I fully agree with your point of view. As an amateur, I love nothing more to improve myself and my friends, even as rivals. In fact, if you would hold back against your friends in a serious match, I would find it even insulting. In the end both players want to win the game, it should not be taken personally by anyone if your friend beats you or loses to you. I got my best friends from table tennis and they started as rivals. As amateur, these relationships can have great potential. Thank you for the video!
Your content is great in general ! Keep it up. I paused the video at the beginning and without seeing even 2 seconds of it, I will say yes of course you can be friends....OUTSIDE of the table :) . When the game starts you need to be focused on your game and adapt to your OPPONENT. I think it is something much more easy for professionals though, to achieve this level of concentration, normal hobby players like us may be affected if we see an emotional reaction from our friend/opponent
Same with sprinters & marathon runners. In amateur, weaker players do tend to admire stronger players. But yes, when China invited Mima Ito to train with them (around when I think after Ito beat their world champion) it was seen as a friendly gesture, but what was happening was they were asking her what she ate, how she trained and they recored it all. Then they trained their players to beat her. This is a common tactic I have seen for numerous decades, even back when I used to do sport (your opponent will even try to get tehir mates to get you drunk the night before a competition [fake friendship, free drink etc] [& others will alter the signs on a marathon track]).
I fully agree with your point of view. As an amateur, I love nothing more to improve myself and my friends, even as rivals. In fact, if you would hold back against your friends in a serious match, I would find it even insulting. In the end both players want to win the game, it should not be taken personally by anyone if your friend beats you or loses to you. I got my best friends from table tennis and they started as rivals. As amateur, these relationships can have great potential.
Thank you for the video!
Thought-provoking points of view, presented very well.
Your content is great in general ! Keep it up. I paused the video at the beginning and without seeing even 2 seconds of it, I will say yes of course you can be friends....OUTSIDE of the table :) . When the game starts you need to be focused on your game and adapt to your OPPONENT. I think it is something much more easy for professionals though, to achieve this level of concentration, normal hobby players like us may be affected if we see an emotional reaction from our friend/opponent
Invaluable and insightful sports subtle analysis.
Competition and how to deal with rival friends.
Cool.
Thanks a lot for the insight! Happy New Year to you!
Very interesting topic!
Same with sprinters & marathon runners. In amateur, weaker players do tend to admire stronger players. But yes, when China invited Mima Ito to train with them (around when I think after Ito beat their world champion) it was seen as a friendly gesture, but what was happening was they were asking her what she ate, how she trained and they recored it all. Then they trained their players to beat her. This is a common tactic I have seen for numerous decades, even back when I used to do sport (your opponent will even try to get tehir mates to get you drunk the night before a competition [fake friendship, free drink etc] [& others will alter the signs on a marathon track]).
Same thing I thought was happening when they invited Truls.
I think this topic came up because Zheng Qinwen said she cannot be friends with others on the tennis circuit.
I'm sold, Yann Burrer if you are reading this konw that we are not friends anymore.