Nice videos! I have read about that in the other thread from you. crazy so his parents brought him up playing left handed. I thought about doing that to my kids but let us be honest, my kids aren't going to be Ma Long or Chen Meng of table tennis so I squashed that idea fairly quickly.
I had problems with my youtube logon, only sorted recently.
while I couldn't get on, I uploaded some videos to a temp/new account. I'm busy transferring the content to my original (that had no new content for years)
Yeah, it was a big risk for the parents.
to the public, they say, the elder brother (the one that beat Dima), is a righty
and they wanted the younger sibling to be a lefty, which will have an upper advantage over the general righty population.
To me, the older brother has proven more over the few years I know them. So left and right, does not equate best or not. If you look at the TT Grand Slam winners, there is no lefty yet
But I do understand lefty does have some added advantage and agree to a certain extent.
Since the Li's parents are both coaches, I would imagine, they saw something with the younger sibling to help determine and train him as a lefty. I don't think one just does that for the sake of it. He needs to show signs of potential.
It is different to baseball or cricket, where a hitter can just stand on the other side and swing the bat.
The amount of control and touch on the playing hand is beyond any other sport that I can think of. It is like saying, asking him to paint with his left hand. The finer details really does need dominant hand control and details, or at least for majority of the population. Maybe you do get a few that are "special"