I'm sure some women in Japan(and everywhere else) have on a club or provincial level, those players just haven't been able to make it to the top. Some who are making waves do still incorporate elements of the "men's style". It just so far doesn't appear to be worthwhile to adopt the entire style wholesale rather than just add a few tools to the existing meta.
I'm sure we will continue to see more power creep into the women's game, having more tools at your disposal is always good. It might just be that the women have not found it advantageous as the men have to play that way.
you are correct
The mens style has been around before CNT invented such catch phrase. Its pure propaganda that its Chinese invented and only 3 years old.
The Chinese actually learnt this style from the Europeans and many young Chinese wanted to mimic them.
One needs to remember such style for womens play in 38mm/40mm/40+ ball era is very different.
Since 40+ requires more power to handle, it is more difficult for ethnically Chinese female bodies that are not as built as your western counterparts per se.
Yes, you get some generation Z that are more muscular and with the likes that CNT has shifted the priority of physical training to higher than another else, shows you how important they are seeing the issues caused by the 40+ balls.
For example, 2 years prior to the ball change over, they hired a NBA physical trainer to come and train the coaches and the B team. It was one of the first time I heard China using foreigners in such high level capacity.
Coming back to JNT. JNT has a totally different culture to CNT.
CNT is a top down approached where JNT is a bottom up approach.
JNT, the player can appoint his or her own coach and the coach-player interest is 1 on 1.
CNT, we all know that it is culturally normal for some players to forever only be the "support role"
Another issue in the CNT is the player from same age 13 to 25 will change coaches so many times - as how the head coach sees fit and where to use this "chess piece"
in JNT, they don't change coaches as much, and the changes is triggered from the player, not the head coach.
So as much as how much propaganda you see on the news (fakes news and real news is on the same whatsapp group), CNT will not admit to JNT cultural success as admitting to it will make management loose power.
CNT has it pros and cons, JNT has its pros and cons.
CNT is still stronger, but CNTs shortfall is JNT's strength.
I personally feel the mens style is a must have in womens TT.
You can also see why both teams have more male training partners than female.
But it needs to allow the player to adjust naturally. I felt LXX did it very well, she is a gram slam holder and who can deny it is a failure?
CNT forces way too much changes to the player. Some times is for the good, some times it is just a high risk gamble.
Its like a Cpen player was forced to change to Jpen for the "greater cause" of the team. The moment that player left the national team, he went back to Cpen.
So at the end of the day, certain styles is for certain physical attributes and mental attributes.
Training, adjustments, resource support is then incorporated.
CNT's failure was not to acknowledge further change and provide equal opportunity for its "support role" players, as it holds onto hierarchy a bit way too much.
I can't understand why 1 coach has 1 main player and 2 to 4 "support players". If I was such support player, I would feel no matter what I do, I will always be unfairly treated, as I am not on the "favourite" list of my personal coach.
To me, this is the failure of the Chinese womens team, and we only see it as Japan is edging very closely.
All this propaganda you see on the news, is just ..... propaganda