Moving, historical, sensitive, factual, human and very interesting at the same time. GREAT job !
@michelrenaud34313 жыл бұрын
Thank you, what an amazing video. Riveting. It brought me to tears when the narrative led me to imagine the suppression during the cultural revolution and the internal despair of those 3 great athletes.
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your heartfelt comment. Glad you liked this video!
@PingPongReview3 жыл бұрын
It's really well done. I have shared it on my community tab. Hopefully, a lot more people get to see it :)
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! I hope more people will see it as well. In any case, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
@michelleritter77123 жыл бұрын
i met Glen Cowen in New Rochelle ,New York in 1962 at a table tennis tournament . his close friends attended the same jr high school as me @ Issac E Young jr high. it was close to his home. Glens father was a NY city advertising exec & took him to play at Bobby Gussekopf's table tennis club on 72 nd & Broadway in NYC. Bobby became his coach, Glen he was a table tennis legend where i lived . the top jr in the US made the us national team in 1971.Glen at the tournament he came into the game room & played every young boy novice standing there .he had fabulous table tennis skills but his engaging personality was what i remember so much about him.only met him that once but will honor his memory forever.may him be of blessed memory. so prowd that this jewish kid from New Rochelle literally changed the world with such a kind jesture of friendship that day.
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your comment Michelle! I did not know much about Glenn Cowan before making this video. I intended to do a video solely on Rong Guo Tuan but ended up talking about Glenn Cowan, Zhuang Ze Dong and the Ping Pong diplomacy because such a story could just not be ommited. It surely did take a lot from both sides to make this incredible gesture and I am not surprised at all to see he had such an impact on the people who knew him. I am honored by your comment and hope this video made him justice. Thanks again and stay safe
@jonduong83313 жыл бұрын
Great information.
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thank you ! Hope you enjoy my other videos !
@samisfun8683 жыл бұрын
This is great insight! Thank you.
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot SamIsFun! Glad you enjoyed the video!
@xiangliyi38313 жыл бұрын
More people should know these great people, pioneers.
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, hope my video made them justice.
@bastooo33 жыл бұрын
THANK you for this interesting video!
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it!
@yongdeng18133 жыл бұрын
It was never easy for china, in anything. People only see how powerful chinese table tennis is today, the blood, the sweat and all those tragedies that happened to the players in the 60s deserve so much recognition. To shake those japanese players’ hands after the game is most difficult i believe. China must stay strong, not just in table tennis, but in all!
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your comment. Hope you enjoyed the video!
@benthekeeshond5453 жыл бұрын
I think most Chinese in or outside of China forgot all about this great Chinese, Rong Guo Tuan, who pioneered modern Table-Tennis tactics of engaging the ball on its rising phase. This man happened to be from Hong Kong, China. This was the main reason why he was ridiculed by the prejudice of Mao's red murderers. Poor Rong Guo Tuan eventually gave in and committed suicide. For the people of China, please be reminded that there were many overseas Chinese inside China who were either tortured to death or forced to kill themselves during the Cultural Destruction of Chinese culture in the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s.
@yankw5187 Жыл бұрын
Rong is indeed a very great player, yet few people recognize that. He might be the only player in the history to successfully combine penhold backhand drive with backhand punch. His control of the racket is beyond imagination due to his excellent racket holding techniques, enabling him to generate a lot of spin all of a sudden. He often won in a stealth mode due to this skill.
@imansurtono6473 жыл бұрын
Great video. Hope you can do China/diving, Korea/archery, USSR & Romania/WAG.
@Ad-excelsum3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'll look into it!
@yankw5187 Жыл бұрын
There was a Chinese film called 跳水女隊員 produced in 1964. The woman athlete who did the actual diving for the actress(whom belong to the Beijing diving team herself)was a Chinese woman born in Indonesia named 黄秀妮。She was probably the best diver at that time. She was trained in a diving school at 湛江 set up by two Hongkongers.