LOLDominikk85 wrote: on Wednesday January 7 m 2025 at 8:45 PM #1 in ITTF worship forum called TableTennisDaily ,
I was wondering about this? At the pro level a lot of styles have gone exctinct like Jpen, one sided penholder, defense only with no real counter attack.
And even among two winged shake hand loopers certain styles are getting rarer for example kreanga style far away from table loopers who take big swings or also soft loopers are getting rarer and modern style is more harimoto style close to table power looping with compact strokes.
At lower levels however plenty styles can work as long they are executed well.
At what level does having a "modern style" start to matter and antiquated styles like pips one sided penhold or defense only no counter attack chopper start to become a real disadvantage?
The so called "modern style" is actually the ITTF's top spin only Olympic fake table tennis
The rules are constantly manipulated by the ITTF to promote top spin only table tennis and oppress all spins diversity table tennis.
Simply exterminating styles such as choppers in no way makes Olympic table tennis a fair and level playing field.
In Olympic table tennis is actually common law illegal due to ITTF refusing to enforce prevention of boosters at all levels of the sport.
Simply spot testing at higher levels to fool the IOC does not make Olympic table tennis any less illegal.