WTT Singapore Smash 2024 3/7-3/17

[Metaxa]

LJK actually plays the most like ZJK, with an emphasis on heavy spin and stability and shot quality, with quality pushes and defence to counter fast players. Unfortunately he's also incredibly overweight and can't run as well as ZJK used to do.

I only managed to watch the match LJK vs LYJ today. This match was much more enjoyable to watch than the final I thought. A pity, though, that LYJ made so many "unforced errors".

 

[d3nium]

What does the above have to do with Table Tennis and the Singapore Smash? Any chance we can stay on topic?

 

[latej]

What does the above have to do with Table Tennis and the Singapore Smash? Any chance we can stay on topic?

It's for us to realize, that we live in those few couple of remaining years, where we can still dance and play TT better than...

And enjoy ;-)

 

[backspacer]

A robot can't trashtalk, though.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

A robot can't trashtalk, though.

Sure it can.

 

[Brs]

A robot can't trashtalk, though.

These ones can trash-sing robots

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

What does the above have to do with Table Tennis and the Singapore Smash? Any chance we can stay on topic?

unbelievable hey

 

[kindof99]

I only managed to watch the match LJK vs LYJ today. This match was much more enjoyable to watch than the final I thought. A pity, though, that LYJ made so many "unforced errors".

It seems that no one had fun playing against WCQ maybe due to his style.

 

[Brs]

Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America

It is definitely Springtime for Billionaires, like Marc Andreessen.

I well remember when it was Morning Again in America (Ronald Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign slogan). This doesn't feel a lot like that, tbh.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

It seems that no one had fun playing against WCQ maybe due to his style.

no one had fun playing against him, due to how he hides the ball with his (big) head.
If the head was smaller, maybe it wouldn't be that bad.

 

[Shine]

no one had fun playing against him, due to how he hides the ball with his (big) head.
If the head was smaller, maybe it wouldn't be that bad.

Surely his blistering forehand, rocket backhand, flat spin arcs, excellence in the 1st 3-5 strokes and his use of angles has nothing to do it. Just his big head. Extremely useful analysis here I must say.
LJK never had any trouble receiving his serves but lost in the rallies, And your boy LYJ does a decent bit of hiding with his head and body too especially on his shovel serve..why isn't he winning everything?

 

[Robin0910]

Surely his blistering forehand, rocket backhand, flat spin arcs, excellence in the 1st 3-5 strokes and his use of angles has nothing to do it. Just his big head. Extremely useful analysis here I must say.
LJK never had any trouble receiving his serves but lost in the rallies, And your boy LYJ does a decent bit of hiding with his head and body too especially on his shovel serve..why isn't he winning everything?

yes, some people complain too much. There are other players who are known for hiding the ball at serves but are nowhere near close to top 10 let alone No 1, eg.: Anders Lind, Noshad Alamiyan, etc.
but it’s annoying that there are situations where Wang Chuqin clearly hides the serves way too conspicuously like against Truls at the Olympics and the umpires don’t do anything about it.

 

[Metaxa]

It seems that no one had fun playing against WCQ maybe due to his style.

Of course, if you gain 20cm each time on your playing surface and hide your service, you will come a long way obviously.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Of course, if you gain 20cm each time on your playing surface and hide your service, you will come a long way obviously.

I am actually amazed how we still can have table tennis discussion, amidst these spam/hijack by zeio
Carl said, if you guys are not happy with hijacking, you can report it.
I also told @Dan about it (as suggested by Carl).

zeio should flood his own threads with his agenda on robots and cars or what not.

 

[Shine]

Of course, if you gain 20cm each time on your playing surface and hide your service, you will come a long way obviously.

I wish it was that easy.

 

[NetProphet]

How did the Singapore Smash from 2024 descend into a weird robots from the future/AI nerdfest that has nothing to do with SS24 or even Table Tennis in general???

 

[latej]

How did the Singapore Smash from 2024 descend into a weird robots from the future/AI nerdfest that has nothing to do with SS24 or even Table Tennis in general???

I'm afraid that unf. it has to do with everything, which means also TT...

Anyway, in order to satisfy the law and the pharisees (no pun intended @Sims, peace), I can say something half-stupid like this: I can't wait for my own personal ML (and turning WCQ at wish) robot with the exact same movements ;-)

EDIT: It's been on my mind for some time - I know this is TT forum, but we are people too... It would be nice if we could discuss other things, I'm often interested what the members think and would say... I know we may have very different views (esp. about politics etc.), but we already automatically accept, without questioning, that we have different equipment preferences, and there is no issue in respecting other's preferences... Why wouldn't we do this (have the same acceptance and respect) in other topics?

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Side flips.

Zeio,

It has been requested that you open a new thread on this subject you seem so interested in.

Open up a thread on the AI and Robotics stuff you have been posting in the General Off Topic Forum.

You could migrate posts from here to your new thread if you want (copy content and post there).

I will leave this thread open as it is for a week so that can happen. Then I am going to delete posts on the subject of AI and return the thread to its original subject matter. If posts about AI and Tech continue in this thread after this post, I will simply lock the thread and delete all the posts on that subject.

But, feel free to open your own thread on this subject. Then nobody will be complaining about you hijacking a thread.

It would also be worth knowing that your posts in this thread have gotten more reports of hijacking and spamming than any other posts over the past year on TTD. Worth knowing.

The subject matter will be fine in the correct forum. You can post there. But too many people have reported your posts in this thread and complained about them. Many people will find what you are posting interesting. Just put it in your own thread with your own subject matter.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Why did pongfugrasshopper change the thread name then? What started as a little dialog that was on topic between latej and me and some here had problems with it.

In return, I request them to simply ignore me. I started a thread in the off-topic subforum that was on topic and people still had problems with it. Haters gonna hate.

你敬我一尺，我敬你一丈/You give me an inch of respect; I give you a foot of respect.

Zeio, I have no problem with the content of your tech posts, and I think it could be interesting especially if there was TT related tech, but my title change was a rather kludgy solution so that folks wouldn't mistaken it for 2024 Singapore Smash related content. Your content does belong in its own properly named thread.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Zeio, I have no problem with the content of your tech posts, and I think it could be interesting especially if there was TT related tech, but my title change was a rather kludgy solution so that folks wouldn't mistaken it for 2024 Singapore Smash related content. Your content does belong in its own properly named thread.

zeio should post his stuff on Dan's latest thread "build your perfect TT player"

or we can just ask Carl to delete all the singapore smash 2024 related content and just give zeio this thread lol