Chopper against looper : Seo Hyowon vs "Sexy" Li X

Interesting......one side have 4 choppers? the other have 4 attackers?

(Chopper)  IVANCAN Irene, yellow shirt (GER)

                  vs

(Looper)    CAO Zhen orange-red shirt (CHN) 

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ITTF ranking:

Edited by skip3119 - 08/22/2013 at 11:22am

Feng Tianwei (looper) ---  ITTF WR #4 

Edited by skip3119 - 08/23/2013 at 3:04pm

I say the chopper expends more energy and runs a LOT more.

BH-Man wrote: I say the chopper expends more energy and runs a LOT more.   You really do not see it, but those 1st steps a defensive player must make are explosive and they often go more than one, plus their chop is not a pitter-pat daisey-duke shot either, it is violent just like an offensive shot. An attacker moves a lot less than a defender in such a match. An attacker can hit for power all day if he or she does not have to run sprints every second.

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Edited by skip3119 - 08/25/2013 at 1:34am

Looper does uses more power and need more effort when playing chopper.
Thus the saying goes, the longer the match continues, the better for the chopper player, especially by the decding set (7th etc).

Same applies when players looses so much energy and struggle to play in the next round, once defeating a chopper in a close match up the round earlier.

For chopper or propper chopper, the running around is normal footwork movement, and they are trained to chop (China) thousands of balls a day with footwork movement. It may look tiring for the audiences eyes, but trust me, looper is more tired than chopper in those cases.