TTD Community Meet Up and Tournament?!

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Haha, I'm pretty sure that @zeio vs. @Tony's Table Tennis would be more trash talking than actual play, much like modern day WWE, only in the TT world. Would be highly entertaining in general though, and the most enticing match-up by a country mile.
I would pit myself against @Der_Echte, just for the fun of it.

Haha
Good luck trying to get him to come out of his room.

Btw, I’m sure in person, his tails will be more in between his legs. His guts only comes with anonymity.
Should also have some Indian and Japanese friends around and see how zeio will handle the two races he belittles. Probably dash out cards with tieba links on.

His “high IQ” will tell him to stay in his room

 

[Dan]

Hey guys! We'd love to attend. Would be so cool to meet you all in person, been too long!

Perhaps we could combine it with making an epic video too! Let me message OP and go from there

 

[golden_son]

If this happens, we need shirts/jerseys to commemorate! Something like:

 

[Tyce]

If this happens, we need shirts/jerseys to commemorate! Something like:

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Someone bring iron-ons for our nicknames too

 

[mamedium]

Featured matches:
@zeio vs @Tony's Table Tennis

nah... we've seen enough cat fights

 

[NextLevel]

Featured matches:
@zeio vs @Tony's Table Tennis
@NextLevel vs @NDH
...

EDIT: I mean we want the famous TTD heavyweights to attend ;-) All of them, and sorry for missing all the others ;-)

I am only going to get away with this if I can convince my wife to travel... let's see....

 

[Novarac23]

there is a chance i might be able to come with my family since we’ll probably be in Europe around July. Depends on the dates etc but its a maybe!

 

[Der_Echte]

He's enough for the both of us...

I am 25+ kg less than my high weight of a few years ago, so there is less of me to go around.

ALL of you TTD members can claim me... it is what I advertise everywhere I go and TT forums are GREAT for this kind of thing.

 

[Der_Echte]

I see Kairos has a Persson Power Play in his sig... PPP vs PPP is interesting.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Germany not realistic for me...

i plan to compete next year at ITTF World Masters in Korea 2026 . hope to meet some of you though

 

[\_Kairos_/]

I am 25+ kg less than my high weight of a few years ago, so there is less of me to go around.

ALL of you TTD members can claim me... it is what I advertise everywhere I go and TT forums are GREAT for this kind of thing.

Your sheer aura alone would be overwhelming for most of us mere mortals... , no matter your actual weight.
But to be honest, to lose more than 25 kg is impressive. That's not an easy thing to do. I'm currently trying to lose weight/fat myself; the only thing that seems to work for me is low-carb (plus interval). To keep up the necessary discipline is the hardest thing, but I'm about to get used of it (been doing it for a few weeks now)...

I see Kairos has a Persson Power Play in his sig... PPP vs PPP is interesting.

Yup, we seem to play a rather similar set-up. I got the Persson in a trade with a nice fella. I sent him my used Timo Boll CAF and I got the new Persson plus the new Desto F2 plus a new and cheap chinese blade plus an old (but unpacked) Joola rubber (that is unfortunately not on the LARC any more). Originally the deal was only the CAF for the Persson and the Desto, but he sent me the other stuff as well (worth more than 100 €). Pretty crazy.

 

[Der_Echte]

I do not think the TTD meetup is so worried about the LARC, my high toss serve that makes Next Level smile, nor any appearance of multiple kitty cats.

I am probably 10 kg away from a much better fighting weight. At least now bending down to the ground to pick up stuff does not crush my internal organs any more.

In one aspect, I am like Paul from the Bible in the my writing may be rated higher than my speaking... but in another aspect, many TTD members have seen the opposite from me, a living paradox.

Do you have the Senso handles? If so, i can show you how to jam a little paper weight in the handle (call it James Bond secret storage operation to get Igor of the back) and maybe you get impressed how it flips serves better over the table.

 

[Der_Echte]

I didn't say my exact weight, but I was 10-15 kg lighter when @UpSideDownCarl last saw me, so he would have a decent guess of my current weight.

Speaking of weight WAIT (pun intended haha) until you feel the WEIGHT of the spin I make with Aurus on the PPP.

It will not be so easy for me to randomly go to Germany next year, I have a LOT of pressing money commitments and it won't be easy, maybe I luck out and fund the entire shebang with miles points and side coaching.

The Germans there will get more than a few smiles at my current German, which is the same level when I left Germany over 20 yrs ago.

Everyone strive to be Echt und Gerecht... that has a ring in German.

I do not know if anyone can show Dan anything further about BH after his meetup with legend Primorac, but there will be at least three things that will be new to him I am guessing. maybe 4 if we are gunna go flipping mad on BH on short serve flips. That one will certainly be anti-intuitive for sure... doing the opposite of what is natural.

 

[Der_Echte]

So I see @latej hit like button and he is similar minded - LOVES to travel and meet other TTers...

I do not know what I would say to him or tell him about TT except to hit the local Schnitzel and Pommes Frittes place first with a few Hefeweizen before opening my big mouth.

I would need to see him live before offering any further comment that would be designed to be honest helpful or insightful.

It would be a ganz wundersheon experience either way.

 

[Tyce]

So I see @latej hit like button and he is similar minded - LOVES to travel and meet other TTers...

I do not know what I would say to him or tell him about TT except to hit the local Schnitzel and Pommes Frittes place first with a few Hefeweizen before opening my big mouth.

I would need to see him live before offering any further comment that would be designed to be honest helpful or insightful.

It would be a ganz wundersheon experience either way.

I mean, don't we all know that table tennis is just a thinly veil for beer?

 

[latej]

I mean, don't we all know that table tennis is just a thinly veil for beer?

Yes, evolving in the right direction even sooner than expected... It's going to be massive...

 

[latej]

Haha
Good luck trying to get him to come out of his room.

Btw, I’m sure in person, his tails will be more in between his legs. His guts only comes with anonymity.
Should also have some Indian and Japanese friends around and see how zeio will handle the two races he belittles. Probably dash out cards with tieba links on.

His “high IQ” will tell him to stay in his room

As @Der_Echte and @Tyce mention, TT is peaceful, and we all know it. This means, the only possible right way to interpret you post, is to take is "manly expressed fair challenge" to @zeio. And I accept it like that and offer to be a impartial fully focused (mostly) judge, just like in this match ;-)

Here we see a certain Badger (OK, it's Craig) fight against a Sarovy team member (OK, it's Lubor). Lubor beats me more often than I beat him, he also won over Craig, but it was very good fight and Lubor was fully absorbed. And Craig has fantastic wrist, probably the best of all 3 teams.

Whoever wins, I invite both of you for 1 Hefeweizen.

EDIT: P.S. notice the green bottles?

 

[Tyce]

As @Der_Echte and @Tyce mention, TT is peaceful, and we all know it. This means, the only possible right way to interpret you post, is to take is "manly expressed fair challenge" to @zeio. And I accept it like that and offer to be a impartial fully focused (mostly) judge, just like in this match ;-)

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Here we see a certain Badger (OK, it's Craig) fight against a Sarovy team member (OK, it's Lubor). Lubor beats me more often than I beat him, he also won over Craig, but it was very good fight and Lubor was fully absorbed. And Craig has fantastic wrist, probably the best of all 3 teams.

Whoever wins, I invite both of you for 1 Hefeweizen.

EDIT: P.S. notice the green bottles?

There's no such thing as 1 Hefeweizen.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

As @Der_Echte and @Tyce mention, TT is peaceful, and we all know it. This means, the only possible right way to interpret you post, is to take is "manly expressed fair challenge" to @zeio. And I accept it like that and offer to be a impartial fully focused (mostly) judge, just like in this match ;-)

View attachment 38056

Here we see a certain Badger (OK, it's Craig) fight against a Sarovy team member (OK, it's Lubor). Lubor beats me more often than I beat him, he also won over Craig, but it was very good fight and Lubor was fully absorbed. And Craig has fantastic wrist, probably the best of all 3 teams.

Whoever wins, I invite both of you for 1 Hefeweizen.

EDIT: P.S. notice the green bottles?

yeah, table tennis is normally peaceful, it is really just tieba users causing a lot of bullying nowadays. zeio didn't used to be such a bully, but I guess he is just going with the changes and trends of tieba. We are lucky that they are not ganging up on ttd.

I have asked for a match with zeio before, but I think that post remains unanswered after few years.
zeio is very secretive about his personal life, and he isn't like you or the others, that would meet up with other TTD users or even putting much of his photos/videos public.

I actually like the idea of meeting up with TTD users, I have a few on whatsapp, helped quite a few with coaching advises - doing video analysis, and recently my first "online coaching session". And early Oct, a TTD user will be flying over for training (possibly around 5 users will be traveling over before end of this year). I will not mention any names, unless they choose to share it themselves.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

There's no such thing as 1 Hefeweizen.

I was once in a club in Cape Town, its a sports clubs with a sports bar.
so you play a 2 hour league match, and then the remaining "few hours", guess where is every one