This forum is outstanding for threads about pro tournaments and national champs. Lots of good video links, and analysis, and zeio's translations. It's worth ignoring the 100 weekly ej threads to get to those.
It's definitely easier to get more spin. Though I feel folks get a bit excessive on that aspect, because you'd still need sufficient swing speed to make good use of it.Nice to hear that you are playing again! I agree that you can play with china rubber unboosted, but i feel like it is easier if the sponge is not rockhard.
I see two penholders in the video. I am curious, how common is it nowdays in asia that players are using penhold? alot of older players or also younger players?
It's definitely easier to get more spin. Though I feel folks get a bit excessive on that aspect, because you'd still need sufficient swing speed to make good use of it.
Very uncommon nowadays. The last wave of penholders are from the 80s to 90s. Many of them have converted to shakehand though, in large part due to Waldner. Roughly the year 2000 was the first time I saw practically all new kids started with shakehand. In the workshop open to school kids on the weekend, I haven't spotted one penholder the past several years.
It's definitely easier to get more spin. Though I feel folks get a bit excessive on that aspect, because you'd still need sufficient swing speed to make good use of it.
Very uncommon nowadays. The last wave of penholders are from the 80s to 90s. Many of them have converted to shakehand though, in large part due to Waldner. Roughly the year 2000 was the first time I saw practically all new kids started with shakehand. In the workshop open to school kids on the weekend, I haven't spotted one penholder the past several years.
Being quite invested in board sports as well (snowboarding, skiing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding) I can attest that it's the very same in those as wellI think this EJ problem is prevalent in almost everything
Being quite invested in board sports as well (snowboarding, skiing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding) I can attest that it's the very same in those as well
It's painful. China and Hong Kong suffered what I call the "C-pen Purge" during the 90s. To give you an idea of the extent of impact, together with my friend, I remember getting turned down at the door just because the club manager wanted only shakehand players to join because they already had enough penholders. If this were in the West, that'd be a case of grip-type discrimination.That is too bad. I like the diversity and penholders are fun to watch. Were it the same coach that teached shakehand and penhold? Can imagine that it must be a little different, atleast the grip.
It's painful. China and Hong Kong suffered what I call the "C-pen Purge" during the 90s. To give you an idea of the extent of impact, together with my friend, I remember getting turned down at the door just because the club manager wanted only shakehand players to join because they already had enough penholders. If this were in the West, that'd be a case of grip-type discrimination.
Basically all coaches over 40s started out with penhold, and then picked up shakehand in an effort to change with the times. Though they didn't know how to teach the BH strokes.
No, just a kid. Though, the good thing with being a kid is you don't dwell on it and just move on.Pretty crazy that you were not welcome because of how you hold your racket. Were you an adult at this point? I can imagine it would be alot of noise and that people would be upset about this if they did this against a kid.
I do not blame Dan one bit for creating TTD and the additional features
Any reasonable person who was around when Dan started TTD around a decade ago will know how he started and why. Dan had a vision, a plan.
Dan wanted to make a top rate forum... and then have it evolve into many other things.
- TT Pro Vid center
- TT Equipment Review Center
- TT News Center
- TTD Coaching center
- TT Store
No other forum before TTD was able to put it all together over time... and it took Dan many years to get TTD going and into what it is now.
Dan's vision was to make high quality TT products (Yes, a forum is a TT product) and turn it into a way to make a living from Table Tennis. I think that is the dream of many TT players - to find a way to stay in the sport they love and make some kind of living from it.
Dan would not be able to leverage any of this if TTD did not have quality and the high number of visitor statistics TTD has. I do not suspect Dan makes a significant amount of money directly from TT gear reviews, whether it is on his review vid channel or written ones in the Equipment Review Center... yet all the visitor traffic stats allow him to get advertising...
With time and trust from TTD members, Dan was able to introduce live and on-line coaching. I suspect that is and will be the lion's share of what will support him staying in TT, with some supplemental help from the TT store.
If Dan REALLY wanted to expand advertising, he would create some busy looking TTD GOON SQUAD jersey design and mail those off to a few dozen players.