Alright, sorry, but the conversation is silly because Epid3xia is a bit naive and seems insistent on not understanding certain basic things.
1) if the style you are saying is so good and it is just the "style", why can Baal beat guys who play that style by exploiting the fact that they over-swing and then are not ready for what comes back?
So, here: if you took any area in the world and had as many people, and the national sport was table tennis, so everyone loves to play, and the GOVERNMENT talent scouts and RECRUITS children at the age of 4 looking for children who could potentially become top players. And takes those kids they scouted and puts them in special schools by 5 where, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, they train table tennis and of the hundreds of kids recruited only a very small number make it to the top (6-8 out of 50,000) and the parents of kids all thought the region would be happy for their kid to get selected EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD MEAN THEY WOULD NOT GET TO SEE THEIR KID almost at all for years, they would still love the opportunity because it could mean wealth and stardom, and even for the ones who don't become top tier players, it still is lucrative.
If you had a region somewhere else in the world that did that and had those circumstances, it would not matter what style those kids were trained in.
And if this whole idea of the Chinese style is really such an issue how did the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s happen where Sweden and Europe dominated the sport?
How could the Europeans do that if the Chinese style is simply better?
I know a few guys who are Chinese who are great players. They are from China and they are 2500 level players. They are here in the USA, in NYC to coach because they were not good enough in China to play. But they went through that process. Thy were trained from 5 years old. And when they play other 2500 level players who play other styles including what you are calling the "Euro" style, THEY LOSE to players the same level as they are 50% of the time. Otherwise they would have gone up in level and would be 2600 or 2700 level players.
There are too many factors that Epid3xia is ignoring for this conversation to have much merit. If the only players to be considered are the top Chinese players and the amount of training and the sheer volume of players who didn't make it to that level isn't considered; and if two people the same level like Baal and those kids he always beats or these players who are 2500 some of whom play one style and others who play a different style aren't to be considered because the best players in the world are the best; if the training and selection that got them there, or the quality of the coaching, then why can Baal beat these kids who simply use "Chinese" style and why can't the guys who are 2500 and use "Chinese" style just beat everyone and become top players.
It is so much more than the style.
And if you ask me, as has already been pointed out, ZJK has a kind of "Euro" style of play.
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