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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.

In the summer, I have mainly been concerned with training, and Joola managed to form a cam that turned out to be awesome for the first time. IT had many enrollments, and the training there was fantastic.
  In the camps, there were three great coaches, two of them were four times world champions, and it is simply fascinating to be in the same room as them.  They were addressed CoachZhang and Coach Li. The other coach is Stefan Feth, a well-known player from Germany. He has a great reputation for being a great coach, player, and most importantly, a sportsman. Being coached by all three of them is a dream come true for many people, I am included.
  The facility there at the Topspin Club was fantastic; wood flooring, air conditioning, barriers, and even two robopongs that work really well.
In the camp, the training there was intense yet worth it. There I learned so much that I felt much more confident with many of my strokes.And since my thumb was moving they stuck tape on it. As you can see, it can get pretty creative.  
I definitely became better because of the three camps I went to. There is also a variety of people and equipment, people that came from Phoenix, Arizona and people with pips of all length, people with chinese rubber, penholders, and shakehanders all came to go to the camps. How good is that? Sounds pretty good to me! I'm definitely going to the next Joola camp. Who knows? Maybe I'll see you there too! =)

My first blog! I am so excited to be part of Team Joola. My goal is to be like Stefan Feth and Khoa. I know I have to work hard. I am learning good techniques at Palo Alto Club and from Dennis, Stefan and all the coaches there. I started learning Table Tennis  a little over a year at ICC.  I am lucky to have great coaches.

Wow, this is the first time I wrote something on the web. I hope you like it. I had been wondering whether Joola would pick me at the Junior Joola sponsorship! All this time I keep practicing as much as I can, I mean 11-15 hours per week. I think this is quite a lot!

Hi my first blog here!

I am happy that we are back to the normal routine to the Palo Alto club again! I can see Nicole and my other good friends. I was told that a few people went to China for training over the summer, well, I must say that I have seen big improvement on their technique. I must tell myself to practice hard in order to catch up with them. Yea, it is not easy but I am enjoyingthe training and the private coaching by James.

I had been doing more training at Palo Alto clubs on each weekend. Although school has already stared, I still keep the same training hours, while at the same time balancing my school work.

It has been great so far!