Ping Pong?

[Kaige]

I know it is the weekend, time for a new off the wall topic, now that the dust bunnies are cleaned up in most of our homes by now. How many of you out there play ping pong and are you good at it, I did set up our table last week, and have two good Bejing paddles, better than our U.S. paddles, I am getting better, but need practice, how about the rest of you? improving? or not much better. or don't play, interferes with the pacemaker.

[Eric&Yuhui]

No table tennis for me ( although I played a LOT years ago ) , but I'm teaching Yuhui to play Squash.. She likes it.. Better than racquetball. Pretty hard to find squash courts in the U.S.. So I was in disbelief when I found one at our newly joined health club here in Wichita

[owenkrout]

Pretty even match between my wife and myself. We play when we can find a place with decent equipment to play on. I control the ball better, but she is more manuverable than I am.

[Mick]

I love table tennis and have been playing since my college years. Li and I are well matched. Most of our games end with scores within three points of each other. She wins about half and I win about half. She has one wicked serve, however, that has taken me years to figure out.

 

Love to play the game, especially with her. Great fun! Once we get settled in over here will probably by a table. Brought all our rackets back with us.

[tonado]

I played every Tuesday night with serious players at a church. It is a good way to stay fit. In Nanning last year, I played with the fiancee's dad. I felt bad beating him.

[Tom & Jen]

We went to play at a YMCA-like place on both of my trip to see Jen. She beat me without mercy everytime we kept score, usually by 2 to 1

I plan to get a folding table and put it in the garage when she gets here. I hold the paddle about as weird as I hold the chopsticks.

[Lurker]

With scant evidence, I'm under the impression that Chinese players hold the paddle vertically, while Western players do so horizontally. True?

[Eric&Yuhui]

With scant evidence, I'm under the impression that Chinese players hold the paddle vertically, while Western players do so horizontally.  True?

correct.

That's what I do as well.. You get a much better control of the ball.

[Kaige]

You are correct on the paddle, Yan's has a shorter handle also, maybe it is because they hold it upside down. but she plays with either one, long or short. Judge the smiley face and you know the score, need to practice a good what ever against the spins. One eyeball for all the ones I miss

[tonado]

With scant evidence, I'm under the impression that Chinese players hold the paddle vertically, while Western players do so horizontally.  True?

It all depends on the player. However, there is a lot of Asian players who hold the paddle vertically.