Ping Pong Paddles Are Hard To Find In America

If you are on a search for the very best ping pong paddle, your search will be in vain as there isnt one. This is because there are many different types of paddles and each player will have his or her own preferences. One thing is for sure though, and that is that a good beginner paddle will be an awful one for an advanced player and vice versa. The more advanced you are the more you will want to spin the ball which can only be done with an advanced paddle. Likewise, beginners will not want to spin the ball and should use a beginner paddle.

The better ping pong paddles have more rubber as well as a better type of rubber. Additionally, the handle and bat is thicker and made out of a more expensive wood. If you try playing with a cheap store bought paddle and then try playing with a paddle that cost $100 or more, you will immediately feel a big difference. The more expensive a paddle is the more it will give you a solid feel and you will be able to hit the ball back with much more spin and control.

There are only a handful of ping pong companies out there and Butterfly is a leading manufacturer of both paddles and tables. At any major table tennis tournament, the odds are the table and many of the paddles in use will be Butterfly made.

Butterfly makes a wide variety of stock and custom made paddles but you will find it hard to locate a store that sells them. Most sporting goods stored in the United States only carry a small selection of paddles and this is due to the low popularity of the game. American children dont grow up idolizing any ping pong players like they do in other sports and so the demand for merchandise is not great.

You wouldn’t have this problem in China or Japan where the sport is much more popular and the good equipment is much easier to find. If you want to find a good paddle in America, about your only choice is to look for it online. You can find almost any paddle online and usually at a reasonable price as well but of course you can’t try it out first.

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