Der_Echte in NYC

[agold]

Did you end up having a round robin tourney for the food?

 

[Der_Echte]

No game for food. The Koreans smelled something wrong with my confidence and were reluctant to be easily baited.

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[UpSideDownCarl]

No game for food. The Koreans smelled something wrong with my confidence and were reluctant to be easily baited.

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hahaha. Yep. It might have been when we played them in doubles. William is pretty good at giving his doubles partner good setups to make it look like his partner is doing all the work. We played against two of them, and he kept getting them to give me these nice easy long pushes for me to loop heavy off of. William's setups gave us a lot of easy points.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Some photos.

William (Der_Echte) and Carl (Me). William is in a Tibhar shirt and I am in a plain black shirt.





Ming, William and Carl. Ming is in the sleeveless black shirt, I am in the center and William is wearing the famous Korean Foreign Table Tennis shirt.










Eating After: Ming and William (Der_Echte).

 

[Der_Echte]

We didn't do any arm wrestling, I waz concerned PingPongHolic would smoke me. He got some guns on hiz lean frame.

I am in the motel now FINALLY at 1 AM after all the Koreans finished their after party after the opening ceremony. Anyone remember a song from KISS titled "Rock n Roll All Night" You get the idea of how the Korean old guys get when they get together and have an excuse to drink and talk away the night. Haha.

Here is a pic or two from it and maybe I upload a vid of the Korean Percussion Ensemble who performed wit much spirit.

Opening Ceremony Big Bosses of cities TTA group pic.

 

[Der_Echte]

Haha, Carl said he sucked serious rocks in doubles, yet his topspins won 60%+ of our points. Yeah, I served and gave him easy, predictable high percentage chances, but that is how you work in doubles. I know a lot of Div 2 and Div 3 players who would have chickened out on attacking even those easy balls and pushed a return that would get smashed. Nope, Carl made those topspins and the opponents blocked them mostly out or they blocked high to give me easy picking to smash though them leaving a gaping 40 mm hole and a vapor trail. PPHolic kicked azz as well. We successfully invaded the Korean club and officially had a blast. PPHolic has some very short clips of us goofing around looking like we were playing a few points.

 

[Iczy]

Sounds fun. Nice pics too. Too bad I didn't recognize anyone in that stack of pics.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

A short clip of me and William hitting:

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

A short clip of me hitting with Ming:

 

[Der_Echte]

Haha, I remember that.

Next day, I visited Carl at SPiN Manhattan and sure as shyt, he was there doing hiz thing. Carl tried to set me up for a fall vs one of the staff players there, but I had a really good match or two or three and didn't lose a game. Carl then had me have a few rallies vs his Tennis Uni coach friend and that dude could keep it on the table.

So, all in all, I had more fun.

Went to that Korean ceremony and will later post a pic of the percussion band.

Thanks Carl and Ming !!!

Now, I will try to find an IHOP as it is 0700 and I needs me some spinach omlette to go to battle like Popeye.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Haha, I remember that.

Next day, I visited Carl at SPiN Manhattan and sure as shyt, he was there doing hiz thing. Carl tried to set me up for a fall vs one of the staff players there, but I had a really good match or two or three and didn't lose a game. Carl then had me have a few rallies vs his Tennis Uni coach friend and that dude could keep it on the table.

So, all in all, I had more fun.

Went to that Korean ceremony and will later post a pic of the percussion band.

Thanks Carl and Ming !!!

Now, I will try to find an IHOP as it is 0700 and I needs me some spinach omlette to go to battle like Popeye.

Nah, no set up for a fall. If I did that I would have had you play someone way higher level. That guy has been playing for two years and is totally self taught. He is darn good for that. But he is not at your level. I just know, if he can play someone better than him, he loves that. You did a good job of teaching him a bit of a lesson.

 

[Dan]

This is awesome @UpSideDownCarl and @Der_Echte Wish I could have been at the clubs with you guys, looked like you all had a great time!

Quality stuff, love the videos to!

 

[ttmonster]

Love the pictures and the video clips , @UpSideDownCarl and @DerEchte !!! It was great fun reading up on your adventures ! Wish I were there . You guys rocked !

 

[Der_Echte]

Korean Percussion band opening announcement of meeting Korean traditional style.

 

[Der_Echte]

Some more pics of the tourney and a few friends I met (some I already knew)

 

[Der_Echte]

I left a LKT Instinkt+ blade dressed with Blk Aurus and red XP 2008 Super Power with thick heavy grip tape. It is one solid bat. Carl has it and will hand it off to agold when he can run into him sometime soon. Carl lives in NYC and will find a way to visit Wang Chen TTC when agold is there or will drop it off with coach or whoever is in charge.

agold, PM Carl and get the bat. You will enjoy testing it. That bat is inexpensive like the 896 setups I recommend, but it is SOLID, good feel for the ball, enough power, and excellent control. Take your time testing and talk about what it does or doesn't do. Try Aurus (black 2.1) for the FH, it is simply a great balance of control and just enough power for the price of a sheet of Tenergy or less.

Edit: I mean the ENTIRE bat with rubbers costs less than a sheet of Tenergy.

 

[Der_Echte]

Nah, no set up for a fall. If I did that I would have had you play someone way higher level. That guy has been playing for two years and is totally self taught. He is darn good for that. But he is not at your level. I just know, if he can play someone better than him, he loves that. You did a good job of teaching him a bit of a lesson.

haha, the way he and that other dude were hitting the ball and executing their match, you would have gotten me to say the two players on that table were very VERY competent players who could defeat me. After all the driving of the previous two days and back to back days of non-stop club play of 7 hrs and 5 hrs, I was pretty sure I was the one who was gunna get smoked.

Maybe the SPiN Galactica staff dude learnd a grand total of three things from me.

1) Don't give Der_Echte an underspin ball to his BH, it is a death sentence.

2) Don't serve short underspin or any underspin long to Der_Echte, it will get spun up more than a turbine in a Mitsubishi tuner special.

3) Don't let Der_Echte attack first, you will miss the boat and drown doing that.

I think those three things apply to just about any opponent anyway, except the part about short low underspin to the BH, that is usually a pretty safe ball to give someone.

I prolly learned a few things from him (mostly about good attitude) about how to keep cool and compliment your opponent in a club match.

 

[Der_Echte]

PingPongHolic from MyTT posted a very short vid where we were goofing off and setting each other up to do some predictable shots for the camera...

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

I figured I would bump this thread. These were fun times when Ming, William and I invaded a Korean club in Flushing Queens.


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[42andbackpains]

I figured I would bump this thread. These were fun times when Ming, William and I invaded a Korean club in Flushing Queens.


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What a coinkydink! I was there visiting my first coach Mr. Wong from 30 years ago. And they were holding there first sanctioned 2 star USATT tourney. I hope i can meet up with you guys in the future to play, eat and cause some trouble.