Pro Table Tennis Serves video...

I'm sorry if this might seem rude, but some people can't really afford to spend $30 on a video, I was hoping someone could share it?

Thanks in advance!

http://www.alphatabletennis.com/clips/PTTS.html

http://www.butterflyonline.com/online_store_productcloseup.asp?page=books_vids.asp&type=9&ID=336&pg=12&SortBy=&displayNum=5

I understand feeling guilty.  STILL wish I could have it via megaupload of rapidshare or something.

Unfortunatley some people just cant afford an extra $30 with all the price hikes and mortgage hikes and etc

TAKOYAK1 wrote: Unfortunatley some people just cant afford an extra $30 with all the price hikes and mortgage hikes and etc

cata_60 wrote:  Im from a rather poor country,Romania,and im not a rich man,but i afforded to order it through an american friend and paid about 35$.  Its not fair for those guys who  produced that dvd  to steal their work.   A person who loves table tennis cant make this request

Well unless you're some poor orphan child in a developing country who works for 30 cents a day and dreams of playing table tennis. You don't even have enough money for food and you can't afford a table tennis blade, so you carved a blade out of a piece of plywood you found in the garbage and glued some rubber you cut out of an abandoned tire onto the surface. You dream of one day becoming a professional but cannot afford time at the club, and besides you are working 10-12 hours a day to feed your granny and the 6 other children in the family. So you practice every night after your dinner of boiled turnips and seasoning. The exercise and joy of playing helps you to forget the hunger you feel. You practice hard with every technique you have heard of and want to learn more. You get all your techniques and do all your learning during the day. Your work place has a 486 computer that the employees can use during lunch time and it has internet (dial up). You spend all your time downloading "shared" dvds. And teach yourself.

The days go by and your hardwork pays off. You eventually become a professional! You buy all those DVDs that you used to watch, and you use your fame and money to bring table tennis to impoverished youth in your country. You donate money to schools and orphanages and you are a hero to all who know your name. You struggled to change your destiny. And it all began with a simple download.

To all those who shared the DVDs for you who could not afford them... you say THANK YOU.

uh......

what about television broadcast and the broadcast of sports in general? including replays and slo mo's of points which DO SHOW their serve ?

so ur saying ESPN asks every single baseball, basketball, and football player to sign some contract and individually ask them for permission to show em their strokes, footworks?

if thats the case, we probably would never have sport on tv, or have an audience by that matter.

I don't know about this DVD, but in world class strokes (from alpha) the players are aware of being filmed and actually wave to the camera; I'd be very surprised if they were filming without obtaining consent from people featured in the DVDs.

Personally I think these DVDs help the sport.

Just emailed DVD producer to get answer to this question.

chronos wrote: Just emailed DVD producer to get answer to this question.

And they will say??
If they pay each player, the dvd price will be much much more expensive..
For example a football player in a big club will earn a percentage of a shirt, a mug, or anything with their name on it (image rights)
and if they are 30 players on that dvd, let's say each player get $1 per dvd, and the producer get none? $1 for exposing your serve will be very cheap don't you think? considering that a potential opponent might study the dvd and they can get beaten because of it?
Common sense.. don't need to ask..

Oh, I don't think there is one specific entity that negotiates with professional table tennis players exclusively for image rights.  There must be one consortium that handles media rights + royalties for professional athletes - people who produce table tennis DVDs pay to this consortium (part of the cost of producing the DVD) and the consortium in turn pays yearly royalties to professional players in exchange for image rights.  There is no invoice at the end of the year that goes to a professional that says "1000 serves videos sold - here is your cut" that would be too inefficient, no one could afford the overhead of producing a dvd (legally) that way.

I'm sure others know more.

its annoying that they dont sell by download, they don't deliver to my country so I can't get it even though I would gladly pay double price :S

rustyfo wrote: its annoying that they dont sell by download, they don't deliver to my country so I can't get it even though I would gladly pay double price :S

dragon kid wrote: Talking about efforts and rights.. What about those players efforts and rights? Each player dedicated more efforts and time in each serve then the people in making the DVD. They have copyright for their serve. And this people they stole their serves, the serves they have been working on and perfect all their lives, for what? making profits for themselves.. Do they have the players permission? Do they pay the players they put on their dvd.. This people steal too, don't forget that.. If i were the player on that DVD, and they don't ask permission from me to put my serve on that DVD, for sure I'll sue them..

it's not like you can reproduce their serve just by watching a video lol