Hans,
Taking you at your word..."And I would, as usual, love to be
challenged!"
Presumably this kind of debate will only be a short term thing? When
racketlon rules the world and (all) people regard it as a sport
(rather than 4 joined together) then it will be judged as follows...
(this from the Encyclopedia Britanica of 2028)
RACKETLON: Table tennis comes first. Perhaps the easiest to make
errors in, it is nonetheless played while pressure is least. Badminton
and squash (and squash to a much greater extent) can be played with
poor technique as long as length is good and fitness high. These two
provide a high endurance middle section. Only a player of superior
conditioning will play these two to a high standard and be ready for
the high pressure tennis to follow. In the early days of racketlon,
tennis players were considered at a disadvantage because of the
difficulty of winning 'their' sport 21-0. However, with time, two
things were realised. First, that so-called tennis specialists got to
play the sport they were most naturally 'groved' in when the pressure
was on (and therefore the othjer sports under relatively less
pressure) and that this accounted for a certain advantage. Second, as
one of the acknowledged forefathers, gods, pioneers and legends of
racketlon Hans Mullamaa put it 'In racketlon all the points are
available to both players and the true advantage is the player that
remembers that fact and they are, first and foremost, a racketlon
player'.
Interestingly the Encyclopedia Britannica for that year has an entry
under Mullamaa:
'Hans Mullamaa racketlon guru (etc) established many of the
metaphysical premises of the world's favourite game including the idea
that racketlon must be regarded holistically and not, as in its early
years, as an atomised collection of sports. His faith in this
essential unity was stretched in the final of this year's Racketlon
over 60s World Championships where he lost to Lloyd Pettiford of Wales
21/14, 21/9, 0/21, 20/19 Pettiford +1.'
And there is another entry under 'World's favourite game':
Racketlon has been the world's favourite game since 2018 when it
replaced football (soccer). Following the English national team's
World Cup victories in South Africa 2010 (Final 1-0 v Argentina with a
hotly disputed hand ball goal), in Brazil 2014 (Final 6-3 v Brazil)
and 2018 in London (4-0 v a combined EU side composed mostly of
Germans and Swedes) football fell out of favour with the rest of the
world who had got used to the idea that England were total s*** and
didn't much like it when they weren't anymore.
Finally, when the pain stops and I don't need the painkillers anymore,
not only will such gibberish be beyond me, but I'll have to go to work
and won't have the time to write it either.
Best Wishes, Lloyd
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