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Hi everyone,
probably lots of people know, there is some discussion going on in the TT community about the net height, whether could it make the sport more available to the audience and so on. Dan usually asks about it in his podcasts.
I would like to approach it from the perspective of the players and the game itself.
Seem to be counter intuitive but basically playing with - say entry level players - I was able to make the opponent to run around the table due to the angles the higher net allowed me to produce [Edit - angles I'm talking here about, would refer basically only to the short - short game situation with entry level players and me being able to easy impose my game on them] . It was quite a fun for everybody really : ) Probably more than with the regular size.
I quess it was approxiamtely 2 cm higher, more or less - we didn't measure it exactly. I wonder if anyone have tried it and what was his/her impressions playing tt this way? I heard there were tests conducted in one of the leagues, maybe someone involed could share his expiriences?
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[Edited] Since this is the first post, let me clear it out. The sentence:
"So far in my club I experimented with my friends (amateur level) and to my surprise the first thing I noticed, was how much more angles we could play" - was removed by me from the beginning of the third paragraph to avoid misunderstanding. This was an overstatement from my side. My conclusions refer only to the experiments with "entry level players" that I could impose my game on relatively easy and the short - short game. I make it more clear in the discussion below.
UpSideDownCarl pointed it out to me. Sorry for the confusion.
J.
probably lots of people know, there is some discussion going on in the TT community about the net height, whether could it make the sport more available to the audience and so on. Dan usually asks about it in his podcasts.
I would like to approach it from the perspective of the players and the game itself.
Seem to be counter intuitive but basically playing with - say entry level players - I was able to make the opponent to run around the table due to the angles the higher net allowed me to produce [Edit - angles I'm talking here about, would refer basically only to the short - short game situation with entry level players and me being able to easy impose my game on them] . It was quite a fun for everybody really : ) Probably more than with the regular size.
I quess it was approxiamtely 2 cm higher, more or less - we didn't measure it exactly. I wonder if anyone have tried it and what was his/her impressions playing tt this way? I heard there were tests conducted in one of the leagues, maybe someone involed could share his expiriences?
Best
[Edited] Since this is the first post, let me clear it out. The sentence:
"So far in my club I experimented with my friends (amateur level) and to my surprise the first thing I noticed, was how much more angles we could play" - was removed by me from the beginning of the third paragraph to avoid misunderstanding. This was an overstatement from my side. My conclusions refer only to the experiments with "entry level players" that I could impose my game on relatively easy and the short - short game. I make it more clear in the discussion below.
UpSideDownCarl pointed it out to me. Sorry for the confusion.
J.
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