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Tell us which extremes you all went to play Table Tennis.
A short description of my past and current extreme behavior toplay TT to start this off.
A few years ago, I was a recreational player who wanted to get better. There were zero clubs within 150 km of where I lived, which was typical. I would drive 100km once a week to meetup and hit with some gents who played LP/inverted combo style for 2 hours in an Air force camp rec center. That was the best I could do. In Iraq, there was a table in the telephone trailer, but no players, so all I could do was practice serves 3 minutes a day for a year, until everyone talking to their family would be about to growl, so that was that.On a vacation form my 2nd time in Iraq, I did a tourney in Denver and drove 10 hours to get there, using the tourney as an ecuse for a family trip to the Rocky Mountains. The last time I was on vacation form Iraq, I drove 24 hrs halfway accross USA to visit my daughter in college and did a tourney there. Befroe I left for my 2nd Iraq trip, I had a short training in Washington DC area, so I got there early Sat AM, already aranged with a friend to visit him at his club and played directly after driving 24 hours.
That is pretty much what you have to do in USA to play any Table Tennis, unless you live in a TT popular area in California, Baltimore/DC, or Dallas, TX etc. USA is too large of a country and TT is too spread out, even with some pockets here and there.
Then a good thing happened, I moved to Korea. There is a club 5 minutes walk from my apartment. I play 4 hours a day after work and take the train/subway 1-1/2 hours on days off to different places a few times a month to hit at different clubs. I go to different regional and national tourneys. TT is good here in Korea.
The last few days were also an extreme. For fitness, I rode a crappy mountain bike 45 km to the center of Seoul, then played TT 3 hours, then did a Daum Table Tennis Association tourney. Needless to say, I was tired and rode 1-1/2 hours back home on the subway/train to arrive home after 1 AM. The next day, I rode the subway back to Seoul, rode the bike 5 km further into the city, hit TT 3 hours, then rode 20 km through congested Seoul streets at night, then another 30 km alongside the river going north to where I live. That trip took 3-1/2 hours and I was one wore out joker. To top it off, the next day, an ITTF umpire invited me to play with him and a huge TV channel producer at a club in SW Seoul. So, Of course I ran right over there and played 6 hours today all out. Yep, that got me more than a little wore out too. The last three days were the most extreme ones of my TT life I think.
C'Mon forum members, tell us extreme stories and ones even more extreme.
A short description of my past and current extreme behavior toplay TT to start this off.
A few years ago, I was a recreational player who wanted to get better. There were zero clubs within 150 km of where I lived, which was typical. I would drive 100km once a week to meetup and hit with some gents who played LP/inverted combo style for 2 hours in an Air force camp rec center. That was the best I could do. In Iraq, there was a table in the telephone trailer, but no players, so all I could do was practice serves 3 minutes a day for a year, until everyone talking to their family would be about to growl, so that was that.On a vacation form my 2nd time in Iraq, I did a tourney in Denver and drove 10 hours to get there, using the tourney as an ecuse for a family trip to the Rocky Mountains. The last time I was on vacation form Iraq, I drove 24 hrs halfway accross USA to visit my daughter in college and did a tourney there. Befroe I left for my 2nd Iraq trip, I had a short training in Washington DC area, so I got there early Sat AM, already aranged with a friend to visit him at his club and played directly after driving 24 hours.
That is pretty much what you have to do in USA to play any Table Tennis, unless you live in a TT popular area in California, Baltimore/DC, or Dallas, TX etc. USA is too large of a country and TT is too spread out, even with some pockets here and there.
Then a good thing happened, I moved to Korea. There is a club 5 minutes walk from my apartment. I play 4 hours a day after work and take the train/subway 1-1/2 hours on days off to different places a few times a month to hit at different clubs. I go to different regional and national tourneys. TT is good here in Korea.
The last few days were also an extreme. For fitness, I rode a crappy mountain bike 45 km to the center of Seoul, then played TT 3 hours, then did a Daum Table Tennis Association tourney. Needless to say, I was tired and rode 1-1/2 hours back home on the subway/train to arrive home after 1 AM. The next day, I rode the subway back to Seoul, rode the bike 5 km further into the city, hit TT 3 hours, then rode 20 km through congested Seoul streets at night, then another 30 km alongside the river going north to where I live. That trip took 3-1/2 hours and I was one wore out joker. To top it off, the next day, an ITTF umpire invited me to play with him and a huge TV channel producer at a club in SW Seoul. So, Of course I ran right over there and played 6 hours today all out. Yep, that got me more than a little wore out too. The last three days were the most extreme ones of my TT life I think.
C'Mon forum members, tell us extreme stories and ones even more extreme.
