Introduce yourself to the forum! :)

Hi everyone. My name is Junting Yu. I am from China.
I started playing TT at the age of 9, with the coaching of my father, haha.
Now I am 22 years old, studying in the university.
I play TT just for fun, and I have never played for a team or club, nor achieved anything.
My favorite TT player is Fan Zhendong.

Hi TTD,

My name is Damien Eloi former International table tennis player. You can ask me questions on my topic made by Dan here: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?17191-Ask-Damien-Éloi-a-question-on-TTD!

I joined the forum a couple of weeks back and I'm really enjoying it. I played in a club between the age of 9 and 14 but then forgot about the fantastic sport for about 23 years until I got injured while competing in veteran athletics (dangerous stuff). A friend in the athletics club tricked me into playing TT in October last year and since then I'm hooked.

I'm currently playing 3-5 hours a week in two different clubs here in Stockholm.

Biggest claim to fame: I managed to hit Magnus Molin (former player in the Swedish national team) in his temple with my racket (yes, there was blood) during a warm up to a game when I was 12.

What I dislike the most with modern TT: Banda is no more. I really miss the Waldi rubbers and the amazing blades.

What I like the most with modern TT: That it's so easy to be an EJ. Can't stop myself and I don't want to either. It probably destroys my gameplay but I couldn't care less.

Secret wish: To be able to handle my J-PEN blade my father brought back from Tokyo 1989. I've refurbished the racket with modern japanese rubbers but I still suck at it using as much as I did 1989.

First post.

I started playing over a year ago as a way to challenge myself by learning a new sport in my 30s. I've been lurking on this site since then. The complexity of table tennis, the emphasis on technique and (of course) the equipment got me hooked.

I play about 2-3 times a week and receive some coaching - I mix TT in with basketball and boxing. I definitely have more equipment than my level requires and I look forward to doing some reviews on some of them.

If anyone here is based in Moscow, Russia and would like to play or talk about equipment, let me know.

I'm 47. Born in Hong Kong, but I immigrated to Holland as a kid due to family reunion in 1978. I started playing it when I was young in the early 80s. A primary school classmate was already a member of a local table tennis association and he introduced me to it. And I became a member of it right away. Later some more classmates became members of it too! I have only played 3 seasons in the competition as an adult. And I've become champion twice with the team. My tt idols back in the days were Jan-Ove Waldner and our Dutch Bettine Vriesekoop. She is my fb connection too. Sadly Eurosport doesn't broadcast tt tournaments often. I've not been playing it for some years now due to work commitments in the evenings during the weekdays. Does anyone know places here in Holland where you can play in the weekends? Preferable in the Amsterdam area or even further. I've been watching some tournaments as a spectator. Like the national Dutch championships with Li Jiao, Li Jie, Barry Wijers, Danny Heister+Daan Sliepen. The WTTC 2011 in Rotterdam was awesome. I went there for 2 days. I've met celebs including Zhang Jike, Ryu Seung Min+Kong Linghui there. Eight years ago I saw Jan-Ove Waldner and Jorgen Persson giving a demonstration in the Dutch town of Hoorn. It was really an impressive show. By the way I use mainly a Stiga blade with Butterfly rubbers.

BORNINHKG said:

Does anyone know places here in Holland where you can play in the weekends? Preferable in the Amsterdam area or even further.

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Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum, BorninHKG. My club (an hours' drive away from Amsterdam, traffic permitting) opens on sunday, but in Amsterdam itself you'll find Tempo Team (http://www.ttv-tempoteam.nl) to be an excellent venue, and it's open sunday afternoons as well. I could introduce you through players I know there, but that shouldn't even be necessary.

By the way, Bettine trains a high-level selection at that club. Something to strive for...

Hi all, I've meant to post this around 2 months ago but noticed it hasn't posted so....
​Hello, New here to the forum my name is Mike from USA about to turn 40 later this year played for a few years "basement" tabletennis as a teenager developed bad habits and now recently joined a club close to home and started to take it more seriously. Looking forward to learning and improving here and meeting likeminded individuals. Total beginner ,possibly early intermediate level.. Blade Butterfly Viscaria FL Tenergy 80BH+fhside.
Occupation Rn in NYC and parenting Other hobbies, Analog photography...

Hello to all. My name is Tim, and I just joined this forum. I played for recreation as a kid on poor equipment but still enjoyed it. Now, in midlife and living in Silicon Valley, I am playing daily with engineering co-workers. I am learning proper shakehand technique via friends and youtube and losing a little weight while having fun.

Hello Everyone! I have been playing table tennis for quite a while. Not trying to be the best. Just here to learn and have fun.

hello my names is nicolas saint antonin, im french player.
i start play 20 years ago, my best season i was 2150 points in france ( around n°590 french ranking ) ,i has chance can play somes match in national 1 in france ( 3 level ) and i have win somes "good" player ...

too im lucky because i have somes contact with few chinese play and was played on chinese national team... and i help somes player for find club in europe...


im passionate about table tennis, and about equipment... and i read often somes good informations on this forum

Welcome Revenna and panany!

thx

hi my name is vinz, i live vienna, austria. i am 30 years old and i play tt for about 10 years. i play in small club in vienna called Hakoah. i am also a comic and grafic artist and i do a comic about my and my friends table tennis adventures called Herta and Hüne. it´s in german languages but feel free have look: https://vinzschwarzbauer.com/HERTA-HUNE-EPISODE-00 https://vinzschwarzbauer.com/HERTA-HUNE-EPISODE-01 https://vinzschwarzbauer.com/HERTA-HUNE-EPISODE-02

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hi my name is vinz, i live vienna, austria. i am 30 years old and i play tt for about 10 years. i play in small club in vienna called Hakoah. i am also a comic and grafic artist and i do a comic about my and my friends table tennis adventures called Herta and Hüne. it´s in german languages but feel free have look: https://vinzschwarzbauer.com/HERTA-HUNE-EPISODE-00 https://vinzschwarzbauer.com/HERTA-HUNE-EPISODE-01 https://vinzschwarzbauer.com/HERTA-HUNE-EPISODE-02

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that's a really cool psychedelic style, I like it.

Hi guys. Name's IAN. I used to play when i was a kid. Around ten years old. Way back 1995. I used to play for my school in inter school competitions. Highest achievement was silver in doubles at that stage. And after 3 years got gold in singles. Stopped playing after 5 years in the school team. Then resumed when i got to university and played for my college in intrauniversity competitions. Best result was 4th overall.

I used BTY panasia when i was young. Then i removed the rubber from that blade and put in BTY sriver (red) on FH and sriver fx (black) on BH. After university i stopped playing. (update: did a google search and the premade butterfly paddle i used was from the original "Champ" series, specifically the Champ F-2)


Now after 14 years i am starting again, i took off the dead sriver fx on my bh, surprised to see the sriver was still alive and kicking on my fh, and put on a DHS PF4 40+ on the bh. I also have a penhold blade which is a BTY addoy, i removed the rubber on that and put in more DHS PF4 40+ on both sides.

This is my first post, 50 yo enthusiast here. I played TT since I was 10yo, no I am playing in HTTV-070 club here in Den-Haag, Netherlands. I was a champion on my level when I was younger.

Welcome!

Heyo, raystorm!

Hello to all,


Nice to see such a forum for table tennis, happy to be here. I was playing TT in a team in Greece for 4 years, when I was 12-16 years old but I had to stop it, and now, ~30 years after, I started it again as a sport. Back then, I was a DEF player so I would like to continue from this point. I was an intermediate player at that time. Rules, balls, blades, rubbers, style of play etc where very different back then so here I am, as a "newbie" again. Greetings from Greece