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Re : why table tennis is the most complex sport in the world

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Not a bad video.
But the major flaw is defining only 3 types of spin
It has to be classified as 4 types spin
No spin ( or flat hitting ) play style or block & smash style has been part and parcel of the table tennis tennis mainstream till 80's .
The ITTF's maniacal obsession to turn this sport into singular homogeneous top spin only Olympic table tennis has destroyed no spin & back spin styles of play , lot more so on men's side than women
Zhuang Zedong & Jiang Jialiang were great many time World Singles Champions from no spin style
Not to forget Johnny Huang . He Zhiwen & Matt Falck
There were women World champions as well


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Tennis more or less went the same way. Jimmy Connors was probably last true flat hitter
There is a lot more to this story of all spins table tennis which sort of relates to Connors (& Borg etc.)

You can read more about this at
https://AllSpinsTT.com

You may want to add a note to your video in the Description section

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Re: Re : why table tennis is the most complex sport in the world

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If one needs to appreciate how difficult a sport table tennis is, all one needs to do is too look at the lowest rating events in this tournament

https://omnipong.com/T-tourney.asp?t=102&r=5679&h=
See attachment
They have an Rating Under 150 event :shock:

(I believe USATT set the lower rating limit at 200 but this will probably be update later , that is fine)
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