Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Table Tennis tournaments this month


Happy new year, US Table Tennis players!


Tournaments coming up in January next weekend.


LYTTC January Open    
Dunellen   
NJ   
1/12/2013 - 1/13/2013   

Butterfly East Gate Open Series    
Roanoke   
VA   
1/12/2013

4th Butterfly Cape Fear Open    
Fayetteville   
NC   
1/12/2013

2013 Austin Winter Open Table Tennis Tournament     
Austin   
TX   
1/12/2013

Robopong January 2013 Broward TTC Open     
Dania Beach   
FL   
1/12/2013 - 1/13/2013

Maryland Circuit     
Eldersburg   
MD   
1/12/2013

Ping Pong or Table Tennis tournaments in Illinois

Table Tennis tournament in Illinois

1/5/2013
Morton Grove Winter Open 1 Star
Morton Grove   
IL 
(Illinois, USA)

Table Tennis New Year Resolution?

Do you have any aims that will serve as Table Tennis aims for the coming year? Share with us!

Monday, December 31, 2012

First National Tournament of France on 5th January

The first National tournament of the season of France will be held at Chapelaine Table Tennis club, where many of the top 100 players of France are expected to participate. The tournament runs on January 5 and 6.

première édition du Tournoi national de tennis de table
la Chapelaine tennis de table organise
les 5 et 6 janvier

Happy New Year, Table Tennis party

Ping Pong is now a huge party occasion. The ambiance is awesome at many such theme clubs. Bounce London, SPiN New York, LA, Milwaukee and so on are some big locations where celebrities and other people will party.

Five possible ways Ping Pong more deadlier than guns

Ping Pong more dangerous than Guns says Texas State Representative (Kyle Kacal).

5 Possible reasons:
  • The Ping Pong ball is bigger and travels at high speeds
  • The ball is delivered at short distances, usually around 12-15 feet (9 ft is the length of the table)
  • The trigger is a paddle, not just a small trigger found in guns
  • The opponent is dumb, does not defend a shot fired from the paddle and the ball that is launched
  • The Ping Pong ball very often hits vulnerable parts of the lower body area

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Donic Bluefire, spin, speed, control and more

Donic seems to have introduced a winner in the Bluefire series (M1, M2, M3). The rubbers boast extraordinary amounts of spin, and have great control. Speed is very good, but that is not their forte. A very balanced series of rubbers, Bluefire can be very effectively used for middle to slightly far from the table play. The rubber is ideal for both backhand and forehand.

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Priced lesser than the Tenergy, Bluefire rubbers are definitely great value for money. An ambitious club level player (USATT rating 1600-2300) can easily adapt from Tenergy since Donic has spent valuable and careful time to research and bring out this rubber. Similarly, for a player above USATT rating of 2300, it is a simple move without major adapting required.

For someone who has money to spare but not a high playing strength, one can still go for this rubber, especially if one is used to the earlier Donic series (Coppa JO Gold, Coppa JO Platin, Sonex JP Gold)

Overall rating: 9.5/10

TableTennisBug rating

Speed: 8/10
Spin: 9.5/10
Control: 9.5/10
Value for money rating: 10/10
Other properties: High throw, high arc, slightly heavy



Table Tennis Party at Bounce!

Take a look at this awesome picture of the new year's eve party setting at Bounce!

Editor

Friday, December 28, 2012

Jan Ove Waldner wants to coach the Sweden team

All time Table Tennis great, Waldner, expressed his desire to coach the Swedish Table Tennis team. Not only that, Waldner even suggested a unique idea. That Jorgen Persson and Mikael Appelgren can join him and form a coaching team. Waldner felt that this strong team had a lot to share in terms of experience and expertise.

Waldner hinted at problems with the current Swedish National coaching system and coach. In addition to this, the Swedish Table Tennis Association is without a sponsor for over a decade.

 Here's a video of him demonstrating the forehand topspin stroke:

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Table Tennis Robot: First teach it and then play with it

A Table Tennis robot developed by the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has amazing capabilities. First teach it to play and then play with it!