In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve got a Table Tennis Dictionary with definitions of all the terms you’ll need to know about equipment characteristics, strokes, etc.
Isn’t it about time you got educated?
Here are the most popular terms recently looked up:
Hello All,
Some of you may know me from the MyTT forum, or perhaps from my blades, or perhaps not at all, and that’s just fine. I’m Ian Worz of Wörz Beat Sticks and I’ll be contributing to the blog. I hand-make custom blades in North Florida. Things started small with balsa blades for my club mates but they just kept progressing. Balsa blades are still my biggest sellers, but my range of materials and techniques have far outgrown that first batch. It’s been a lot of fun so far and I hope I can afford to keep offering such a service.
I’m also looking forward writing a bit more about table tennis and sharing some technical knowledge in regard to blades. Good hitting to all!
Learn more about me and my website on my profile.
Ian.
Every once in a while the topic of wood species will pop up on a forum. This is pretty handy information to have when you choose a blade or have a custom blade made. I’d like to share a few species and information about them in hopes of aiding anyone is looking to construct a custom blade or is just curious.
One of the things I appreciate most about table tennis is the exceptional cultural diversity found within the community of our sport. I’ve only been involved in T.T. for about three years and already I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting several hundred people from around the world. Such a juxtaposed assembly of persons is a wonderful aspect of our sport. I’ve never participated in a sport, and here in the States, I’d guess one would be hard pressed to find another (soccer perhaps?), where there was such an abundance of variance in regard to to the athletes’ cultural backgrounds and ethnicity.
Have you been to ttspin.com yet? It’s a great site that shows your USATT ratings and some beautiful charts and graphs. It’s a much more useful view than the USATT’s rating site.
Did you know you can sort equipment by its characteristics? Apparently I hadn’t made this feature visible enough because people were requesting ways to do this.
There seems to be a fear of low-cost equipment in some circles. As a retailer myself, I’ve had customers walk away because the price tag was too low. “A whole racket for only $75? No thanks. I’m looking for something around $200.” They seem to think that price has a direct relationship with quality and performance, so Chinese brands like DHS, 729/Friendship, LKT and Gambler can’t compare to Butterfly, Donic and Stiga.
Twenty years ago, they would have been right.
If this article is describes you to a tee, it’s time to join a table tennis club or find a coach and erase the title of basement player.
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