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Okay. I will unblock and respond to this quickly.
Sure ... thanks for "unblocking".
Okay. I will unblock and respond to this quickly.
Understand that some people seem to be arguing that it is the change from cellulose acetate 40+ to ABS 40+ that explains the success of Harimoto and predicts trouble for Ma Long at al. owing to an alleged lack of spin on ABS. See the first post on this thread and other threads related to this one. This seems to ignore a lot of important events that Ma Long and friends have won with ABS balls, but that point has already been made a few times.
Der Echte wisely said, in his own way, few pages ago that it is useless to discuss "who wins more" or who wins less ...
True, but I'll tell you what is at stake at least for me, if the "new trend" will prove to be dominant for the next few years. The holy grail of longer rallies is not found yet and the new style seems to be going in the opposite direction, despite people, even ZKJ talking about stamina needed because of the change ... So far I haven't seen it. Basically every serve it being attacked and offensive, high risk game is dominant. There is no way to shield yourself with the spin anymore, this is why is seems to me one of the control aspects in the game diminishes.
Jawien,
Immediately change your physical location, Turn off your cell phone, remove the battery, Don a different jacket, and change your location again. Wear of foil hat is optional as a fashion accessory.
The Goon Squad might be trying to track you down for publicly accusing Der_Echte of being wise... unless it was accusing me of being a wise guy, cracking wise-azz jokes, or something of that nature.
In that case, the same Goon Squad might be visiting you to present you a medal.
If I was ever wise, it happened unintentionally and totally by accident. Sometimes it happens.
If spin is less important now, I'm thinking short pips players should be coming back in major ways. Two examples I can think of are Ito Mima and Mattias Karlsson. Just wondering if there are other short pips players moving up in world rankings that I don't know about.
If spin is less important now, I'm thinking short pips players should be coming back in major ways. Two examples I can think of are Ito Mima and Mattias Karlsson. Just wondering if there are other short pips players moving up in world rankings that I don't know about.
I'm telling you, LGL will come back. He can't be a coach but hey, here's a chance ... ; )
What then to make of HT? My personal take is that he's an outlier. He was always going to be good, given his parentage, his opportunities, his work ethic and his coaching. The only oddity is perhaps his playing style does take advantage of a loophole (pun not intended) in Chinese technique which is a little more noticeable because the ball is ever so slightly different.
Ah, now that would be a thing. "Liu Guoliang, The Return — Pips on Fire". I believe LGL is 42 now, the age at which Jörgen Persson made it to the semifinals of the 2008 olympics, iirc. Well, I'm for it!
No different from LYJ? In what world?