Trip to Paris

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I will be bringing one of our U19 players to train in Paris next week (was supposed to be Düsseldorf, Germany, but all the strong players will be away).
This will be my 2nd "TT" trip this year, 1st one was UTT with Fan Siqi and Lee Zion in June.
I haven't traveled for table tennis in a long time.

There should be a lot more trips coming - will see if my old bones can still sit in that "getting small" airplane seat.

Should be in Paris between 20~29 Oct (tickets not booked yet) and we busy finalizing the trip right now.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

i'm from Paris but i live in Tokyo... lol...

Quentin Robinot and Antoine Hachard own a club in Paris.

Ping Pang Paris | Play better Ping Pong

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alas there is not enough space for pros. its more for practice for amateurs. but if you don't know anybody you should be able to contact them via this site.

there are many good clubs in Paris. Paris 13 is a very big one but i don't think there are many very high level players. iirc, I think Saint Denis has a very good club. Levallois is still a historic club. Plenty of others..

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

i'm from Paris but i live in Tokyo... lol...

Quentin Robinot and Antoine Hachard own a club in Paris.

Ping Pang Paris | Play better Ping Pong

Ping Pang Paris est une jeune marque française qui ambitionne de redessiner le paysage du tennis de table au travers de: - Ping Pang Paris, le Club, club de ping-pong nouvelle génération. - Ping Pang Paris, marque de vêtements et de produits techniques design. - Ping Pang Media, magazine...

pingpang.paris

alas there is not enough space for pros. its more for practice for amateurs. but if you don't know anybody you should be able to contact them via this site.

there are many good clubs in Paris. Paris 13 is a very big one but i don't think there are many very high level players. iirc, I think Saint Denis has a very good club.

Our itinerary will look like:
spend few days at a training camp in Courbevoie and then we will move to train with the Pro A team of Pontoise.
Looking to either arrive this Sunday, or Monday (training camp starts on 20~24 Oct)

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Pontoise is quite far from the center of Paris 34km. takes 1h in train. I would call that the distant suburbs.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Pontoise is quite far from the center of Paris 34km. takes 1h in train. I would call that the distant suburbs.

yeah, i found out, haha

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Tickets booked

arrive Courbevoie on 20th, will be there till 24th
will head towards Pontoise around noon 24th, and leave 29th.
Pontoise will have a Pro A match on 26th, and my friend Aruna will be playing.

if anyone is in Paris and would like to meet up, you are welcome to PM me.

Caen, Le Mens, and few other Pro A clubs also invited me to go watch their Pro A matches over that weekend. I probably won't be moving around too much, as I'm not in France for many days.

 

[PoppaChubby]

Paris-Le Mans is done quickly with the TGV back and forth. It's done in less than an hour, 54 minutes exactly. Paris-Cergy by the Transilien train is done in ... 41 minutes, there's only a 13 minutes difference.

You can even get to Angers to watch Les Loups in Pro A with the same TGV line as Le Mans, I've been using that TGV line a lot having some of my family in the suburbs of Paris. 1h26mn.

 

[PoppaChubby]

Pontoise is quite far from the center of Paris 34km. takes 1h in train. I would call that the distant suburbs.

41mn sir, I guess you didn't come back here since a while lol

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

41mn sir, I guess you didn't come back here since a while lol
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Sir the center of Paris is Notre-Dame, not Gare Saint Lazare.

It is kilomètre zéro from which all distances are calculated. For the metro it is proxied not by station Cite which is closest to Notre Dame but Chatelet(-Les Halles) which is the biggest station hub in Paris

Saint lazare is 15-20mns away from it so it matches.
Also the frequency of trains from Saint Lazare is only 2 per hour . Same from Gare du Nord. You have to include waiting time.

And you have to assume trains aren’t late or drivers not on strike 😂. In Tokyo express trains to suburbs run every 5-10 minutes .

Feel free to ask anything about Paris

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Preparing for the trip

 

[PoppaChubby]

Sir the center of Paris is Notre-Dame, not Gare Saint Lazare.

It is kilomètre zéro from which all distances are calculated. For the metro it is proxied not by station Cite which is closest to Notre Dame but Chatelet(-Les Halles) which is the biggest station hub in Paris

Saint lazare is 15-20mns away from it so it matches.
Also the frequency of trains from Saint Lazare is only 2 per hour . Same from Gare du Nord. You have to include waiting time.

And you have to assume trains aren’t late or drivers not on strike 😂. In Tokyo express trains to suburbs run every 5-10 minutes .

Feel free to ask anything about Paris

There haven't been any big strike since 2019, since some foreign operators have entered the TER lines business, there's less work for them, but they still get a decent salary though.

 

[PoppaChubby]

I will be bringing one of our U19 players to train in Paris next week (was supposed to be Düsseldorf, Germany, but all the strong players will be away).
This will be my 2nd "TT" trip this year, 1st one was UTT with Fan Siqi and Lee Zion in June.
I haven't traveled for table tennis in a long time.

There should be a lot more trips coming - will see if my old bones can still sit in that "getting small" airplane seat.

Should be in Paris between 20~29 Oct (tickets not booked yet) and we busy finalizing the trip right now.

Beware of the night from the saturday 25th to sunday 26th: when it will be 3 AM, go 1h back to 2 AM, winter time change.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

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[Tony's Table Tennis]

Beware of the night from the saturday 25th to sunday 26th: when it will be 3 AM, go 1h back to 2 AM, winter time change.

I didn’t know, thanks for the heads up.

 

[PoppaChubby]

Sir the center of Paris is Notre-Dame, not Gare Saint Lazare.

It is kilomètre zéro from which all distances are calculated. For the metro it is proxied not by station Cite which is closest to Notre Dame but Chatelet(-Les Halles) which is the biggest station hub in Paris

Saint lazare is 15-20mns away from it so it matches.
Also the frequency of trains from Saint Lazare is only 2 per hour . Same from Gare du Nord. You have to include waiting time.

And you have to assume trains aren’t late or drivers not on strike 😂. In Tokyo express trains to suburbs run every 5-10 minutes .

Feel free to ask anything about Paris

Also, as Tony wil be in Courbevoie, it's even shorter with the Transilien, only half an hour:

Horaires Ligne L de Courbevoie à Cergy Préfecture

Horaires de la ligne L de Courbevoie à Cergy Préfecture : retards de dernière minute, nombre de correspondances, durée des trajets, informations trafic...

www.horaires-de-trains.fr

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

List of players
Many French junior national team members and Pro A/B level players.

Great vibe today, enjoying the hospitality

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Pro training in morning and afternoon
Evening is club players.
This club has 600 registered players in the league

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

day 3 now in the training camp.
I worked with Italy's U15 no 1 girls player and help with her foot work. She was struggling to walk after the break - maybe I pushed to much

Footwork is the basic and with strong footwork, only can the rest of the technique be executed.
she is loving it, and her coach is looking to send her to me for a month in Taiwan.

Overall, there is a big variety of countries, many French became African, a couple of Italians. Former French men's champion. Today the French junior national team coach came to check the training.

Very good vibe and talents!

 

[PoppaChubby]

day 3 now in the training camp.
I worked with Italy's U15 no 1 girls player and help with her foot work. She was struggling to walk after the break - maybe I pushed to much

Footwork is the basic and with strong footwork, only can the rest of the technique be executed.
she is loving it, and her coach is looking to send her to me for a month in Taiwan.

Overall, there is a big variety of countries, many French became African, a couple of Italians. Former French men's champion. Today the French junior national team coach came to check the training.

Very good vibe and talents!

That's what I told you if you remember well right ?

Clément Laine-Campino plays for Portugal now also, back from the first big immigration wave in the late 19th century France received many people from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, that's why football got so many talents from those origins: Luis Fernandez (Spain) Robert Pires (Portugal), Michel Platini of course (Italy), Raymond Kopa (Poland), so Clément Laine-Campino probably has a portuguese grand-father to get a portuguese passport, and he now can also play for Brasil cos' he automatically gets the brasilian one with the portuguese one. Then the second wave after WWII and also after the Algeria war in the late 50's/early 60's brought many people from the maghreb region: algerians, morrocans, tunisians mostly. No need to talk about all the people from the colonies, west africans mostly, and also vietnamese people that were there since the mid 19th century, and many more after France lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Indochina War.

Sadly, the spanyards were parked in camps in terrible conditions of living, kind of quarantine zone and the polish went here mostly in the north of France (where I was born and lived my youth, my mom still lives there) working in the coal mines . The portuguese went straight into working in buildings/construction, I've got one old portuguese pensioner just on the same floor as me, he still speaks a terrible french but when things go out of control for our building renovation, he knows how to tell the workers they are doing sh*t