Hello again everyone and welcome to the 6th episode of the TableTennisDaily podcast, today we are joined by the current World Ping Pong champion, 3 time English National Champion and London 2012 Olympian Andrew Baggaley. Although Andrew is a world class regular table tennis player and currently plays in the top division in the Polish League. He takes 1 month out of playing every year to play sandpaper table tennis and compete in the “world championship of ping pong”.
These world championships are broadcast on British mainstream TV channel sky sports in front of a large audience in the world famous Alexandra palace, and the winner of the event gets £20,000 in prize money. This year's championships start on Friday the 19th of January and finish on the Sunday the 22nd. In this episode we focus on the sandpaper game, discussing with Andrew how it is growing in popularity through world leading promotional company Matchroom sport, and how it differs to regular table tennis.
We also speak to Andrew about his victory last year and what he has been doing to prepare for this year's fastly approaching competition.
We would like to thank Andrew for giving his time from his busy schedule to talk to us! Hope you guys enjoy this slightly different episode and be sure to like and share it and also subscribe to the TableTennisDaily channel on YouTube and iTunes.
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Breakdown of the podcast
02:12 Andrew talks about changing to and from table tennis and ping pong
02:42 Differences between the two games and how training differs
04:05 Andrew talks about how he was introduced to sandpaper table tennis
05:00 What it was like becoming world champion
06:30 Beating Maxim Shmyrev
08:50 Most important part of the sandpaper game
09:45 Differences in serving compared to regular table tennis
12:00 How much sandpaper practise Andrew gets to do and training methods
14:45 Baggaley talks about how sandpaper table tennis has improved his regular game and playing in the Polish League.
16:20 Who to watch out for in this years ping pong world championships.
19:20 What it's like being on mainstream TV (Sky Sports) and the atmosphere at the championships.
21:51 Sandpaper, hard bat, or ping pong?
23:10 What would table tennis be like if everyone used the same bat?
24:40 Chinese Hurricane 3
25:59 Tactics in sandpaper table tennis
27:44 DAN ENTERING!
29:13 Double point rule
30:40 Table Tennis rule changes
If you would like to save or listen to the podcast on itunes, search TableTennisDaily in the itunes store.
Does anyone play sandpaper table tennis on TTD? Will you watch the upcoming champs? We highly recommend you should!
Thanks for listening!
These world championships are broadcast on British mainstream TV channel sky sports in front of a large audience in the world famous Alexandra palace, and the winner of the event gets £20,000 in prize money. This year's championships start on Friday the 19th of January and finish on the Sunday the 22nd. In this episode we focus on the sandpaper game, discussing with Andrew how it is growing in popularity through world leading promotional company Matchroom sport, and how it differs to regular table tennis.
We also speak to Andrew about his victory last year and what he has been doing to prepare for this year's fastly approaching competition.
We would like to thank Andrew for giving his time from his busy schedule to talk to us! Hope you guys enjoy this slightly different episode and be sure to like and share it and also subscribe to the TableTennisDaily channel on YouTube and iTunes.
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Breakdown of the podcast
02:12 Andrew talks about changing to and from table tennis and ping pong
02:42 Differences between the two games and how training differs
04:05 Andrew talks about how he was introduced to sandpaper table tennis
05:00 What it was like becoming world champion
06:30 Beating Maxim Shmyrev
08:50 Most important part of the sandpaper game
09:45 Differences in serving compared to regular table tennis
12:00 How much sandpaper practise Andrew gets to do and training methods
14:45 Baggaley talks about how sandpaper table tennis has improved his regular game and playing in the Polish League.
16:20 Who to watch out for in this years ping pong world championships.
19:20 What it's like being on mainstream TV (Sky Sports) and the atmosphere at the championships.
21:51 Sandpaper, hard bat, or ping pong?
23:10 What would table tennis be like if everyone used the same bat?
24:40 Chinese Hurricane 3
25:59 Tactics in sandpaper table tennis
27:44 DAN ENTERING!
29:13 Double point rule
30:40 Table Tennis rule changes
If you would like to save or listen to the podcast on itunes, search TableTennisDaily in the itunes store.
Does anyone play sandpaper table tennis on TTD? Will you watch the upcoming champs? We highly recommend you should!
Thanks for listening!