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    Kim Taek Soo – Legendary Korean Penholder



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    https://www.patreon.com/top8tt Kim Taek Soo (김택수, 金擇洙 )is a former Korean table tennis player. Played with penhold style, using only one side of the blade( traditional penholder). Fantastic footwork and forehand with a solid penhold block and sudden atack from backhand side. Bronze medalist from 1992 Olympics games in Barcelona. As of 2010 Kim Taek-Soo has been announced as the new national coach of the Korean National Team for table tennis.

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    -Kim Taek Soo Bio:
    Born: May 25, 1970 (age 46 years), Gwangju, South Korea

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    5. @suchen403 on

      Kim was THE player I hate when I was a kid and watching those games, just because he's so good and we might lose. Now I just appreciate and miss his legendary penhold skills. Hope the penhold don't get obsolete.

    27. @yeongthianlim3529 on

      Penhold delivers more entertainment value to the table tennis sport, more so for the traditional J/K penhold. Unfortunately, it is fading breed at the highest level of TT

    29. @user-lj5tp5be3g on

      무슨 말이 필요 할까… 세계 탁구 역사상 가장 성실하셨던 분… 절망적인 상황에서도 절대 포기 하지 않았던 사람… 그리고 그것을 탁구라는 스포츠에서 희망으로 바꾸었던 분… 탁구라는 스포츠종목에서 내가 가장 존경하는 분… 김택수 감독님.♡

    33. @unit6344 on

      Kim Taek-soo was not as detailed as Yoo Nam-kyu and Ahn Jae-hyung in terms of speed-saving plays, especially forward or target plays. It seems that the brain fight was also weak.

      Instead, he had a strong forehand top spin from the middle class like European shakehand players, and the backhand was also very high among penholder players. It wasn't a backhand equivalent to a shake hand, but the technical level of backhand blocks and backhand smashing was very high, and sometimes it showed a performance that didn't lag behind in a backhand fight with a shakehand player.

      However, due to the nature of the single-sided pen holder, there was a limitation that it was difficult to make a mid- to continuous fore-back hand top-spin like a shakehand player, and he overcame it with his footwork.

      As a result, it is thought that he had a footwork close to perfect in the history of table tennis.

      The classical style of overpowering opponents with heavy top spin from middle location to single-sided pen holders by saving footwork was enough to shock viewers.

      However, he didn't have any reason to play ping-pong with a pen holder, but I think it's a disappointing case of holding a pen holder. If he played table tennis with his shake hands, I'm sure he would have won the top of the Olympics or world championships with a higher achievement than Yoo Seung Min Yu Nam-kyu.

      In table tennis, Asian Games gold medals are as difficult as Olympic gold medals, but Asian Games gold medals are too bad for his level of play.

      Kim Taek-soo, the King of no-crown

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