Xu Xin - The "Cloud Walking" Penholder - Part 2

Big credit to all the Table Tennis match uploaders!
Especially Janus770, for uploading HD quality videos for
matches where ITTF gave poor quality. (and ttcountenance ofc!)
This is a more Rally centered compilation than the first. I favour HD therefore some major (good) older points are not inclouded ofc.
Hope you like it!
Music:
Aqua Vitae - Future World Music
+ a bit of the remix by Fl Studio 9.
Intro:
SAO - Swordland (Yuki Kajiura)
Comment below, leave a like, subcribe and Thanks for watching!

[@dennislim1720]

xu xin reads the game really well and brings out the best of penhold technique

[@InquizityJJ]

The "Cloud Walker", a great way to describe Xu Xin!

[@abstractexchange5057]

Xu Xin is most artist player in table tennis world. Xu Xin forehand topspin is the most typical pupil of old Liu Gualang school from the era of chinese trio superstars Wang Liquin-Ma Lin-Wang Hao. Then japanese manufactures manipulated to apply heavyweight balls (ball weight was 2 grams, then 2.5 grams, and now 2.7 grams) to set up bored japanese "swift hits" style in order to win against chinese players. With these illegal heavyweight balls, Japan than introduced its new generation of small bodied players (it was Harimoto, it is Niwa, Kenta, Hirano, Ito, ...) , which are fit to these ILLEGAL heavyweight balls and japanese bored 'swift hits' style. Best ball weight must be 1.5gram . Even Liu Gualang doubted that Xu Xin forehand topspin techniques are outdated. But Xu Xin is showing the other objective reality. With his forehand topspin, Xu Xin easily beats Harimoto all times. Other new chinese players have troubles against Harimoto, but Xu Xin have not. Xu Xin can easily beat any chinese top players too. Xu Xin had problem. He was a traditional penholder with old traditional penholder backhand techniques. Then Xu Xin added modern backhand techniques of reversed racket side strokes, but he used mixed backhand techniques : old penholder backhand techniques and modern penholder backhand techniques. It is wrong choose. Penholders can choose only one from 2 styles, but not mixed style. It is because of the issue of reaction orientation in quick rallies. Fortunately for Xu Xin, that he then entirely switched to use only modern backhand techniques. For the last 2 years, we see that Xu Xin set up his reaction to play only modern backhand techniques with racket reversed sides for backhand strokes. It is right decision. And this switch requires about 2 year to be fluently applied. Xu Xin spent 2 years from this switch. Xu Xin is now in the stage of modern penholder backhand techniques improving. So Xu Xin still has real big potential. He does not have time to archive career as Ma Long, but he still can win grand slam and olympic title. The weakness of Xu Xin is that he sometimes stops running and playing after realizing his famous forehand topspin, because he thinks that his opponents can not handle. But top players now can easily handle these balls, but they can not initially attack from these balls. So Xu Xin topspin can give him a bit advantages of forcing his opponent to lose positions, but these topspins can not often give directly points. That is why must keep running, and not to risk to earn direct points with forehand topspin in uncleared dominated cases. Xu Xin often play backhand in his so high poses. It is problem too, because he lost temp and angle in backhand techniques and in maneuver of switching forehand-backhand. . And his backhand strokes are still lag of spin, not enough spin as Wang Hao backhand strokes.

[@trixmagic83]

Thanks to you, Xu Xin is now known as the cloud walker all around the world. The ittf commentators have been calling him by this new nickname

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+Gary Tay Really? xD Lmao! I did not know. Nice lol. Could you mention a couple places this have been said?

[@trixmagic83]

+Kaizoku By ITTF Commentators in english. Watch Xu Xin's full games on ITTV next time, they usually refer to XX as the cloud walker.

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+Gary Tay awesome, I do usually watch on ittf live stream actually so will do :D (might have happend on China open? that time I watched on eurosport lol)

[@AseeF]

+Gary Tay Liu Guoliang and assiant coach( Chin was it?) gave him that name cuz he moves funny compared to rest of the young players lol. It's definately a sign of respect.

[@roman2374]

Adam Bobrow who commentates ITTF often calls him either ‘Cloudwalker’ ‘Entertainer’ ‘Showman’ and mentions that the Chinese call him the ‘Serpent’. Cloud walker is my favourite title 💝💝💝

[@최석원-b5g]

xu xin The best

[@韩国80年代民主光州事]

Xu Xin=GOD

[@ieatapples8500]

3:47 lmaooo wtf!!

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

Bootiful

[@韩国80年代民主光州事]

To the who say TableTennis is not a sport u must need to buy a TT desk try it first in ur home as fun is very good and enjoyable with ur family in Merry Christmas😎

[@abstractexchange5057]

Xu Xin is most artist player in table tennis world. Xu Xin forehand topspin is the most typical pupil of old Liu Gualang school from the era of chinese trio superstars Wang Liquin-Ma Lin-Wang Hao. Then japanese manufactures manipulated to apply heavyweight balls (ball weight was 2 grams, then 2.5 grams, and now 2.7 grams) to set up bored japanese "swift hits" style in order to win against chinese players. With these illegal heavyweight balls, Japan than introduced its new generation of small bodied players (it was Harimoto, it is Niwa, Kenta, Hirano, Ito, ...) , which are fit to these ILLEGAL heavyweight balls and japanese bored 'swift hits' style. Best ball weight must be 1.5gram . Even Liu Gualang doubted that Xu Xin forehand topspin techniques are outdated. But Xu Xin is showing the other objective reality. With his forehand topspin, Xu Xin easily beats Harimoto all times. Other new chinese players have troubles against Harimoto, but Xu Xin have not. Xu Xin can easily beat any chinese top players too. Xu Xin had problem. He was a traditional penholder with old traditional penholder backhand techniques. Then Xu Xin added modern backhand techniques of reversed racket side strokes, but he used mixed backhand techniques : old penholder backhand techniques and modern penholder backhand techniques. It is wrong choose. Penholders can choose only one from 2 styles, but not mixed style. It is because of the issue of reaction orientation in quick rallies. Fortunately for Xu Xin, that he then entirely switched to use only modern backhand techniques. For the last 2 years, we see that Xu Xin set up his reaction to play only modern backhand techniques with racket reversed sides for backhand strokes. It is right decision. And this switch requires about 2 year to be fluently applied. Xu Xin spent 2 years from this switch. Xu Xin is now in the stage of modern penholder backhand techniques improving. So Xu Xin still has real big potential. He does not have time to archive career as Ma Long, but he still can win grand slam and olympic title. The weakness of Xu Xin is that he sometimes stops running and playing after realizing his famous forehand topspin, because he thinks that his opponents can not handle. But top players now can easily handle these balls, but they can not initially attack from these balls. So Xu Xin topspin can give him a bit advantages of forcing his opponent to lose positions, but these topspins can not often give directly points. That is why must keep running, and not to risk to earn direct points with forehand topspin in uncleared dominated cases. Xu Xin often play backhand in his so high poses. It is problem too, because he lost temp and angle in backhand techniques and in maneuver of switching forehand-backhand. . And his backhand strokes are still lag of spin, not enough spin as Wang Hao backhand strokes.

[@valar_dohaeris7387]

@@SomeRandomGuy777x Editing 100

[@agbajesamad9675]

@@abstractexchange5057 exactly. You got it man. But that of him being a grand slammer,I doubt it.He is already 30

[@ibrahimpadijr.4075]

That intro tho

[@HenryVFR]

Very good vídeo !!! Thanx for the upload !!!

[@manpro1336]

I really like his playstyle

[@scottbaker-ScottyB]

Best counter looper on all angles.

[@john198822]

the distorting mirror effect is funny~XD

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

john198822 You mean the Spherize yes? :L 6:39 and 3:45 ofc. hehe, yeah, I bet some thinks it's stupid and some find it funny. But I just couldn't help myself from using it xD Glad you liked it.

[@fabianonavarrooficial2606]

Este classineta realmente é um fenômeno

[@qing4249]

Xu xin's nick name in china is "python", for his aggressivity and tenacity.

[@YYwb]

or Anaconda

[@Happy.Stupid.Neighbor]

A lot of his highlights are love tho

[@LucaInvicta]

Hail to the master, Xu Xin the show man

[@oddapricot4077]

he is called python because he will not let you get his point like a python not letting his prey escape

[@notaboxofjuice]

1:11 - 1:20 *LEGEND*

[@abdirabie]

xu Xin is the best! Is pure show!!

[@Nutelko8]

Nice the intro included a part of a song of SAO. NICE

[@anonydf5969]

whoever made this video deserves a medal. great job both on quality and content. although im not sure why sometimes the camera has special effects like blow up and swirl.

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+Jason Yang ahue. Couldn't help myself. Will try to avoid that specific thing on Part 3. :)

[@Kevin-zl3ci]

That anime theme in the beginning

[@IROHA_149]

最初のBGMがSAOでびびった。

[@handy9234]

Besides Ma Long, Xu Xin is a nightmare of Timo Boll. Boll only defeated Xu Xin once, whilst he easily lost to Xu Xin many times.

[@MrFreezebook21]

He is also a nightmare of Harimoto, who cannot win even once.

[@Dallas-q4f]

lol didnt know the singing clip was world wide famous hhh good for Xu Xin

[@林達浪-m9i]

太強了，許昕！

[@khaoulacosta7685]

piiiii xu xi is amayzin player same with ma long

[@randomcreeper6874]

EPIC

[@dekoeth]

best world

[@ryankish6370]

I love the SAO intro music lol

[@tabletennis-tv]

Amazing .....Thanks for videos shared...

[@chamalliyanage]

Mr TT DJ.. love watching u playing..

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

Table tennis's *mad-man* .

[@毛利tあやたか放送局員]

これ投稿主、日本人？ センス良いです👏

[@daya0576]

my favorite player！ good video！ waiting for the part3

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

daya henry Thanks, glad you liked it! My Fav player too! :L This was intended to be the last though, but I might make one in the future with only newer things. In which case I'd probably wait until the Olympic Games 2016, hoping he'll get to participate there. That might not happen.. (in fact it would be a surprise to many if he did manage) But I got my hopes.

[@renatosilva6072]

xuxin o melhor de todos os tempos ele não só joga muito como também improvisa no jogo os adversários não sabe o que vai fazer ele é imprevisível xuxin o melhor

[@shalinigupta1301]

Nice editing

[@u3362]

Sao soundtrack❤😻

[@spaceinvader384]

Who reckons there is no entertainment in sports, especially table tennis. XX is the show king. Python is his nickname in China. They crown him as slick, powerful, and lethal.

[@incendioraven4269]

Master men need master rivary.

[@weichang93]

1:18我跪著重複看了n次

[@SeanXuanZhang]

2:26 so cool.

[@jwzhu]

1:29 why did Xu Xin do that? Did Patrick provoke him?

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

He was pointing toward the audience and doing that, after winning the last point in the match (3-0) :v

[@desert1987]

subbed

[@shivanshujain6102]

4:37 - This is called exchanging sides😂

[@jinzhang4121]

我昕威武

[@sandwich9749]

You should do a video pen holder vs penh older

[@sandwich9749]

Holder

[@raymonders001]

I've never understood why he's called that

[@Blowurmind63]

Lmao is that SAO in the intro

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

DuskGlade indeed.

[@joostvanloon3966]

Yes it is indeed

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

I was going to wait until after Rio, but couldn't help it :) Part 3 -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJjPpWSHm5lsr5Y

[@AseeF]

who's that player at 1:44 with the crazy sidespin hooking backhand after backhand.

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

Cho Eonrae 😃 (clip from Qatar Open)

[@carloseduardo6883]

So seu fam

[@tj_1260]

Ok

[@안지환-l3p]

what is the background bgm?

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

In description. :)

[@sophiathewonderland7221]

that's very cool game. you have to very fast

[@TrashkinkLP]

can you give me the source of the singing part? would be very nice :D

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

***** The guy in the comment below asked for just that when he said "link of 2:43 pls? :)" :L But yea, here is it: "youtube "Ping Pong Song by CHINA NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS TEAM"

[@TrashkinkLP]

Kaizoku okey thank you :) and sorry i did not read that comment :)

[@mm2000321]

樊振东总是当背景啊，哈哈哈

[@justinx9668]

5:20 This match is...

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+Justin X 2015 China World Chapions Masters. Video of the entire tournament is uploaded by Janus770. I think it was fun,you can see retired Wang Hao playing against retired Ryu Seung Min there too. :D

[@justinx9668]

Looks like exhibition.

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

Indeed, it was. :P

[@johnmarkebulas1884]

4:40

[@girasolll2810]

3:47 so weird hahaha

[@xhzhao783]

Python！

[@ВладІванов-д5ч]

please song 0:45 to 2:53

[@TheRayPUA]

music from 3:47 is not in the description

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

remix by fl studio 9? It is. :)

[@TheRayPUA]

Sorry my mistake, awesome video man ! thanks for the help here

[@JacK46]

*Why he is called "Cloud Walking" ?*

[@whatchachattin]

+【☯】ɈẨƇƘ【♞】 i assume because of his amazing footwork

[@JacK46]

whatchachattin *Could be true*

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+【☯】ɈẨƇƘ【♞】 Ironically, it was initially the opposite. However it's now used as compliment instead of a mock from chinese coaches. xD

[@user-me514gmtm]

色々許昕

[@rayhankaur3474]

5:29 why are they playing so bad

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

I thought it was fun to watch :p But probably because it's an exhibition match.

[@CuantoTema]

because they wanna switch sides

[@leannihi6807]

It’s called around the world

[@ВладІванов-д5ч]

music please 0.37sec

[@darkcaribou]

sao song

[@cloudwalker2186]

Hi

[@molenlee5326]

hahahahaha

[@adrianruelas1812]

why "cloud walking"?

[@rogerfaint499]

His coach, Liu Guoliang, gave him this nickname (in Chinese it means 'strolling on a cloud' meaning his movement was slow). Later, others apply it to mean that he's good - a cloud walker.

[@あい-j4g4i]

広告竿からの開幕竿で草生えた

[@IceQuarter]

Lol his singing proofes zou cant be good at everything

[@KinkyLettuce]

overly dramatic music ruins it

[@yueisenhower8787]

link of 2:53 pls? :)

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

Yu Eisenhower youtube "Ping Pong Song by CHINA NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS TEAM" xD is pretty good lol

[@yueisenhower8787]

Kaizoku Thanks! Nice video btw

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

Part 3? kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4rHnWqwbJyXhZYa

[@joiahelsper]

+Kaizoku will there ever come a part 3?

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+joia helsper If he makes he Olympic games, then 90% certainly. Wether he wins or looses. It will in which case contain this seasons bests points (after the part 2 video) + all the points I pick from the olympic games++. Though It will be released after the Olympic games 2016 in any case. So let's just hope he makes it. :)

[@joiahelsper]

he will!!!

[@SomeRandomGuy777x]

+joia helsper Then you just need to be patient. Meanwhile I bet there are many other good things to watch. :L

[@joiahelsper]

Kaizoku True ^^

[@joncaju]

Awful singer, great table tennis player

[@aydencrunch]

joncaju great singer*

[@emersonsitorus1136]

overrated

[@diegacho]

4:40