Table Tennis Blog

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In one of the most dramatic finals Table Tennis has seen, Germany’s Timo Boll, Sponsor of Butterfly’s Timo Boll range kept his concentration and went on to win the Men’s Singles event at the Quatar Open. Which was quite possibly the best match out of all 5 days.

Ok well recently I have noticed that a lot of new table tennis website have been launched so I’m going to let you in on some of my favourites

1. Denis’s Table Tennis World this is one of my favourite Table Tennis Forums, as they have up to date Posts and all there users are extremely active.

2. My Table Tennis this Table Tennis forum I have been a fan of for a while now however I do get put off by the advertisements everywhere

3. About.com Table Tennis Forum Now this is my favourite Table Tennis Blog, as Gregg Letts keeps it regularly updated with outstanding content and information, they also have a vast range of interesting resources that I use regularly

4. Table Tennis Equipment is a new site however I think that it has a lot of useful information about some of the Table Tennis Brands

5. Table Tennis Tables sells specialist and recreational Table Tennis Equipment, from Table Tennis Tables to Table Tennis Blades. When buying my equipment I always use this site

One of the things that most annoy me in Table Tennis is how the Balls crack or collapse in on themselves, however there is a way to fix this problem and make your ping pong ball as good as new

1. Fill a Pan up just over half way with water

2. Place the pan on your ovens hob

3. Wait until the water is boiled or hot

4. Place your crumbled Table Tennis Ball in the water

5. Using a spoon roll the Table Tennis Ball around in the pan

6. Remove the Table Tennis Ball our of the pan and place on a plate to dry

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Recently Table Tennis Sales have been down drastically because people aren’t worried about what there child may want for Christmas they are more worried about how am I going to keep my home if I lose my job. The key is that we need to think positive because if we don’t we are only going to get deeper.
Recently Woolworths, a huge high street retailer announced that they are going to go bust and thousands of there employees are going to lose there jobs unless someone buys out the company. Now is this really what we want to be hearing on the news and in the media, it is not going to help the situation we are in.

Recently I have started to noticed on our online Table Tennis shop that people are only buying Indoor Table Tennis Tables which is quite obvious why, however there are many ways to maintain an outdoor table tennis table, for example get a cover this will stop it from being effected by frost and rain, although most outdoor Table Tennis Tables from Table Tennis Table Shop come with Panel Laminated Resin and protected melamine.

Lately I have stated to compare Table Tennis against the other sport categorys around and I feel like Table Tennis should be bigger than it is take basketball for example, basketball is a huge sport and if you say to someone name a basketball team they will almost always answer with an actual team where as if you were to ask someone name a Table Tennis team they would not have a clue. So why is Table Tennis not as popular as the most dominant sports my only answer would be that it is to confusing the leagues are not as well talked about and the way table tennis is played extermly odd.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has, as of September 1, 2008, banished a wide variety of solvents used to apply table tennis equipment rubber to rackets. The following is text verbatim from the Chairman of the ITTF Equipment Committee, Odd Gustavsen.

We would like to draw your attention to the decision made in Guangzhou, valid from September 1, 2008 (The Law 2.4.7.):

The covering material should be used as it has been authorised by the ITTF without any physical, chemical or other treatment, changing or modifying playing properties, friction, outlook, colour, structure, surface, etc.

This means an absolute ban for the use of boosters (tuners, enhancers, improvers, etc.). The purpose of a booster is to change something – if not, what would be the intention. You may find such products claiming to be harmless, to be allowed by ITTF, or to be without VC (volatile compounds), etc. There is little reason to believe this is true. Please be very sceptical since these are generally bad for your health, even containing poison in some cases.

According to our tests there is no way that a sponge can be treated separate from the covering; refer the usual way a booster is applied, i.e. on the sponge.

Boosters represent a messy, time consuming, costly, unhealthy, and now illegal way of achieving spin and speed, and you may be detected in a tournament. Other and better ways exist for the same purpose.

11 Categories:
Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Veteran Men’s Singles, Veteran Women’s Singles, U21 Men’s Singles, U21 Women’s Singles, Men’s doubles, Women’s Doubles, Veteran Men’s Doubles, Veteran Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

The Venue Ponds Forge International Sports Centre:

Sheaf Street
Sheffield
S1 2BP

Winners:

Mens Singles Paul Drinkhall (Cv) Womens Singles Helen Lower (St) Mens Doubles Paul Drnkhall (Cv) Darius Knight (Sy) Womens Doubles Helen Lower (St) Natalie Bawden (E) Mixed Doubles Darius Knight (Sy) Kelly Sibley (Wa) Under 21 Mens Singles Darius Knight (Sy) Under 21 Womens Singles Kelly Sibley (Wa) Veteran Mens Singles Joe Kennedy (E) Veteran Womens Singles Shu HUANG (E) Veteran Mens Doubles Clive Carthy (E) Joe Kennedy (E)