Thanks for the post. It's refreshing to see a jpen at this level. Cazuo's blocks and deceptive touches are something worth reviewing; something not common among the many handshake players.
i am obsessed with cazuo's backhand style holding his jpen blade. i would watch it ober & ober again without getting bored. inspires me as penholder to train harder.
É o melhor shoto do Brasil!! Dá gosto de ver o Cazuo jogando!! Para quem não se movimenta muito, simplesmente tem o melhor e mais rápido shoto matador!! Divino !!
He's got a very unique style, even within japanese penhold grip players. And at times a wonderful touch on the ball. His supposed weight problem, as some pointed out here, doesn't stop him from having a good footwork.
He underscores the suspicion that the 'limited' penhold backhand, even _jpen_ backhand, is a myth. If you teach kids not to limit their thinking about their style, but pursue flexibility and creativity, they can do pretty well anything. Look at old Japanese training vids from the '50s. It's painful to watch the unnecessarily cramped grip and stroke production for the bh, when all they had to do was to push the blade over with the thumb and rest the _back_ of the end-knuckles against the blade. Also note, it must be said, his apparent... um... body-mass index. That's more a limit to a game than his grip.
[First off, this is getting into deep OOAK TT forum territory, and I'm not going there! Life is too short.] No, I don't make it a lot, it's just that no other commenter makes it at all. By 'traditional', are you referring to traditional Japanese style after the Ogimura/Tanaka fashion? That's what sets penhold _back._ For my part, I'm using Matsumoto as a frame of reference as to how some really remarkable shots can be made (presumably) by the simple expedient I mentioned. By extended time, I'd say 'yes', but only with respect to lengthy experimentation, not match play. The knuckles-behind allows for the sort of remarkable performance I saw in a training facility locally. There was this Chinese player (I only remember his name as 'Yu', nothing more; I didn't know him except to say hello) who coached for a while, previous coach of the Italian team in the 80's. Anyway, he was warming up the provincial team, standing back from the table 7-8 feet and just wailing in these screaming backhand loops, wham...wham...wham. Only a shade off Wang Hao level, same-side bh though. I looked at my former team-mate, a junior, with a holy-crap! expression, and he knew I had a big shakehand bh (except I was a lousy _player._ with a never-push philosophy, so I never got anywhere). He said 'Yu would _kill_ you with that backhand; and he may have even meant counterlooping bh exchanges. Here's the kicker: I never saw Yu play that in a match. He had phenomenal footwork and loved to play the forehand. Let me be a bit offensive for an objective second, Matsumoto has a BMI problem. Brazil is not China: he hasn't been brought up in the most advanced coaching. Even if he were brought up in China, rpb is 'orthodox'. religiously. Finally, look at his first game match vs Xu Xin. Until XX figures him out, he is repeatedly getting taken down by some wicked backhand play. Nor is this unprecedented vs Chinese penholders. Lee Jung-woo had some respectable matches vs XX, Ma Lin, et al. How about _wins_ , people will insist? In my opinion the matter again boils down to the filter-effect: traditional ph is increasingly discouraged, modern rpb itself is being phased out, experimental traditional isn't going to get coached, because there are few coaches with either the skill-set or imagination for it. How is a 7-year old going to push through this inertia, and through the dogmatic lazyazz mental attitude of 'well, shakehands is just better, that's all' thing. Bottom line: Matsumoto's disadvantages result in the unforced errors we see that prevent 3-2, 4-1, 4-3 outcomes. Weight-control, early training, advanced multi-ball practice in an advanced TT country, consistency modelling of grip-change. His ranking is not the result of some supposed inherent biomechanical ph disadvantage.
Thanks for the post. It's refreshing to see a jpen at this level. Cazuo's blocks and deceptive touches are something worth reviewing; something not common among the many handshake players.
i am obsessed with cazuo's backhand style holding his jpen blade. i would watch it ober & ober again without getting bored. inspires me as penholder to train harder.
É o melhor shoto do Brasil!! Dá gosto de ver o Cazuo jogando!! Para quem não se movimenta muito, simplesmente tem o melhor e mais rápido shoto matador!! Divino !!
He's got a very unique style, even within japanese penhold grip players. And at times a wonderful touch on the ball. His supposed weight problem, as some pointed out here, doesn't stop him from having a good footwork.
Remember Claudio Kano (RIP), the pioneer of the Brazil! JPen, left-hand, a very good player!
Calderano ...
I love, love, love his TPB snap/punch.
The best JPen player in the world right now
occultdestroyer Lee Jung Woo
Perfect jpen player!!!
I am brazilian, and he's awesome, some of his shots are extremely spinny for a penholder
He isn't highly ranked, but the way he's handled some very good choppers, Xu Xin style, is almost enough to make you cry. Destroyed in seconds.
tubeist- dan Exactly
Hugo Calderano :)
Well penholders are supposed to have spinny shots
Cazuo joga muito
much better than watching those top players from china.... very refreshing.
it looks so awkward yet so powerful
those third ball attack ❤
Joga demais o Cazuo
*WANG HAO moved to Brazil and switched to Jpen...*
and ate the Brazilian dude
I was looking for such a comment 😂
He underscores the suspicion that the 'limited' penhold backhand, even _jpen_ backhand, is a myth. If you teach kids not to limit their thinking about their style, but pursue flexibility and creativity, they can do pretty well anything. Look at old Japanese training vids from the '50s. It's painful to watch the unnecessarily cramped grip and stroke production for the bh, when all they had to do was to push the blade over with the thumb and rest the _back_ of the end-knuckles against the blade.
Also note, it must be said, his apparent... um... body-mass index. That's more a limit to a game than his grip.
[First off, this is getting into deep OOAK TT forum territory, and I'm not going there! Life is too short.]
No, I don't make it a lot, it's just that no other commenter makes it at all. By 'traditional', are you referring to traditional Japanese style after the Ogimura/Tanaka fashion? That's what sets penhold _back._ For my part, I'm using Matsumoto as a frame of reference as to how some really remarkable shots can be made (presumably) by the simple expedient I mentioned. By extended time, I'd say 'yes', but only with respect to lengthy experimentation, not match play.
The knuckles-behind allows for the sort of remarkable performance I saw in a training facility locally. There was this Chinese player (I only remember his name as 'Yu', nothing more; I didn't know him except to say hello) who coached for a while, previous coach of the Italian team in the 80's. Anyway, he was warming up the provincial team, standing back from the table 7-8 feet and just wailing in these screaming backhand loops, wham...wham...wham. Only a shade off Wang Hao level, same-side bh though. I looked at my former team-mate, a junior, with a holy-crap! expression, and he knew I had a big shakehand bh (except I was a lousy _player._ with a never-push philosophy, so I never got anywhere). He said 'Yu would _kill_ you with that backhand; and he may have even meant counterlooping bh exchanges.
Here's the kicker: I never saw Yu play that in a match. He had phenomenal footwork and loved to play the forehand.
Let me be a bit offensive for an objective second, Matsumoto has a BMI problem. Brazil is not China: he hasn't been brought up in the most advanced coaching. Even if he were brought up in China, rpb is 'orthodox'. religiously. Finally, look at his first game match vs Xu Xin. Until XX figures him out, he is repeatedly getting taken down by some wicked backhand play. Nor is this unprecedented vs Chinese penholders. Lee Jung-woo had some respectable matches vs XX, Ma Lin, et al.
How about _wins_ , people will insist? In my opinion the matter again boils down to the filter-effect: traditional ph is increasingly discouraged, modern rpb itself is being phased out, experimental traditional isn't going to get coached, because there are few coaches with either the skill-set or imagination for it. How is a 7-year old going to push through this inertia, and through the dogmatic lazyazz mental attitude of 'well, shakehands is just better, that's all' thing.
Bottom line: Matsumoto's disadvantages result in the unforced errors we see that prevent 3-2, 4-1, 4-3 outcomes. Weight-control, early training, advanced multi-ball practice in an advanced TT country, consistency modelling of grip-change. His ranking is not the result of some supposed inherent biomechanical ph disadvantage.
Great video!
打球センスがハンパない
He got a better backhand than ryu seung min
现在这种直拍反手加力快推的打法绝迹了吧
Si, está muy desactualizado
show !
Let it be - теннис для удовольствия!!
1:40 ..did he yelled 'twilight' ??
Not even close
And the Marcos Freitas video ahahah?
Wowooo
こんな上手さが欲しい❗
müthiş bir TPB sahibi :)
Do you have any footage of a player named Sol schiff?
Wow, that's goes waaayyy back.
www.britishpathe.com/video/us-open-table-tennis-championships/query/table
Gussikoff, Riesman, Schiff, et al. Schiff is the leftie.
nice :)
weirdest style ever, but fun to watch ;)
台上技術ヤバイ
his serve-returning needs some improvement though
今時珍しい古典的な戦型ですな
do timo boll next
brazilian ma lin
KAZUOじゃないのかな?
most of his opponents here are lefties.. O.O
40% of the top 25 players are lefties with 90% of all players being right handed. People just don't get enough practice against lefties.
Jpen style looks awkward and unnatural but difficult to play against.
讚
Ааа
Piggy
一方日本人はペンホルダーを捨てた
フォームが汚い