I strive to find and play vs every style of player I can find. I am especially keen on playing pips players. The ones here are 90% LP OX on BH who play a BH punchblock with OX LP and FH smash kill any loose ball on FH. You have to think, you have to have effective and consistant strokes, and play the right tactics to win. I usually win vs these players, even if they are one full level above me. I really enjoy matches vs pips players.
For someone who does not have solid strokes that are consistantly landing, who does not control the ball well, who does not make good stroke decisions, who does not have good balance, who does not have the patience to hit a ball to the pips and finish the return... to these players, any player with pips who can keep it on the table is their worst nightmare. The inverted player who does not know how or is strong enough to cope with the LP player gets upset and angry enough to possibly quit the sport or throw a major tantrum. This is what some posters refer to when saying LPs hinder the sport. I can see the point, but a 2000 level power looper still crushed the 1500 level player to teh same degree and gets the same repsonse, so personally, I do no accept this as a hindrance to TT.
Now a skilled player who knows how to use SP on BH can be anyone's nightmare up to, but not including the pro level. A well trained SP BH player can more easily manipulate the spin from a loop and control placement well and rob your time by taking it off the bounce. The inverted attacker has to have way stronger attacks and way better control and way better spin variation control to cope with a skilled SP BH opponent. Korea has many of these players in National div 2 and div one, even more in div 1 in the regional tourneys. To defeat these div 1 SP opponents, you really have to play at a high level, because well, div 1 is a really high level and there are no easy matchups in div 1. Everyone there is a shark ready to kill you, shread your body up, then eat you.