My first table tennis lesson

[GreenDiverDown]

I've been playing pong with three buddies every Saturday night for over a year. We thought we were pretty good but lately it seemed that we had hit a wall and we just weren't getting any better. So, we decided to start taking lessons... what an eye opening experience. Lesson 1: we learned we have been doing it ALL wrong and that a lifetime of bad habits are in need of fixin'. I'm a little depressed!

 

[Ber Rabbit]

My husband tells of a friend who had a ping pong table in a one car garage, there was JUST enough room for the table LOL! They came up with a game called "Wally Pong" where you could bounce the ball off of ANYTHING in the garage as long as it hit the other side of the table They used to play that for hours on end.

Good luck breaking your habits!
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[eckybay]

The lessons will pay off....

I have a boss that is big in to table tennis. Plays a couple times a week. Knows where all the clubs are when he goes out of town. Has championship match on tape.

He gets upset when we call it ping pong, so of course, we always do

 

[SCUBAJENNIFER]

we learned we have been doing it ALL wrong and that a lifetime of bad habits are in need of fixin'. I'm a little depressed!

Nah, you just caught up to rest of the family Big Brother!!

 

[OHGoDive]

I've been playing pong with three buddies every Saturday night for over a year. We thought we were pretty good but lately it seemed that we had hit a wall and we just weren't getting any better. So, we decided to start taking lessons... what an eye opening experience. Lesson 1: we learned we have been doing it ALL wrong and that a lifetime of bad habits are in need of fixin'. I'm a little depressed!

Probably because your original instructor was only interested in getting you a Ping Pong C-card and not actually teaching you how to play ping pong well. Probably sold you a bunch of ping pong gear you didn't need yet too, just because he had it in his ping pong shop.

It's because the ping pong standards are so much worse than they used to be.... sigh. It's not about making good ping pong players anymore, it's just about the money.



Sorry... I just couldn't help myself I promise I won't do it again.

 

[Soggy]

Make sure you do a paddle deployment drill before every match and keep your balls in good trim. That came out wrong...

 

[scubafool]

No, no, no, it is your table that you want to keep in trim. If the base of your game isn't trimmed out properly, everything else suffers. Now, the balls deserve some attention as well. They should be kept well rounded, so that they bounce reliably. A redundant paddle should be hung around the neck, on a breakaway attachment, so that, if you loose your grip on your primary, it can be deployed before your opponent sends the ball back to you.

 

[Cacia]

we need video.

 

[GreenDiverDown]

we need video.

Here's my coach when he was 8 years old training with Cheng Yinghua... one of the top rated players in the world...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2219388056685288960&q=matt+cheng

 

[Soggy]

Here's my coach when he was 8 years old training with Cheng Yinghua... one of the top rated players in the world...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2219388056685288960&q=matt+cheng

Wow, that could possibly be one of the most boring things I've ever watched