Baby Lin vs Baby Harimoto

[Tony's Table Tennis]

 

[PaddyPolar]

It's kind of funny to see that they're characteristics haven't changed; Lin Yun-Ju is still calm and composed, Harimoto as vocal as ever.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

It's kind of funny to see that they're characteristics haven't changed; Lin Yun-Ju is still calm and composed, Harimoto as vocal as ever.

haha, that is so true

I think Harimoto just wasn't that loud then, since his lungs were smaller.
As he grew in his height and power, so has his screaming volume

 

[davidsyd828]

side info. I think the same lady umpire still active today in some of the matches .
Don't know her name though.

 

[backspacer]

Tony, do you know how Lin came to be a backhand flick god?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Tony, do you know how Lin came to be a backhand flick god?

Lin was always a BH strong player, so one his previous coach focused more on the BH Flick, and the rest was history

 

[PaddyPolar]

Tony, do you know how Lin came to be a backhand flick god?

It's just a Taiwanese trait(hopefully for me)

 

[PaddyPolar]

haha, that is so true

I think Harimoto just wasn't that loud then, since his lungs were smaller.
As he grew in his height and power, so has his screaming volume

I saw a Table Tennis Central video of Harimoto growing up and his table tennis level increasing, and suddenly, as he reached 15, i heard the classic chole we hear today.

 

[blahness]

Lin was always a BH strong player, so one his previous coach focused more on the BH Flick, and the rest was history

It's quite interesting because here he kept pushing on his BH, no sign of the crazy BH game that almost defines him these days.

Whereas with Harimoto I could already see his excellent BH stroke structure even in this video.

 

[JJ Ng]

It's quite interesting because here he kept pushing on his BH, no sign of the crazy BH game that almost defines him these days.

Whereas with Harimoto I could already see his excellent BH stroke structure even in this video.

That just shows some people peak earlier and some people peak later.

I don't think Harimoto is done yet. But it seems like as he gets older and stronger, maybe he is less agile and slower in his reflexes. His forehand is getting better, no doubt. He can rally a bit more. But his backhand is still his focus. However, he is young so I hate to say his reflexes are slower. Maybe some of the muscle masses are slowing him down actually.

Then of course, many people have figured out his game including Quadri Aruna.

 

[Gtsnake]

Awww so cute. 😙

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

It's quite interesting because here he kept pushing on his BH, no sign of the crazy BH game that almost defines him these days.

Whereas with Harimoto I could already see his excellent BH stroke structure even in this video.

I actually can't remember what age was this video taken,
but I recall hearing one of the coaches that is close to Lin and arranged the current and previous presonal coach for him mentioned something like Lin only started to develop and perfect his BH flick around 12 years old. While his new prodigy is already doing what Lin can do at 12, at 10 years old.

 

[blahness]

That just shows some people peak earlier and some people peak later.

I don't think Harimoto is done yet. But it seems like as he gets older and stronger, maybe he is less agile and slower in his reflexes. His forehand is getting better, no doubt. He can rally a bit more. But his backhand is still his focus. However, he is young so I hate to say his reflexes are slower. Maybe some of the muscle masses are slowing him down actually.

Then of course, many people have figured out his game including Quadri Aruna.

He's still one of the top players for sure and has defeated both Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong which is no small feat!

I think in his losses he tended to push long and block a bit way too much, not sure if it's just for fooling around, experimenting or that he's just feeling lazy. When he is BH chiquitaing, or short pushing everything and always aggressively looking for the 1st attack he is getting much better results - he is capable of doing that and that is how he is winning against top CNT players.

That Aruna match was weird in how Harimoto was content to play push push with Aruna - not the ideal strategy against someone with such devastating loopkill vs backspin.

 

[JJ Ng]

He's still one of the top players for sure and has defeated both Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong which is no small feat!

I think in his losses he tended to push long and block a bit way too much, not sure if it's just for fooling around, experimenting or that he's just feeling lazy. When he is BH chiquitaing, or short pushing everything and always aggressively looking for the 1st attack he is getting much better results - he is capable of doing that and that is how he is winning against top CNT players.

That Aruna match was weird in how Harimoto was content to play push push with Aruna - not the ideal strategy against someone with such devastating loopkill vs backspin.

In the post game interview, Aruna said he got some tips from other people at the tournament prior to his match with Harimoto. He could go into details. I wonder what tips he got.

But of course after winning that match against Harimoto, I think he lost the following match in a separate tournament to Harimoto soon after that.