JOOLA 1-Star 40mm Training Table Tennis Balls - 12 Pack

We recently started varying our badminton games by playing with ping pong balls. You've never seen a ball curve until you hit a ping pong ball 30 feet in the air with a badminton racket. It certainly keeps things interesting, you've got to track it all the way until you hit it, since it can curve any way at any point.Yeah, this use is totally outside the design parameters, but it's fun. Biggest problem was tracking the little white ball against the white ceiling, so I picked up these in orange. A little bit easier to follow, but they still exhibit the wonderfully unpredictable flight patterns.Durability is as good as the other ping pong balls that we played with, which is to say that if you hit it with the racket frame, it's going to dent, and one ball will only last about 30 minutes of enthusiastic play before it develops a crack. This is no shortcoming of the ball, I can't imagine many ping pong balls would stand up to that type of abuse. The hidden benefit of denting a ball is that now it'll fly even more unpredictably, and if you get a bounce before you hit it back, there's also a very good chance it will take a wild bounce because of the dent. So, we just keep playing until the ball actually cracks.Can't say much for their suitability for the designed purpose, since I don't play ping pong, but I'm happy with how they stand up to the merciless abuse we've been giving it.

I'm a casual table tennis player and I play twice or thrice a week. This is great for casual games. Definitely a notch better than the unbranded cheap stuff you find sports authority or big retailers. It has good speed and feels pretty solid. We haven't managed to break any until now (with the cheaper ones, the lifetime of a ball is ~10 days of play).