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I started play TT just before freshman year in high school. I broke my right wrist so I couldn't play high school football for a few weeks. I played left handed through my sophomore year in college. I was 5th best at Oregon State in the spring tournament. The next year 3 of the 4 above me left so I lost interest in TT plus I had engineering studies to do.
38 years later, I own an industrial controls company and someone brought a TT table from home and put it in an empty space. I got hooked again. That was 12 years ago 2009. When I started playing at the Portland Table Tennis Club the club president estimated my rating at about 1100. Somehow TT players with a higher rating think they know more than someone with a 1100 rating. This is very false. They didn't consider what had happened in the 38 years.
I joined Adm Rickover's nuclear navy. I was interviewed by him twice. There is a video on YouTube about Adm Rickover and the interview scene is very realistic.
While waiting to go to nuclear power school I got a chance to take two dives on the Mystic.
What the people on OOAK and mytt didn't seem to understand is that a lot happened in the 38 years. When I
https://www.history.navy.mil/conten...rch-and-recovery-equipment/mystic-dsrv-1.html
I went down to 2237 ft to the bottom of the ocean off of San Diego. I have a picture of the document.
I was 1/3 that graduated from nuclear power school from Oregon State University. You need to be smart but also be able to handle stress.
I was Reactor Controls Officer on nuclear fast attack in dry dock. I didn't like the navy BS and 3 mile Island but a nail in the coffin of nuclear power
When I got out in 1980 I was supposed to take it easy for the rest of the year but a head hunter found a job for me in December. In February I was running the software department. I really hadn't been trained as a programmer but it was intuitive to me. Also, in the summer of 1980 I entered in the first man-machine Otherllo tournament.
https://www.othelloonline.org/
I place 7th in the world. I was never trained on how to write programs like Othello or Chess. I met the early who's who in computer chess and Othello.
In 1982 I was working as a system integrator for automating saw mills and veneer mills. I had been in Japan 2 times install equipment over there. I got laid off or fired in 1982 because I wasn't a "team player". Actually, I thought the management was incompetent. However now many years later this same company is one of my better customers. It took awhile to realize what I was do was the right way.
In 2006 I was interviewed by the IEEE.org. I caught the attention of the IEEE VP for challenging some the "conventional wisdom" of so called experts. My math/calculations could not be refuted.
Now 40 years later I am retired. I am internationally known. My company sells world wide. We are small less that 50 people. Our biggest competition is Siemens, Bosch and Beckoff. Our sales are up. I am still a moderator on a Chinese servo control forum. Someone on the Chinese forum pointed out that I was inducted into the International Fluid Power Societies Hall of Fame. I was never trained in hydraulic servo control. I still write magazine articles. I have written many articles for engineering magazines.
Over 12 years the TT forums just haven't got it. They criticize without knowing. I am the one person that has the resources to answer all the equipment questions for good. I have enough money to buy a new sheet of Dignics every day but I know that won' t make me a better TT player. I have a high speed camera. I have posted some of the videos of my old high black and white camera but now I have color high speed camera that is much better.
Don't believe me. I don't believe anything I hear until I verify it. However you can do a google search for
"Peter Nachtwey testing"
and see the results.
I don't have D-K syndrome. I am that good.
There is so much that is intuitive to me. I also have a fantastic memory which is both a blessing and a curse. How would you like to remember all the stupid things you have done in your life?
Yes, I am weird/different.
BTW, I terrorize engineering sites too
https://control.com/technical-articles/what-is-fuzzy-logic/
38 years later, I own an industrial controls company and someone brought a TT table from home and put it in an empty space. I got hooked again. That was 12 years ago 2009. When I started playing at the Portland Table Tennis Club the club president estimated my rating at about 1100. Somehow TT players with a higher rating think they know more than someone with a 1100 rating. This is very false. They didn't consider what had happened in the 38 years.
I joined Adm Rickover's nuclear navy. I was interviewed by him twice. There is a video on YouTube about Adm Rickover and the interview scene is very realistic.
While waiting to go to nuclear power school I got a chance to take two dives on the Mystic.
What the people on OOAK and mytt didn't seem to understand is that a lot happened in the 38 years. When I
https://www.history.navy.mil/conten...rch-and-recovery-equipment/mystic-dsrv-1.html
I went down to 2237 ft to the bottom of the ocean off of San Diego. I have a picture of the document.
I was 1/3 that graduated from nuclear power school from Oregon State University. You need to be smart but also be able to handle stress.
I was Reactor Controls Officer on nuclear fast attack in dry dock. I didn't like the navy BS and 3 mile Island but a nail in the coffin of nuclear power
When I got out in 1980 I was supposed to take it easy for the rest of the year but a head hunter found a job for me in December. In February I was running the software department. I really hadn't been trained as a programmer but it was intuitive to me. Also, in the summer of 1980 I entered in the first man-machine Otherllo tournament.
https://www.othelloonline.org/
I place 7th in the world. I was never trained on how to write programs like Othello or Chess. I met the early who's who in computer chess and Othello.
In 1982 I was working as a system integrator for automating saw mills and veneer mills. I had been in Japan 2 times install equipment over there. I got laid off or fired in 1982 because I wasn't a "team player". Actually, I thought the management was incompetent. However now many years later this same company is one of my better customers. It took awhile to realize what I was do was the right way.
In 2006 I was interviewed by the IEEE.org. I caught the attention of the IEEE VP for challenging some the "conventional wisdom" of so called experts. My math/calculations could not be refuted.
Now 40 years later I am retired. I am internationally known. My company sells world wide. We are small less that 50 people. Our biggest competition is Siemens, Bosch and Beckoff. Our sales are up. I am still a moderator on a Chinese servo control forum. Someone on the Chinese forum pointed out that I was inducted into the International Fluid Power Societies Hall of Fame. I was never trained in hydraulic servo control. I still write magazine articles. I have written many articles for engineering magazines.
Over 12 years the TT forums just haven't got it. They criticize without knowing. I am the one person that has the resources to answer all the equipment questions for good. I have enough money to buy a new sheet of Dignics every day but I know that won' t make me a better TT player. I have a high speed camera. I have posted some of the videos of my old high black and white camera but now I have color high speed camera that is much better.
Don't believe me. I don't believe anything I hear until I verify it. However you can do a google search for
"Peter Nachtwey testing"
and see the results.
I don't have D-K syndrome. I am that good.
There is so much that is intuitive to me. I also have a fantastic memory which is both a blessing and a curse. How would you like to remember all the stupid things you have done in your life?
Yes, I am weird/different.
BTW, I terrorize engineering sites too
https://control.com/technical-articles/what-is-fuzzy-logic/
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