Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

Originally Posted by Takkyu_wa_inochi

it was near Sugamo Station

Thanks... can you tell me the name of the club/center?

Was it ping-pong ba or the Sugamo sports center?

Hello guys, my friend posted this video that it just was posted on youtube, where Wang Liqin beat FZD.Can anyone tell me when that was played?Thanks

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One of those slow motions of Fan leaping sideways and striking the ball when both feet were off the ground. Phew!

Table tennis players are the best! 🤣

Merry Xmas to all

i filmed my last session of the year with my coach

here are 2 (out of 6 videos) taken yday.

this is the warmup. i still lack consistency but the ball is really coming fast with a lot of spin, its unforgiving. I must pay attention to every detail in each shot not to miss. FH is more about legs and body balance, BH about getting the racket ready and close the wrist when re-loading.



In and out footwork is a big weakness. In the 1st half of the video, i'm really struggling and don't get much back.
However, in the second half, its getting much better because i focus on keeping the upper body lower after the short receive. and also im keeping the arm a bit more forward after the receive. it makes it much easier to react, especially when he's playing a short ball again , the flick is much easier, or to cover the wide angles from a FH flick. There is still time to play FH and BH drive, its actually more natural for the timing. I make quite a few quality shots finally.

Well Takkyu, these are the kind of exercises your evolution of development need. We would not expect you to be proficient on these yet, that is why you are training them. I would be out of place saying you MUST specifically do this or that as you are at a stage where you will not yet be able to make such suggestions translate into immediate improvement of performance.

I think you have discovered a few things about what works and a few things you need to do... of course you are paying coach to tell you this too.

To go along with what you are saying, some things you are doing well on short receive is your first step. Fortunately, the camera shows your step to and under the table. You are performing this better and more naturally than the Pastor I am training (who is improving footwork better than any other area). If you are able to get a tiny closer to the ball, be finished with your arm movement before impact, and also have a little looser grip at impact, you will see your short receive quality go up a lot. Some of this you can see immediate results, a lot of it is developed over more time.

Originally Posted by JeffM

Does anyone have any news of where 'Sing Hing' oldschoolpenhold is and how he is doing?

I will reach out to him and see how he is doing.

Originally Posted by JeffM

Does anyone have any news of where 'Sing Hing' oldschoolpenhold is and how he is doing?

Hello JeffM and DTTCCers!

*pssst* This is a secret! DO NOT TELL CARL!

I thought he may have been a double agent!! I went to investigate his house and fell into a trap door to his basement. I finally escaped!!!

But i found no evidence that he is a double agent and will report my findings (or lack of findings) to Der . That trap door was meant for enemy agents! But I'm a klutz!!

LOL at me!!

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Please accept my deepest apologies Si-hing et al for not keeping in touch.


Lockdown for NYC started mid-March 2020 through ~Sept 2020. No TT at all! Also, wasn't able to meet up with my martial arts training group but was training at home. My spirits were still high, The recreation center I play TT at was still closed until ~June 2021! Finally opened and I went 4 nights a week. Things started to seem almost normal again. But then they changed their schedule. Instead of M-Th 6-7:30pm in the well-lit but low ceiling basement, it was M, W 6:30-8pm in the basketball courts upstairs on main floor and the court is poorly lit in spots. T, Th was 12-1:30pm.

Their schedule change coupled with my work schedulue change of working until 6pm in Manhattan, made it not as desirable to get off work, take 1 hour subway to Queens to maybe get a table to play (or not). Lost my love of TT for the time being. Sadly, related... gained 5 lbs back that i lost through the years.

But I will take JeffM/Carl's reaching out to me as a sign from GuoYueHua and the rest of the Penholder gods that I should get back into TT somehow.

Sad the scheduling was not like it was pre-lockdown ... M-Th 4:30-9:30pm and i used to be there about 3 hours 4x a week.

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Hope this post finds the DTTCCers healthy and happy!

As John Wick said, "I think I am back!"

~osph