Review on Enhance Your Ping Pong Game With STIGA Performance 2 Player Set - 2 Rackets And 3-Star Orange Balls Included by Brett Cat

I paid $33 for these. Price has been fluctuating, make sure you dont pay radically more without checking around.The paddles come with a little sticker with ratings on them for Speed, Spin and Control and they are all around 35-50. I gather that the ratings are from the manufacture, and there is no single uniform scale, so I dont know how much meaningful information this really conveys to a casual player.They play like any other casual use paddles I have ever played with -- of the fullsome rubber variety, not the thin wood with a thin rubber piece glued on. The price is right, and we have not seen any durability issues at all despite having these for months. We dont play that much its true, but we have an 8 year old that plays with his friends sometimes (i.e. the paddles have been abused) and despite that they are still fine. I am particularly impressed that none of the balls that came with this set got crushed or dented. In short, the quality is a lot better than the casual stuff I'm used too.If you are really competetive, you might want something better, but if you just want to mess around with your family and the occassional friends, these seem perfect. It might be possible to find the ultra-cheap stuff that I remember from playing growing up, but you'll regret it due to the durability issues that plague the ultra-cheap stuff. This set is definitely worth the money unless your competetive enough to get irate at the casual crowd.