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Disrespect often can be earned also. And what Pnachtwey doesn't understand is that he has really done plenty to earn all our disrespect.
He keeps asking people to prove things that have been addressed adequately not just once but multiple times and ignores when people have asked him to do something simple like use a better camera and put himself, his stroke and his contact into the video so we can show him how his stroke lacks the tangential impulse he thinks is there.
Truthfully, when all this silliness started, I thought Pnachtwey was half normal and could reason and take in information. Like Killerspintt I thought we could possibly help the guy learn to actually make brush contact and loop.
He has enough money. He could have gotten himself that loop wheel even if it was just to test the theory of whether he is making hit contact or loop contact. I remember learning the difference and it being a bit of an eye opener. I thought we could help the guy who does know physics but clearly doesn't understand how what he is doing and what he thinks he is doing could actually be different.
That still isn't what has earned Pnachtwey the disrespect of so many. How he has earned that is verbal attacks, name calling, taking stock phrases out of context and misinterpreting them to try and embarrass others, and a complete lack of ability to observe simple facts like that his strokes are awkward, his technique is at quite a low level and he does not know how to make the correct contact for generating spin.
When you watch his serves it is easy to see that his racket hits into the ball instead of pulling past the ball so that there is very little tangential impulse put on the ball. I am confident, if we saw his contact in his stroke vs backspin we would see the same kind of thing where, even if the racket was closed to some extent the momentum of the contact is into the ball not brushing past the ball.
In the serve and receive video, there are a few shots where he does spin the ball a bit more and gets a bit of arc on the ball. Those all are actually low balls that he has to hit up to get over the net. But on the higher balls, his contact is mostly hit and drive. It is also possible to see that he gets a bit more spin when his FH goes to the opponent's backhand side. When he goes crosscourt his contact is much flatter.
But somehow Pnachtwey is not interested in information that would help him and he is determined to ignore any substantive critiques of the execution of what he thinks is a loop. And he is also determined to throw around insults, while taking simple phrases out of context to try and attack people because his main goal is to embarrass others.
My experience has been that someone whose main goal in engaging in a "discussion" is to embarrass, to make other people look stupid, and to show everyone that he is the guy who made other people look stupid, probably has some other stuff going on under the surface that is more than meets the eye.
So when you are dealing with a guy whose sole purpose in posting is to make other people look stupid, you are probably dealing with a person who is more than just unhappy as a human being. And to add to the general miserableness of the person, when you add the psychological issues that are clearly there and the fact that even though he is functional and runs his own company, he is clearly pretty solidly somewhere on the autism spectrum, I guess, in the end, I actually feel bad for the guy.
Has he earned my respect? Definitely not. Has he earned the disrespect of pretty much everyone on the forum? He really has gone out of his way and gone above and beyond to create the level of disrespect that he has demanded and won.
How has he done it? It is not based on the technical information he has presented. The information itself is fine. It is his people skills or really his lack of them. And it is also his inability to grasp that what he is doing in his videos has very little to do with the theory he has presented about how to loop backspin balls.
Since he won't listen to a guy like Killerspintt who is an engineer/physicist and he is really not posting anything substantive and is happy to call names and repeat the same silly statements totally out of context, I would have to simply agree with the full statement in Killerspintt's last post about the subject of Pnachtwey.
Normal people don't demand proof in theorems for something that is plain to see. So either he is purposely lying to all of us because he just wants to argue. Or, he simply has no clue what the difference between a ball with spin and a ball with very little spin looks like.
Someone somewhere along the line told me that pigs like to roll in mud and other unclean substances like their own feces. And when you try to wrestle with one, you end up covered with it.
It has been sort of fun showing that the guy is missing a few screws and razzing him. But at this point I just feel like the guy is pretty hopeless and I actually feel sorry for him.
Pnachtwey, sorry for calling you PNut and Punchy. As a physicist you may be spot on. Now go and work on your brush contact and your loop so you can be as good at table tennis as you are at mathematical equations.
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