Reason why choppers are technically & historically clueless
Posted: September 13th, 2026, 11:42 pm
This applies to all pips players but more for away from the table choppers
If yes , I do not completely blame you. I have no right to.
Because I was brainwashed repeatedly by the ITTF & robotNazis again & again that I had no clue about the dark history of pips in ITTF until only a few years ago.
However you no longer have an excuse especially if you are an experienced player who had been in the sport for more than few years
What you need to understand is this .
There are no actual long pips in ITTF table tennis since 1977
ITTF banned all long pips at the 1977 Birmingham BGM by setting the maximum allow length of pips , any pips , all pips at 2.00 mm. (It was slightly increased to 2.05 mm at the Busan 2024 AGM but for purely political reasons and not not to benefit pips players but that is a different story that I have explained in other posts in this forum)
But ITTF has continued to call some of the left over pips listed on its (click link >) ITTF LARC still as long pips to confuse the pips players & make them believe that long pips still exist in ITTF table tennis.
So currently the length of any pips in ITTF table tennis is 2.05 mm. The only difference between the so called short pips and long pips in ITTF LARC is not the maximum allowed length, which is 2.05 mm for both.
The difference is the width if the pips defined by the Aspect Ratio .
Aspect Ratio is a number that is pip length (or pip height) divided by pip width (or pips diameter)
The so called short pips in ITTF LARC should have an Aspect Ratio of 0.89 or less.
The so called long pips in ITTF LARC should have an Aspect Ratio of 1.1 or less
This value was 1.3 before 1999 and was reduced to 1.1 by the ITTF
Now let me explain the weirdest part. ITTF has four types of rubbers in its LARC .
1. In
2. Anti
3. Out
4. Long
But the confusing part is this > Both In & Anti are pips “in” and both out & long are pips “out”
Also , there ae no “long” pips in ITTF table tennis after 1977.
If you want to differentiate the pips rubbers on ITTF LARC they would be something like slim (flex) and wide (stiff) because the parameter that differentiates this two types of pips is NOT the pip length but the pip width (via aspect ratio, which should be less than 0.89 for wide pips & less than 1.1 for slim pips with actual long pips having aspect ratios over 1.1) .
So one possible naming convention for ITTF LARC would be something like
1. Top
2. Anti
3. Wide
4. Slim
If yes , I do not completely blame you. I have no right to.
Because I was brainwashed repeatedly by the ITTF & robotNazis again & again that I had no clue about the dark history of pips in ITTF until only a few years ago.
However you no longer have an excuse especially if you are an experienced player who had been in the sport for more than few years
What you need to understand is this .
There are no actual long pips in ITTF table tennis since 1977
ITTF banned all long pips at the 1977 Birmingham BGM by setting the maximum allow length of pips , any pips , all pips at 2.00 mm. (It was slightly increased to 2.05 mm at the Busan 2024 AGM but for purely political reasons and not not to benefit pips players but that is a different story that I have explained in other posts in this forum)
But ITTF has continued to call some of the left over pips listed on its (click link >) ITTF LARC still as long pips to confuse the pips players & make them believe that long pips still exist in ITTF table tennis.
So currently the length of any pips in ITTF table tennis is 2.05 mm. The only difference between the so called short pips and long pips in ITTF LARC is not the maximum allowed length, which is 2.05 mm for both.
The difference is the width if the pips defined by the Aspect Ratio .
Aspect Ratio is a number that is pip length (or pip height) divided by pip width (or pips diameter)
The so called short pips in ITTF LARC should have an Aspect Ratio of 0.89 or less.
The so called long pips in ITTF LARC should have an Aspect Ratio of 1.1 or less
This value was 1.3 before 1999 and was reduced to 1.1 by the ITTF
Now let me explain the weirdest part. ITTF has four types of rubbers in its LARC .
1. In
2. Anti
3. Out
4. Long
But the confusing part is this > Both In & Anti are pips “in” and both out & long are pips “out”
Also , there ae no “long” pips in ITTF table tennis after 1977.
If you want to differentiate the pips rubbers on ITTF LARC they would be something like slim (flex) and wide (stiff) because the parameter that differentiates this two types of pips is NOT the pip length but the pip width (via aspect ratio, which should be less than 0.89 for wide pips & less than 1.1 for slim pips with actual long pips having aspect ratios over 1.1) .
So one possible naming convention for ITTF LARC would be something like
1. Top
2. Anti
3. Wide
4. Slim