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larrytt
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Posted: 07/12/2018 at 10:55am |
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I've been out of town three weeks, but I'm back to daily blogging! Here is this morning's blog. I wrote about Three Weeks in Las Vegas (table tennis writing and coaching); Pinpoint Your Weakness and Then Pinpoint a Drill; USA Nationals; World Veterans Championships; Pan Am Junior Championships; USATT News; Focusing Forward, Top Coaches Meet with High Performance in Mind (by Matt Hetherington); New from Samson Dubina, Tom Lodziak, Eli Baraty, Jon Gustavson, Shashin Shodhan, Emratthich Table Tennis Coach, and PingSkills; Tom's Table Tennis Tips (from Tom Lodziak's newsletter); What Should You Eat To Improve Performance In Table Tennis?; Butterfly Amicus Prime Table Tennis Robot; How Table Tennis Rubber is Made; Maria Sharapova Tries Her Hand at Table Tennis After Wimbledon Exit; and Juggling Pong! |
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ThePongProfessor
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Hi Larry,
I want to subscribe to your blog but the Captcha program does not seem to work. Can you please advice? Thanks, Patrick |
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larrytt
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I only found out about the problem yesterday and I'm working on it. But you don't need to subscribe to read it. -Larry Hodges
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Simon_plays
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Keep us updated once you've done the write-up on the $10.000 hardbat challenge.
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larrytt
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I did a blog this morning on the $10,000 Jim Butler - A.J. Carney hardbat match - but can't post it. I'm running into technical issues involving an "overload of MySQL resources." I'm currently on hold with GoDaddy to try to resolve this problem. Until it's fixed, TableTennisCoaching.com will be down. This is irritating - I had 10,000 other things to work on this morning.
-Larry Hodges
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larrytt
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The site is still down. My technical expert wasn't able to get to it this weekend, but promised to work on it tonight. This is frustrating. My guess is it's a simple fix - deleting a bunch of meaningless files in a folder that's not needed - but I don't even know how to access the folder. I emailed the Drupal help page on Friday night, but no response yet - apparently they close on weekends.
I'm going out of town (again) this Thursday morning for my annual science fiction writing workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire, and will be gone July 19-29. So I've only got two more blogging days left, and enough material to cover weeks. (From World Veterans, Nationals, USATT board meeting, Butler-Carney match, Surbek, and more.)
-Larry Hodges Edited by larrytt - 07/16/2018 at 10:37am |
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larrytt
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The site is back up! What had happened was the "Access Log" went over 1 GB, causing an "overload of MySQL resources." it's all fixed now. This morning's blog is rather large, and includes my write-up of the $10,000 Jim Butler-A.J. Carney hardbat challenge.
-Larry Hodges
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larrytt
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It's up! -Larry Hodges
Edited by larrytt - 07/17/2018 at 9:13am |
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pgpg
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The link above gives 'Access denied' message, and your regular blog link shows no posts...
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larrytt
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The link above gives 'Access denied' message, and your regular blog link shows no posts... [/QUOTEThat's strange - it comes up for me. Try it again. (I've enbedded the link.) -Larry Hodges
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Baal
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Larry, I have come to notice that the main reason you post here is to plug your own blog.
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larrytt
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I very rarely post about my blog here - please verify this for yourself. I only started this thread because I was out of town for 3.5 weeks and so wanted people to know that I was back to daily blogging. I then posted here when the site went down - since I couldn't put a note on the site itself, I explained what happened here and on Facebook. I was asked to post here when I blogged about the Butler-Carney match, which I did this morning. -Larry Hodges
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pgpg
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Still does not work... Curious to see if I'm the only one. Wonder if it comes up for you because you are probably on the same network or logged in as an admin or something...
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vvk1
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Will you make the same comment next time Nexy posts here?
Edited by vvk1 - 07/17/2018 at 9:35am |
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larrytt
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I know most people can access it - over 400 have already read this morning's blog. My guess is that when a site goes down, it takes time in some locations for the "fixed" version to proliferate. Try going to the site and then hit "refresh." -Larry Hodges
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DonnOlsen
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Hi
At 10 a.m. Eastern 7/17/2018 I just copied and pasted the URL into a new browser tab and received this: Access deniedYou are not authorized to access this page. |
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Tenergy: Two weeks of heaven, followed by three months of excellence, then, a nice rubber.
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larrytt
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I know that in this day and age in America facts often don't matter, but here are some facts.
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pgpg
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Or may be they (400+ people) *tried* to read it and got counted in access logs . Looks like DonnOlsen has the same problem. I just tried it on the phone and got same result, 'access denied'.
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larrytt
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I'll have to look into this. I'm hoping it's just a proliferation thing, but I'm not sure. I'll have my technical adviser look into it. -Larry Hodges
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larrytt
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You're correct, pgpg - something's wrong. Some can access it, others cannot. Dang!!! -Larry Hodges
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Baal
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I would just like to see you post some more stuff here that is not necessarily on your own blog or websites. I am just making a suggestion.
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ThePongProfessor
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I for one, have no problems with (semi-)-professional blog writers, manufacturers and others periodically communicating with TT players on this blog, even if it is to promote their own blogs/products. Just think how cool it would be if we had access to the minds of TT professionals...
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Ieyasu
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"I would just like to see you post some more stuff here that is not necessarily on your own blog or websites. I am just making a suggestion. "
Why should Larry have to post the same info in two places? Eg., where you quote Larry,
I see nothing wrong with dropping a link to answer somebody's question. As I'm sure you know, Larry is an incredibly busy guy. Better he drop links to his blog that might help somebody, than not post at all because he's too busy to post a customized answer. Here's a thread, http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82736&KW=ieyasu&PID=1027617&title=mlfzd-warming-up-training#1027617 where, if Larry has the time to answer my questions, he will post it on his blog. Again, I see no need to post an answer in two places. I also see where one could consider this blog promotion, but I don't see it as aggressive promotion. And I would certainly prefer Larry respond in this matter than not respond at all. Of course if he responded this way to many threads, without providing an answer, I'd say it's too much, but he is not doing that, as far as I can tell.
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larrytt
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As I noted above, I've done 587 postings here (590 now), and about 15 of them mention my blog. That's about 2.5%. And yet you wrote, "I have come to notice that the main reason you post here is to plug your own blog." That was very unfair. It is because of potshots like this that I don't post here more frequently. As to quotes above, are you saying that when someone asks about the Butler-Carney match, I shouldn't link to where I wrote about it? That when people ask a question about blocking, I shouldn't link to a Tip I've written that answers their question? When new players ask about tournaments, I shouldn't link to the USATT page (not a tabletenniscoaching.com page) where I answered their question? I am a professional coach for many years, a national coach and hall of famer, and you don't want my input here on issues like these? Is there a rule against linking to informative articles that answer questions by posters here? I am thankful for forums like this that allow me to get the word out when a daily blog read by many table tennis players goes down for the first time in seven years. Is that against forum rules? (I'm still working on resolving the problem.) -Larry Hodges
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Ieyasu
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BTW, I too cannot access Larry's blog either through the URL he posted, or the following two, I usually use:
http://www.tabletenniscoaching.com/blog/3 http://www.tabletenniscoaching.com/blog Those URL's still return the "No blog entries have been created" message. It is definitely NOT a browser cache or "proliferation thing" [DNS] issue.
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Baal: I'm surprised by your stance here. larrytt provides some of the highest quality TT news and coaching one can get in the US. So, if he wants to post to point to those writings, I say happily accept it. It is better TT content than zeio and jackwong23 incessantly harping about WCT or my rambling about the latest blades / rubbers. It is better TT content than your describing ALC blade differences for the 104th time. You can't chide him for not wanting to post much else - that is his prerogative of what he does in his time.
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mts388
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I like Larry's posts because they are usually informative. I can pick and choose what I want to read.
There are many posters here who go on and on about balls, rubbers, blades, etc. that don't interest me at all, but I'm fine with them posting here. I'm glad you told me that zieo and Jackwong were funny, I didn't know that they were. Marco had flame wars with everyone that posted here. Edited by mts388 - 07/17/2018 at 2:20pm |
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larrytt
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And now you see why I don't post here too often. I guess I'll have to report this post and see if this is the norm here. Regarding Marco Borrillo, yes, I had many skirmishes with him, but he was a troll, and he was banned from this forum and others - I believe permanently. I was not because I did not sink to his level, as Mr. Fatt is doing here. I guess now, at age 58, I'm probably only about 2000 level (due to age plus shoulder and arm problems and no longer training), but for the record, I haven't lost a tournament match to a player rated under 2000 since the 1980s, and I used to be closer to 2300 and top 20 in the U.S. at my best. But since I'm primarily a coach and writer, perhaps you should judge me on that basis? Or just throw out insults, Mr. Fatt? Jeez. I love it when people throw out empty insults like this while hiding behind anonymity. -Larry Hodges
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Very subjective to say that jackwong ranting about Wong Chun Ting like a lunatic for years on end is funny and/or remotely decent content. Are you the arbiter of MyTT folklore or something? How many times Baal has described the differences between ALC blades absolutely is relevant because slevin was talking about how someone can either retype their same points over and over again, or just link to another post where they have addressed the exact same subject matter and no harm would be done. When the inevitable next TB ALC vs Viscaria thread comes up, Baal could easily link to another one of his many (informative) posts he's done on the matter and that would serve just fine for the sake of information exchange. If you don't think thats a fair comparison to Larry linking to his blog then re-read his post on how he has next to no financial motivation to do so. Furthermore Larry is not "posing" as a superior table tennis authority. It's a pretty undeniable fact he has much more experience and insider knowledge than most people who post on this forum. You can take anyone's post at face value but let's not act like he doesn't have a lot more background than your average MyTT poster. What is your point about not taking criticism lightly and former flame wars? Clearly you have a bone to pick with the guy rather than any unbiased commentary on the issue at hand which is about linking to outside posts. Perhaps some people here would rather have a forum where credibility comes in the form of reputation, experience or knowledge instead of post count. And some people will lament the fact that virtually all high level players and coaches in the sport hardly touch this place even though many are aware of its existence. Edited by bard romance - 07/17/2018 at 2:20pm |
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fatt, if you are unhappy with Larry's comments on his own blog then you should take it up there. If you are banned there (I don't know if that is so, just a guess?), and you are claiming that Larry did what you said he did then perhaps a short example is in order instead of simply venting (and using a rather inappropriate language). Larry, I saw your report and I understand that language and behavior standards at your blog are higher (per the owner's rules, of course) - however here we are slightly more tolerant of such insults unless it goes beyond simply offensive or there is an annoying pattern of bad forum behavior. I ask you to ignore this for now, but if you know what fatt is referring to, perhaps you could address that issue with him here. Hopefully he will try to keep bad language out of his arguments... this time.
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