My understanding is that tt-news.de equated child abuse to just physical abuse such beating up a child.
But abuse is not limited to just that
In table tennis abuse can be forcing a child to play topspin only Olympic tabletennis when starting
This amounts to sort of physical abuse as well as mental abuse.
Why ?
1. ITTF coaches are brainwashed ad conditioned to believe that the European two wing style of topspin only Olympic table tennis is the ONLY NORMAL way to play and those who play diversity all spins tabletennis are athletically and intellectually inferior. The problem is that it is farthest from the truth because 80% to 90% humans do not have the same power, consistency etc to play a two winged looping playing style using homogenous dumb rackets. The
(click link >) robotNazis ITTF considers diversity tabletennis is a nuisance and would absolutely love to ban it but ITTF does not due to political & financial reasons . Other racket sports like tennis has recognized this backhand limitations of humans & has moved on to two-handed backhand fifty years ago with Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert etc. More and more players are playing two handed backhands even in pickleball now despite shorter handle length.
2. Boosting & spein gluing is common law illegal and also unapproved by Rule 2.4.7 & Regulation 3.4.2.2 of ITTF statutes. Yet this is rampant in table tennis and ITTF just looks the other way. The problem is not just only the players who do this by themselves but also the dangerous secondhand effect upon other players, officials, spectators , children & pregnant women (This is not something I made up .......I am quoting the reason given by late Dr.Rufford Harrison , the former chairperson of the ITTF equipment committee , as the reason for ITTF's failed attempt to enforce the spein glue ban of 1995 when Rev.Larry Hodges & cult groupies forced ITTF to repeal this ban within months threatening to form their own association........BTW this is also the political reason ITTF afraid to ban all pips & anti though they would love to........because they do not want the ppips / anto players to form their own association and this is dilution of control of ITTF & also financial losses.......this is why ITTF has chosen to sing the diversity song but quietly continues to severely limit the capabilities of pips players with 14 rule but the ignorant clueless chopper fools are too clueless and too afraid to stand up to the ITTF) . So consider the effect of boosting upon children (almost all boosting is done by two winged looper
(click link >) robotNazis ) . This is why it is child abuse
3. The last but not least component is the brain development of children. Tabletennis is considered the best sport for brain development among children. But two winged robotic looping is counter productive in this sense. When children learn to play diversity all spins tabletennis a highly tactical playing style using smart rackets from the very beginning, brain development is better enhanced unlike playing robotic two winged looping style , which 80% or more of humans cannot do anyway to start with. Almost all Indian tabletennis academies have moved to smart rackets for at least female children & there had been major complaints about this Europe (claiming Indian is flooding youth tournaments with so called junk players) . A terrified TTFI (Indian TT association) is trying send more two winged loopers to tournaments despite knowing it is not a winning strategy. (But this type of oppression of pips players is nothing unusual........it started way back in mid 1970;s when Liang Geliang & other Chinese choppers were bullied & limited by Chinese coaches & long pips was quickly banned at the 1977 Birmingham BGM..........no .......the pips listed are NOT long pips ........ths is usual ITTF deception to brainwash the chopper fools & other r pips players to believe that long pips still exist in table tennis)