Carl, NL, I thought about your posts for a bit, and what you are saying is clear to me on the surface level. However I seem to be too dumb to understand why it's inherently wrong.
If I understood correctly, my postings sound like something that other people have at some point written, said or thought. That begs the question whether I really understood what I'm saying or if I'm just writing it to give off some kind of image of knowing things.
Now, I'm flattered that you think that I'm capable of having my own original way of thinking about things, but I fail to see how I can express things without it sounding like someone else or perhaps even directly stating something that has been stated before.
I seem to be very intellectually challenged, so if you would re-write the post in question to make it "better" so to say, then I'd appreciate it. Make it simple, otherwise the point will probably go over my head like this one.
In the spirit of Christmas,
1. You are young, so I get it. You really don't understand the importance of experience yet.
2. You have zero credibility in table tennis, so you are never going to say anything in table tennis that will make sense without your posting video to substantiate it.
3. Give details and examples. It is very easy to present examples of activities other than table tennis that you have tried out and which were less technical.
4. Tell stories of first hand learning. It is hard to do this when you are young and lacking experience, but in that case, you are better off just not talking at all if you want to maintain any degree of credibility or respectability. Like I have said though, you have repeatedly lied when doing this in table tennis so try to regain you credibility doing it with something else and hope for the best. If you honestly posted video and took advice, using the feedback to produce higher level shots that you could be proud of, you would probably have reached a decent credibility level 3 or 4 months ago, but you want to do this purely on your own terms so good luck.
Even with my physical issues, and having played TT for only 5.5 years in the US, in the years when they used to publish the players who played the most tournament matches, I was often in the top 10 until my physical issues got worse. That means I used to play over 150 tournament matches a year easily. Those are the kinds of things that give rise to the stories I tell you. I have gone to tournaments with 1400 players who played adult players I played 4-5 years ago. You might find it crazy, but there were kids I played with as teammates in 2011 who did not get good as quickly as I did and some of them stopped playing. There was even a kid who was 1500 when I first met him (Carl knows the kid and says he has ADD) when I was 500 but really playing at 1200 strength. I managed to beat him the first time I played him when we were both 1700. The kid beats me more than I beat him but he is roughly 2100 as I am but with a higher ceiling than I currently have because he is a lefty and more mobile.
My point here is that I have a lot of experience and my perspective is unique because most people who see me, whatever my issues, assume that I started playing seriously when I was much younger. No, I was losing to 800 rated kids when I first started playing in 2011 because I just lacked the understanding of spin to deal with their shots. Even when I was rated 1700, there were serves that I could not return because I could not read them and a player 600 pts below me could beat me by utilizing those serves. Those are things you have to experience or watch in person to see them, people like you who just read stories will never know from experience what that is like until you earn it.
But you are young so I get it. But the fact you are young makes it even more important that you are not rewarded for such dishonesty as the young people who are tend to do it even more and in the worst possible way. I only pray that your dishonesty is not such that we are only making you better at learning how to do it. But I can't win it all.
