Trip to Paris

[Tony's Table Tennis]

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

Have no clue how this resembles my previous post 😂

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

So today marked the end of the Courbevoie training camp
Isa Lok popped in today (team mate of Zion Lee in Pro A), we chatted a bit, Zion is flying in tomorrow.

one of the French/Algerian players mom drove us to Pontoise and we had a long chat in the car (40 mins drive) and was very interesting to see the transition to another country.

Yesterday, I helped Brossier with his BH, while his coach from Levallious did multiball feeding (I recorded a lot of videos, including this feed). Overall, in the week, I helped around 8 players with multiball, and did some fine tuning on technique and footwork etc.

The Levallious head coach yesterday also took me to see his club, and view the 6 Champions league trophies. A lot of championship history in the club and it was an honour to be there!

Both head coaches (Courbevoie and Levallious) also took me to tour the entire sport complex/center and it is amazing her France has these olympic standard training facilities.

Aruna arrived just a bit after we settled in today, I came back to the club from the hotel while he just had a light session.
And head back to his room to chat about donation goods to Africa, while my U19 player was there looking at us chatting (he doesn't understand English), and looking at one of his heroes and asked for a photo. I had to become a cameraman.

Afterwards, Lim arrived from Korea and together with Aruna, Cassin, Mourier, the coach Ben and my player, we headed to dinner at a nearby more. Lim was looking extreme tired and said he will skip team training tomorrow.
So, tomorrow's training will be Aruna, Cassin, Mourier and my player.

Its day 5 of the trip and I am starting to feel the toll on my body. so Good night!

 

[JackJohnson]

So today marked the end of the Courbevoie training camp
Isa Lok popped in today (team mate of Zion Lee in Pro A), we chatted a bit, Zion is flying in tomorrow.

one of the French/Algerian players mom drove us to Pontoise and we had a long chat in the car (40 mins drive) and was very interesting to see the transition to another country.

Yesterday, I helped Brossier with his BH, while his coach from Levallious did multiball feeding (I recorded a lot of videos, including this feed). Overall, in the week, I helped around 8 players with multiball, and did some fine tuning on technique and footwork etc.

The Levallious head coach yesterday also took me to see his club, and view the 6 Champions league trophies. A lot of championship history in the club and it was an honour to be there!

Both head coaches (Courbevoie and Levallious) also took me to tour the entire sport complex/center and it is amazing her France has these olympic standard training facilities.

Aruna arrived just a bit after we settled in today, I came back to the club from the hotel while he just had a light session.
And head back to his room to chat about donation goods to Africa, while my U19 player was there looking at us chatting (he doesn't understand English), and looking at one of his heroes and asked for a photo. I had to become a cameraman.

Afterwards, Lim arrived from Korea and together with Aruna, Cassin, Mourier, the coach Ben and my player, we headed to dinner at a nearby more. Lim was looking extreme tired and said he will skip team training tomorrow.
So, tomorrow's training will be Aruna, Cassin, Mourier and my player.

Its day 5 of the trip and I am starting to feel the toll on my body. so Good night!

Lim Jonghoon?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Lim Jonghoon?

yes

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

with the donation plans we have going, and Aruna doing the same thing (getting pro gears too and sending them to Africa), I have also met some parents (players playing in Africa) that do the exact same thing.
ie, the son says, his opponent had to borrow racket from another player (yes, 1 racket shared by many players) in the African junior championships

The mom said: you don't come back with anything, give all you gears away to those kids.

The next time he traveled, they prepaid more items to give away.

Extremely touching how parents are teaching pro kids to assist those in needs.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

 

[PoppaChubby]

Have no clue how this resembles my previous post 😂

Beware dude: jazz musicians have an excellent memory, and sometimes even an excellent eidetic memory

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/the-nations-that-do-well-and-those-that-underperform-mens-only.37463/#post-529076

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/the-nations-that-do-well-and-those-that-underperform-mens-only.37463/post-528461

 

[PoppaChubby]

And this is for the eidetic memory

 

[PoppaChubby]

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[Tony's Table Tennis]

Aruna speaking Chinese

Aruna: I'm tired, I'm tired
Aruna: Water!!! he put Water on the ball!

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Aruna said, Liu's FH and BH is good!

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Arrived back in Taiwan early this morning.
A good trip, 10 days spent with many national junior / international players / coaches

Overall, visited 3 pro clubs, discussed with 4 pro club head coaches and a few top coaches (didn't have the chance to visit the 3 Pro A clubs that I have players in). Looking forward to have Pro B and National 1 players taking part next season, more trips (both to Taiwan and France).

Learnt a lot about the French system, have views from top coaches as well as parents of national players - including some that have dual nationality.

I have a Pro A player that will be flying over next week, and will be passing this (below video) to one of the parents who will arrange delivery to Africa.

My U19 TPE player had a good trip, he also learnt a lot, and saw how Europeans train and wined and dined with elite pros (he only sparring partnered with LYJ and CIC, so first time with other countries stars).

The trip is a win-win-win-win-win trip.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

another conclusion

no one in France knows this ert/pingsunday

 

[mamedium]

another conclusion

no one in France knows this ert/pingsunday

LOL they don’t have Youtube there? thats the place to learn how to play TT

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

LOL they don’t have Youtube there? thats the place to learn how to play TT

France, they have real coaches, and the kids, all goes to the local clubs to learn.
there are many content creators on youtube, but ert/pingsunday is not one, he just steals content and profits from it. I hope he is doing charity work from his income, else karma will catch him

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Busy going through 90gbs of video recording.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

 

[Metaxa]

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

Great vibe today, enjoying the hospitality
View attachment 38619

Levallois, Benjamin Brossier, he also plays in Belgium for my old club, Sokah-Hoboken/Antwerp.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Levallois, Benjamin Brossier, he also plays in Belgium for my old club, Sokah-Hoboken/Antwerp.

Cool dude this one
Helped him with his backhand and he showed me some match video of it working