Though sports in general had great moments of change which are epoch, but none could be as big as 1952 and Hiroji Satoh in Bombay. And the more I think about it the more I feel it was not just one player discovering sponge to win an edge and win championship there were more things coming to play.
How Technology can give an Edge - We have seen it happen in cricket, baseball, tennis or football. But I do not think any sports saw such a big tranformational aspect than this
Sponge creates level playing field between physical gifted assets and cerbral
Re-emergence of Asian after over 150 years or subjugation. Especially using the same forces that subdued them at first to learn from them and defeat the inventors or last master. As gun powder was discovered by China but it was the Western Countries, especially the British who
overcoming the ego of self pride to mutual self respect and then re-emerging. China/Japan how they vastly underestimated external power and blocked themselves from outside world ( the Ming dynasty's marine expeditions)
Aligning of the new world, change in human evolution. Where brute strenght did not matter as much as cerbral strenght. Emegernce of the Electronic era. Again why did the pre-emergent power leave sports of equal fooitng to take up gladiator like only strenght sports like Basketball or Football over baseball.
Some Links
http://www.ittf.com/museum/TTIscans/TTI60TurbulentFifties.pdf
Time Shift - Documentary "Planet Ping Pong" - http://www.ittf.com/stories/Stories_detail.asp?ID=11123&Category=&General_Catigory=general&
How Technology can give an Edge - We have seen it happen in cricket, baseball, tennis or football. But I do not think any sports saw such a big tranformational aspect than this
Sponge creates level playing field between physical gifted assets and cerbral
Re-emergence of Asian after over 150 years or subjugation. Especially using the same forces that subdued them at first to learn from them and defeat the inventors or last master. As gun powder was discovered by China but it was the Western Countries, especially the British who
overcoming the ego of self pride to mutual self respect and then re-emerging. China/Japan how they vastly underestimated external power and blocked themselves from outside world ( the Ming dynasty's marine expeditions)
Aligning of the new world, change in human evolution. Where brute strenght did not matter as much as cerbral strenght. Emegernce of the Electronic era. Again why did the pre-emergent power leave sports of equal fooitng to take up gladiator like only strenght sports like Basketball or Football over baseball.
Some Links
http://www.ittf.com/museum/TTIscans/TTI60TurbulentFifties.pdf
Time Shift - Documentary "Planet Ping Pong" - http://www.ittf.com/stories/Stories_detail.asp?ID=11123&Category=&General_Catigory=general&
