🏓 China and Table Tennis : Inception of a juggernaut - Documentary
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- #Tabletennis #China #Pingpong
New country and new sport for this fourth episode of the long format of Out of bounds.
Today we are taking you to the People's Republic of China. The country emerged from the civil war less than 10 years prior and has very few sports structures. Hong Kong-born table tennis player Rong Guo Tuan vows to become the first Chinese world champion in history.
13 years later, in 1971, the three-time world singles champion Zhuang Zedong met the American Glenn Cowan, with whom he was to forge ties that would have far wider repercussions than in the world of ping pong.
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Rong Guo Tuan
1:57 1959 World Championships
3:04 1961 World Championships
4:37 Beginning of the cultural revolution
6:32 1971 World Championships
8:10 Diplomacy and table tennis
10:05 Nixon's visit to China and consequences
10:41 Conclusion
Music credits :
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Stalling - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
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Days Are Long - Silent Partner
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Track: Nostalgia - Another Kid
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"Better Days", composed and performed by Bensound
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Wiljan & Xandra - Woodlands
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Moving, historical, sensitive, factual, human and very interesting at the same time. GREAT job !
It's really well done. I have shared it on my community tab. Hopefully, a lot more people get to see it :)
Thanks a lot! I hope more people will see it as well. In any case, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
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.
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
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.
Thank you very much for your heartfelt comment. Glad you liked this video!
Great information.
Thank you ! Hope you enjoy my other videos !
This is great insight! Thank you.
Thanks a lot SamIsFun! Glad you enjoyed the video!
More people should know these great people, pioneers.
Thanks a lot, hope my video made them justice.
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!
Thank you very much for your comment. Hope you enjoyed the video!
THANK you for this interesting video!
Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. Hope you can do China/diving, Korea/archery, USSR & Romania/WAG.
Thanks! I'll look into it!
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.
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.
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.