SF East Bay: Coach Lin

pongmaster wrote: He was only only postulating the possibility.  But I think you understand, there is something fishy going on here.  Though I trust the authenticity of nathanso's review, JaredTTSmith is clearly another account made by Lin.  You can see the drastic change from the relatively well worded review he first prepared to his reply to idk, the grammar of which is much more characteristic of Lin.

What I understand is that it's far more important for some people to find ways to attack Lin, and that includes smearing nathanso in the process. Apology to nathanso still required.

Baal wrote:   +1   This is a strange thread and I can see why people are suspicious.  But Nathanso has been here forever and didn't deserve this!   Also, there have been way too many threads lately that start out fine and before long you have to duck to avoid the $h1+ people are flinging at each other.  It got much worse quite recently--far too often even a single person can cause it.  It is starting to take the fun out of chatting about ping pong.  It's ping pong for god's sake!  Not religion or politics or monetary policy or the future of the universe!

nathanso wrote: I first learned of hunkeelin aka Coach Lin in another thread on this forum, and despite the flame war that ensued there, was sufficiently intrigued by his previous training and accomplishments in HK to take him up on his $15 for 30 minutes introductory offer. That he coaches in the same county I live in was also a plus. In fact, the training ended up taking place at my home TT club, Concord Table Tennis Club; a club that has no staff coaches and thus no objection to freelance coaches using the facility to train club members (not all Bay Area clubs have this policy for perfectly understandable business reasons).

NextLevel wrote: Baal wrote:   +1   This is a strange thread and I can see why people are suspicious.  But Nathanso has been here forever and didn't deserve this!   Also, there have been way too many threads lately that start out fine and before long you have to duck to avoid the $h1+ people are flinging at each other.  It got much worse quite recently--far too often even a single person can cause it.  It is starting to take the fun out of chatting about ping pong.  It's ping pong for god's sake!  Not religion or politics or monetary policy or the future of the universe!    Ultimately, it is the tone that the board owners/moderators desire.

You guys should start a support group.

The problem is that apparently very few people have the ability to evaluate these situations objectively outside of social influences. Lin did deserve a certain amount of shit for his bragging, but was actually quite quick to apologize and even fairly introspective when this was pointed out to him. Whereas for people following moral conduct this would've been a signal to stop, the group dogpiling dynamic of folks trying to relive their high school days continued to pound away at the same tired hyperbole as if actually true. His position as the "outsider" against the establishment just made this worse and it's no different than the "cool" clique picking on the new foreign kid. I imagine this is how school shootings happen.

NextLevel wrote: jt99sf wrote: nathanso wrote: I first learned of hunkeelin aka Coach Lin in another thread on this forum, and despite the flame war that ensued there, was sufficiently intrigued by his previous training and accomplishments in HK to take him up on his $15 for 30 minutes introductory offer. That he coaches in the same county I live in was also a plus. In fact, the training ended up taking place at my home TT club, Concord Table Tennis Club; a club that has no staff coaches and thus no objection to freelance coaches using the facility to train club members (not all Bay Area clubs have this policy for perfectly understandable business reasons). http://www.concordtabletennis.com/content/available-coaching There are 5 available coaches at the Concord TT Club.  I'm surprised that since you've been in the area for so long that coach Bill Lui  (CTTC) did not help you with your issues. "Available coaches" are not "staff coaches" - staff coaches have an agreement to share proceed with the club in return for exclusivity.

Edited by jt99sf - 09/05/2013 at 5:16pm

nathanso wrote: Bill may have retired from coaching. I haven't seen him at the club in many months, perhaps due to health reasons. I participated in two of his past classes at CTTC but I was using a Seemiller grip at the time. Switching to shakehand changed everything and meant I had to develop FH and BH strokes again from the ground up. I'll be training with Lin this Sunday at CTTC from 10:30-11:30 if anyone would care to observe. Please respect our privacy and do not photograph or video our play without explicit permission from both players.

I think in this day and age, privacy is the last thing we have
Hope you guys have a good session on Sunday

            After 1 week in internet jail. I came to reflect upon myself. Only pathetic internet trolls like you and me will think about tarnishing your reputation for laughter. The difference between me and you however, is the fact that my reputation couldn't get any worst after my antics, it'll only head in one direction from now on. 

Edited by hunkeelin - 09/07/2013 at 12:13am

jt99sf wrote: hunkeelin wrote: Dear Jt99sf, idk and pong master.              After 1 week in internet jail. I came to reflect upon myself. Only pathetic internet trolls like you and me will think about tarnishing your reputation for laughter. The difference between me and you however, is the fact that my reputation couldn't get any worst after my antics, it'll only head in one direction from now on.  All the signs of a great coach.

Edited by hunkeelin - 09/07/2013 at 1:43am

hunkeelin wrote: jt99sf wrote: hunkeelin wrote: Dear Jt99sf, idk and pong master.              After 1 week in internet jail. I came to reflect upon myself. Only pathetic internet trolls like you and me will think about tarnishing your reputation for laughter. The difference between me and you however, is the fact that my reputation couldn't get any worst after my antics, it'll only head in one direction from now on.  All the signs of a great coach. No, sir, it's a sign of naivety. Though I am/claim to be a professional at what I am doing. Sadly, you will never know, either you are too far or too ignorant to try, like it matters. The ignorant ones are the most difficult to coach, always fall back in the plays they are used to never try new stuff they learnt in lessons. Oh wait, am I feeding the trolls again /=.

Info for hunkeelin.

My opinion of Lin's coaching remains unchanged. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd hire him to be my company's Internet marketing manager.

Too many time and space in mytt for this fictional "coach"...

nathanso wrote: My opinion of Lin's coaching remains unchanged. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd hire him to be my company's Internet marketing manager.

jt99sf wrote: nathanso wrote: My opinion of Lin's coaching remains unchanged. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd hire him to be my company's Internet marketing manager. Just rem you're paying him to be nice. Enough said.

hunkeelin wrote: jt99sf wrote: nathanso wrote: My opinion of Lin's coaching remains unchanged. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd hire him to be my company's Internet marketing manager. Just rem you're paying him to be nice. Enough said. He have enough coaches in his past to judge which coach best suits him. Your insults is starting to direct to him now. I don't mind you insult me because I deserve it, but I think you are a out of the line now; you owe an apology to nathanso.   There might be a small possibility that you are envying me because a 22 years old raging internet antic troll is doing your job better than you? Just my opinion, like it matters in this forum. You decide.