed at limiting the pips.

List shows 14 items :- But item 4 is just an FYI as it did not pass
1. 1983 : Initial ban on long pips by setting Maximum Allowed pip length at 2.0 mm
2. 1983 : Two color rubbers (Red / Black) rule
3. 1995 or before : Started use of Aspect Ratio (instead of pip length) to define separation of wide (-.89) & slim pips (1.3) to confuse & mislead pips players
4. Around 1990-1995 : Failed attempt by Swedish Association to mandate that the two side of a racket must have idenltical rubbers
5. 1995 : Repeal of Speed glue ban (within months of implementation)
6. 1998 : Durban Regulation to reduce the Aspect Ratio of pips from 1.3 to current 1.1
7. 2000 : Ball size increase from 38 mm to 40 mm
8. 2004 :Regulation to reduce maximum allowed pip distribution density from 50 to current 30 pips per sq.cm
9. 2008 : FPB (Frictionless pips ban)
10. 2008 : Fake ban on boosters to fool the IOC
11. 2014 : 40+ ball change from celluloid to plastic
12. 2022 : Total official ban on 40 celluloid balls
13. 2024 : Rule change proposal rejection for women’s equality
14. 2024 : Increased maximum allowed rubber thickness from 4.00 mm to 4.05 mm to protect illegal (potentially criminal) boosting

One may ask : Why would ITTF want to oppress choppers ? It makes no sense

All the councils & committees of ITTf and its National associates suchas USATT, DTTB, CTTA, JTTTA ect are totally controlled by robotNazis .
They hate the chopper nuisance and would love to ban all pips & anti completely.

But they can't . Why ? Because if ITTF bans pips / anti, they will defintely start their own association. just as the robotNazis themselves threatened to form their own association in 1995 when speed glue ban was imposed by the ITTF (ITTF repealed the ban within a matter of months)
ITTF of course cannot lose their TOTAL & absolute control over table tennis and especially lose Olympic funding & IOC could even expel table etnnis Olympics like they did to boxing and replace it with pole dancing (this is NOT a joke . Pole dancing is making a serioud bid)

So ITTF is doing the next best option. Keep pips & anti but keep imposing maximum limits and render pips & anti totally useless & dysfunctional.
This is why there had been these above 111 rule and regulation changes

Had no idea.
Most of us new players have no idea that ITTF is this corrupt.

#### Pramila wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2024, 3:09 am Had no idea.
Most of us new players have no idea that ITTF is this corrupt.

Not very surprising because all other TT forums are willfully complicit to this corrupt behavior by the ITTF
IOC also looks the other way

The least known rule change is the 1983 ban on long pips.
Of course ITTF would love to keep this a secret and has indeed done an outstanding job keeping this a secret from defenders especially the choppers