This was the guy who won a world championship with 7-0 in matches, 21-0 in sets. He has been clowning on strong opponents since before I was even born.
"Hey, Waldner is going to have an exhibition at our mall. What can we do to make his stay as pleasant as possible?" - "Play ABBA songs, so he feels more welcome."
Hey 👋 I was working in China for IICG for 6 years setting up 3 shopping centers. This is an IKEA company, a Swedish brand. We invited J-O for all three openings weekends. The video is from this event. Yes, and we played some Swedish music 😀. J-O was absolutely fantastic with the kids. I talked to him afterwards and he really enjoyed it.
@@vikingkrigare5329welp, to the average person in the world, the only things we know about Sweden is 1. IKEA 2. ABBA 3. Meatballs. I guess JOW can be #4 lol
What a master!!! Doing complicated stuff in the most casual and relaxed way possible🤯 Maybe Ma Long got a bit ahead in the GOAT stats, but Waldner's elegance and style are irrepeatable!
@@gjhath You are just jealous. Many see J-O Waldner as the best in the world overall, during a long time period, and that should include Sweden as well. Because as far as I understand Sweden belongs to the world.
@@kentbergstrom3020 He probably thinks of Persson, but Waldner is more decorated. It's crazy that Sweden has two strongest players in the world in the middle of Chinese era (Hungarian and then Japanese were dominant in the early days)
You misunderstood the English. "No one like Waldner" means Nobody can play ping pong like Waldner. e.g. nobody is similar to Waldner. I think you read "No one likes Waldner" with an at the end of like, that is not what the author meant to write...@@Mixxathon
Nice! I am of course overall a fan of Ma Long who really transformed TT with Zhang Jike, but today the only 3 players that display the same level of skills and entertainment as Waldner are IMHO Xu Xin, Koki Niwa and Simon Gauzy.
1:54, interesting… you know when a person is a TT sage when she moves because she knows what comes next after that lob, ball was gonna go sideways over to her side if Waldner hit it back.
No. More look like playing with monkeys …😂😂😂😂😂 Walden NEVER WASTES ANY POWER on doing sth not effective ….he makes you go all around to catch his shots while he s NEARLY JUST STAND STILL AT THR SAME POSITION ….that tells how HE S THAT FREAK STRONG AND AWESOME
I have a question: I want a Chinese rubber on my forehand and I don't want to use booster, I'm intermediate player. which rubber should I use? Is 40 degree hardness good without booster?
Way too hard actually. But it depends a little bit on which rubber you gonna use. I would suggest smth like the Big Dipper or the 729 Friendship Battle II. If you have a really hard stroke on your forehand, so you can deal with a serious low throwangle you could also pick Sanwei Target National. I played most of them myself unboosted. Not really as good as a provincial Hurricane 3 neo but kinda close to it. The hardness itself depends more on your strength and technique. If you usually hit the ball very hard for example, you can go for the harder sponges. If you are used to ESN rubbers and you hit the ball more like Timo Ball for example, then you should go for the less harder sponges^^
@@Xzel0sX yes Ben. I play with friendship 7 stars racket and my strokes especially my forehand is spinny and fast .I want to buy a whole new equipment, a tensor rubber in my backhand and a Chinese rubber in my fh, I may use a hurricane 3 neo but I don't want to boost it. Is that okay? Because my rubbers that already I'm using is not boosted and I have a good feeling from them. I have my equipment about 2 years.
@@Holamirae Some ppl can play with it unboosted but i actually would never recommend it. This rubber especially the commercial version is way to incosistent in its performance unboosted and kinda dead. It feels if you are hitting the ball with a brick instead of a rubber especially with 40 degree + hardness. If you hit too weak once of not with perfect technique the ball just drops off of your racket to the ground instead of over the net... After that experience i took it off and boosted it asap. That changes everything for THIS rubber. But if you dont want to boost which i can definitly understand, i would recommend one of the rubbers i mentioned above. I would start with the Dipper because it feels pretty similar to a boosted hurricane and it is quite cheap. Pick 38-39 degree and if you want a more direct feel for the ball and/or your shots are too fast pick 40 degree.
@@Holamirae please,please try skyline 3 neo. Idk why people don't talk about this rubber more. The rubber is tacky like h3 but has more bounce and soft feel like tensor rubber. It's the perfect in between from hard chinese rubbers and esn/tensor. A tg3 neo will play perfectly fine without boost, it's not even meant to be boosted heavily. Most pros... basically just Wang hao use a very lightly boosted tg3 and it works wonders. If not, yea just get battle 2. Don't really need to boost b2 for it to feel good. I would actually advise against searching for hybrids like sanwei target nat. they tend fall short of what you expect. With stn the top sheet was tacky but the sponge got to soft and slow after a while. Just better to get a more forgiving rubber like b2 or tg3 neo
Jan Ove is the Waldner of table tennis
😂😂😂
pura verdad
he truly is one of the tables of tennis
Wow, it’s amazing to see Waldner play casually. He’s showing a whole other world of his skill set
China knows how to take care of our old swedish legends. Keep it up China, keep being awesome.
This was the guy who won a world championship with 7-0 in matches, 21-0 in sets. He has been clowning on strong opponents since before I was even born.
The True Ambassador of Table Tennis, JOW - The Legend
"Hey, Waldner is going to have an exhibition at our mall. What can we do to make his stay as pleasant as possible?"
- "Play ABBA songs, so he feels more welcome."
Hahah
Haha wtf I didn't notice that at first, haha he must have been laughing at that. Damn the whole world believes every swede likes Abba. NOT TRUE
Hey 👋 I was working in China for IICG for 6 years setting up 3 shopping centers. This is an IKEA company, a Swedish brand. We invited J-O for all three openings weekends. The video is from this event. Yes, and we played some Swedish music 😀. J-O was absolutely fantastic with the kids. I talked to him afterwards and he really enjoyed it.
@@vikingkrigare5329welp, to the average person in the world, the only things we know about Sweden is 1. IKEA 2. ABBA 3. Meatballs. I guess JOW can be #4 lol
@@joelau3404 what about Björn Borg, Spotify, Volvo, Saab, The Pirate Bay, Zlatan, Ericsson, Scania? Nothing there? Lol
Waldner, the Pelé of table tennis!!!
Waldner!!! You have always been an inspiration in table tennis in many people’s heart! I SOOOO EXCITED to see you play again!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕💕💕
Wow, what a show by Mr. Waldner 👏 No wonder he gets applause and smiles. He really gives us some delicatesses. Thank you Champ ❤
What a master!!! Doing complicated stuff in the most casual and relaxed way possible🤯 Maybe Ma Long got a bit ahead in the GOAT stats, but Waldner's elegance and style are irrepeatable!
Ma who?
@@NostalgiNorden I believe it translates as "The Big Tree" (Det stora trädet), his Chinese moniker.
Waldner is as entertaining as always, with that expressionless face..
Ronaldinho is a big fan of Waldner
@@TEXTMANNEN He is? I didn't know that
@@Sinreher Now I don't know if Ronaldinho was honest or not.
But he said that in an interview in Sweden.
@@TEXTMANNEN I'll look it up. Thank you
Ronaldinho is a ball magician just like Walder. It only makes sense that he's a Waldner fan.
Waldner is the world's first table tennis GOAT, a legend, and Chinese people also like him very much.
The goat? He isnt even the best swedish tennis player of all time
@@gjhath That's cuz he doesn't play tennis
@@gjhath Then who's is in your opinion, Björn Borg? 😄
@@gjhath You are just jealous. Many see J-O Waldner as the best in the world overall, during a long time period, and that should include Sweden as well. Because as far as I understand Sweden belongs to the world.
@@kentbergstrom3020 He probably thinks of Persson, but Waldner is more decorated. It's crazy that Sweden has two strongest players in the world in the middle of Chinese era (Hungarian and then Japanese were dominant in the early days)
Jan Ove Waldner is the Mozart of TT.
Mozart is the Waldner of classical music
he may not be the greatest attacker of all time, but i can say for sure that his swagger makes him more than eligible for the GOAT title
Waldner is the only legit contender for GOAT outside of China.
@raikiro I think you don’t know table tennis well
@@callmesid9759
I think you don t know TT well if you think Waldner is not the legend of TT at all time
Table tennis is so lucky to have LaoWa, the skill is out of this world but his personality really elevates the enjoyment for his fans.
Нравится чувство юмора Вальднера, нравится, что он близок к народу!
Awesome!! He’s still got it!!!!!
The Ever Green Tree (Chang Qing Shu) as he is nicknamed by the Chinese 😊 he seems great with kids
He is the Joda of table tennis. He got the force.
J O = The best ever. Greatest of all time ❤ du er i en klasse for dig selv J O
He was very nice with the kids.
I'm sure they wanted to learn.
Waldner, ein Super Sportler und fairer Spieler, einer der größten im Tischtennissport ! Ich liebe die Chinesen und ihre Lebensart und Kultur !❤
Imagine how long he had to stay and sign autographs after this.
no one like Waldner - thank you for sharing!
I would say Everyone like Waldner ;)
You misunderstood the English. "No one like Waldner" means Nobody can play ping pong like Waldner. e.g. nobody is similar to Waldner. I think you read "No one likes Waldner" with an at the end of like, that is not what the author meant to write...@@Mixxathon
Glad you were able to get that video. Wonderful.
Thanks again!
waldner's feeling is just awesome👍
Legend from west to east. J-O du gjorde min barndom bra.
Nice! I am of course overall a fan of Ma Long who really transformed TT with Zhang Jike, but today the only 3 players that display the same level of skills and entertainment as Waldner are IMHO Xu Xin, Koki Niwa and Simon Gauzy.
T'es pas français pour rien toi. Citer Gauzy faut oser. Il est très doué ok mais de la à oser le comparer à Waldner.....
And someone else - Waldner's childhood role model, who inspired to him start playing table tennis: Tibor Klampár
Aged like milk
bro that shot at 2:10 was so fucking amazing hahaha i laughed my ass off that poor kid!
02:01 what! How can he do that?
Only a magician like Waldner and Xu Xin can do it :D
Adam bobrow: Hey, He copied me!
Backspin
Waldner , you have always been great
how he is fluid and has amazing feeling and touch
so, a true legend can play like adam bobrow without even trying lol wtf.
the final form of adam bobrow 😂
Well, he has to get out of his bed at least. That's it if you're J-O Waldner 😊
Man he moves so smooth like butter
This guy is a magician. Much better than all the chinese players of his era.
He is Mozart...Truly
Can watch him all day, even in casual mode👌
Ces enfants ne l'oublieront jamais et progresseront toujours
One of the few times I've seen chinese people genuinly smile
Waldner is like a demi-god in China among table tennis players
What a great sportsman Jan-Ove is ❤️ love this 🙏 ❤️🏓🏓
His touch is crazy.
2:04 omg 😳
the Waldner of table tennis
2:04...hahaha damn
Some casual magic touch
thx coach, all your video is entertaining and special
Love this guy
He has to do this again sometime. There are still videos to this day popping up of him on youtube playing against famous youtubers.
Old is gold 😍👍
He is great! I love him!
Such an icon!
Waldner is always the best player forever and ever.
Perhaps not, but he had something extra.
Nice man.
His vision is out of this world
Genius
I like him in every way
1:54, interesting… you know when a person is a TT sage when she moves because she knows what comes next after that lob, ball was gonna go sideways over to her side if Waldner hit it back.
JO - legend!
Waldner is a genius of ping pong! A GOAT!!
1:39 donkey of the day
He made them look like real amateurs!
They are amateurs lol
@@onlythebest3311 the kids were kinda competitive though, just average chinese boy I guess
No. More look like playing with monkeys …😂😂😂😂😂
Walden NEVER WASTES ANY POWER on doing sth not effective ….he makes you go all around to catch his shots while he s NEARLY JUST STAND STILL AT THR SAME POSITION ….that tells how HE S THAT FREAK STRONG AND AWESOME
What a top dude
Mozart was the Waldner of Music
Waldner is Mozart of table tennis!
My favorite player❤️
Waldner still got it all
this is an old video but still great ;)
Jan-Ove Waldner ist schon so lange unterwegs. ist sich nicht zu schade auch mal mit Amateuren einige Bälle zu schlagen
The GOAT
Honoring that they play Swedish music 🇸🇪
Waldner you are the Best 😍
He always looks so effortless because his Yin Pai is very great
I liked waldner.. 😁👏👏👏
Sir, can you make a review video of the blade 'maze advance'.
True legend of table tennis lol
If there by any chance will be a "discussion" between Sweden and China - just send in the Three!
He wears like a boss 😎
Playing ABBA in the background of course lol :D
I have a question: I want a Chinese rubber on my forehand and I don't want to use booster, I'm intermediate player. which rubber should I use? Is 40 degree hardness good without booster?
Way too hard actually. But it depends a little bit on which rubber you gonna use.
I would suggest smth like the Big Dipper or the 729 Friendship Battle II.
If you have a really hard stroke on your forehand, so you can deal with a serious low throwangle you could also pick Sanwei Target National. I played most of them myself unboosted. Not really as good as a provincial Hurricane 3 neo but kinda close to it.
The hardness itself depends more on your strength and technique.
If you usually hit the ball very hard for example, you can go for the harder sponges. If you are used to ESN rubbers and you hit the ball more like Timo Ball for example, then you should go for the less harder sponges^^
@@Xzel0sX yes Ben. I play with friendship 7 stars racket and my strokes especially my forehand is spinny and fast .I want to buy a whole new equipment, a tensor rubber in my backhand and a Chinese rubber in my fh, I may use a hurricane 3 neo but I don't want to boost it. Is that okay?
Because my rubbers that already I'm using is not boosted and I have a good feeling from them.
I have my equipment about 2 years.
@@Holamirae Some ppl can play with it unboosted but i actually would never recommend it. This rubber especially the commercial version is way to incosistent in its performance unboosted and kinda dead. It feels if you are hitting the ball with a brick instead of a rubber especially with 40 degree + hardness. If you hit too weak once of not with perfect technique the ball just drops off of your racket to the ground instead of over the net... After that experience i took it off and boosted it asap. That changes everything for THIS rubber.
But if you dont want to boost which i can definitly understand, i would recommend one of the rubbers i mentioned above. I would start with the Dipper because it feels pretty similar to a boosted hurricane and it is quite cheap. Pick 38-39 degree and if you want a more direct feel for the ball and/or your shots are too fast pick 40 degree.
@@Holamirae please,please try skyline 3 neo. Idk why people don't talk about this rubber more. The rubber is tacky like h3 but has more bounce and soft feel like tensor rubber. It's the perfect in between from hard chinese rubbers and esn/tensor. A tg3 neo will play perfectly fine without boost, it's not even meant to be boosted heavily. Most pros... basically just Wang hao use a very lightly boosted tg3 and it works wonders. If not, yea just get battle 2. Don't really need to boost b2 for it to feel good. I would actually advise against searching for hybrids like sanwei target nat. they tend fall short of what you expect. With stn the top sheet was tacky but the sponge got to soft and slow after a while. Just better to get a more forgiving rubber like b2 or tg3 neo
@@christianwu1309 thanks Christian
true legend!
Not very often you see chinese people like us westerns. Lovely video :)
1:00 was that an unexpectedly fast backhand based on that grip/stance?
I said it a few times, that when Waldner was the whole match close to the table: best player ever lived.
bravo Waldner!!!
Mozart!! ❤️👌💯
Artist!
Why why not a lovely woman in China say to J-O:
Take me to your heart!
He is still lonely!❤😢
El viejo Wa! ❤️💯
He’s playing people randomly on the street and Adam Bobrow haven’t invited him to a challenge match?
im pretty sure that 10 amateur who played against waldner is highly selected 😂😂😂😂
That's sick
Good good good!
Legend!
Jan Ove Valdner Vs Adam Bobrov !
There is Ma Long. And there is Jan Ove Waldner.
I think Waldmwr today with this plastic havy balls would be the best.. Todays block, fast, and good placement game realy is good for him.
He is considered to be good with the old ball because of the great amount of spin, which he is good.
Legend
5 is really good
THE GOAT !!!!!!!!!!
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