Backspin & topspin serve tutorial

Richmond Hill Table Tennis Club 55 Umpire Workship

Hi all Table Tennis players:
 This is a friendly reminder for the forthcoming Free “TT Umpire Workshop”. It is open for all the 55+ Richmond Hill community centre members.

Date: Monday, 8^th April, 2013.
Place: Oak Ridges Community Centre

                                    12895 Bayview Ave.

                                    Richmond Hill

                                    905-773-4630

Time: 1 pm. to 3 pm.

Umpire Workshop – The main purpose is to share our knowledge and experience for umpiring in general.

1. To discuss of the rules of the Game.

All games & matches are following the rules from the ITTF. Somehow we are conducting a Fun Game for 55+ & we shall relax the rules as to be finalized in the workshop.  

2. To give more information for the forthcoming 2013 Golden Fun Game.

3. To select a base group of players to be the Game Umpires and Score Keepers in 2013.

TT players are wishing to join us in the Workshop, please reply or contact us –

Johnson Tam johnson.tam@sympatico.ca

or - Peggie Ngan peggiengan@yahoo.ca

Before the April 08, 2013 for seats setting & no. of Hand-outs.

Thanks to those players already sent me the reply for attending the Workshop.

Best Regards,

Johnson TAM for RHTTC55 Golden Fun Games organizing committee 2013

Attacking Short Balls in Table Tennis

Table Tennis Training - Developing Quality Serves

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lauren_Traveau]Lauren Traveau

When it comes to serving in table tennis, you should start with the basics and build off of them. Remember that the serve is the only time during a game where you have total control over the ball. By getting a quality serve in play, you can greatly increase your opportunity for securing the point so try to practice your serve as often as you can.

Basic Table Tennis Serves:

For beginners, position yourself at either side of the table. You want to hold your racket with an open face, with the racket itself slightly angled either in a backhand or forehand position. Drop the ball onto your racket sending the ball to bounce once on your side and then over the net towards your opponent. Experiment with different distances so you can get a good grasp on the amounts of force necessary to get your ball over the net. Also experiment with different heights of tossing the ball into the air. Once you've practiced and mastered this key step, it's time to move on.

When serving in table tennis, you always want to keep in mind the distance and landing position of the ball. If the ball hits your opponent's side in the middle of the table, chances are your opponent is going to be in a prime position for returning the ball with a forehand or backhand smash. This is something you want to try to avoid.

You should practice trying to land your serves either toward the corners and the deep ends of the table, or just over the net like a drop shot. The deeper serve will make it harder for your opponent to return the ball with a quality attack while the shorter serve will also require your opponent to adjust, because a well placed short serve is more likely to bounce twice before reaching your opponent.

Advanced Table Tennis Serves:

When you feel like you've mastered the basics and can successfully serve the ball to all parts of the table, it's probably time to increase the difficulty level.

A Short Backspin Serve  is an excellent serve to have in your table tennis game regimen. When starting out you want to keep in mind the position of your body and placement of your feet. You'll want to begin close to the table with a low, relaxed stance.

When you're ready, toss the ball into the air about six inches. Transfer your weight from the back foot to the front foot and rotate your upper body to help you make contact with the ball.

Let the ball hit your racket at an open angle and with a forward follow-through motion as if you're trying to brush just underneath the ball. The key to this serve is adding backspin, and to generate backspin, you'll want to snap your wrist just as your racket meets the ball. Also keep in mind the follow-through, as it should be short with an upward motion of the wrist.

If done correctly, the ball should land on your opponent's side twice before they get a chance to return. This serve takes time to learn, so be diligent with your practice regimen.

The Backhand Sidespin Serve is another advanced technique that you should practice. This serve begins much like the Short Backspin Serve; you should stand close to the table and take a low and relaxed stance. Again throw the ball vertically into the air at least six inches high. When the ball is falling, with your racket in a backhand position, strike the ball with a sideways slightly forward motion and remember to snap your wrist. The snapping motion again helps to generate the required sidespin necessary to the success of this serve.

Regular   rel=nofollow [http://tabletennis.com/table-tennis-training/table-tennis-backhand-training/]table tennis training is essential to improving your game. Take time to practice your serves on a regular basis, and once you've mastered the advanced serves, don't be afraid to try and put your own variations on them or even try developing your own unique serves.

Lauren Traveau is a table tennis enthusiast who researches and writes articles about the game of table tennis. For more of her articles and other information about table tennis or ping pong, visit our Table Tennis website linked above. To take your table tennis game to the next level, consider training with a table tennis robot; learn more at [http://www.tabletennisbargains.com].

Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Table-Tennis-Training---Developing-Quality-Serves&id=3424157] Table Tennis Training - Developing Quality Serves

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Friendly Match with Markham - Postponed

Hi Friends,

Owing to pending issues, our Friendly Match with Angus Glen/Markham is put on hold.  A change of playground is freshly considered. 

On April 05, there will be no RHTTC55 team players at Angus Glen Community Center.  

Thanks to all club members who have been helpful.

Carlo
For the RHTTC55 Committee

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Table Tennis Skills Clinic - RichmondHill.ca

Learn to play table tennis or improve your skills and understanding of the game.  Clinics open to all levels.

• Venue: Oak Ridges Community Centre.     
• Date: April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013 (Wednesday)
• Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
• Registration: Oak Ridges Community Centre
• Registration is required no later than one week before the program start date.

Other workshop details click here

For more imformation, contact Kim Smylie (Richmond Hill.ca) at 905 773 4630 ext. 226

• April 03 course code #399722
• April 10 course code #399723
• April 17 course code #399724
• April 24 course code #399725

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Table Tennis - Free Lessons by Licensed Coach

Hi Friends,

Following email serves as a reminder that is self-explanatory. 

Thanks to Ben for reminding us about Free Lessons for Table Tennis ! 

Carlo

Subject:  Table Tennis - Free lessons given by licensed Coach

Hi All

Presuming most of us may overlook the adverting on page 87 of the Community Recreation Guide.
There are FREE lessons for the table tennis skill given by licensed coach for all levels at Oak Ridges Community Centrestarting Apr 3, 2013.  Sign up date is Wednesday, March 27, 2013.
Carlo, I think we should remind all our members again, especially for those new comers who are eager and serious to learntable tennis skills.  Ah, the ball is now in your hand. 

Thank you.

Don't miss the train or it will be 500 miles away!!!

Regards

Ben

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RHTTC55 Activities

Hi Friends,

With delight, I wish to keep you posted about the club activities ahead:

1. RHTTC55  -  From now on, we will call ourselves Richmond Hill Table Tennis Club for the Older Adults 55+.  A blog on the internet named RHTTC55 has been constructed and is being refined for your use. Thanks to David Au who is the mastermind behind it. 

Richard Chi coordinating well with the office,  we have set up our own notice board at McConaghy.  It is located in our usual game room on the ground floor level.

Both the blog and the board will help strengthen our internal communication.  Members will benefit instantly by getting current news about the club. 

   
2. Friendly Match with Markham - We will send out a team of 15 plus players for the games. Our team, representing RHTTC55, will be guest players.  Information about the event:

Date : Friday Apr05, 2013Time: 1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.mPlace:
Angus Glen Community Center 3990 Major Mackenzie East Drive(Warden / Major Mackenzie)
Players nominated for our team are: For Singles: Yang, Wayne, LiQL, Hong ( Mdm ), George( Leung ), Gao, 

For Doubles:Yukhym, WangYJ, Vinod, Ursula, Ted, Richard, Peggie, Martin, Laiiling, Kain, Johnson, Joe, Jimmy, Jack, Janet, Emilia, David ( Au ), Carlo, Charles,Behrooz, Ben,( plus, if needed, the mentioned players for Singles ).

5 players will ultimately be selected for playing Singles, and 5 pairs for Doubles. Players can play both Singles and Doubles.

Detailed arrangement and specific team components will be confirmed by Richard Chi who serves as the captain.
( It is important for our nominated players to notify the committee immediately if not free for the match ).

Format of the games is set and agreed as follows:
* Round Robin for both Singles and Doubles, i.e. all 5 opponents ( or pairs ) will be played. * Best 2 out of 3 games for the matches* 11 Point Game * Ideally 4 Men & 1 Woman for the Singles team* For Doubles, free combination is allowed* No individual champion* Team with higher match scores wins* Umpiring will be handled by other members of both teams

Thanks to David Shea/ Terry, Ben/Ying, Jack Leung & Peggie for offering transport assistance to some of our players on the game day.
Members are encouraged to show up at Angus Glen CC and cheer for our team. 

3. Fun Games 2013 -   Enrolling will start soon. If interested,  please register early and make yourself available after mid May till mid June. With sponsorship, the Games this year is expected to be better facilitated.

4. Umpire Workshop - Apr08 at Oak Ridges. Good for players who wish to enhance or to share their knowledge about the game. Please refer to the email on March08 by Johnson Tam, our umpiring coordinator and leading committee member.Thanks for helping to build up a successful table tennis club for the Richmond Hill seniors.

Carlo for the RHTTC55 Committee

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How to Join RHTTC55 - The Richmond Hill Table Tennis Club for Older Adults 55+

If you love table tennis and a member of the Richmond Hill Community you are welcome to join RHTTC55 - The Richmond Hill Table Tennis Club for Older Adults 55+.  Just email us at rhttc55@gmail.com with the following brief information:

• Your name

• Telephone number

• email address 

RHTTC55 would through Blogger.com send you::

• 1st invitation email :  The Blogger user RHTTC55 has invited you to read the private blog: RHTTC55 .

You'll need to sign in with a Google Account to confirm the invitation. If you don't have a Google Account yet, we'll show you how to get one in minutes, or you can view the blog as a guest for up to 30 days.

RHTTC55's blog was created using Blogger, a free service for easily communicating and sharing ideas on the web. To learn more about Blogger and starting your own free blog visit http://www.blogger.com.

• 2nd invitation email: The Blogger user RHTTC55 has invited you to read the private blog: RHTTC 55 Members Area.

You'll need to sign in with a Google Account to confirm the invitation. If you don't have a Google Account yet, here is  to create an Google Account, or you can view the blog as a guest for up to 30 days.

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Richmond Hill TTC55+ Umpire Workshop

My name is Johnson. I am one of the TT lovers who have started to play table tennis in McC centre 2 and half years ago. I went through the 2011 & 2012 Golden Fun games at McC & the 2012 Nov. 27^th Oak Ridges TT tournament. They are great & fun events. I believe a lot of the TT players enjoyed the games & good times.

The 2013 Golden Fun games are coming up soon in May – June. It will be more fun & more compatible this year. We have held an “Umpire briefing session” with Coach Kevin Wu last year. Our players did benefit a lot from the briefing. By popular request we will hold another umpire session (2 hours) this year before the Golden Fun games.  This time is open for all the Richmond Hill table tennis 55+ players. I attached a few photos of the last Umpire briefing at the end of this e-mail as a sample of the last session.

It will be calling “TT Umpire Workshop” – (conduct in English only)-         Information of duties of an umpire & a score keeper. (Carlo & Johnson)-         Videos showing last year coach Kevin Wu’s briefing. (Johnson)-         Open floor discussion of our games format & basic rules to play in the Godden Fun Games. (Richard & Johnson)-         Hand outs for Golden Fun Game’s information. (Peggie & Johnson)-         

Additional bonus: Coffee / Tea refreshments. (Oak Ridges Centre)-         Additional bonus: 1^st time video showcase of the last Nov. Oak Ridges tournament Final matches. (Johnson)

Workshop Date:  

Monday April 8^th 2013, 1pm to 3pm.

Workshop location:      

Oak Ridges Community Centre                                    

12895 Bayview Ave.                                    

Richmond Hill                                    

905-773-4630

Please register for the Workshop by sending reply e-mail to me only on or before the  April 02, 2013 for seats setting & no. of  Hand out copies.

Best Regards,
Johnson TAM for RHTTC55+ Golden Fun Games committee

Attachments:
Oak Ridge Centre Umpire briefing session (Last Year)

Richmond Hill TTC55+ Umpire Workshop View photos    Download all You are invited to view Johnson's album. This album has 10 files.

Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz

Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known by her professional name Patti Page, was an American singer and one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s,[1] and sold over 100 million records.[2] She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". A New York disc jockey on WNEW, William B. Williams, introduced her as "A Page in my life called Patti". Page signed with Mercury Records in 1947, and became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's "Confess". In 1950, she had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", and would eventually have 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965. Page's signature song, "Tennessee Waltz", recorded in 1950, was one of the biggest-selling singles of the 20th century, and is also one of the nine official state songs of Tennessee. "Tennessee Waltz" spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard magazine's Best-Sellers Listin 1950. Page had three additional No. 1 hit singles between 1950 and 1953, with "All My Love (Bolero)", "I Went to Your Wedding", and "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window". Unlike most pop music singers, Page blended the styles of country music into many of her most popular songs. By doing this, many of Page's singles also made the Billboard Country Chart. Towards the 1970s, Page shifted her career towards country music, and she began charting on the country charts, up until 1982. Page was one of the few vocalists to have made the country charts in five separate decades. When rock and roll music became popular during the second half of the 1950s, traditional pop music was becoming less popular. Page was one of the few traditional pop music singers who was able to sustain her success, continuing to have major hits into the mid-1960s with "Old Cape Cod", "Allegheny Moon", "A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)", and "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte". In 1997, Patti Page was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. She will be posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2013.  ▲美國老牌女歌手佩蒂.佩吉1日過世，享年85歲。這是她1958年的沙龍照。 以演唱《田納西華爾滋》(The Tennessee Waltz)等經典老歌聞名於世的美國老牌女歌手Patti Page，一日晚間在南加州一間療養院去世，享年85歲。 Patti Page是50年代全世界唱片銷量最高的女歌手，在67年的職業歌唱生涯中累積的專輯銷量已破1億張。中低音優美純厚，經典名曲Tennessee Waltz在流行排行榜上停留超過30星期，有千萬張的銷售量，這首歌也是史上第三暢銷單曲。除了1950年的暢銷金曲Tennessee Waltz以外，還包括 Changing Partners、I Went to Your Wedding、以及Hush,Hush, Sweet Charlotte等。1960年代，披頭崛起，她的歌曲風格從此不再成為主流。 Patti Page 1999年以專輯「Live at Carnegie Hall：The 50th Anniversary Concert」贏得在她進入歌壇50年後第一座葛萊美獎。並將在2月獲頒葛萊美終身成就獎，她原本期盼能親自出席領獎。

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RHTTC 55 中文簡介

By Richard Chi

RHTTC55 成立至今不過數年;初時設備簡陋,只供應單薄球板數塊及乒乓球若干,活動時間也不多.然而參予者均樂在其中.在這些拓荒者努力之下,會員日增;而更重要的一點,就是每人都在享受打球的樂趣,很多時因沒有計分判勝負,大家都不會感受 " 壓力" ,無意中構成了一個別樹一幟的特式.

在同一信念下,這個團體除了打球外,大家更培養出互相關懷,扶持,鼓勵,禮讓,寬容的高尚情操.

近年更得到各會員的協助,籌辦了多次成功的比賽,盛大的聖誕前 Pot Luck,定期每月一次的歡樂中午茶聚,週一的龍門陣早餐會;更間接推動成立了卡拉OK,給予會員大展歌喉的機會.

在會員人數日益壯大之下, McC 亦大力協助,添加了數張球桌,安排了更多場地及活動時間.目前會員可就自己需要,選擇到 McConaghy,Oak Ridges, Langstaff 或 Rouge Woods 大展身手,互相觀摩.

綜合以上各元素及多年來難能可貴的傳統及理念,令新來的會員無不有 "賓至如歸" 之感,也很快便融入這個大家庭裡.

有幸參加了這個團體,期望RHTTC 55 固有精神永垂不朽.

Hi Richard,

Wow !  Another great piece of work !
We need a Chinese version, definitely !
I am copying same to other committee members for sharing the joy of seeing the work done, and most important of all, the value in life we treasure very much.
Let's have both the English and Chinese version posted.
We play for the games we love and we fight for the values we treasure.

Carlo



Hi, Richard!                    

Congratulations for a job well done! Even though 'About Us' was written in 2 languages by 2 different authors, there's enough correlation between them  that the core value is not lost in the shuffle. I am very pleased that we are singing the same tune!                                                                                                         Regards,                                                                                                        Desmond

Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013

About RHTTC 55 by Desmond Ma

Please enjoy reading the following that has been efficiently created by our Mr. Ma, Desmond.

It is a stylish piece of work.

May I propose to have it posted onto our blog that can be shared by all our friends.

A great salute to Desmond !

Carlo
   

Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 1:40 PM

ABOUT US - THE RICHMOND HILL TABLE TENNIS CLUB FOR THE OLDER ADULTS 55+

The  RHTTC 55 had its humble beginning. It started with a few pioneers ventured to MCC with a few table tennis balls and some rudimentary racquets looking for some fun and recreation, knowing that the programs at this Centre were catering for seniors 55 and over. Before long, there was so much fun in playing table tennis that strangers became friends and when the games were on, the room was always filled with laughter.

 As the group started to take shape, we have developed a belief that apart from  recreational benefits of this game, friendship and tolerance should play a significant role in our approach. 

Thanks to our hardworking volunteers , tournaments, Christmas parties, monthly lunch gatherings and weekly chit-chats over a cup of coffee and breakfast  have become our normal routines. 

With the help and understanding of the authority of Town of Richmond Hill, our members can now enjoy the luxury of playing table tennis at 4 different centres and at time slots that fit their personal schedules with reasonable equipment and friendly environment. 

Blessed with the above favourable elements and our well-established friendly tradition over the years,  all newcomers feel  at home and we take pride in witnessing the membership enrolling in our program has grown by leaps and bounds recently. 

It is through playing table tennis that this group has come into being and personally,  it is very gratifying for us to come to round up a bunch of very good Friends as an added bonus. LONG LIVE RHTTC55+ 

Beautiful Women of All Ages

This is amazing...and at the end make sure you click on to Queen Elizabeth, that is priceless This series is a remarkable series of pictures that “morph” into a different subject very smoothly. Someone spent a lot of time to get this to happen, and even with a computer it must have been really difficult to do. When you click on the link, just let it run, and the pictures will sequence through to the end. This is done very well. I think you might like it.

Thank you Riachard for sending this lovely video.

Pictures and Links from Ping Pong Pals

MyTTC tournament View photos    Download all You are invited to view Johnson's album. This album has 13 files.

Thank you Johnson for sending MyTTC tournament pictures.   I missed the opportunity watching the champions at the final. 

       

Richard Chi also sent me this very nice article on yesterday 's Championship Final by Global and Mail.  Many thanks, Richard! 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/for-these-table-tennis-stars-its-much-more-than-a-basement-game/article9254636/