Find Another Sport You Whining Babies

Stop crying your a$$es off about the bans. Everyone is affected in the same manner. I would have continued to glue if they had allowed it but they don't, so now I have to adjust.

Nobody likes change, but quit your b1tching and start practicing. In six months nobody will even remember the glue ban. It was the same as the 40 mm ball and the change in the service rule. Everyone hated them, now nobody even remembers they existed.

Sports that don't change with the times become stagnant and ultimately fail. From what I have seen I love some of the world class rallies now as they have become much longer. No more hidden serves, no more crazy spin/speed. It's a great game and sport. Just give it time and give yourselves time. If you don't have patience then quit. We don't need whining b1tches in this sport.

is jean michel saive a whining b1itch?
quoted "for the first time didnt enjoy the game]

glue whiners prayer

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.

easyfiji wrote: Stop crying your a$$es off about the bans. Everyone is affected in the same manner. I would have continued to glue if they had allowed it but they don't, so now I have to adjust. Nobody likes change, but quit your b1tching and start practicing. In six months nobody will even remember the glue ban. It was the same as the 40 mm ball and the change in the service rule. Everyone hated them, now nobody even remembers they existed. Sports that don't change with the times become stagnant and ultimately fail. From what I have seen I love some of the world class rallies now as they have become much longer. No more hidden serves, no more crazy spin/speed. It's a great game and sport. Just give it time and give yourselves time. If you don't have patience then quit. We don't need whining b1tches in this sport.

Of course, that's exactly what will happen ... but the point you are missing (most likely because the changes are not directly effecting you) is that the next change will be to a 42 mm ball, then they will raise the net another inch, then they will double the size of the table, then they will prohibit stepping away from the table for more than 4 feet, then... you catch my drift, right? It seems preposterous - but wouldn't people laugh in 1990 if you told them the rules of today? they would laugh and tell you "I don't want to play that kind of table tennis"... and that is no laughing matter, my friend, because it directly and very visibly undermines the health of our sport.

easyfiji wrote: Stop crying your a$$es off about the bans. Everyone is affected in the same manner. I would have continued to glue if they had allowed it but they don't, so now I have to adjust. Nobody likes change, but quit your b1tching and start practicing. In six months nobody will even remember the glue ban. It was the same as the 40 mm ball and the change in the service rule. Everyone hated them, now nobody even remembers they existed. Sports that don't change with the times become stagnant and ultimately fail. From what I have seen I love some of the world class rallies now as they have become much longer. No more hidden serves, no more crazy spin/speed. It's a great game and sport. Just give it time and give yourselves time. If you don't have patience then quit. We don't need whining b1tches in this sport.

Thylacine wrote:  Quite an ignorant first post. A bunch of incompetent and corrupt officials is destroying our wonderful sport and still there are people  stupid enough to beleive  that it is for the good of the sport.

The next thing they should go after is the service toss. 

If they change the ball to 42mm  and raise the net height...... All pro and am. players, coaches, trainers, and all involved,  need to fully boycott ITTF and start their own world wide organization. 

Like all sports, we have to deal with issues that arise, when technology changes begins affecting the sport.  some rules are good and necessary, however like rich215 says, there are limits, beyond which, a new sanctioning organization is necessary.  i would hope it does not come to that. 

agreed. i've never used speed glue or objected to the change in ball size.  but over regulation can be a real problem - it would make the sport far less popular.  they cant' go on forever - there are limits.    

roundrobin wrote: IMO there's an urgent need for an international amateurs table tennis association to exist, because Adham had always stressed in his replies here that ITTF only deals with issues that affect pros and international team competitions at his tourneys, not us amateurs.  He always encouraged us to ask our own national associations to set our own rules for non-international events.

Creating and using your own local rules and playing under them, say, in the state of Utah only, is the surefire way to split the sport. Do we want to make TT look like boxing where they have four (4!) international level federations having their own super-champions, fighting each other for a piece of the pie, scandalizing everything etc? do we, really? I am actually amazed at Adham suggesting such a thing - he is a smart guy, and he must realize what will happen if people will fully follow his own suggestions. That tells me that once again his answer was nothing but deflection of our arguing points.

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Edited by roundrobin - 10/29/2015 at 6:31pm

alright! lets comment on other peoples bitching by doing what??

Class Action Suit!!