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1115.2
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Terrific. One of my worst losses, and we get to see a
few of my worst points, near the end of the match where
I'm exhausted and practically standing straight up. Note
that I played Sai Kwok earlier in the tournament and won
3-1, then lost this one 11-9 in the seventh (we see the
last few points, and a lot of toweling). He is rated 2057.
-Larry Hodges
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> Terrific. One of my worst losses, and we get to
see a few of my worst points, near the end of the match
where I'm exhausted and practically standing straight up.
Yes, I wish there was more footage from the match.
Of course looking at it from Sai Kwok's perspective,
maybe it's one of his best wins. He seems happy at the
end.
Sometimes I wonder if you intentionally over-dramatize
some of your behaviors as seen in the end of this video.
To me it appears sort of comical the way you stand in
disbelief after the last point and later the way you toss
the paddle case on the table. Are these natural actions or
maybe something that may have developed from dramatizing
defeat to kids?
I think I have a couple additional matches of yours
from this SoCal Tournament.
--Rob
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1115.4
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>Sometimes I wonder if you intentionally
over-dramatize some of your behaviors as seen in the end
of this video. To me it appears sort of comical the way
you stand in disbelief after the last point and later the
way you toss the paddle case on the table.
Let's just say that I still can't believe how much
slower my feet are then they used to be.
>I think I have a couple additional matches of yours
from this SoCal Tournament.
I did have an 8,8,9 win over Doan Le (2173), and a
close -9,9,9,12 loss to Tuan Le (2342).
-Larry Hodges
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another example of an illegal serve by Hodges...as the ball is not
*displayed* to the opponent in a flat open palm......also..serving
long and getting rocked for an easy point to lose the match is
indicative of Larry's true level when it counts the most...about 800
Canadian.
out...
rick
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I do believe that they removed the "flat palm" rule a
while ago.
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Terrific. One of my worst losses, and we get to see a few of my
worst points, near the end of the match where I'm exhausted and
practically standing straight up. Note that I played Sai Kwok
earlier in the tournament and won 3-1, then lost this one 11-9 in
the seventh (we see the last few points, and a lot of toweling). He
is rated 2057.
-Larry Hodges
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Don't sweat too much Larry, you can't em all.
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Larry,
It can't be worse than your loss to my friend
Xiaoguang Wen (unrated at the time -2036 after the
tournament - and had not played in over a year) in the
Stiga Virginia Tournament at UVA in March. I believe he
beat you 3-0 in the Final of the Over 40 Event. He just
made you look silly without even moving much away from
the table.
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>It can't be worse than your loss to my friend
Xiaoguang Wen (unrated at the time -2036 after the
tournament - and had not played in over a year) in the
Stiga Virginia Tournament at UVA in March. I believe he
beat you 3-0 in the Final of the Over 40 Event. He just
made you look silly without even moving much away from
the table.
And I'm sure you have some contructive purpose in
this posting? Whatever. What you fail to mention is that
it was my 15th (and last) match of the day. I think you
should give me some slack. I was utterly exhausted. I
won the first 12 in a row, all 3-0, then lost the
last three as I was barely able to move. (The match
stats are all online, by the way.) I'd also just
finished playing Raghu Nadmichettu (2154, but recently
as high as 2290), twice, back to back matches, and lost
two long matches, the 14th match a long comeback where
after being down 0-2, I made it into the 5th, and then
nearly collapsed in exhaustion. (He's been playing me
since he was a little kid.)
I'm sure you could comb over my match record and find
other bad losses, if that's what gives you kicks.
-Larry Hodges
Edited Oct-6 by Larrytt
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Wow, CLegout you are just an a ss arent you? Is that
what you thrive on? Probably.
At least he is admiting his faults. He needs to be in
better shape and he knows it. He isnt saying anything
else. Why dont you stfu CLegout and go to a tourney and
show your results?
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>At least he is admiting his faults. He needs to
be in better shape and he knows it. He isnt saying
anything else.
I've got plenty of weaknesses, and getting slower and
more out of shape in recent years leads the list. I also
play my backhand too soft, have trouble with certain
serves, and when pressed, don't generate great spin with
my loop. I can name other weaknesses. Unfortunately, I
don't have time to practice much anymore, so my
tournament results suffer.
>Why dont you stfu CLegout and go to a tourney and
show your results?
I'm pretty busy with work right now, but I'll put up
half the cost (up to $300 or so) towards Clegout's
(Mark Gorse) air fair to come out here and play me
a match this weekend for $1000. I was in Vancouver in
January, and clobbered him 10 -1 in games. It's his turn
to come here. Or he can come to a 4-star USATT
Tournament, and I'll play him a match for $1000. Offer
is good until the USA Nationals in December, but he has
to agree to it by this weekend. I'm almost 46, I'm out
of shape, he should have no problem with me, right? :)
-Larry Hodges
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Hola Larry,
I can play you for 1U$ this weekend. You will get the
tshirt regardless.
Micky
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Hahahaha, now I know what you look like in games Larry.
I'm not impressed.
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Cyberswordsman wrote:
indicative of Larry's true level when it
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Fascinating statement by Rick Anderson of Vancouver, Canada. That
would make him better than me, despite my two wins against him
challenge matches in January by scores of 5,3,3,0 and 3,6,4,1! Since
I already have a Canadian rating of about 2100, his 800 estimate
seems a bit off, as the scores of our matches indicate.
-Larry Hodges
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larrytt wrote:
Cyberswordsman wrote:
indicative of
Larry's true level
when it counts the
most...about 800
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Fascinating statement by Rick Anderson of
Vancouver, Canada. That would make him
better than me, despite my two wins against
him challenge matches in January by scores
of 5,3,3,0 and 3,6,4,1! Since I already have
a Canadian rating of about 2100, his 800
estimate seems a bit off, as the scores of
our matches indicate.
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The "Challenge Match"..lol..the one where I tried to
hustle you and didnt  by playing
with my wrong hand to let you win in an effort to have you put up
the big odds you bragged about....
such a skid..
out...
rick
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>Hahahaha, now I know what you look like in games
Larry.
>I'm not impressed.
Based on the two points shown, neither would I. It
figures someone would post two of my worst points in one
of my worst losses at the very end of the match (11-9 in
the 7th after many other matches that day) when I'm
very, very tired. I beat the same player 3-1
earlier in the day. I'm actually a pretty aggressive
forehand attacker in most matches, although I vary that
tactically.
Watch many of the points that Samsonov played against
Waldner at the 2001 Worlds, and he wouldn't be very
impressive either. It's easy to pick and choose points
to make a player look bad. it sure would have been nice
if Robert had instead posted my -2,6,8,9 win over this
player earlier in the day, or my 8,8,9 win over
Doan Le (2173) or my 3,9,8 win over Lloyd McQueen
(2143), or my close match with Tuan Le (2342), where he
won -9,9,9,12.
I can easily give a list of tournament wins I've had
against players that international players could relate
to, such as Kazeem Badru (2500+ rated), a member of the
Nigerian National Team; Insook Bhushan (about 2450),
former Korean Team Member and #9 in the world, while she
was U.S. champion; then U.S. Over 40 Champion and former
Phillipines Champion Rey Domingo (2450+), etc. These
aren't international stars (well, Insook was), but some
pretty good players.
Back to work.
-Larry Hodges
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>I can play you for 1U$ this weekend. You will get
the tshirt regardless.
I don't expect to be at the club this weekend. Too
much USATT work. Besides, considering all the snide
comments you make about me, why would you want to play
me?
-Larry Hodges
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I'm pretty busy with work right now, but I'll put up
half the cost (up to $300 or so) towards Clegout's
(Mark Gorse) air fair to come out here and play me
a match this weekend for $1000. I was in Vancouver in
January, and clobbered him 10 -1 in games. It's his turn
to come here. Or he can come to a 4-star USATT
Tournament, and I'll play him a match for $1000. Offer
is good until the USA Nationals in December, but he has
to agree to it by this weekend. I'm almost 46, I'm out
of shape, he should have no problem with me, right? :)
Then you admit that you used a trip paid for by the
USATT to engage in illegal betting activities. Here you
are again.
I propose we hold a different type of contest. Using the
soon to be updated rating conversion chart, I propose we
see who has the higher rating in one year. If my
Canadian rating, converted to American, at the end of
one year, is higher than yours, you have to admit on
camera in a tape forwarded to me that you purposefully
took an all expenses paid trip by the USATT to play Rick
Anderson in Vancouver. You will then state that I am
better than you once and for all.
If your rating is higher than mine, I will go on camera
and state that Larry Hodges is a better player than
myself and I will lie that I making up this story about
you.
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>I propose we hold a different type of contest.
Using the soon to be updated rating conversion chart, I
propose we see who has the higher rating in one year.
Nope, because I'm no longer training, and you are, and
all you need is one good tournament. How about if you have
one year to top my best rating?
But this is silly. We'll settle it with another
challenge match, for $1000. Why don't you want to settle
it his way? C',mon, you're training regularly, you're in
your 20s and in top shape, while I'm an out of shape
45-year-old who's out of practice. It should be free money
for you, right? :) You should be much better than
when we played in January, right?
>you have to admit on camera in a tape forwarded to
me that you purposefully took an all expenses paid
trip by the USATT to play Rick Anderson in Vancouver.
You want me to lie? Sorry, no can do.
-Larry Hodges
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Nope, because I'm no longer training, and you are,
and all you need is one good tournament. How about if
you have one year to top my best rating?
But you are starting out with an advantage.
My rating converted into American is lower than yours.
Hence you should take this and win, right?
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>But you are starting out with an advantage.
My rating converted into American is lower than yours.
Hence you should take this and win, right?
No, because you have a whole year to go up, while I
won't since I'm no longer in training.
Actually, you have a big advantage anyway. Ratings
have inflated, so my highest published rating, 2292,
would be much higher in modern ratings. I was 18th in
the U.S. at my highest; check out what that corresponds
to now.
But I'm not really interested in this. Let's just
play a challenge match for $1000. I beat you 10-1 in
games in January, back when you claimed you could flip
all my serves aggressively; don't you want to get that
off your back?
Tell you what, I'll even give you an "out"
to win your money back. If I beat you for $1000, I'll
let you go double or nothing, and I'll play with a
clipboard. Unless I can beat you with a clipboard, you
can't lose any money! You can only win! How's that for a
deal?
-Larry Hodges
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> Based on the two points shown,
It was 3 points and you won the first 2 of 3.
--Rob
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>It was 3 points and you won the first 2 of 3.
It's near the end of the day, I've played many matches,
I'm exhausted, and at this point I'm practically standing
up straight. My shots are now awkward and poor. They may
hit, but the technique isn't very good at this point.
By the way, the delay when I was looking back was
because of some sort of commotion on a table behind me.
-Larry Hodges
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Hola Larry,
"I don't expect to be at
the club this weekend. Too much USATT work. Besides,
considering all the snide comments you make about me,
why would you want to play me?
-Larry Hodges"
Oh damn. Now I understand why
you treated me so cold over the phone. I don't know what
snide means but whatever comments I made about you
whether good or bad were not personal. It would be an
honor for me to meet you.
Micky
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> They may hit, but the technique isn't very good
at this point.
When I first started watching video of myself, I
thought my technique looked worse than how I pictured it
in my mind.
--Rob
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