I am afraid it does work that way. Firstly you are the one who first questioned someone else's credibility. So don't play that game.
Secondly the fact you think a video of me playing table tennis is something to provide credibility in this matter is all I need to know. Ability at table tennis has nothing to do with what is at hand. An utter irrelevancy.
Thirdly, if you are going to make big claims it will need evidence. Luckily that evidence is simple to provide. Incredibly simple. Since you are the anecdotal evidence, it is not hard to turn it into actual evidence. Trivial. Go on. Still waiting.
Fruitloop,
I strongly disagree with you on this. I give TTEdge charity, and if I didn't know you in that light, I would have been extremely puzzled by your stance on this.
I've played a lot over the last 7 years, hit the ball much more than I can remember and would be embarrassed to admit, even with various forms of degenerative arthritis. And I speak from my own experience that most amateurs (we can consider ourselves semi-pros) who play hard enough and frequently enough to take the sport seriously know that they have significant muscular imbalances. We have two kids at our club and 3 adults who all broke USATT 2000 under a coach and we all complained about how much bigger our playing arms were than our other arms until we learned that it was typical for TT players who practiced seriously over long periods of time. OF course, there could be an alternate explanation, but I have seen it in enough tournament players that I think it is relevant to ask what your experience with playing is when claiming that playing experience is irrelevant to the issue. Because if you don't play at a serious level, then maybe you are arguing without familiarity with why someone would think the way they do. I never had the impression that right bicep was bigger than my left until I started playing table tennis regularly. Never. IT still is but I am working harder to balance both with shadow swinging.
The other thing is video of your play. I am not sure if I have ever seen you play, but if you actually posted video of your play, you would become far more humble. One of the great things about this site, in part fostered by work from Carl (UpsideDownCarl), Will (DerEchte) and myself, is that we strongly encourage people to post video and share their personal lives a little bit with the community. It does a few things - it avoids the issues with trying to answer questions about someone's description of what is happening when we can see what is really happening. It gives us a context with which to place someone's level of play and how to gauge their comments and put them in context. People also become more humble and less arrogant when we know their level as they are neither Gods nor monsters nor ants. They become human beings like the rest of us.
On this thread, I have seen just about every regular poster hit the ball at one time or another with a few exceptions. Lula the most recent, but Boogar, Takkyu, myself, ttmonster, DerEchte, Richie, Carl when he used to post, thekleifheit13, JeffM, sud79, OldschoolPenholder, NDH etc. have all posted video of their play. It has helped me understand and fraternize with them. I consider them family in one way or another.
We used to have a lot of posters who may have understood facts and logic but almost never understood table tennis enough to understand why one could misconceive something very strongly (assuming it really was a misconception - in fact, very often, the fact that one did not play at a high enough level made it more likely they just never really understood what they were talking about). Some of them eventually shared video and were assimilated. Others either left or just realized there was no point in speaking as if you understood things that you really didn't. People who didn't share video sometimes just gave some evidence of their playing level/ranking. Even before seeing Lula, others had said he played at a good level in Sweden.
None of this is to say you are wrong on the muscular imbalance topic etc. But that if you think that your experience with TT is irrelevant to the dynamics here, or that not posting video is irrelevant, I disagree. Knowledge in something like TT is complex with nuance. There is very little that is absolute, a lot of stuff is embedded in hard experience, so knowing your degree of experience helps. And with it might come some humility and empathy with others who have put hard time into the sport.