Laura Leach - Table Tennis

Laura Leach feigns serve

Laura Leach

U.S. National Table Tennis Championships

Las Vegas Convention Center

Las Vegas, Nevada

14- 17 December 2005

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I think there is something wrong with the video

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Posted: 01/11/2006 at 2:40pm \| IP Logged \| Report Post

All I see is she gets ready to serve and then turns around because (probably) the umpire said somethin' ?!

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Posted: 01/11/2006 at 2:40pm \| IP Logged

omarwashington wrote:

I think there is something wrong with the video

What do you think is wrong?

It's working fine for me.

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Posted: 01/11/2006 at 5:57pm \| IP Logged \| Report Post

I don't know about you, but to me the ball is never even tossed.

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TT_Freak wrote:

I don't know about you, but to me the ball is never even tossed.

I thought it looked more like a drop at the 5 second mark.

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Posted: 01/11/2006 at 7:31pm \| IP Logged \| Report Post

When I downloaded it she didnt even serve............she got ready and

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Posted: 01/11/2006 at 9:55pm \| IP Logged \| Report Post

What is wrong with the video is that there is never a serve

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omarwashington wrote:

What is wrong with the video is that there is never a serve

Yes, I thought she was going to serve and then she didn't.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/feign

feign (fn)

v. feigned, feign·ing, feigns

v.tr.

a. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.

b. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.

2. To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.

3. To fabricate: feigned an excuse.

4. Archaic To invent or imagine.

v.intr.

To pretend; dissemble.

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Posted: 01/12/2006 at 12:20am \| IP Logged \| Report Post

Lol... You guys don't get it. This is one of the good pieces in Rob's collection of quirky videos. What special about the piece is not what happened but what did not happen. Laura was supposed to serve, but she didn't. Had she served, it wouldn't be special.

On the other hand, the piece titled "Anand Engineer and his parents leave" is not special because of what happened but because of what happened behind the camera. The fact that Rob saw and captured the moment and turned it into a piece with such an apt title turned the ordinary into something extraordinary.

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lol thanks for clearing that up.

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aaaahh now i get it!

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I especially like "Anand Engineer and his parents leave". It caught your eyes and you wonder "Is Engineer his last name or is it engineer Anand?". And then you realize "Oh, that's his last name. What a cool last name to have". Next thing that hits you: "And his parents? Why parents?" And then you go: "Ah, he's a kid and he's with his parents". Just then another wave of wonderment surged again: "Leave? What 'leave' really means here? It can't be the simple act of leaving! That would be too ordinary an event to capture on film". So by now you're completely hooked. You have to down load the damn video to find out for yourself what the hell "Anand Engineer and his parents leave" is all about.

Leach, Laura

2005 US Nationals Championships

Rating before tournament: 1932

Rating after tournament: 1935

Rating change: 3

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Event
Results

Score

Rating +/-

Wins

U-2100 Rr

Fan, Wesley (1796) complete history

4,2,8 3

U-2100 Rr

Ronin, Michael (1936) complete history

9,-10,-10,8,6 8

U-2200 Rr

Meadows, Todd (1890) complete history

6,9,12 6

U-2200 Rr

Forthofer, Russ (1628) complete history

8,4,3 0

Losses

21 & Under Women's Singles

Shih, Stephanie (2049) complete history

8,-10,-9,7,9 -3

U-2100 Rr

Zainabudinova, Elmira (2139) complete history

9,-9,7,3 -1

U-2200 Rr

Lee, Myron (2108) complete history

4,-8,6,8 -2

Women's Collegiate Singles And Team Trials

Lee, Jacqueline (2358) complete history

4,8,6,4 -0

Women's Collegiate Singles And Team Trials

Ping, Whitney (2317) complete history

5,6,5,5 -0

Women's Collegiate Singles And Team Trials

Dubina, Amanda (2019) complete history

4,-8,-6,6,9,2 -5

Women's Collegiate Singles And Team Trials

Wu, Katherine (2132) complete history

11,8,6,1 -1

Women's Singles And Team Trials

Do, Michelle (2097) complete history

12,7,5,10 -2

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