Thursday, February 21, 2008

55th E.G.T.T.A Annual General Meeting

The Fifty-Fifth annual General Meeting oF The EASTERN GAUTENG TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION, will be held at the ALBERTON TABLE TENNIS CLUB, on MONDAY 3RD MARCH 2008 AT 19:00

The Most Backspin Possible

This video shows Ma Lin with an incredible backspin serve.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

Awesome Rally


Still one of the most viewed videos on youtube.com

Serving Tips

By far the most neglected part of practice. Most players focus on drills and footwork and forget that the serve is a critical element in their game.

Some guidelines:
  • Learn a few basic serves with different spins. ( sidespin, backspin, topspin, nospin, etc )

  • Aim for little to no variation in the look of these serves. For example in order to confuse your opponent, a sidespin and a sidespin with backspin should look the same when performed, which makes their choice of return more difficult.

  • Work on placement. short or long balls but not in the middle of the table, as these are easy to return.

  • Watch where your opponent is positioned, a good angle on your serve can help setup for the Third Ball Attack.
Practicing the serve can be a chore, but it will pay off in the end.

to be continued.........

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Ladder For Rules '08

01 - The ladder runs the whole year. Summer and Winter.
02 - The matches must be scheduled by the involved players.
03 - If a player does not show for a match then the points are automatically given to the challenger and places are swopped.
04 - If a player has not attended the club recenty, he / she may be skipped, but only if the challenger has another player to confirm.
05 - If this happens then the places adjust with no points awarded.
06 - A player cannot challenge another if he / she has unresolved challenges. Those matches have to be resolved first.
07 - A re-challenge may occur if the defending player agrees.
08 - All normal ITTF Table Tennis Rules apply.
09 - All matches are to be played as Best of 5 basis, or otherwise agreed by the players.
10 - There is no limit to the amount of challenges a player can make.
11 - Taking a Position Scores - 4 pts.
12 - Defending a Position Successfully ( Below Position 1 ) Scores - 3 pts.
13 - Defending at position 1 - Scores 4 pts.
14 - Losing Player Scores - 2 pts.

The ladder will be randomly redrawn every two months. This encourages player of all levels to set goals, and work on getting points.
Points get accumulated and DO NOT reset when the ladder gets redrawn.

At the end of the Season, the total points are added to get final results.

Hexagonal Multiplayer Extreme Table Tennis



Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Practice This Sunday

General Practice to continue this sunday.
Multi-Ball and other drills.


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