TT-Action Classics 1930s -1950s

[Guitar89vid]

1:35 amazing footwork

[dollarusa9801]

Look like chapin 's films!

[pingponginter]

Thank you for video

[wmascare]

The most interesting thing to notice on this video is the way they saluted each other. Much warmer than the present days.

[josuecochi]

they were our parents

[zaphster11]

Are they using hard-bat rackets??????

[borninJune1922]

so the rubbers there are with grip or totally wihtout grip so no strong topspins can be done?

[ZingyDNA]

Hmm... Right now there are 90-year-olds with hardbats at 1800+ USATT. I think these guys at their prime would play at least 2200, which beats the crap out of almost everyone who posts on youtube...

[Studio522Productions]

@ZingyDNA

My guess is that the level is more like 2400 or so. But I'll grant that it is very difficult to make comparisons.

I've seen 2200 level players who manage by blocking with long pips and using a relatively weak forehand counter and block (weak compared to 2500 level players).I know of one 2200-ish player who pretty much only blocks using long pips. I figure that the world class hardbatters were better players than these.

[ywexe]

hus the fking 6 people who dilisked this vid? this vid is a fond reminder of how table tennis has grown to become such a popular sport today!

[sanyablu]

@ywexe - i guess those 6 would rather see beiber play pingpong. haha

[ArepoEn]

Beautiful history of a great sport. The slim player with Bergmann around 3:18 or 3:42 is Bohumil Váňa, another great TT-player and multiple World Champion from the Czechoslovakia, famous for his strong forehand attack drives.

[TheManinMoscow45]

This seems a lot more friendly competition than the modern game.... I feel that way whenever I watch a sport video like this....'cept for baseball.

[Discw0rld]

Really like forrest gump cool. ;)

[wmascare]

Amazing video!

Notice that, at the end of the game, the salutation between the players used to be warmer. Very different from the current players.

[nickthegreek142857]

It's really great to be able to see highlights of the early beginnings of the sport (and kinda touching),but to be fair and honest the world champions of that time would now be considered "breakfast",i have been playing table tennis for two years and believe me ,i have a teammate with whom we play points they couldn't even imagine.For crying out loud,they are playing wearing jeans!!!

[Studio522Productions]

@nickthegreek142857

I'm pretty sure you underestimate the level of play you are seeing. In his late 60s and 70s - forty years beyond his prime - Marty Reisman maintained a USATT rating of about 2000 - still playing with hardbat and playing against sponge and whatever else was legal. Marty Reisman was world class in his prime, but never won a World Championship like many of the other players shown in the video. So he isn't even the best example.

[poortaiwanese]

@Studio522Productions ratings means shit.

[rcmontecalvo]

wow. these clips are ancient man.

[wmascare]

Look at the way they used to salute each other. Warmer then the current days.

[milotist]

can anyone tell me what means BTW ,IMAO ??please

[giaci89thebest]

by the way and laughing my ass off (LMAO)

[milotist]

thank you

[placid21]

@milotist by the way

[filop12]

ale grają panowie jak timo

[enkidu23]

This is great stuff.

Look at the trick-service the guy makes at 1:09. He´s actually throwing the ball down on his paddle.

BTW

Most of the hobby players of today would get their ass kicked by these guys. They are pretty good. And playing against someone who has skills with a hard bat isn´t easy, especially when you are not used to it. And who of the young players of today is used to play against hard bat? Not me for example. I got my ass kicked by a hard bat player lot worse than these people.

[sky1944]

No chinese plyers in the finals LOL

[Violinist0222]

ohhhh !! funny !

[melforever27]

Mr F.Gump would've kicked bergamnns ass ;^)

[taufoofar]

Good old hardbat days... I wasn't there, however...

[TAPADAKA1318]

Et moi qui pensait avoir des coups bizarres lol

[MJGGGDV]

haha the techniques are amazing!

[EnnesX]

I like the good ole chop and spin afterwards and also i am considering wearing pants from now on.

[viejoteca89]

Great video. Very interesting :). 5 stars

[eFatz83]

this video shows how far the sport of table tennis has come over these years...

[EnnesX]

i would say most of the progress was already captured in this video. The increased aggression and tactics lacking from the beginning of this video were all out in full force by the end.

[albchu]

To the silly players claiming that the are better than these former world champs:

You sound like High School kids with Aluminum Baseball bats bragging about how you hit more home runs than Babe Ruth.

[mikeirvng]

ok, my comment earlier was maybe a bit premature, but their rackets had nowhere near the amount of spin modern rackets have. Table tennis improved because of the technology that changed it while in baseball they still use wooden bats

[albchu]

gameplay and tactics EVOLVED because of changes in equipment. not necessarily improved. similarly to how if you allowed aluminum bats in MLB, games scores would look like 34-23 and outfielders (defense) would be obsolete.

[alexpong0]

The real table tennis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikeirvng]

I could kill the world champion! Now isn't that something.

[EnnesX]

I would bet a lot of money that you would lose.

[mikeirvng]

I don't know, sandpaper rackets don't recieve spin very well, I would put it as 40:60 for him.

[CLIFINHO10]

america is NOT a country

[teamknugg]

no it is much more than a country...........

[grothegrothe]

wie die topspin ziehen XD rofl!!!!

[MrOnkelzOnkelzOnkelz]

I like this video xD

[benuboi]

hahahaha fucking shit.. the play of style was so ugly on that time

[xilpa]

they were all choppers haha

[rodzoid]

1:43 lol

[fmukid]

it was sandpaper paddles then right?

[Flensburgerpissener]

In this Time Victor Barna was the Godfather of Table Tennis. ;D

[LATDgamer]

Omg it looks a bit like my local pennant looooolz!

[HATEbeersnobs]

The Asians are # 1

americans have NO concept of how crucial hidden serves were!!!!!!

[HATEbeersnobs]

* note i meant until the asians revolutionized PING PONG

fucking hate the term "TABLE TENNIS"!

[jamescrysis]

wtf...

[Baikas1987]

nice vid, shows how things have changed.

[mcgcarlos]

im a big fan of this sport! i wanna know what kind of paddle they use & what kind of ball? Does it have the same measurements & texture?

[speedyspin]

jajaja now ...it's all about speed

[NexxtGen]

omfg look at those trousers! LOOOOL!

[EurodanceCommando]

Go Bergmann Go !

[brunozxch2o]

LOOOL

they play just like my father =D hehehe

[Taiwan168888]

wow

under those old equipments, it takes a great deal of precisio to play well,ㄎㄎ

[mullywully01]

dude get a life people just watch the damn video!

[Wilis784]

Now I'm going to presuppose that you'll respond, given that you seem to have a pathological inability to let something go (or perhaps you're just bored, like me),<----- and I look forward to reading it, particularly if it was going to include a comment on my mistake ("senyence")<----- which is actually a typo, or perhaps a comment on original insults! :)

Anyhooo... I'm off to tt training!

[Wilis784]

Finally, (such is the inadequacy of your expression that I ran out of space)<----- your grammar is pathetic, in particular the instance of the first complex sentence you use (the first senyence of your second paragraph).<----- (Lesson 4)<-----

[Wilis784]

At least it appears you know what "unsolicited" means. From which I can infer that you'll understand this: "to me it appears that you personify the word "unsolicited"." To quote R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket: "It looks to me that the best part of you fell out a crack in your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the matress."

[inclinedbird]

Hi rickanderson,

thanks for disqualifying yourself in your comments. That allows me to ignore your postings from now on.

Cheers.

[inclinedbird]

... this is exactly what I mean.

The degree of stupity that you find in comments of table tennis players appears to be inexhaustible.

Amazing.

[inclinedbird]

I often wonder whether my impression is correct that the percentage of absolutely stupid and antisocial idiots is extremely high amongs table tennis players.

Note: I love playing table tennis, but I am wondering whether my sport is contaminated by idiots when I look at comments posted about table tennis (and fellow table tennis players).

[inclinedbird]

Thank you for sharing these precious historic recordings!

Anybody who knows a bit about table tennis will (should) acknowledge the extraordinary skill of these old time sportsmen. Back then, the idea of "sticky" rubbers on your blade (or even having anything that deserves the name "rubber" at all) only just emerged. ...let alone the fact that there was no trainer or idol from whom you could have copied the idea of how to do a topspin!

[tato4527]

definitivamente la evolución que ha logrado el tenis de mesa es inimaginable, menos mal porque antes se jugaba horrible... jajaja

[InTenWords]

this is so funny to see them play in different style. kinda laid back

[gpnok91]

wtf are they dancing lol

[Blidoe]

Lol they suck but have u seen now .. they are much better..

[Walker0811]

nice video

where do you get this videos?

[OhMymy]

Gentleman's sport

[tynenkrol]

funny to see

[15837048]

cada epoca con su estilo

[tt1097]

They are sh*t!!!! xD

[andstayout]

You're very ignorant

[HardbatProductions]

These are some of the most inane comments I've ever read.  Hardbat-to-hardbat, the players in the video would destroy all of you juvenile delinquents! With all due respect, of course :)

[MadTriCkbLu]

Senza Top Spin era una tagli e blocchi, mamma mia!

[spassgamer]

lol, they all have no technique at all! :D

[richie19rich77]

You cannot compare the game of table tennis nowadays from when they played with hard bats. The angle of the bat was much more open due to no sponge, amazing how they play the shots they do. Try picking a hard bat up some day and play the kind of shts they were playing.

[KatsumotoM]

in the last part they made sidesteps!!!!!!

xD

can someone make a vid which shows the evolution marked with years? from then until now in steps. that would be great i think.

but those people played quiete sure. i dont think that it is easy to win against those people - i could :D haha no problem for me :P

[TableTenniskid88]

What equipment did they use??

lol i bet they could all beat wang liqin...jk

[davinic94]

i think they used long pimples rubbers

[noel926]

Gotta love the left leg swinging behind his right leg by the one player when he drives his backhand...lol....this is great stuff to watch tho...fascinating..thnx Lumm

[Supercreck]

Whats awesome is that a lot of these guys, if still alive, are probbally still playing.

[trux04]

Wow, is that really Dick Miles in action? Glad to finally see him in action!

[HardbatProductions]

Dick Miles doesn't appear in any of these clips. Other Americans are there, though (Schiff, McClure, and Reisman). Also shown are Barna, Szabados, Soos, Vana, Bergmann, Sido, Hagenauer, and Bellack. This is all taken off the "Legends of Table Tennis" video by Wild Goose Productions (produced by Bobby Gusikoff).

[NexxtGen]

look at those clothes!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *dead

[kamm9]

Wow. Nice video> Where did you find it???

[Membersacc]

Sorry fire track, meant to hit reply, it is not the technique that matters, it is the heart.

[skyground79]

ziet er niet uit lol

[yepper078]

ze hebben echt geen techniek xD

[firetack]

nice trousers!but seriously quality stuff even if very unorthodox technique

[UsakoKirei]

yeah, where did u find these video XD

[transhuman7]

Table tennis has such a rich and unique history. Definitely one of the best sports in the world.

[MarkMcGuiggan]

I find it hard to beleive theres still guys that play like this nowadays

[zsyed12345678]

Mark, you should come out to some of the amateur clubs. You'll find plenty LOL

[lebronburhan]

aman allahım rezalet:S:S:S

[akrobandit]

mann is das geil, wie das aussieht in langen hosen un wie stur die an der platte stehen. der tischtennis hat sich mit der zeit echt verbessert, wie man hier sehen kann.ok, ich will ja net sagen das die schlecht sin aba der heutige tt is bessa ;-D

[flaviotomeji]

naum estao mais vivos =/