I haven't been around for a while, but when I finally did log in, I had a message from Dan asking me to post a link to Fred's last video so people could see how he is getting on. As we made another vid 2 days ago, it makes more sense to post that one.
He still hits the ball very hard when he...
......and why have they bothered? It isn't worth anybody's time to read it. There is a tournament from December still missing as well as one from 3 weeks ago and these are just the ones I know of because they relate to Fred. Someone somewhere doesn't seem up to the job.
Got bored yesterday so being the interesting person that I am, I bounced a few TT balls on the table and videoed it so you can form your own opinions about the relative bounce heights of Joola and Stag poly balls compared to a Butterfly celluloid ball. It shows that currently there is a great...
Spoke to someone 'in the know' today and it seems that the current predicament (regarding kids being asked for huge amounts for a chance to play for their country) comes down to our sport being run by people from outside table tennis and them being extremely short sighted.
The bottom line seems...
As Table Tennis England went to great trouble to tell us all the dates for publication of the ranking lists this year here:-
http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/dates-set-for-publication-of-rankings/
It doesn't bode well that they are already late in month 1. If you can't deliver, then don't...
Following last years debacle where TTE decided to concentrate their efforts in 4 geographic areas and thus exclude 90% of players from attending regional sessions, they have pulled off another masterstroke and decided to charge £1555 per year for kids to attend England Youth Squads (without...
Me and Fred Yesterday afternoon.
Some sound missing later in the vid as my IPOD decided not to sync the sound with the vid, so I decided silence was better.
Happy New Year.
Don't expect too much, but here is 4 mins of wobbly footage of the Chinese Men on their last Day of training before leaving for the London oympics.
20/07/12
2012 is nearly 2 hours old, so here are a few clips from last nights play.
Sorry about the missing sound on a couple sections, not too sure what Moviemaker was up to.
Fred got a couple of new rubbers yesterday, so being as I was looking for something to do, I made a vid showing how I make up a bat. I know most of you will be pretty good at this sort of thing, but for anyone who is looking for a rough guide then this could be useful.
Just before 6 mins, it...