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Once again my congratulations to Mima Ito and Tomokazu! Great tournament and epoch results! Watching World Tours thanks to them (and others) will be interesting again.
I wasn't planning to create this topic, but we had some discussion yesterday (in the Japan Open 2018 thread) about the changes in t tennis and some arguing how the new ball affected the tactics and strategy of the game ... and indirectly the JPO 2018 results ; ) Looks like it is a hot one, since EmRatThich Table Tennis Coach recently uploaded the video (below) about this on his youtube channel. What I was writing before was based on my intuition, but EmRatThich approaches the subject methodologically and his conclusions are interesting.
Besides his great explanation of the new trend fundamentals, the video i.e. nicely hints (using ZJK example, but works for ML too) why ML was able to win his titles 2015-17 despite the introduction of the poly and why, the new generation players now use is so effectively against "old time celluloid" masters ... it was the issue we argued about, and I probably had no good answer. EmRatThich seem to support my view.
To be honest, I don't like poly/abs balls and thanks to EmRatThich I know why. My game was/is rather the control game (also using spin) and as you'll see in the material, the new trent is quite not into the "control business" ... what do you think about this new direction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGxAvayVVkI
I wasn't planning to create this topic, but we had some discussion yesterday (in the Japan Open 2018 thread) about the changes in t tennis and some arguing how the new ball affected the tactics and strategy of the game ... and indirectly the JPO 2018 results ; ) Looks like it is a hot one, since EmRatThich Table Tennis Coach recently uploaded the video (below) about this on his youtube channel. What I was writing before was based on my intuition, but EmRatThich approaches the subject methodologically and his conclusions are interesting.
Besides his great explanation of the new trend fundamentals, the video i.e. nicely hints (using ZJK example, but works for ML too) why ML was able to win his titles 2015-17 despite the introduction of the poly and why, the new generation players now use is so effectively against "old time celluloid" masters ... it was the issue we argued about, and I probably had no good answer. EmRatThich seem to support my view.
To be honest, I don't like poly/abs balls and thanks to EmRatThich I know why. My game was/is rather the control game (also using spin) and as you'll see in the material, the new trent is quite not into the "control business" ... what do you think about this new direction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGxAvayVVkI
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