Classic Matches

[Metaxa]

Table tennis is therefore one of the few sports in which the ‘winner’ cheers exuberantly when their opponent misses a ball.

 

[J-fed]

Table tennis is therefore one of the few sports in which the ‘winner’ cheers exuberantly when their opponent misses a ball.

This was completely unethical and against etiquette when I was a kid. When did this change?

 

[Amaken23]

Along with Aleksandar Karakasevic, Desmond Douglas and Oh Sang Eun, those 2 are what I modeled my more all-round/controlled attacker left handed game after
Love the old, back from the table exchanges....those big movements make it looks far better on TV.

 

[J-fed]

 

[NextLevel]

Play before people started visiting the bicycle shops for tire glues...

 

[Amaken23]

Right handed pen-holder whose son was left-handed shakehand player....how more opposite it can get ?

 

[tokatci]

This is a real classic. Yes Schlager's free hand isn't what you'd coach but what a killer. I am sure they'd both adapt well and compete in this era.
Anyway, let's celebrate some classic old skool matches. I can't wait to see Grubba, Waldner, Ma Wenge, Tibor Klampar and more. Not Appellgren please. He is too sublime.

Excuse me but I don’t see any obvious problem with Schlager’s free hand that would warrant such a comment. On FH loops he very actively pulls his left shoulder in a mostly standard way, while the arm itself never deviates too far away from the center of gravity and does what it is supposed to do: nothing. Incorrect coordination of the left arm usually manifests itself in the player losing balance. Schlager has extraordinarily good balance. I am puzzled. Can you please elaborate?

 

[J-fed]

Excuse me but I don’t see any obvious problem with Schlager’s free hand that would warrant such a comment. On FH loops he very actively pulls his left shoulder in a mostly standard way, while the arm itself never deviates too far away from the center of gravity and does what it is supposed to do: nothing. Incorrect coordination of the left arm usually manifests itself in the player losing balance. Schlager has extraordinarily good balance. I am puzzled. Can you please elaborate?

It's just pretty unique the way it hangs there. It looks like a result of talent more than coaching is all I meant. He's awesome.

 

[J-fed]

Along with Aleksandar Karakasevic, Desmond Douglas and Oh Sang Eun, those 2 are what I modeled my more all-round/controlled attacker left handed game after
Love the old, back from the table exchanges....those big movements make it looks far better on TV.

I once gave Saive and the Belgian team a lift to Heathrow airport after a match in England. They were very nice and he signed my bat handle. Des Douglas too. He used to coach occasionally in my hometown by invitation. Such a nice chap. He was definitely many kids TT hero when we were growing up. He was the only player we knew really.