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Have you noticed how more and more clubs & training centers are popping up with the phrase "top spin" as part of the club's name ?

Seems to be places where robotNazis congregate & all spin players are given a hidden message that you do not belong in ITTF's version of Olympic table tennis ?

Can you imagine players who still cluelessly openly admit they are choppers joining one of these centers ?

OMG

+Marcin wrote: ↑August 4th, 2025, 3:06 am Have you noticed how more and more clubs & training centers are popping up with the phrase "top spin" as part of the club's name ?

Seems to be places where robotNazis congregate & all spin players are given a hidden message that you do not belong in ITTF's version of Olympic table tennis ?

A funny theory and nothing more. The club I mostly play in is called BAM-HIT("bam-bey"). By this logic, hitters with wide pips gather here, but this is not true (at tournaments on Sundays, 1/3 of the players are slim (flex) pips and glanti blockers. But it is worth considering that these are relatively high-level players who quickly progressed in the first years of their development. In places where dumber people sit who cannot grow up to the Russian meta of the average player in 300 rttf, there is real hate for pips). bajuz79 thinks that there are a lot of robonazis among the players, but in fact, most are just neutral to pips. I can understand why he thinks so, because in the clubs he administered in the USA, most likely there were enough robonazi players, but there is no need to extrapolate this to all clubs and countries. The loudest of the idiots create the impression of a crowd, but in reality, they are just a small group of idiots. In short, names don't matter, and robonazi are not everywhere.

wehem wrote: ↑August 4th, 2025, 4:34 pm

robonazi are not everywhere.
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LOL
I used to be so naive and think the same for the first 20 or so years in tbale tennis.
Then I woke upto reality.

70% of players are robotNazis
10% are honorary loopers
5% are spineless coward choppers
That leaves about 15% well adjusted realtively normal humans is table tennis

When I say 70% are robotNazis, not all all are raving lunatics . There are varying degrees of this behavior.
Most roboNazis are very sweet and nice to your face but most are world class back stabbers working with ITTF to pressure them to force more rules to limit pips.
Consider this > when 100 robotNazis complain about 1 player who microwaved his or her TSP Curl P1 (Classic version) , ITTF took action. right away even when the first attempt failed in 1995.

As far as I know 85% of table tennis players cannot be trusted as they have this slight mental illness as one of above groups. As I said not all of them are raging lunatics & none of them are probably in the psychotic category. But to be safe I would just NEVER EVER trust a table tennis player.

wehem wrote: ↑August 4th, 2025, 4:34 pm
A funny theory and nothing more. The club I mostly play in is called BAM-HIT("bam-bey"). By this logic, hitters with wide pips gather here, but this is not true

I agree but only partially with what you are trying to say & you have somewhat of a valid point.
I have also seen clubs that have the word "smash" in their club name.
But there is a huge difference. The owners of such clubs have no clue and do not think they are referring to wide (stiff) pips hitting only.
Also wide pips hitting is almost as extinct as choppers.

But club owners who use the word "top spin" in their club names most likely no what exactly it "implies".
I won't elaborate on that.

This is why I have asking ITTF to provide diversity education and sensitivity training to players.
But then I realized how stupid that is because look who the majority of table tennis players are & who controls the ITTF.

The really sad part is when a pips players especially a chopper joins a club with such a name
How disgusting is that

Gamalm wrote: ↑August 5th, 2025, 12:46 am

You are probably right, but this is an exaggeration about 70%. The main concentration of robonazis is in countries with low humidity, but where the humidity is high, there are quite a lot of players with pimples and the attitude towards slim (flex) and long (flex) pimples is more loyal. So it is more correct to say that 70% of robonazis are in European countries, central and northern China, the USA , Russia and etc