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IB66 · Aug 16, 2020

IB66 · Aug 16, 2020

mart1nandersson · Aug 28, 2020

The pre season league starts tonight for our team. Getting into the right mood by listening to this gem on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4rYI8YTy-U

yoass · Aug 28, 2020

mart1nandersson said:
The pre season league starts tonight for our team. Getting into the right mood by listening to this gem on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4rYI8YTy-U

Even though injured (with a positively grim outlook, at this point), I'm as smitten as you, Mart1n. A simple like button does no justice to this.

mart1nandersson · Aug 28, 2020

yoass said:
Even though injured (with a positively grim outlook, at this point), I'm as smitten as you, Mart1n. A simple like button does no justice to this.

Ouch! What kind of injury?

The evening ended quite ok. I went 2-1. It feels really good to play league again. A small bit of normality in these strange times. I just found out that I will be working remotely until Q1/Q2 2021 so playing a bit of TT really saves my sanity.

NextLevel · Aug 28, 2020

mart1nandersson said:
Ouch! What kind of injury?

The evening ended quite ok. I went 2-1. It feels really good to play league again. A small bit of normality in these strange times. I just found out that I will be working remotely until Q1/Q2 2021 so playing a bit of TT really saves my sanity.

Sanity is greatly underrated in these days of Covid19.

mart1nandersson · Aug 28, 2020

NextLevel said:
Sanity is greatly underrated in these days of Covid19.

True. TT is a small blessing in my social life right now. I don’t even get properly upset if I loose any more. I just genuinely enjoy the the brief company even though we’re told to leave the premises directly after the matches.

yoass · Aug 29, 2020

mart1nandersson said:
Ouch! What kind of injury?

Oh, still my neck hernia acting up. Same old same old, except that the pain levels go through the roof now, at times. In non-corona times the neurologists/neurosurgeons and the palliative party people might have been a bit more forthcoming. Or available at all.

yoass · Sep 5, 2020

I guess I ended out this thread on a bit of a downer. Let me unend it.

With an increased dosage of pain killers, I fel it worth a try to partner in a training session. After a few minutes, my FH became unhampered and I had a good training session, ending with a few practice matches with (for me) a solid level of play. I think I'll be playing again.

mart1nandersson · Sep 6, 2020

Another league evening and another 2-1 quota. Quite funny as their no1 took notice of my win some weeks ago when I beat the other team's no1 and scored a ridiculous amount of ranking points. He was a bit worried but didn't need to be as he thrashed me. My first encounter with a left handed high level player with short pips on BH. I had absolutely no weapons to counter this. Tomorrow I'm playing for another team two divisions up and will probably face off with the no1 in boys 12 in this country. Good thing that it won't be recorded

piligrim · Sep 7, 2020

Anybody knows why I can't change blade and rubbers in personal details? After I press on save it start thinking and stack on this

yoass · Sep 7, 2020

I get the same issue, Pilgrim.

(I actually noticed because I'm dabbling with a T25FX handoff, and a touch of OC led me there.)

mart1nandersson · Sep 8, 2020

Two league matches in two days = woke up with a quite severe tennis elbow for the first time in my life. Luckily I have an entire army of physios and quacks in my phonebook after a fairly long "career" in athletics. I'm desperate enough to even try out nonsense like dry needling and shock wave therapy (even though I know that stretching, rubber bands and stuff is the way to go). The feeling is that it's quite similar to runners knee that I'm fairly skilled at treating myself. Suggestions are greatly appreciated!

The matches last night were some of the best I've ever played. Two out of three players play in division 3 which is 2-3 levels above me. Division 3 is "national level" meaning people that can actually play TT. I lost all three matches 1-3 but was 11-10 in the fourth against one of the players. A lot of loop vs loop and loop vs chop. I would be quite happy to play such matches forever even though if I would loose them all. I guess that the level of play triggered the issue with the arm as I felt that I had to hit hard as hell as soon as I got a chance to attack.

IB66 · Sep 8, 2020

Tonight was the 2nd time I’ve been able to play!!! The training / coaching sessions that I used to go to before COVID lockdown kicked in have restarted

tonight it was free play!!!!! no coaching!!!! matches against each other for the last 30 mins, it felt like a celebration of just being able to play again. Everyone’s spirits were high, joyous!!
It was great to see the other regulars at the session, it’s been about 5 1/2 months since we last played as a group.
another session is booked for Friday evening and I think this will be a free play session as well.
The hall has been booked as a block booking for the next 3 months, 2 nights a week, 4 tables 8 players. I think when news gets around the demand will rise, but Thamal the organiser has said that hopefully everyone will get 1 session each week, this week 6 of us are doing both sessions. Nice!!

Competitive local league matches are way off at the moment though.

IB66 · Sep 9, 2020

IB66 said:
Tonight was the 2nd time I’ve been able to play!!! The training / coaching sessions that I used to go to before COVID lockdown kicked in have restarted
tonight it was free play!!!!! no coaching!!!! matches against each other for the last 30 mins, it felt like a celebration of just being able to play again. Everyone’s spirits were high, joyous!!
It was great to see the other regulars at the session, it’s been about 5 1/2 months since we last played as a group.
another session is booked for Friday evening and I think this will be a free play session as well.
The hall has been booked as a block booking for the next 3 months, 2 nights a week, 4 tables 8 players. I think when news gets around the demand will rise, but Thamal the organiser has said that hopefully everyone will get 1 session each week, this week 6 of us are doing both sessions. Nice!!

Competitive local league matches are way off at the moment though.

So after a really good evening last night, I find myself waking up to the news that from Monday all social gatherings of more than 6 people indoors and outdoors are once again banned in England. So, at best the training sessions will be reduced to 6 players, could be worse!!!!
UK's infection rate is rising quickly again so something had to give.

Takkyu_wa_inochi · Sep 9, 2020

shitty virus. Is that the new normal ????

cytivrat · Sep 9, 2020

piligrim said:
Anybody knows why I can't change blade and rubbers in personal details? After I press on save it start thinking and stack on this

Try this workaround:
click on your nickname on top,
choose "General Settings"
then you will have huge menu on the left, find "Edit profile" there
There you will have a lot of different fields including blade and rubbers
Don't forget to hit save there.

mart1nandersson · Sep 9, 2020

IB66 said:
So after a really good evening last night, I find myself waking up to the news that from Monday all social gatherings of more than 6 people indoors and outdoors are once again banned in England. So, at best the training sessions will be reduced to 6 players, could be worse!!!!
UK's infection rate is rising quickly again so something had to give.

Isn't there an exclusion from the rule when it comes to "organised team sports"? Couldn't you argue that league TT falls into that category?

piligrim · Sep 9, 2020

cytivrat said:
Try this workaround:
click on your nickname on top,
choose "General Settings"
then you will have huge menu on the left, find "Edit profile" there
There you will have a lot of different fields including blade and rubbers
Don't forget to hit save there.

Thanks

IB66 · Sep 9, 2020

mart1nandersson said:
Isn't there an exclusion from the rule when it comes to "organised team sports"? Couldn't you argue that league TT falls into that category?

Possibly, it's the venue sizes that seem to be the main issue. I think that there maybe minimum space / area / volume stipulations.
A lot of the 'national leagues' like the one the TTD Team play in would have to be re-formatted because they seem to hold the matches over a weekend at one venue, with multiple teams playing which could be an issue.
If it was team A v Team B only, there may be a better chance of having matches.

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