I think many times you miss now because you are not standing correct.
Lula, you win the no-shyt Sherlock award for noting a very obvious fault of mine. No disrespect to you, you are properly noting it and I am being myself - a Joker. If you have 30 years of Military on your body, you might be lucky to be alive, or if you were pounding your knees and jolting your body doing an average of 5-10 km of SLOW up and down knee pound in formation... or had to do mechanic work for 30 yrs, your knees would be toasted poof. My issue is HIPS... and a lot of it is extra cargo weight... damn those BPAs all over my container supply.
I think you played much better this time than the last video.
I don't really think it was too different by much, I do stuff, Sergey handles it. Game 3 not on video was so much better, typical of when I get everything right vs him and get him under pressure and win points.
I am also really confused. You are not korean? I thought you were born in Korea but lived in the US.
Haha 100x haha. I am extreme white skinned USA dude, if I take off my shirt, I could displace Rudolf and be the lead reindeer for Santa's sleigh. I wasn't born in Korea, but in SOUTH CENTAL LA... you know, the gang war zone famous.
I get along with Koreans as I speak Korean a level below native, because I got caught, tied to a chair and forced/coerced to learn Korean... I figured that if I was going to burn those brain cells learning, I should learn well and have a lot of fun with it.
Not mentioned is my German screen name and frequent mention of Germany. I lived there 10 years and still remember my night-school learned German... but I am very far from being German... or Korean. Let's say I picked up a lot of their ways and leave it at that. this confuses many people who do not know me on the forums.
I also found it interesting at our tournament that all the players from USA looked asian or indian. USA seem to be doing pretty good by the way. The players were good.
This is mostly a cultural thing. To get to a level to even think of competing for the national team, one needs a LOT of training and practice... like YEARS of it... and that stuff doesn't come cheap. We are talking about a minimum of $100,000 USD investment... often many times that. USA parents are not inclined to spend that kind of money for TT development... it just isn't culturally acceptable, but it is just OK to spend 10x that in training someone for golf or tennis. (maybe right as there is 1000x more money in those sports)
There is also the issue of LOCATION. There are only a few cities in USA that have a club training center with high level coaches to get a new kid to a national team member standard. We are talking about San Diego, San Fran/San Jose Bay Area, LA, NYC, Chicago, Indy, Maryland, Triangle, Dallas and excuse me if I left out 1 or 2... that is about it... we have a huge country. In those areas, a lot of the higher wage earning professions are engineers or medical... guess which foreign countries dominate the foreign crowd in USA of those professions? Yup, Asian and Indian (Indians should be classified as Asians too)
I say that not as bad-talk, but frank talk. That is how it is... and USA could learn a lot from how Asian/Indian parents approach child development and family unity.
if you look at which club owners took a risk and opened up a proper large private TT club in USA... we are likely to see it is 80-90 percent foreign born/raised owners doing this risk. Your average whit skinned/dark skinned person is MUCH less likely to open a club... not NEVER, but not so often. This is a reality.
The main driver behind any of our growth of private TT clubs in USA is foreigners who culturally like TT. There are not enough USA native people who will get together for this in the average city except for beer pong. Social TT is becoming a growing economic option... it has hope, but requires a lot more development to get to a point where there will be enough members to interest any sufficient number to make a chance for more clubs based on that... but when it does... look out.