Watching Maze play was always a treat. His creativity and resilience on the table were unmatched. Honoring him with this ceremony is a beautiful tribute. 🎉🏅
Thanks so much for this vlog, Iba! Allan Bentsen and Michael Maze are two of my favorite TT players. I feel fortunate to have seen both play in person. Hope you are enjoying training with the Danes.
I just learned of his retirement. Michael Mace was my idol. I started playing table tennis in middle school. I was not very good at it. The school was so strong that if I could place high enough in the city tournaments, I would be "praised". I just wanted to have fun. It was he who shocked me in those days. I didn't have the Internet, so I found out his name first from the Butterfly catalog and then from a friend at school. I was really bad at it. I couldn't "top spin" or "under spin" very well. But after I found out his name at the end of my seventh grade year, every weekday turned into time spent chasing him. Everyday practice became intense, not just swinging, but moving from place to place. A friend showed me a video of him. I was filled with an indescribable feeling as he sometimes showed his emotions and sometimes mesmerized me with his great backward play. I was really not very good at it. Specifically, I was not a "starting player. Of course, it would not be so easy to change even if I admired and imitated him. But I didn't care. It was the simpler things that mattered to me. He was cool. It was wonderful to expose myself like he did (strange as that may sound!). In the end, I finished best64 (lost in the 5th round) in the last city tournament of junior high school, and that was the end of my ping-pong career. I was still not very good at it, but I wanted to be like him, so I used my time in junior high school. I have no regrets at all. He taught me the importance of trying to be myself, and I made an effort to understand that throughout my three years. (I was sad when I moved on to high school and heard he had retired, but was happy when he came back. It was just so hard to find his games!) Without a doubt, Michael Mace is my idol. He is still my idol. I wish him a better future. From Japanese fans (My English is weird. Sorry!)
Watching Maze play was always a treat. His creativity and resilience on the table were unmatched. Honoring him with this ceremony is a beautiful tribute. 🎉🏅
Maze. What a legend! Thanks for this content. And congrats again on Paris.
Thank you 😁
Thanks so much for this vlog, Iba! Allan Bentsen and Michael Maze are two of my favorite TT players. I feel fortunate to have seen both play in person.
Hope you are enjoying training with the Danes.
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I just learned of his retirement.
Michael Mace was my idol.
I started playing table tennis in middle school. I was not very good at it. The school was so strong that if I could place high enough in the city tournaments, I would be "praised".
I just wanted to have fun. It was he who shocked me in those days. I didn't have the Internet, so I found out his name first from the Butterfly catalog and then from a friend at school.
I was really bad at it. I couldn't "top spin" or "under spin" very well. But after I found out his name at the end of my seventh grade year, every weekday turned into time spent chasing him. Everyday practice became intense, not just swinging, but moving from place to place.
A friend showed me a video of him. I was filled with an indescribable feeling as he sometimes showed his emotions and sometimes mesmerized me with his great backward play.
I was really not very good at it. Specifically, I was not a "starting player. Of course, it would not be so easy to change even if I admired and imitated him. But I didn't care. It was the simpler things that mattered to me. He was cool. It was wonderful to expose myself like he did (strange as that may sound!).
In the end, I finished best64 (lost in the 5th round) in the last city tournament of junior high school, and that was the end of my ping-pong career. I was still not very good at it, but I wanted to be like him, so I used my time in junior high school. I have no regrets at all. He taught me the importance of trying to be myself, and I made an effort to understand that throughout my three years.
(I was sad when I moved on to high school and heard he had retired, but was happy when he came back. It was just so hard to find his games!)
Without a doubt, Michael Mace is my idol. He is still my idol. I wish him a better future.
From Japanese fans
(My English is weird. Sorry!)
The way you grind your racket just like Michael Maze is awesome!
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Happy Retirement and have a wonderful life outside of TT Legend :)
Congrats on going to the Olympics i am gonna go watch hope to see you there
Now he is a legend!
Yessir 😁
Thanks for the great vid
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Awesome insights, oh and congrats on the qualy mate!
Thank you 🙌
Thanks for you video, are you still used Simon Gauzy SL Off?
Thanks Iba!
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Thanks for the cool vid...
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Hi Iba, what is the benefit to grind your racket like Michael Maze?
Huge name in Table Tennis!
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