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Any of the things a TD could do to evaluate and classify a player could be thwarted by the player simply by playing poorly in the in-person evaluator supervised session. maybe the only realistic and simple thing to do is make club-trained kid only events (much like the adult and junior events)...

I didn't discuss the culture of the PARENTS. These (and the pro club coaches) drive it. many of these parents want to see their cherished kid thrive and win... as much as they can and as often as they can before the next wave of ringers buries them in the next big tourney 50 foot crushing tidal...

I made that real post explaining the cause/effects of the sandbagging... but honestly, this dynamic has been going on for decades (players getting better while some do not get better or do not improve as fast as others) (new ways to train, play the sport, and compete are developed and improved...

Once a kid is unleashed at the big tourney, now the kid is on the other end of the stick... kid comes out of tourney kinda rated near true level (but not high enough due to the sandbaggers) and is no longer 5 levels better than the players in the events they enter... only 2 or so until they...

Hi H2GG, You have under-classified players for a few reasons. 1 - Player improving, but just cannot get to tourneys... many places in USA you need to drive 3-7 hrs to get to a tourney... so not many tourneys. A few in USA are like this. 2 - You have a professionally trained kid who does...

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Somehow, I never saw this thread. Well articulated MOG. Keep making tourneys, the grassroots know you. My country's org has had decades of different CEO and boards and had to be broken up a few times by Olympic Committee.

I came into this tourney rated around 1650ish. I MIGHT make 15 points out of this tourney and it is by far the best I ever did in terms of upping my performance level and the consistency to maintain it. Tourneys are difficult, big ones even more so. I was nearly 2100, but that was 5 years ago...

Hahahahahhhaaaahhh, you so correct and are only showing a little of the true level of the players rated below you. A LOT of the Canadian contingent from somewhere was real extreme like this, maybe a couple of who you mentioned are above. Even the average dude, gal, or kid in your group rated...

I also agree with SoW's comments about what is more important. It will profit you a lot more (assuming you see and read opponent's ball right) to get better position and leverage to set the strike zone, the impact point in middle of strike zone plus get the swing plane and explosion dynamics...

SoW and D. Song are right... your swing was too horizontal... so on a higher ball you could use that swing plane and land the ball, but on the lower ball, you have to get lower with hips (and allow ball to get to your strike zone) and get the bat swing plane lower than the ball (lower for slower...

I was also coaching a lot more than competing, was with the numerous Freemont Table Tennis Academy kids.

Der_Echte played... 7 or 8 events. Had the best tourney of my life with very solid play above my level across all 5 days of the comp. Gave some trouble to players well above my level. defeated a tough one above my level. Won 3-0 and gave zero breathable oxygen to all those players rated below...

It is simply that JSH can control and change the spin with sponged LP. The ones who like SP on BH love the ability to make more spin and attack with hit or spin on BH when they want. It is a matter of the acceptable trade-offs to the individual player.

Ironically, or actually truthfully, this is the exact dynamic with me, I post 1/10 what I used to.

JSK, when I translated what a friend was asking why JSH did NOT chop with Sp said that he could manipulate the spin much better and easier with LP rubbers, namely Grass D-Technos and TSP Curly Cactus.

Chairman was being very reserved for the camera. Dudes our age tend to do that.

I convinced a recreational player a few decades ago (who had a few years serious training as a youth) to get this blade. The Feminist was a hitter's blade, easy to do drives, hits, smash. Had some spin ability. No blade to really compare it to. Nittaku must have stopped making this in the...

And on the day of the end of govt shut down none the less.