Posted: 06/25/2005 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | Report Post

Do you even play any tournments???????

Posted: 06/25/2005 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | Report Post

 

*JC* wrote: hmm, i guess shes alright... no where near good enough for sponsorship tho. the only thing that impressed me was her Down the line loop from the BH corner... serve retuns poped up all the time. that chopper should have smashed them returns.

more of a lucky wack then a loop, her shot is so ugly and robotic it makes me sick.

Posted: 06/25/2005 at 10:47pm | IP Logged

 

wfwfitz wrote: Is there a different rating for women and men?

Not in the US.

--Rob

Posted: 06/26/2005 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | Report Post

and i think there are people sponsored by butterfly who are much worse than her, for example barbara wei. that girl shouldn't be sponsored by anyone

Posted: 06/28/2005 at 12:10am | IP Logged | Report Post

I wasn't really impressed with how Laura Xiao played again Sophia Yi. I thought Laura was only about 1800. However, she beat a 2000 friend I have in straight games who plays very well, so she must be 2100.

Yulske, post a video of yourself!

Posted: 06/28/2005 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | Report Post

hahahaha yulske would be EASILY 2000... he loops everything that can be looped, and loops it hard. (and in more often than not)

time to get out that digital camera

Posted: 06/28/2005 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | Report Post

 

yulske wrote: i have money(sometimes), except for some reason it tends to fly away on clothes and going out with my friends.

Yulske, how dare you have friends! Also, do you have a coach? Most every coach I know has a camcorder because he or she likes to film his or her students. Maybe you could ask to borrow one from a coach or have a coach film you and upload it somehow.

Posted: 06/28/2005 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | Report Post

i'd like to see a video of you playing too. after all, you seem so very sure of yourself

Posted: 06/28/2005 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | Report Post

yeah yulske take d challange. u have been shying off with tone of reasons.

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 2:54am | IP Logged | Report Post

no i dont have a coach, at the moment i can get by without a coach because i can play a certain style, a coach would help me by pointing out the exact style i should play.

Im playing this sunday at this social interclub competition (for all the aussies paul pinkewich and wayne higenbotham will be playing)

ill try to get some footage of myself there.

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 10:14am | IP Logged | Report Post

Yulske: Are you sure you can beat either Laura Xiao or Sophie Yi? Why do I have the feeling that they would hand you your ass in no time in a real match?

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 11:11am | IP Logged | Report Post

 

yulske wrote: yeah but shes still rated at 2000, and alink : there is no suprise in her serve, when i play long pip players i do my full service motion thats the same for all my serves then at the last second i will hit it more than spin to get a fast shot, or i will hit the edge of the side of the bat to get a null ball.

wel..... 2000 is nothing in canada or USA..... its not like world rating so.....

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | Report Post

yulske: you don't have a coach? as far as i know, most decent jrs and players have coaches. now i'd REALLY like to see that video of you playing. i agree w/ bigreddawgie and eddiehs' opinions

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | Report Post

Yulske, it always looks easier than it really is. Many a time I went to a club/tournament, took a look around and thought, hey, I can beat a bunch of people here; They're so damn awful! No sooner they started to hand my ass to me handily...

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | Report Post

 

bigreddawgie wrote: its hard to get to a high level without a coach, but its possible if you play with a lot of adults and high level people

i regularly play and practice with the top players in my state..

anyway, i dont undesrtand why all you americans are all getting so defensive about laura etc, im telling you what i see, ive played people that play the same as her and its not very hard, im not trying to put down the whole of the proud american nation by saying that some girl who has a so called "high rating" is really not that good of a player.

get over it you goons.

Posted: 06/29/2005 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | Report Post

yulske just send ur video here.....

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 12:21am | IP Logged | Report Post

 

bigreddawgie wrote: its hard to get to a high level without a coach, but its possible if you play with a lot of adults and high level people

IMO, I'd say getting to a high level just by playing good players is very low chance.

I'd say that to get to a high level (2300+) without ever getting coaching or going to a clinic is between 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 1,000,000.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 12:34am | IP Logged | Report Post

"i dont undesrtand why all you americans are all getting so defensive about laura etc"

We like to complain, it's our tradition.

"ive had technical help, its all i needed, footwork etc comes naturally to me."

What's the etc? I agree about the footwork part though. As long as you do heavy movement drills and know basic footwork technique (which is kind of natural anyways), footwork should be fairly natural.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 12:39am | IP Logged | Report Post

by etc i meant movement and the little things overall, im very light and have done lots of stuff that involves very fast footwork and good foot coordination so im used to moving around quickly

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 12:50am | IP Logged | Report Post

The match did look really bad though...

In reality, I imagine it was only because both girls were aiming for highest consistency. Laura Xiao didn't need to take as high a risk looping multiple chops in a row because 1) they are more difficult, and 2) Laura is almost positive that Sophia won't attack her drops/ pushes. Really, if a chopper can't counterattack or consistently loop pushes, it's good strategy to usually not loop really heavy chops.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 12:54am | IP Logged | Report Post

in NO part of this whole topic have i called myself really good and so much better than everyone else.

get your sh*t right you twat, laura does look bad and she moves to the ball very late when she wants to step around to hit a forehand, he serves arent disguised and it seems like it would be very easy to play her if thats how she always plays.

so shutup, and go pester someone else.

child.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 1:16am | IP Logged | Report Post

yes i was talking to you, and you should take my advice because its probably a lot smarter.

You seem like the type who likes to just butt in with everyone else and try to go against someone because everyone else is, because its the popular thing to do....

everyone can see that laura doesnt play well in that and neither does sophia, so are you trying to tell me that im worse than them because everyone else says so?!

and why do you disregard TTnooblars statement, sinces hes the only one who ive played with on this forum and he can speak truthfully because he gets to play with some decent players and he isnt too bad himself.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 1:48am | IP Logged | Report Post

yulske says: "yep, these forums are my life!"

that's pretty obvious dude. if a person got better as a player by posting and wasting time on this forum, yulske would be world champion no doubt.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 4:44am | IP Logged | Report Post

ive played with yulske a few times

im pretty sure he'd wipe laura off the table convincingly... assuming he isn't playing like a retard on a bad day.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | Report Post

you guys in america are convinced that you need a coach to tell you what to do during a game, most top players in our state DONT have coaches, and they could probably beat your whole national team.

Anyway, im over this, ill get some video soon to shut you all up.

Posted: 06/30/2005 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | Report Post

Put it this way, all the top USA players trained in their country of birth, which coincidently isn't America. In Australia we have people coming from China who used to be on provincial teams and national teams to teach juniors. So the standard in juniors is higher, but the standard in the older players are lower because the older strongest players moved to America.

Laura won because Sophia didn't attack, and used her long pimples to receive serve most of the time (and so became predictable).

Posted: 07/01/2005 at 9:50am | IP Logged | Report Post

*sigh*

Fact is, Miss. Xiao played horribly against Miss. Yi. She popped up so many serves it was hard to figure out why Sophia didn't just kill them. And she didn't even execute the European strategy properly, you must force them AWAY from the table and THEN execute a drop. That she even won is testament to the fact that to be a chopper nowadays you must either be incredibly consistant and tricky (Ding Song) or be an attacker with a chop backhand (Chen Weixing).

Posted: 07/01/2005 at 11:37am | IP Logged | Report Post

Hey, you guys who think you can beat Laura! This just shows what a sorry bunch of players you guys really are. What you guys don't know is this: For most good players, the level of play falls/rises depending on the opponents. Laura may not look like much against a less challenging opponent, but she's still good enough to hand your collective ass to you handily. Unless you're truly a 2000+ player, don't yak your mouth prematurely about beating Laula...

Posted: 07/01/2005 at 11:59am | IP Logged | Report Post

Actually, whether any of us would beat her or not is rather irrelevant (but quite possible). Does any of the forum members being an average player mean that he can not point out mistakes and bad form?

Oh, and if she has a hard time with less challenging opponents, then she either has a big problem with less common styles or mental instability. I'm guessing on the later, most juniors aren't very strong mentally.

Posted: 07/01/2005 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | Report Post

Lol... Yulske, you started all this? Nice going! Bring it on guys! We need more like this to keep the site alive.

Posted: 07/01/2005 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | Report Post

are you guys f**ked up or what?!

is it sunday yet?!? i told you i will try to get footage on sunday, anyway all you american spastics, stop defending your precious 2000 players and say something that means something dickheads.

i was saying that she is suprisingly at a low level for 2000 rating, your all f**ked up, its like none of you read what people say, you just see the "oh yulskes being a dickhead" statements and continue with those, your the ones who are f**king pathetic.