Shouldn’t the Houston 2021 World Championships be cancelled ?
One of my friend’s aunt’s niece asked me to post the following .
She said as follows :-
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IMHO USATT
Board of Directors & CEO
Obviously
if it is not important for a defensive player like Virginia Sung to have
the Durban Aspect Ratio 1998 repealed as well have the
Aspect Ratio increased to proper value to compensate for later developments
after 1998, then one would also think at least she has the decency to
properly advise the Houston mayor of the possible health issues involved with
table-tennis related to lungs (cancers & tumors) if there are (or
were after 1995) any, especially in the context of the sad current
ongoing pandemic related to lungs. Because it would not be fair to the city of
Yes as an American I have to say it would be really really great to
have the first World Championships on
And I am not suggesting
All I
am saying is that, even if there are (or had been in the past after 1995) zero
lung related health issues related to table-tennis, the city of Houston &
State of Texas must carefully evaluate this situation & associated risks in
the context of the current pandemic and a second wave with or without COVID-19
variants, as it is sadly happening in some other countries.
There are at
least 4 known table-tennis players / coaches that died from lung cancer. All these four
were active before 1995 or shortly thereafter. I am by no means suggesting
conclusively or remotely that any table-tennis issues caused these deaths but I
can only evaluate them for myself mostly based on what Dr. Rufford Harrison
(then chairperson of the ITTF equipment committee) said in 1995, when he
implemented the Speed-Glue Ban due to extreme health concerns & but then
quickly repealed it submitting to robotNazi threats & extortion to keep his
job. I will have to especially think about the second-hand
effects of supposedly banned
substances that used to be called speed-glues (I think they go by a
different name like boosters now to circumvent the fake speed-glue ban of
2008). You cannot blame me if I wonder how many more (100s ? 1000s
?) such deaths or just illnesses are unknown or swept under the rug and how many were
first hand and how many were second hand or if this is still an issue in
table-tennis, how could COVID-19’s variants can compound it ? Call me a
conspiracy theory nut all you want but simple fact remains that lung cancer is
lung related & COVID is lung related and need I say more ? And you
cannot blame me if I wonder what the compounding effect of two issues can be.
How many deaths is too many ? Is ITTF & USATT & city
of
Eberhard Scholer, an
equipment peddler, should never ever have been, of all places, a member of the
ITTF Equipment Committee. If that is not a monumental conflict of
interest, I do not know what is
IMHO “
I wish Virginia Sung (other defenders from before 1998, such as
Koji Matsushita, Hiroshi Shibutani, Li GunSang, Chen Xinhua, BK ArunKumar,
Derek May, Thomas Norberg, Aliison Holt, Lisa Lomas, Jill Hammersley Parker,
Gregg Letts etc etc) grow some
spine & do the
right thing for once in your life, like Matt Syed,
(John) Prean &
Jorg Rosskopf (at 2018-WVC) have already spoken publicly. Almost all above
defenders were Butterfly Feint Long (outlawed AR 1.3 version) users and yet
Butterfly stood by and did nothing as did TSP, who were being punished for a
handful of users modifying them. Maybe all the facts were not out then but now
that we know the truth, it is time now for any defensive player
with spine & an ounce of self-respect, to start boycotting Butterfly, TSP
and Victas (Koji
Matsushita) , Dr.Neubauer &
any such manufacturer, if they refuse to stand with the defensive
players and demand the ITTF to act on the Aspect Ratio issue. If you
do publicly speak out , it would probably take like 5 minutes to at
least repeal the Aspect Ratio Regulation of 1998, (this even despite the ITTF
being totally controlled by the booster sucking robotNazis), if not adjust up
to at least 1.5 if not the fair 1.7. Keep in mind that this author is not
asking for an increase in unpredictability, but just only asking for ITTF to give
back the repeatedly stolen back-spin, since 1998, over
& over and compensate for the 40 ball of 2000, pip
density regulation of 2003 & 40+ plastic ball of 2013 thereafter
not to mention the health thingy. Eberhard Scholer had
managed to fool the table-tennis world for 23 years into believing that that
Aspect Ratio change is not political but is based on technical merits &
that aspect ratio is the sole parameter that determines unpredictability,
whereas truth is far from that, as was demonstrated by Dr.Neubauer between 1998
& 2008. Truth is that it is possible to design long-pips rubbers with much
higher Aspect Ratios before 1998 but with very low unpredictability (5 or 6
parameters of long-pips control unpredictability. Aspect Ratio is neither the
sole nor dominant parameter). The paranoia just lies in the heads of
robotNazis. (Of course I don’t expect the defensive player Eberhard Scholer to
admit any guilt as I cannot expect of Adham Sharara, the former ITTF
strongman, who was later convicted by ITTF for fraud and another defensive
player). Your shameless silence & apathy is only hurting the sport.
Of course Virginia Sung, a defensive player
herself, if she wants to do the ethical thing (and not be like the sell
outs Eberhard Scholer, Adham Sharara,
Gregg Letts etc etc), could
very easily submit a proposal to the ITTF equipment committee via Kagin Lee
& request a regulation change (as was done secretly in Durban in
1998), for the proper adjustment of the Aspect Ratio to 1.5 (if not
a fair 1.7 if reparation payment for past 38 year defensive player abuse that
started in 1983 is included) to reflect for current conditions & changes
after 1998, or even better, request the
complete elimination of fraudulently mandating the Aspect Ratio as the sole
determinant of unpredictability. Though events
between 1998 & 2008 regarding long-pips are convincing proof of this, since
the ITTF executive committee is probably majority robotNazis, I will be shocked
if such a regulation change could happen & Virginia Sung is probably better
off (for her selfish reasons) continuing to kiss up to the robotNazis.
Oh
BTW, Ma Long is not the GOAT. Joo Sehyuk & Waldner are
the real GOATs. Of
course all robotNazis think I am crazy and start false rumors that I am
anti-Chinese. I never question that Chinese are the very best. But for those
who are open-minded, please go back and look at videos of 7 game match between
Kong Ling Hui & Joo Sehyuk &
many very very close
matches between Ma Long & Joo Sehyuk. Now visualize the same
matches with Joo Sehyuk using
a just 1.3 Aspect Ratio (not even 1.5 Aspect Ratio, for 2003 conditions)
long-pips Rubber (not even subtracting for boosters & speed-glues allegedly
used by Ma Long or Kong). Joo Sehyuk would decimate
Kong Linghui &
Ma Long (& Schlager in
2003). If Waldner & Joo Sehyuk met
in their prime it would be a toss-up & that is why I think they are
the GOATs.. But
of course the robotNazis would like to keep the defenders as the case of
“always the bridesmaid and never the bride” or “fourth-class citizens (given
that short pips users are second class & anti users are third class)” or
“doormats” of the table-tennis cesspool & the spin(e)less cowards gladly
accept it. Additionally, booster will always be an asterisk on Ma
Long. Keep in mind that Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones & few
others were busted well after their alleged cheating winning ways.
In fact I would like to invite Ma Long to a challenge match against Joo Sehyuk today (May 2021), with Ma Long using his usual boosted racket & Joo Sehyuk (with his age & health issues) using Feint Long Classic. Joo Sehyuk should win in 6 or 7 games. If Joo Sehyuk used the Dawei 388D like large pimple racket (suitable for the 40+ plastic ball & a fair level playing field) , Joo Sehyuk should easily win in 4 straight games. But I doubt very much that Ma Long would accept this challenge.
In all fairness players like Ma Lin or
Alexander Shibaev may always beat Joo Sehyuk head-to-head but overall Joo
Sehyuk would undoubtedly have been #1 in his prime in a level fair playing
field.
I always hear pure nonsense like ‘What the
hell, it is only 0.2 change in Aspect Ratio . What is the big bloody deal ? A
good player can play with any racket”. My question to them then simply
is “OK if that is the case why not stop using unhealthy boosters /
speed-glues & reduce the maximum sponge thickness to a fair value of 1.7 mm
(Especially if ITTF is honest about its supposed craving for longer rallies
& slowing down the sport) . Do you accept that ?” What most
table-tennis players (even advanced) don’t seem to understand is the fact that
microscopic changes you make to you racket can greatly effect your performance
(comparing two competitive players at the about the same skill level not
comparing a pro player to a beginner). Try playing with a straight handle if
you use a flared handle. Or try taping your handle 1 wrap instead of your usual
3 wraps. This is true in many sports but in table-tennis, it is even more
important.
I
am by no means suggesting that 50% of table-tennis must be defensive long pips
players or even all pips / anti players. That is pure rubbish. All I’m saying
is that robotNazis (using the ITTF) must stop
stealing the back-spin again & again from spin(e)less
cowards while enhancing their top-spin with criminal means. But as long as
the spin(e)less cowards continue not to speak up loud & clear (as
robotNazis did in 1995 to quickly repeal the speed-glue ban) but continue to
accept the endless abuses by robotNazi controlled ITTF, by changing rules (and cleverly
passing them as regulations when they cannot change the rules), these problems
will never end. The most dominant element of table-tennis that distinguishes
it from other sports is spin. Yet ITTF continues to find ways to remove spin
from table-tennis desperately trying to make it look like tennis or pickle-ball
etc with moronic concepts such as the 40 mm ball or worse a totally new sport
called TTX.
ITTF continues to whine daily about
how they need to find ways to make the sport exciting for spectators (with
longer rallies and slowing down the sport) but only constantly
invents ways to continue the extermination of defensive styles. While most
matches between two attackers even at highest levels are usually a third-ball comedy
of errors (with very little for spectators), every open-minded
table-tennis person will agree that the probability of an exciting match
happening is the highest when a world-class defender faces an attacker. Yet all
robotNazis complain is how they are so offended by a match between two low
level long pips players, simply over-looking the fact that low level players
only play for themselves and not to entertain the few spectators, while
professional player play to entertain a large number of spectators.
The crazy thing about all this is
that in a strange way maybe Aspect Ratio 1998 was a good thing because but for
that robotNazis would not have been caught making more and more anti-defender
changes cleverly using the ITTF. Eberhard Scholer is
like a serial murderer. He thought he got away with murder in 1998 , so
he tried it again in 2008 but eventually got caught well after, as truth always
comes out one way or the other. It is also a bitter irony that one
the most attacking style players Jorg Rosskopf himself pointed out at 2018-WVC
that the plastic ball & other changes have hurt the defensive style but no
defender other than Matthew Syed had the spine to openly talk about how ill
conceived the Aspect Ratio 1998 was.
There
is another very important factor that the spin(e)less cowards & any pips /
anti players don’t seem to understand. The RobotNazi controlled ITTF is not
keeping pips & anti legal just because they so much love your playing
styles as they would claim to your face but backstab you by trashing you among
themselves. The only reason they have not banned all pips and anti
is because they do not want pips / anti players to start their own association, just as
the robotNazis themselves threatened
to do in 1995 after the speed-glue-ban and got it reversed immediately. The
robotNazi ITTF does not want their power base diluted. Another
reason is that strangely most short pips and anti players themselves hate
long-pips, since it is the fashionable thing to do to identify with & get
accepted by robotNazis. In table-tennis, it is always the case of “My racket
(& playing style) is holier than your racket & that by itself makes me
a superior table-tennis athlete” The pips and anti players
don’t understand the fact that robotNazis hate you as well though just not as
much as they hate the spin(e)less cowards. Ideally
robotNazis do not want any pips / anti at all period but they
are willing to tolerate this nuisance just to keep total control of the
ITTF. But the brilliant thing about robotNazis is that how they slowly but
steadily squeeze the life out of the spin(e)less cowards with rule changes
(cleverly calling them regulations sometimes as in 1998, 2004 & 2008) in
the past 38 years. Even more brilliant is how they have used the defensive
players themselves such as Eberhard Scholer , Adham Sharara,
Gregg Letts,
Virginia Sung etc to achieve this goal.
At every level of table-tennis, the sport is
dominated & controlled by robotNazis. Take any club or local association or
ITTF affiliate. The person at the top is most likely a robotNazi. Take the
general council or executive council or any committee of ITTF . What do you
think is the probability that the majority are not robotNazis ? Even
when there are some defensive players like Eberhard Scholer or Adham Sharara or
Virginia Sung, they immediately sell their soul to the robotNazis to
keep their jobs (This is not unusual. A politician will do whatever it takes to
keep their power however sleazy it may be)
The most unfortunate thing about all this
is that ITTF keeps hoping against hope that the Aspect Ratio issue will go
away instead of having the decency to do the right thing (It is
interesting here to note that they did the wrong thing by repealing the speed
glue ban immediately in 1995 submitting to robotNazi
extortion & blackmail but refuse to do the right thing in the case of
Aspect Ratio) . But it had been 23 years and this issue had not gone
away & never will, as long as ITTF wants to continue to make fools of
themselves with its narrow-minded arrogance..
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BTW, my friend’s aunt’s niece would also like to collect some additional
information as follows :-
Her request
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I am looking for any historical information
for following items
1. Two Color Change of 1983
2. Speed-Glue Ban Change of 1995
3. Speed-Glue Ban Repeal Change of 1995
4. Failed Aspect Ratio Reduction Change (rule
or regulation ?)
at
5.
6. Failed Swedish Proposal to require both sides
of rubber on a racket to be identical (year ?)
7. Failed First 40mm Ball Change proposal
(Need year, was it 1998, 1999
?)
8. Second 40 mm Proposal (Year ?)
9. Pip Density Reduction Change of 2003 or
2004
10. Frictionless pips regulation of 2008
11. (Fake) Speed Glue ban of 2008
12. Failed Swedish proposal - (request to
repeal frictionless pips ban / related to Fabian Akerstrom ??) (year ?)
(Strangely, this was sort of total opposite of item 6 above, LOL)
13. Plastic 40+ Ball Change (Year 2013 / 2014 ?).
First information I need is whether each of
the above was a Rule Change or regulation Change
Second information is the vote for and vote
against count
Third information who proposed (country if a
rule change or person if a regulation change)
Fourth if possible (I know this is digging
deep) the persons voting for and against each
Fifth the rationale provided for each change.
Sixth : who was the mastermind behind each of
above change
Seventh : who was ITTF president (during that
rule change) or who was chair of committee (during regulation change)
Any other relevant information
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