If You're Not Good at Playing vs LP and AntiSpin, It Just Means, You Need to Improve

[igorponger]

Q) -- Which materials deserve the name of junk?
A) -- Not sure this is even a real question. It is good to train and learn to play against all kinds of equipment.

 

[yoass]

Many cried foul when Waldemar Fritz appeared with a sponged racket in 1951. Shortly after, Satoh swept the world championship using a sponged bat. Foul! Toxic! Sponge rackets were banned (in 1959), but that didn't make the sponge abomination go away. Instead, it lead to sandwich rackets, with sponge covered by a layer of pimpled rubber.

Toxic, foul, and yet: the mainstay of racket coverings to this day.

Pimples in, out, in various geometries, diameter, shape, length: variety is the spice of life. Some pimples in rubbers are grippy, some more than others and some less; and some are tacky, some more and some less so.

Variety is the spice of life. And in TT, it takes skill to wield any bat competently. Nothing's a free ticket to dominating gameplay, and all styles are valid.

Don't complain about toxic rubbers. That just means you've rusted into a few fixed game patterns. Pimples out, like any other racket coverings, have their liabilities as well as their strenghts. It's your skill that matters, not the material.

 

[John_]

Or you can try to get good and stop crying? Ever thought of that?

 

[PoorPingPong&PianoPlayer]

Total BS. OX has no sponge. OX saves the planet.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

this is the 3rd or 4th time igor has post the same nonsense in side the past 3 months
he should be banned for spamming the forum

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Q) -- Which materials deserve the name of junk in context of the rules of the game.?
A) -- Any racket material that is gonna to cause player's racket unplayable should be treated as junky, substandard stuff.

Ma Long's racket must be junky,
because I am not able to play against him and his unplayable racket

I some times don't understand Russian table tennis lover Igor's way of thinking
its okay to take performance enhancing drugs to cheat the system, but it is not okay for junk equipment, especially the junky that the CNT use

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

this is the 3rd or 4th time igor has post the same nonsense in side the past 3 months
he should be banned for spamming the forum

Aside from Igor looking like a fool, one of the upsides to a post like this is the people explaining how wrong Igor is.

Jan_'s post:

Or you can try to get good and stop crying? Ever thought of that?

Is solid enough.

But the post from yoass:

Many cried foul when Waldemar Fritz appeared with a sponged racket in 1951. Shortly after, Satoh swept the world championship using a sponged bat. Foul! Toxic! Sponge rackets were banned (in 1959), but that didn't make the sponge abomination go away. Instead, it lead to sandwich rackets, with sponge covered by a layer of pimpled rubber.

Toxic, foul, and yet: the mainstay of racket coverings to this day.

Pimples in, out, in various geometries, diameter, shape, length: variety is the spice of life. Some pimples out rubbers are grippy, some more than others and some less; and some are tacky, some more and some less so.

Variety is the spice of life. And in TT, it takes skill to wield any bat competently. Nothing's a free ticket to dominating gameplay, and all styles are valid.

Don't complain about toxic rubbers. That just means you've rusted into a few fixed game patterns. Pimples out, like any other racket coverings, have their liabilities as well as their strenghts. It's your skill that matters, not the material.

Makes the silliness of Igor's post worth it.

Once every few months does not seem like bombarding the forum. And doesn't the word spam have an implication of advertising unuseful and un related products. Igor isn't spamming. I don't even think Igor is bombarding the forum. If he was, most of the most recent forum posts on the list would be from Igor. How this seems like it should be categorized is trolling. But I don't think it stands out as the harassing and malicious kind of trolling that certain banned forum members engage in.

So, Tony, I am sorry, your report of Igor's post, I am not so sure the post above should cause Igor to be banned. Removing the post would also remove the valuable posts from Jan_ and yoass. But also, I just don't think it is that hard to refute what Igor is saying. And he generally doesn't respond after posting something silly like the OP.

That is at least my thoughts on the matter.

But I can still edit his post if I want.

 

[John_]

Is solid enough.

Couldn't help myself, it's too tempting!

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Couldn't help myself, it's too tempting!

Your post was 1000% on point. And when someone can't handle playing against something like LP and want everyone to play with the equipment they choose, it is worth pointing out, the flaw is in the skills of the player who can't handle LP. Not the LP player or the equipment.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

This video is classic.

 

[John_]

Your post was 1000% on point. And when someone can't handle playing against something like LP and want everyone to play with the equipment they choose, it is worth pointing out, the flaw is in the skills of the player who can't handle LP. Not the LP player or the equipment.

You'd think that's obvious, but apparently not to Igor.