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New Blade: Wing Fast

amaresh.sahu07@gmail.com

The Wing Fast is one of the newest blades from Joola, and has a faster and harder feel to compensate for the speed glue ban. I tried it after the recent Junior Olympics and loved its bounce and feeling. Now even though I use Mambo C, which has no built in glue effect, I feel that my blade/sponge combination is beneficial to my game. For those players who prefer a slower blade witheven more control, I would recommend the Wing Medium. These blades also have an awesome Hinok [...]

My first post

samlee13

I have been playing table tennis for a little over a year now. I my rating right now is about 1243 but can play on par with people who's ratings are around the 1700 range after much training. My rating was steadily going up from 600 to 1296 when I encountered a guy with long pips at the 2008 eastern open. This made my rating plunge 63 points. Now I hope with the next tournament that I goto, I will be able to raise my rating to around 1700.

New equipment.

XChAnSXDaXLiMiTX

Blade: Fever (Flared)

FH Rubber:Drum (Max)

BH Rubber:Energy (Max)

Shoes:Bend 2008

The Fever is not too fast but not too slow. It is a decent blade because it produces a great amount of spin when combined with Drum. Energy on the other hand is a faster rubber with great glue effect sound. Thats is basically why I use Energy on myt backhand. Both rubbers are pretty durableso its worth buying.

Cho!

mariellechua10

Hey everyone!

With USOpen a week behind us, its time to relax and reflect upon what we damage we did and how we could have done things differently. Train here, train there..Now we're starting to count down for nationals to show our true colors. Five months (for anyone wondering)!

Well personally, I had an excellent Open. Sure it was rocky along the way but everyone's islike that (mine always just seems to be a bit rockier. haha!). I played a total of five event [...]

U.S OPEN

ttdragon.ethan

Hi everybody, sorry I havent been blogging.. I've been at my coach's club training with her for the U.S.Open. I stayed a total of one month and trained around the clock. It was really intense, and really hot. I improved my overall game while having fun at the same time.

My training paid off at USOpen, completely. I won 3700doubles with my friend Anand Engineer. I placed second in Boys11U and recieved semifinalist for Boys [...]

Chen Weixing Training Camp

amaresh.sahu07@gmail.com

Last week I participated in the Chen Weixing Training Camp, where he and Tanja Hain-Hoffman were the main coaches. I really liked how these camps were run, because everybody got to work with the coaches and we learned some new techniques and strategies that have developed recently. Learning how the modern game is played as well as how to adjust to the new equipment laws (most notablythe ban on glue) is a major plus towards improving your game.

Now its off to the U.S. Open. H [...]

China Training..............................

ethanjin8

This is ethan j. Im in China training. So tired. Everday 6 hours of multiball and single ball training.oh well. got to improve. cya

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XChAnSXDaXLiMiTX

Sorry for not posting anything in a while... I have been busy with many other things. Now I have more time on my hands and i'll try to write more.

US Open is coming up and I am ready to dominate.

UPDATE ON LATEST NEWS FOR TT

ethanjin8

Hey I'm back. I just played a tournament. It was Cary Cup. I did OKAY. The finals and semis and quarters were real exciting. Segn Toriala won over Wang Zhen. 4-2. All right, i am training hard with my coaches and preparing for some other tournaments like in May South Bend tournament. Allright cya.

ethan j.

Long time

kanakjha5

Hi Everyone,

Wow! my blog is the most popular blog. My coach told me about it. I am enjoying playing in the USATT league here in the Bay Area. I am in the U3900 team for Palo Alto Club. I am getting good experience playing different kinds of players. I am looking forward to the Elite group matches on Mar 15th. Will be fun to watch Stefan play a tournament. Harry is still missing in action. I sometimes get threats that he is going to return but so far I have escaped :) Soon, I shal [...]

worlds?

charliesun

hi, its been a while since i've updated.. but anyways as you might know, the worlds have been going on for a couple of days and i've been following the news on it... if you go to ITTF's webpage, and press media.. then you can watch recorded vids of some matches.. a lot of the matches were very fun to watch and i learned somethings while i was watching them..

The Backhand Hit is dead and other observations

seanl

There are several things that have struck me as I have been watching the US team play and some other matches in both Division 2 and Division 1. First, of which is that no player that is developing a modern game hits on the backhand. Yes, they may punch block at times, but when attacking or counter attacking the vast majority of shots is the backhand loop. So if you are a playertrying to develop your game to the highest level, you definitely need to be spinning on your back [...]

New challenge!

isabelchu7

I am looking forward to the competition at Berkeley in early March. I have been dedicatedly trained and have devoted quite a lot of time in practice. I really want to improve my skills and I want more trophies too. I am aiming to get at least one trophy in the berkely competition.

2008 trainings

anthonychu6

Hi, I got one more new coach who used to train the famous gold medalist in China. I learned a lot of tricks and real skills from him. On March 2 I will be participating in Berkerley competition. I hope I can win and get some trophies.

The NorthRidge Tournament

ttdragon.ethan

Hi joolausa,

This weekend is the NorthRidge tournament.I am going to try my best!I am very excited about this tournament.Every day i am practing for it.I am practing very hard for this tournament.Well I need to go practice. Wish me luck! sincerly Ethan Chua

HK

calvinlo11

Just came back from hong kong. I was there for like two weeks o get training.

Nationals of 2008

Nattymarsha

This nationals was probably the best tournament that I've ever played, even if I didn't get into a team or get a title. Sure I would be a little jealous if someone kept on boasting at me that they got into the junior or cadet team, but if they played terrible, meaning not trying hard, and still got in, I'd be mad, because there are other girls out there dying to getin the spot that was taken. Anyways, I had 6 events, but my main ones were the cadet trials, the j [...]

Watch the world tops practicing

tabletennisnetwork

The Table Tennis Lifestyle video is a powerful video.

Watch the video:

http://www.tabletennisnetwork.com/TableTennisLifestyleVideo/tabid/97/Default.aspx

The footages in this table tennis video are from backstage where the world top players practice hard before their battle against their opponents in front of millions of fans.

Watch the signature strokes of world';s top players in slow motion in this video. This video shows the lifestyle of players such a [...]

World Juniors, Nationals, and Olympic Trials

John_Leach

Hello all. The last month has been pretty exciting for me. I played in three major events across the U.S.: the World Junior Championships at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, the U.S. Nationals, and the U.S. Olympic Trials. Given the amount of play I have had over the last few weeks, I thought I would give you the rundown on how everything went.

I played in the WorldJunior Championships (WJC) alongside many of my longtime National teammates (Judy Hugh, Joey Coch [...]

olympic trials.. the aftermath? er.. something like that..

charliesun

hi everyone, i just recently play in the 2008 olympic trials.. i had a very close lose that i should've won. i was up 2-0 and 3-2 against shashin.. and i lost.. o well.. the place was amazing and player got free snacks n drinks haha.. we went ot drexel's cafiteria for a free lunch.. it was a buffet.. yay.. but then i had to leave becuase midterms were coming up and i already missed 4 quizzesand friday was a review day, so yea...now i might jsut take a break.... for a looooonnng time.. [...]