I've stopped using table tennis brand of shoes long time ago. The last time I used one was on 2016.
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For the past several years, I've been using non-table-tennis mainstream shoes. The one I am using right now is a Nike running shoes which cost more than a lot than the average table tennis brand.
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The challenges we Filipinos faced is that 95% of floors we played on are non-rubberized. Its either tiles or shiny cement flooring that's why use wet rugs to increase friction because most of these table tennis brands won't "grip" on these types of floor.
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Are there any good one these days?
Same sentiment. Most of the table tennis court na naluraan ko are madulas and most of these table tennis shoes won't work. I use Adidas running shoes.
I use handball shoes when playing on rubberized floors and running shoes on shiny cement floors. So I guess I've come to the same conclusion as you. Table tennis shoes doesn't work well on shiny cement floors, the floors are to hard and has to little friction.
@inyagan Most table tennis court in the Philippines are on cement floors, unfortunately. I think we are only the country that use and place wet rags under the tables and step on it from time to time so we could have our shoes get a little bit of friction on the floor. Majority of the table tennis tournaments in the Philippines are held on malls which have tiles floors.
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Nice suggestion on handball shoes. First time hearing it personally. Does handball shoes have pros over running or table tennis shoes in playing rubberized floors? I Feel like using running shoes over rubberized floors is too much friction.
