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I have been practising hard in order to advance my rating. I am looking forward to teh upcoming tournament in Concord where I can compete and test my skill again.

 

Sup guys?!

I guess Im new to Joola, and really excited to be apart of the team. How great is it to be with Joola, seriously.  Im really thankful and glad. So thanks again Joola.

So of course, like everyone else, Im training like crazy for Teams in Baltimore and Nationals. I'm estatic about going, so is Ethan. Most of our club is going too, it's gonna be incredibly fun. Can't wait. Im looking forward to kicking butt and taking names (and rating points).

Im kind of new at this whole blog thing so hopefully I'll get better at it. Hope everyone did well at Berkeley! See you in Baltimore!

I am excited and nervous about the coming Stanford tournament. My coaches tell me to focus on my techniques and not worry about winning or losing as I am only 7 years old. But that is soooo HARD. I want to play to win. It's going to be hard to think about techniques only, but I am going to try.  Currently I am learning to put more spin on my topspin. I am  having fun learning andplaying Table Tennis.

this is my first blog. i just recently joined joola junior and im excited to be a part of it. i find it really difficult to balance out between school and practice everyday but i'm going to work hard to get better and try to gain more experience. right now i'm having some trouble with my backhand loop, it has a good spin but always goes out of the table. any tips?

 

                I was just sponsored by Joola recently. I was skeptical about the equipment at first, but once I received the equipment in the mail, I was amazed that it came so fast. I was kind of doubtful to the new equipment I was going to use.

                Once I got on the court and started playing, everything changed. I was very confident with the equipment I was playing with. The fever racket is one of the best rackets I have ever played with. It has Meliorate Carbon which makes the sweet spot significantly larger. The light headed balance makes it perfect. The Energy (Max) is really good and fun to play with. It has the fresh gluing effect and fresh sound when the ball hits the rubber. The Drum (Max) is awesome because it has the properties of Chinese rubber but it is a bit springier so it makes it a stronger weapon when used right.  Now I have no doubt that Joola has the most advanced equipment in the world right now. I would like to thank Joola for this opportunity to become a part of Joola.    

I just wanted to share something new that has been helping me lately. I have learned to mix up the speed on my loop so that it keeps my opponent off balance. 

{mosimage}Hello Everyone!

Sorry it's been such a long time since my last update. As some of you know, I have been training, along with Trevor, at TTC Zugbrucke in Germany, and it's difficult for me to get internet access for prolonged periods of time. I am actually back in the U.S. for a few weeks and wanted to tell you about what I have been up to so far.

 

A lot of amazing players are on the Bundesliga team at Grenzau, including Lucian Blaszczyk, Cheung Yuk, Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth, and Thomas Pavelka, and all have been great fun to be around. Trevor and I share a slot on the Regional  (Division 3) Team which also has some great players, like Matiss Burgis (WJR: 22) and Frantisek Placek (WJR: 61).

 

There are 2 scheduled practice sessions a day running at about 2 hours apiece, but you can pretty much play whenever you want. I have been at the club as early as 6:30 a.m. and as late as 10:30 p.m., so making sure the playing hall is open isn't an issue. The only problem I have run into is that occasionally the hall is too full to play in, due to the fact that there is a Table Tennis School running weekly camps for players from all over the world.

The practice session I attend is for both the Bundesliga and the Div. 3 teams, which means that the Div. 3 players get destroyed by a Blaszczyk or Pavleka every once in a while, but nobody minds. We also get to play multiball sessions with the club coach Chen Zhibin, who was on the Chinese National Team and in the top ten world-ranked players, so it goes without saying that he has a wealth of knowledge. There are also a lot of other world class players who show up for this practice session: Nicole Struse comes regularly, as well as Jie Schopp. The Polish National Team came to visit a couple of weeks ago and should be coming back again shortly.

All in all, the level of play is tremendous and I think both Trevor and I would have felt really weird being around such high caliber players if it weren't for the the fact that they are all so... I don't know... nice. Nicole Struse lends us DVDs to watch (there really isn't too much else to do after practice in such a small town). Thomas Pavelka's old pull-up bar is now set up in our apartment, and we have gotten rides from at least 10 different people to, well, wherever we needed to go. It's a great team, and it's made the whole living experience a lot better than just eating, sleeping, and practicing.

 That's pretty much the story so far. I go back at the end of this month, when I will get to play in some Pro Tours (one advantage of playing for the U.S. is that we almost never take up all of our alotted slots in ITTF tournaments) and get ready for the WJTTC in Palo Alto in December. Right now I am in Maryland training with some of the players at MDTTC and I will be heading out to CA to play in the JOOLA Tour Finals in a couple of weeks. All is well, and I am excited to get some new stories to write about in the upcoming months. Thanks for reading.

I played this 2100 yesterday and i lost in the fith which was upseting

Hello everyone! I'm new to team joola junior. I have been playing a lot lately, yet even though I study really hard. I plan on playing even more in the future. I love TT and I'm going to play it for the rest of my life.

Hi! I'm Prachi Jha, the newest member of Team Joola. I am so excited to be part of Team Joola. Lot's of amazing players are sponsered by Joola, like my coach and friends. I played in Stephan Feth's training camp over the summer, and he changed my topspin stroke. It was exciting to be coached by 4 time World champions. It is fun playing at Palo Alto, where, under the guidance of so many great coaches my game is sure to improve dramatically.