You guys don't know how much this podcast means to me! It is hard enough to find useful and entertaining channels aboat small subjects that you care about, This is even another step above! A whole podcast! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you're doing! Can't wait for further episodes!
Yall should make it out to MLTT for the Portland matches I promise you’re gonna love the crowd. It was nuts last season! That’s why they chose to make Portland the first city of the tour for season 2!
Love these podcasts, finally some table tennis content to whack on while on a drive. I'd ask Truls if he faced any push-back from coaches over the years, wanting him to reform into a more traditional style, or did they all embrace and help to develop what we see today.
i would ask truls does he think hes a big tournament player considering his maybe not silver medal season hes had and also which player is the nicest off the table on tour
my question to truls would be what was the evolution of his unique style like from when he first started learning the basic strokes to now when and how did he pick up the habits of playing his iconic shots that no one else seems to really utilize
@@antang6964 i can watch 100 hours of training footage of waldner and persson but that doesnt mean i will copy their style and regardless its not even the same style
@@bistopher He said in an interview that he studied their matches. I don't think you have access to the Swedish Team video archives.There's not even 5 percent of their matches on youtube plus you have zero insight of their training and tactics. His style is pretty similar to the Swedes of the 90's,heavy emphasis on serve+receiving technique and good counterattacking.The biggest difference is that he smashes alot on his forehand and his body isn't that strong. His style isn't that unique at all.Just a bit old fashioned.Alexis Lebrun,Moregard and Aruna play essentially the European style of the 90's.Lebrun and Aruna for the matter play alot like J.M Saive.
funny and nice episode! In terms of Dima's short game with FH I totally disagree with you: rewatch the game against Truls in teams event... he 100% lost due to lack of FH short game and instead always playing a bad BH in FH. Truls perfectly made profit from this. 3-5 free points per set just due to that
Biggest issue for table tennis is that its not a great spectator sport. Need to fix that to make rallies longer and exciting to draw more viewership. Make the game more fair for choppers, increase the net height to allow for needing to spin the ball up more, penalize hiding the serve, have cameras/apps to calculate the spin on the ball and how much spin to provide to the viewers (as that information is hard to discern as a spectator and gives more anticipation and clarity for why someone hits the ball into the net or 10 ft off the table), etc. Unfortunately, unless theres a big effort from ITTF to make some of these rule changes + enforce current rules as well as make video coverage of the games more spectator friendly I don't see the sport growing especially with other sports like pickleball that people can just watch and play instead. I agree putting more exciting content on social media can prop up the excitement for the sport, but it isn't sustainable since the goal is for people to consistently watch and play table tennis. After they see the clips it'll be great since the highlights are awesome in those big swinging rallies that last 10+ hits, but then the viewer will quickly see after watching a few games that those rallies happen so infrequently that the time to enjoyment ratio just isn't there and will drop table tennis watching/playing.
Excellent chat. Here are my views. Pros: Some great matches, French Brothers, amazing atmos, Sweden pushing China (men), North Korea winning a bronze (mixed), a proper camera angle, Discovery+ for £3.99 (all matches covered), The snake. Cons: Practically no table tennis on the BBC, IOC not uploading/allowing any edited highlights on TH-cam during the tournament, too many weak players in the singles draw - some barely had a ranking yet Ma Long not eligible. So wrong. Finally, I wish the TTD mob could take charge of WTT. I'm pretty sure they would scrap that unwatchable side view garbage angle. It really is killing the sport for the viewer. Ask Truls what he thinks. Even Timo hates it.
Interesting point you make about the side view. I think there are some pros to it: • You get a much greater sense of scale on how far back some of the players go • You get a much greater sense of speed and how hard some of the shots are • And obviously commercially, it allows for more/better sponsor logos on the court I think the best production would be a mixture of views, constantly changing from directly behind the table, over the right hand shoulder view, side angle and lots of close ups 😊
I agree two players per nation in singles was frustrating for countries like Germany, China, France. We should have all the best players at the Olympics!
@@TTDJoe The WTT are only interested in your third point. Behind the table and right hand shoulder view has to be the future. The upcoming WTT events on the main table will, sadly, be more of the same. No interest in watching that live .
Love that there’s a pod on TT at all but I’m pretty surprised and disappointed at how short the discussion on the women’s game was. And a good chunk of that even veered off into discussing some of the male players. Personally I think women’s TT is just as interesting and rich as the men’s game, but people who don’t follow it will find very little to entice them from the tiny token amount of attention given to it here.
You guys don't know how much this podcast means to me! It is hard enough to find useful and entertaining channels aboat small subjects that you care about, This is even another step above! A whole podcast! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you're doing! Can't wait for further episodes!
Thanks for the kind words ✌️😊
Joe ,I hope putting Kerangas shirt on the wall will be the 1 st of many.
Thank you very much!! 🏓♥️
Our favourite moment was the energy from the crowd and of course the insane player performances! What an Olympics!
Truls victory over Wang Chuqin was definitely the highlight for me. So unexpected, done with tenacity and style. What sport is all about.
Love these
Yall should make it out to MLTT for the Portland matches I promise you’re gonna love the crowd. It was nuts last season! That’s why they chose to make Portland the first city of the tour for season 2!
The best podcast ever. Please keep up the videos!😊
Thanks very much!
My weekly session of table tennis has started!
Loved this episode! Keep up the great work!
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My absolute favorite moment was Truls' snake to FZD, I would ask him about it.
Love these podcasts, finally some table tennis content to whack on while on a drive.
I'd ask Truls if he faced any push-back from coaches over the years, wanting him to reform into a more traditional style, or did they all embrace and help to develop what we see today.
Oh also I think i saw an instagram story of team Sweden with team Aus out for a late night feed after the silver medal, how did that come about 😆
Great Podcast!
I knew you guys would start a podcast eventually. Keep it up lads! Hope you are all well 😘 Falbs
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really entertaining listening and interesting hearing different insights, great vid guys
During paris2024, in China, 12 of the top 20 ratings are table tennis competitions, in which the highest is Fan Zhendong vs Harimoto
i would ask truls does he think hes a big tournament player considering his maybe not silver medal season hes had and also which player is the nicest off the table on tour
my question to truls would be what was the evolution of his unique style like from when he first started learning the basic strokes to now when and how did he pick up the habits of playing his iconic shots that no one else seems to really utilize
That's easy to answer.He watched lots of tapes of JO Waldner and Persson.
@@antang6964 i can watch 100 hours of training footage of waldner and persson but that doesnt mean i will copy their style and regardless its not even the same style
@@bistopher He said in an interview that he studied their matches. I don't think you have access to the Swedish Team video archives.There's not even 5 percent of their matches on youtube plus you have zero insight of their training and tactics.
His style is pretty similar to the Swedes of the 90's,heavy emphasis on serve+receiving technique and good counterattacking.The biggest difference is that he smashes alot on his forehand and his body isn't that strong.
His style isn't that unique at all.Just a bit old fashioned.Alexis Lebrun,Moregard and Aruna play essentially the European style of the 90's.Lebrun and Aruna for the matter play alot like J.M Saive.
My question for Truls would be
What do you get out of a blade?
Favorite moment was deffo Källberg beating harimoto
Insane match! Källberg was in the zone!
I was there!! 😂 just had to use my binoculars to see it 👀😭
Felt bad for Harimoto though. He took it so hard😢.
@@johanwestin3030 yeah thats the hard bit, No matter how much i rooted for Anton it was still hard to Watch harimoto when he lost😥
funny and nice episode!
In terms of Dima's short game with FH I totally disagree with you: rewatch the game against Truls in teams event... he 100% lost due to lack of FH short game and instead always playing a bad BH in FH. Truls perfectly made profit from this. 3-5 free points per set just due to that
Biggest issue for table tennis is that its not a great spectator sport. Need to fix that to make rallies longer and exciting to draw more viewership. Make the game more fair for choppers, increase the net height to allow for needing to spin the ball up more, penalize hiding the serve, have cameras/apps to calculate the spin on the ball and how much spin to provide to the viewers (as that information is hard to discern as a spectator and gives more anticipation and clarity for why someone hits the ball into the net or 10 ft off the table), etc. Unfortunately, unless theres a big effort from ITTF to make some of these rule changes + enforce current rules as well as make video coverage of the games more spectator friendly I don't see the sport growing especially with other sports like pickleball that people can just watch and play instead.
I agree putting more exciting content on social media can prop up the excitement for the sport, but it isn't sustainable since the goal is for people to consistently watch and play table tennis. After they see the clips it'll be great since the highlights are awesome in those big swinging rallies that last 10+ hits, but then the viewer will quickly see after watching a few games that those rallies happen so infrequently that the time to enjoyment ratio just isn't there and will drop table tennis watching/playing.
Excellent chat. Here are my views. Pros: Some great matches, French Brothers, amazing atmos, Sweden pushing China (men), North Korea winning a bronze (mixed), a proper camera angle, Discovery+ for £3.99 (all matches covered), The snake.
Cons: Practically no table tennis on the BBC, IOC not uploading/allowing any edited highlights on TH-cam during the tournament, too many weak players in the singles draw - some barely had a ranking yet Ma Long not eligible. So wrong.
Finally, I wish the TTD mob could take charge of WTT. I'm pretty sure they would scrap that unwatchable side view garbage angle. It really is killing the sport for the viewer. Ask Truls what he thinks. Even Timo hates it.
Interesting point you make about the side view.
I think there are some pros to it:
• You get a much greater sense of scale on how far back some of the players go
• You get a much greater sense of speed and how hard some of the shots are
• And obviously commercially, it allows for more/better sponsor logos on the court
I think the best production would be a mixture of views, constantly changing from directly behind the table, over the right hand shoulder view, side angle and lots of close ups 😊
I agree two players per nation in singles was frustrating for countries like Germany, China, France. We should have all the best players at the Olympics!
@@TTDJoe The WTT are only interested in your third point. Behind the table and right hand shoulder view has to be the future.
The upcoming WTT events on the main table will, sadly, be more of the same. No interest in watching that live .
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Love that there’s a pod on TT at all but I’m pretty surprised and disappointed at how short the discussion on the women’s game was. And a good chunk of that even veered off into discussing some of the male players. Personally I think women’s TT is just as interesting and rich as the men’s game, but people who don’t follow it will find very little to entice them from the tiny token amount of attention given to it here.
What was your favourite moment from the 2024 Paris Olympics? 🏓
Got to be Truls’s world class snake 🐍
Fzd earning grand slam title
Seeing North Korea... but more sad seeing our boy Harimoto like that 😢
@@TTDFAN144 th-cam.com/video/VkqiSzoVtUA/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/users/shorts00xeML7RW3E FZD clapping, so unusual !
TT definately needs more coverage on the olympics! I get sick of the same sports been shown all the time 😖
Sweden played China only in finals when France always played china before medal games so sweden is little bit overrated i think
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