How could Table Tennis be promoted on international basis. I obviously can't control this but I just want to put out some opinions and see what you guys think. So here goes. It is obvious that other companies like Nike, Addidas, Reebok all these famous athletic companies wont be able to produce equipment like Butterfly, Donic, Stiga, DHS and other companies. If they do try to compete they would have to do a lot of research which would cost the company a lot. So what could be another solutions. Well, a highly athletic person like Dimitrij Ovtcharov could be used to advertise Nike adds. Anything Nike is promoting Dima could be right beside the ad perhaps with a paddle and the slogan can be at the side. This benefits Table Tennis but does benefit Nike? If it benefits Nike then both Nike and Table Tennis are being benefited. What do you guys think???
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I don't think Nike would make the sport a lot more famous than it is tbh. Table tennis will remain table tennis until it somehow magically provides better fortune/money for the winners. Which I don't see hapending anytime soon. Unless ittf makes some big deal which profits them greatly. At least my opinion.
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It'll never happen, here's why:
1) Each country has it's own system that is profitable (maybe not hugely $$, but somewhat)
2) the Olympics is focused on countries and medals won. Supporting #1 above
3) the non-elite TT players cannot get excited about it's promotion on an international level. Let me give you a first-hand example: I'm in the US (a pathetic player, however anxious to play internationally) and I really can't play in an international (low-level) competition event. I am planning an European holiday and know I cannot play in: Germany, France, nor the UK. However, anyone from those countries can play most tournaments (except 'closed' events for High School or University). If I were an elite US player (say Jim Butler), I'd be able to play.
So, tell me a reason to be motivated.....
1) Each country has it's own system that is profitable (maybe not hugely $$, but somewhat)
2) the Olympics is focused on countries and medals won. Supporting #1 above
3) the non-elite TT players cannot get excited about it's promotion on an international level. Let me give you a first-hand example: I'm in the US (a pathetic player, however anxious to play internationally) and I really can't play in an international (low-level) competition event. I am planning an European holiday and know I cannot play in: Germany, France, nor the UK. However, anyone from those countries can play most tournaments (except 'closed' events for High School or University). If I were an elite US player (say Jim Butler), I'd be able to play.
So, tell me a reason to be motivated.....
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I think, being honest, the hardest part of the selling and promoting of table tennis is, it is not really a viewer friendly sport. It is much more fun to play, for anyone at any level, than it is to watch. It is much better to watch in person than on a glowing screen. But it is still more fun to play than to watch. Except for us ADDICTS who watch as part of the process of improving.
Because the serve and the first 3-6 balls in a rally are more about deception and setting up a mismatch, this part of the game is hard to appreciate for a spectator who does not play the sport to at least a decently high level.
The serve and receive process is something that is only interesting to watch if you understand it. In a real match, often there are 3 or 4 highlight worthy rallies and the rest of the match is strategy and execution of tactics that, to the untrained eye look like simple mistakes and unskilled play.
Without the game or sport, however you want to look at it, achieving some greater degree of viewer friendliness, I am not sure how to make it more popular and better promoted. And I think that is why those fakeroo matches from companies like Killerspin seem to promote the sport better than the real pro matches. The rallies are not what happens when two great players are well matches and are playing to win. But those matches more closely fit the expectations people have about what high level table tennis is: players hitting from way-far back. Long rallies. Jumping over the barricades to lob from farher back or to the side.....
That is what an average person thinks real table tennis looks.
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Because the serve and the first 3-6 balls in a rally are more about deception and setting up a mismatch, this part of the game is hard to appreciate for a spectator who does not play the sport to at least a decently high level.
The serve and receive process is something that is only interesting to watch if you understand it. In a real match, often there are 3 or 4 highlight worthy rallies and the rest of the match is strategy and execution of tactics that, to the untrained eye look like simple mistakes and unskilled play.
Without the game or sport, however you want to look at it, achieving some greater degree of viewer friendliness, I am not sure how to make it more popular and better promoted. And I think that is why those fakeroo matches from companies like Killerspin seem to promote the sport better than the real pro matches. The rallies are not what happens when two great players are well matches and are playing to win. But those matches more closely fit the expectations people have about what high level table tennis is: players hitting from way-far back. Long rallies. Jumping over the barricades to lob from farher back or to the side.....
That is what an average person thinks real table tennis looks.
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