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Unethical conduct by hardbat players in USA
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ramana...@gmail.com
Apr 1, 2013, 8:54:53 PM4/1/13
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> Well, since at 14 the kid has already squandered the
> time/head start typically > needed to reach even a strong
> National level (like the >ability to get on the
> USA National team), why not hardbat?
Don't you have no shame ?
> OK. But more seriously, what I'd ask ANY kid first
> is what their goals are. What do they want to get
> from the game? What do they like about the game?
> Their goals would guide me in guiding them.
In other words you would brainwash the kid too confuse and steer him to hardbat ?
> The fellow I mentioned previously, Scott Johnson, managed
> to achieve an ITTF ranking playing hardbat
And I would bet my bottom dollar that he would have ranked much higher if he had used a pipsout racket but with sponge
> and I believe played in some of the ITTF leagues.
> I gotta figure he trained with hardbat as a kid
His coaches should be sued for malpractice for failure to switch this kid to a racket with pips out but with sponge
> and seems to be happy with that decision.
He may have been much happier if he had been trained properly as a kid starting with smooth sponge rubber both sides and then switching to pips-out with sponge (like maybe Jiang & Scott Boggan maybe)
> time/head start typically > needed to reach even a strong
> National level (like the >ability to get on the
> USA National team), why not hardbat?
Don't you have no shame ?
> OK. But more seriously, what I'd ask ANY kid first
> is what their goals are. What do they want to get
> from the game? What do they like about the game?
> Their goals would guide me in guiding them.
In other words you would brainwash the kid too confuse and steer him to hardbat ?
> The fellow I mentioned previously, Scott Johnson, managed
> to achieve an ITTF ranking playing hardbat
And I would bet my bottom dollar that he would have ranked much higher if he had used a pipsout racket but with sponge
> and I believe played in some of the ITTF leagues.
> I gotta figure he trained with hardbat as a kid
His coaches should be sued for malpractice for failure to switch this kid to a racket with pips out but with sponge
> and seems to be happy with that decision.
He may have been much happier if he had been trained properly as a kid starting with smooth sponge rubber both sides and then switching to pips-out with sponge (like maybe Jiang & Scott Boggan maybe)
ramana...@gmail.com
Apr 1, 2013, 9:02:04 PM4/1/13
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Berndt Mann wrote :- <That all depends on the 14 year old kid's parents. If they lived in the Foothills, the most scenic part of Tucson, where you have a beautiful view of one of the four mountain ranges surrounding the city, I'd charge $80 per hour for lessons, teach the 14 year old the latest developments in the various reverse penhold techniques, including of course chopping, and in four or five years of backbreaking practice he/she would be ready to take on the Latvians.
If, on the other hand, the 14 year old were an inner city kid wanting to learn all about pong with no aspirations to become national class, I'd only charge $15 an hour and instruct him/her in the classic game of Reisman and Vegh. He/she would in a year or two become the best ass-kicking ponger in the barrio and go on to live a happy life as a landscaper or construction worker. >
As usual you divert your answer to some out of context nonsense.
Abdul was not referring to 50 years ago as far as introducing a kid TODAY to hardbat. If you want to answer it in any convoluted way leading to an answer that a kid of today must start with hardbat , you have proved my point
If, on the other hand, the 14 year old were an inner city kid wanting to learn all about pong with no aspirations to become national class, I'd only charge $15 an hour and instruct him/her in the classic game of Reisman and Vegh. He/she would in a year or two become the best ass-kicking ponger in the barrio and go on to live a happy life as a landscaper or construction worker. >
As usual you divert your answer to some out of context nonsense.
Abdul was not referring to 50 years ago as far as introducing a kid TODAY to hardbat. If you want to answer it in any convoluted way leading to an answer that a kid of today must start with hardbat , you have proved my point
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