ittf president's policies...?

http://www.ittf.com/itTV/s/as_cctv_2008/AS_CCTV1. - http://www.ittf.com/itTV/videos/as_cctv_2008/AS_CCTV1.html

Adham Sharara is trying to turn our sport into business, he said it clearly. He doesn t care what the majority of the players across the world think. We need to get rid of him and others like him quickly! immediately, now! Before it is too late...

I watched this ages ago. This was obviously before the 2008 Olympics...

Hans Regenkurt wrote: Just an off-topic question, which is of course not relevant to whether he is a good guy or not, but to me he seems to have a little accent when speaking English. His written English is impeccable, but he does not sound like somebody from the English parts of Canada. Anyone knows if he is from the French speaking areas of Canada?

He is from India who managed to escape and now lives in Canada, hoping to pass off as a clever white man. He doesn t go out in the sun to keep his skin white.

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Correction: Cairo,Egypt.

I m sure you wanted to know.

Hans Regenkurt wrote: What he is trying to achieve is havoc to TT, we will end up seeing half naked cheergirls in the intervals between sets.

LOL I think Swiffer s dream TT girl might be in this too.

Hans Regenkurt wrote: do not want female players to be appreciated because of their butt.

Agree with you man. The time I saw the Females can wear skirts rule, I remembered men like women s tennis because of this. I think they should remove this rule since I remember seeing Crystal Huang wearing a light blue skirt and I saw her butt.

I viewed some of the video and I think some of his ideas about changing some rules are good to the public but trying to interest TT to the world for more people to play it are wrong. This isn t chess it s TT. Table Tennis on TV is nothing. How many channels boreadcast TT? Only a few. I wish I could speak with him and teach him a lesson. If he wants to destroy this game, we should duplicate it and let his version be called Adam Tennis of Havoc.

Please remember that you should not judge Sahara for what he is doing to the sport.

"Odds are the next president would be worse, and he would play me in China.
:-)."

Great non-reply!

people that hate adham, are obsessed with their speed glue/boosting. He s trying to make the sport more popular, safe, and playable. You haters should stop crying like sisses, accept the changes and practice :P

icontek wrote: �I believe Adam has growth of the sport in mind with recent changes.

Actually, so do I, but I think he is wrong to believe tt is a tv sport, or a spectator sport in any real way. Therefore he (ITTF) is wrong to make changes based on the notion.

Time will tell who is correct.

bozbrisvegas wrote: http://www.ittf.com/itTV/s/as_cctv_2008/AS_CCTV1. - http://www.ittf.com/itTV/videos/as_cctv_2008/AS_CCTV1.html   for some people this may not be news, but it is the first time Ive seen and heard it from his mouth.   Please watch some of this, before you comment, I started this thread because this guy never ceases to amaze me.  Please note I only made it through 10 minutes and *&^% off.    Interesting points:   He is a chopper and wants to slow the mens game down so it is more like womens table tennis!    He  tries as much as possible to change our game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   For sport to be popular, it must be attractive to television!   Bill Gates came to watch a lot of womens table tennis in the Sydney olympics, choosing women because it was easier to watch.   The change to 11 points was because it was boring to 21 if the level of the players werent equal.  So there are more ends of sets, like in basketball the most exciting part is the last 3 minutes. The ball was made bigger & hence slower for tv     After working more on this poll I wish i had entered another poll choice.   CHOICE 3 = COUCH POTATOES

An interesting idea is to create limits  to make men and women more equal on the table. However i believe that s impossible at the highest level.
If the idea is to make it possible UP TO A CERTAIN LEVEL then it s smart.
I like the picture of having plenty of girls in clubs. If that happens let me tell you the sport will take off for good because where girls go we all go!

sprite wrote: but I think he is wrong to believe tt is a tv sport, or a spectator sport in any real way. Therefore he (ITTF) is wrong to make changes based on the notion.

That s a logical fallacy.

Adam is clearly trying to make changes that make it more TV friendly.
It follows that he believes that good television coverage will help popularize the sport.

It s not great on TV right now because of the number of unforced errors, massive spin changes and difficulty for Joe Sixpack to UNDERSTAND or care about the game.

Heck, I ve seen world class matches that were a snoozefest (3rd ball kill, unforced error, 3rd ball kill, repeat) and dramatic club matches between US1800 players that were exciting (10+ hits with changes in offense/defense posture and control)...

Adam wants more drama and more excitement in the sport. 3rd ball kills and unforced errors are not exciting for spectators.

bbkon wrote: sharara is lying, if he really wanted to slow down the game , ittf would forbid maximum rubbers and fast blades but that wouild hurt bty and obvuiously they are partners, I FORBID AND YOU SELL MORE

that s just paranoid conspiracy thinking.

if butterfly and the ITTF were truly in league, do you think butterfly would have spent the R&D money on the (now illegal) PowerSponge rubbers? What about "Speed Optimizer One"?

I have been playing for 17 years and it is the variety of spin plus the great speed made me love the game and the possibility to use one s creativity to improve their game. The ITTF way to create more popularity is to slow the game down, limit the range of coverings and hence diminish creativity.

Unfortunately it is not the sport of those who just like to switch their brains off just staring at the tv and sometimes drink in the sight of short female skirts. Taking the sport in this direction i fear will make TT the Britney Spears of sports.

I agree that third ball kill sometimes makes the game boring to watch - especially for those who dont understand what happens. Therefore the ITTF and Sharara should concentrate on explaining to wider audiences why things happen. They should also encourage the spread of TT classes in primary schools. A lot of kids like playing. This is what they should be concentrating on.

It is very true that if they had wanted to slow the game down they should have ruled out carbon and any other composite blades and max thickness should have been reduced to 2 mm. The most important step to curb 3rd ball attacking and create longer topspin or chop vs topspin rallies would have been the raising of the net... It would have been the cheapest solution....


Only after making this change should they have started further analyzing what else needs to be done. This is why I believe they are incompetent people. Because they were so incostintent about tuners they caused a lot of clubs in my countries to waste thousands of dollars in vain on the later to be banned new kind of health-safe "speed glue". I am yet to see a report that really proves that tuners are harmful for human health. By really I mean that the test was conducted on a sample of at least 1000 people not just five. This is the third thing: Sharara sometimes adroitly sidesteps some questions: he generally states that tuners are harmful, and tries to save his butt by saying that ITTF rules are for the international level.

Bear in mind that they have a marketing agency behind them and they give him ideas on what to say.... I even tend to believe that his appearance on various forums just served as a means to collect data on how the public think about their actions.

He hasnt been caught admitting that the Olympic Committe put pressure on the ITTF because of our using glues and this induced this whole ..... excrement we are in now. I would like to hear from him owing to which country / ies the ITTF didnt manage to have the net raised some years ago.