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Evolution of the Table Tennis Racket 1900-2021

history excerpt from https://www.allabouttabletennis.com

Table tennis rackets have changed many times during their 120+ years of development. From the first hollow drum racket to the modern day wood rackets that are layered with different man-made materials to increase their performance.

The DRAGONBAT has continued the evolution of the table tennis racket to the next level by removing the wood and replacing it with modern design, aerospace materials and advanced manufacturing techniques to create an amazing blade that creates extreme spin and control. 

 

late 19th century

In the last several decades of the 19th century, ping pong was played with balls made from rubber or cork, while rackets looked like today’s badminton rackets – with 50 cm (20 in.) long handles and a hitting surface usually made from parchment paper.

In time, racket handles became considerably shorter, wooden rackets appeared, and eventually, people glued sandpaper, cork, or animal hides to their rackets.

1902

Finally, in 1902, Englishman E.C. Goode put rubber on the racket for the first time. In a well-known story, Goode had the idea after seeing a round piece of rubber next to the cash register in a pharmacy, used for coins returned to customers as change. After a stroke of inspiration, he used a similar piece of rubber on his racket.
Along with celluloid balls, wooden rackets covered with rubber actually meant the birth of a new sport – table tennis. Wooden rackets covered with rubber, which later evolved to have a pimpled surface and flax base, enabled players to put spin on the ball and to have better control over the racket, essentially turning the game into an entirely new sport.

1950

Rackets covered with pimpled rubber ruled the game of table tennis until the early 1950’s, when sponge bats appeared. The first player to use a sponge bat was Austrian Waldemar Fritsch at the 1951 World Championships. Use of the first offensive sponge bats began only after the 1952 World Championships in Bombay, when the Japanese players using these rackets proved to be quite a sensation. Hiroy Satoh of Japan, for example, become World Champion in men singles using a racket covered with a sponge.

2020

Today, wood manufacturers combine layers from various types of wood with different characteristics, and racket advertisements are full of detailed descriptions of all the immaculate characteristics of these layered “cocktails”. Between the layers, manufacturers frequently insert very thin layers of other permissible but usually very hard materials, such as carbon, aluminium, etc. Along with plywood veneer, there were naturally experiments with all kinds of shapes. In fact, there are numerous patents collecting dust in patent offices for these various shapes and new developments!

Different woods and man-made materials are combined.

2021

DRAGONBAT created! 

The DRAGONBAT has continued the evolution of the table tennis racket to the next level by removing the wood and replacing it with aerospace materials (carbon fiber), computer simulated design and advanced manufacturing techniques to create an amazing blade that creates extreme spin and control. 

Your DRAGONBAT can be paired with any of the most popular brands and types of modern day rubber including: smooth, long pips, short pips from companies like DHS, Stiga and Butterfly.

Blade is black Carbon Fiber Reinforced PLA with a white PLA+ SAMURAIGRIP.

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