Table Tennis
 

anyone here play?

Yeah, why, you looking for a partner?:laughing:

yes, very much so, no i just like the game a lot and am pretty good and i was curious if anyone else played

I played while I was growing up...on a table in my parents garage.

I was the table tennis champ in rehab...lol. I would play but alas...no table...some people get pissed if you call it ping-pong...I love to watch it on tv...those guys and gals are badass...I played a lot as a youth myself.

I'll be completely honest... i do rock a bit.

i do love this game lol

My house is not really set up for a table. It would get in the way. And I cant convice the wife we could get a fold up table and push it into a corner. I'll have to move someday and have a bigger house. haha. I love to play though!!!

yeah, i play. i took me a few years to beat my grandpa who had been in the ROTC and played all the time. You gotta watch out for them ROTC guys they are amazing. He taught me some crazy tricks, like how to serve with a spin on the ball. But I've learned that 90% of being a good ping pong player is how good you can trash talk. haha

yes I used to be playing it a lot,
have never won any chapmionship though :D

Oh yeah, I love table tennis. It's so much fun

I won a tourny we had in the Navy...200 bucks! Im more of a defensive player though which isnt good when yo get into higher skill levels. Instead of spikes I like to use cuts.

@Thrice : I am a total opposite of you then. I play very aggresively what is not really good in situations when I need to stay calm and just to spin very much in defence

We have an incredibly old and warped table that you have to squeeze past to get upstairs.

I'd hesitate to say I'm good, but as far as bumblies go I can hold my own. Generally I'm more of a defensive player.

Also, I never play backhand shots, I just twist my forehand around. It's less awkward than it sounds and I can't break the habbit.

I sit back and do that all day and wait, once in a while if they gimme a floater ill shove it down there throat.

Are u serious? I love to play backhand although I play a little to agressive in my backhand :D In my forehand I play much more with spin but still as agressive as possible!
Which material are u guys using? Or which brand do you prefer?

we still call it "ping pong" here

i used to play it a lot

i play it the professional way - with my index finger locked on the handle, and not all my fingers gripping it

Thats how I play too. God I love ping pong. I played all the time when I lived with my parents. My brother and I are both really good. I'm pretty good at placing it, mainly back hand. My favorite shot is when the ball is to my right but I use the backhand anyways and angle it so I go cross court barely over the net and hit the edge of the table. My brother slams every single shot backhand so I got really good at defense.

I joined a ping pong club thing up here and nobody else joined lol, so i never got to play which was really dissapointing.

i'm pretty good at "slamming" the thing and also "spinning" the ball so it gets unpredictable

My backhand slams usually go long. And I can't get much force behind them. My brother takes his finger off off the upper handle for backhands and gets so much power but i just cant do it. My slams are almost always forehand but I'm good at it. Do you use a pretty heavily padded paddle? Or those thin wooden ones?

the ones with just a slight sheaf of rubber

I really like table tennis. I kinda suck though.

ah ok. I had this Indian friend back in high school who had this paddle that was ridiculously padded with rubber and he could put crazy spin on the ball. I always prefered the light wooden ones. I sacrifice the spin usually for the slam power. Cause if it's just a little bit above the net, I slam it.

table tennis
 

It's a good indoor sport whenever it rains outside, but prefer tennis

I used to be sick but I haven't played in a long time. I played a very conservative game. My best strength was being able to return pretty much anything, so I just waited for the other person to screw up. The longer the rally, the more likely they are to try some crazy kill shot and screw up. I did the same thing in badminton.

I too like the Table Tennis game a lot.I used to play a lot in my childhood days.My most favorite outdoor game.This game really helps me to increase my stamina.Our bones and muscles strengthen because of this game.

what increases my stamina is crazy aerobic exercise

That's pretty much my tennis strategy. Return everything. And steal points when I can by hitting it to their backhand and charging the net, forcing them to hit a nice lob shot to get the point. I've got better since high school but back then I had no serve at all and would just wait for someone to drill it into the net or try a tough shot and miss. It's amazing in sports how many opponents will beat themselves if you let them.


Outdoor game, really?? Increase stamina? Are you sure you aren't thinking of regular tennis?

i suppose his version is where you lay the table outdoors, and the ball is metal

Yes, I have an interest of playing it since my school days and right now I’m playing for a club.