Table tennis magazines

killiegradge · May 29, 2018

Does anyone still publish any physical table tennis magazines these days? I have hundreds from the 80's but nothing at all from recent years. Each nation used to publish their own monthly magazine and there was a few manufacturers who published also.

Garrison · May 29, 2018

We have a monthly magazine called "tischtennis" (table tennis) that is being published by the DTTB (german tt federation). Haven't read it in a long time though

Shifu · May 29, 2018

Garrison said:
We have a monthly magazine called "tischtennis" (table tennis) that is being published by the DTTB (german tt federation). Haven't read it in a long time though

Sometimes I buy it but there's not much in there what you can't find on the internet.

mart1nandersson · May 29, 2018

The Swedish TT association still publishes ”Pingis” like in the good old days. About 40€ for 4 issues a year.

http://www.svenskbordtennis.com/forbundet/TidningenPingis

Der_Echte · May 30, 2018

In Korea, there is a monthly TT magazine called "Weol-Gan Tak-Ku" which literally translated means Table Tennis Monthly.

They call their website THE PINGPONG

www.thepingpong.co.kr

BORNINHKG · May 30, 2018

Does Great Britain still publish any table tennis magazines?

killiegradge · May 30, 2018

There is certainly a market for an English language magazine.Perhaps similar to the high quality cycling(Rouler),cricket,running(Like the wind) and football(the blizzard)ones we see. Maybe a project for Matthew Syed?

zzzuppp · May 30, 2018

Isn't the Chinese one still going? And I'm sure the Japanese still publish one.

Vrael · May 30, 2018

Japan publish probably mroe than one. The one I saw is pretty nice, it has techinque lessons (serves, banana, loops, footwork etc) with pro players and their comments about those techniques. Also some interviews and other things

BORNINHKG · May 31, 2018

zzzuppp said:
Isn't the Chinese one still going? And I'm sure the Japanese still publish one.

I always read the Chinese one at the library in Hong Kong when I'm back in my place of origin .

BORNINHKG · May 31, 2018

I've noticed that the issues of the former ITTF magazine TABLE TENNIS ILLUSTRATED won't be easy to obtain. Even on ebay! Sadly I don't have any of it. But I do have some ITTF books called TABLE TENNIS FASCINATION with many pictures taken at the most important international tournaments. I also have the excellent ITTF book TABLE TENNIS GIANTS with Waldner on the front cover. It's about legendary table tennis players. I've let it signed by some (former) top players including Li Jiao, Bettine Vriesekoop, Kong Linghui, Zhang Jike+Ryu Seung Min!

zzzuppp · Jun 1, 2018

BORNINHKG said:
I've noticed that the issues of the former ITTF magazine TABLE TENNIS ILLUSTRATED won't be easy to obtain. Even on ebay! Sadly I don't have any of it. But I do have some ITTF books called TABLE TENNIS FASCINATION with many pictures taken at the most important international tournaments. I also have the excellent ITTF book TABLE TENNIS GIANTS with Waldner on the front cover. It's about legendary table tennis players. I've let it signed by some (former) top players including Li Jiao, Bettine Vriesekoop, Kong Linghui, Zhang Jike+Ryu Seung Min!

I think you mean 'Table Tennis Legends' by Zdenko Uzorinac, indeed a great book. I also have the book it's based on, 'Stolnoteniske Legende', which is in Croatian but contains a lot more photos and quite a few more players from the past. I spent a long time translating the extra ones using Google.
As for the ITTF 'TT Illustrated' I have a complete run of those (it ran from 1996 to 2010). Somebody (not me, please) should scan them all and upload them to the internet. There's a lot of good material in there as well as a great deal of very boring reportage by Ian Marshall, who was, alas, the editor.

Takkyu_wa_inochi · Jun 1, 2018

In Japanese,

1) the popular monthly (huge) publication Takkyu Oogoku [World Table Tennis]
They have an online site with the magazine + news + videos + links
http://world-tt.com/

2) Similarly, there is also the monthly magazine sponsored by Butterfly (if I'm correct)
Takkyu Report with their site here
http://www.takurepo.com/

3) Nittaku has also its monthly magazine , paper and online
http://www.nittaku.com/news/

BORNINHKG · Jun 1, 2018

zzzuppp said:
I think you mean 'Table Tennis Legends' by Zdenko Uzorinac, indeed a great book. I also have the book it's based on, 'Stolnoteniske Legende', which is in Croatian but contains a lot more photos and quite a few more players from the past. I spent a long time translating the extra ones using Google.
As for the ITTF 'TT Illustrated' I have a complete run of those (it ran from 1996 to 2010). Somebody (not me, please) should scan them all and upload them to the internet. There's a lot of good material in there as well as a great deal of very boring reportage by Ian Marshall, who was, alas, the editor.

Thanks for the info. Have you bought all the issues of TABLE TENNIS ILLUSTRATED directly from ITTF? How many issues are there in total? Were they expensive? The book TABLE TENNIS LEGENDS must be out of print I guess? I didn't see it being offered on the website of ITTF anymore recently.

zzzuppp · Jun 1, 2018

BORNINHKG said:
Thanks for the info. Have you bought all the issues of TABLE TENNIS ILLUSTRATED directly from ITTF? How many issues are there in total? Were they expensive? The book TABLE TENNIS LEGENDS must be out of print I guess? I didn't see it being offered on the website of ITTF anymore recently.

I bought them from ITTF (the only way you could get them) from about 2001 onwards: a couple of years later I found someone who was getting rid of all the back copies I needed. There are 78 issues in total, by the end (Winter 2010) they were costing $6 each, but if you had a subscription there was a discount. The release format kept changing, so sometimes they were every two months, later every 'season' eg Spring, so there was no regular pattern of issue.
In the early days of the internet, before everyone had computers, TTI was the best way for someone like me to find out what was happening in the TT World as there was no media coverage of the sport (at least here in the UK).

killiegradge · Jun 1, 2018

I have hundreds of the Butterfly Table tennis Report from the 1980's as well as a few books some of which are quite rare. I may still have Zdenko Uzorinacs book "From Sarajevo to Novi sad" and 21 Up by Richard Bergmann? Would just love a modern paper magazine each month.

zzzuppp · Jun 1, 2018

I have both those books you mention. A good copy of '21 Up' is quite valuable, especially if it's still got the DJ. It's a great read but a shame it cuts off when he still had one more World Championship left to win. As well as 'Sarajevo to Novi Sad', I also own Uzorinac's 'From London 1926 do Sarajevo 1973' (which I also spent ages translating with Google - not a job I'd recommend unless you're a TT HJ (History Junkie) like me

). Somewhere out there are Uzorinac's books on Stipancic and Croatian TT, but I'll save translating them for my old age.
One good shortlived magazine was the British 'Table Tennis' (well, there's an original title) - subtitled 'The Voice of British TT', which ran alongside TTNews during the late 70s and early 80s - a good read. I've got all of those somewhere.
'Table Tennis News' (ETTA mag) is all online now via the English TT site, thanks to some patient voluntary work. Quite a feat.

killiegradge · Jun 1, 2018

zzzuppp said:
I have both those books you mention. A good copy of '21 Up' is quite valuable, especially if it's still got the DJ. It's a great read but a shame it cuts off when he still had one more World Championship left to win. As well as 'Sarajevo to Novi Sad', I also own Uzorinac's 'From London 1926 do Sarajevo 1973' (which I also spent ages translating with Google - not a job I'd recommend unless you're a TT HJ (History Junkie) like me ). Somewhere out there are Uzorinac's books on Stipancic and Croatian TT, but I'll save translating them for my old age.
One good shortlived magazine was the British 'Table Tennis' (well, there's an original title) - subtitled 'The Voice of British TT', which ran alongside TTNews during the late 70s and early 80s - a good read. I've got all of those somewhere.
'Table Tennis News' (ETTA mag) is all online now via the English TT site, thanks to some patient voluntary work. Quite a feat.

I too have all of the "Table Tennis" magazine. Being Scottish I have hundreds of the STTA Bulletin edited by Denis B George.I also have a few ITTF and ETTU documents as well as a some weird ones from all over the globe. I have a few programmes from international matches both involving Scotland and England.If you are a collector I would happily pass some on to you.By all means PM me and I could send you the list.
I remember writing to Uzorinac when buying "Sarajevo to Novi Sad" and he spoke about his other book which he said "is also very good".Such modesty or perhaps lost in translation?

BORNINHKG · Jun 9, 2018

I've received the ITTF publication TABLE TENNIS FASCINATION no.8 which was bought on ebay. It was posted from Japan and sadly it wasn't cheap. I've already have the first 3 issues. So I'm missing some issues, but they are not easy to obtain. www.tabletennislibrary.co.uk

ttpshot · Jun 9, 2018

BORNINHKG said:
I've received the ITTF publication TABLE TENNIS FASCINATION no.8 which was bought on ebay. It was posted from Japan and sadly it wasn't cheap. I've already have the first 3 issues. So I'm missing some issues, but they are not easy to obtain. www.tabletennislibrary.co.uk

Oh, they are brilliant aren't they? Beautiful photos!

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