Trying out different Table Tennis Clubs

Recently I got a e-mail from the director of the Phoenixville Table Tennis Club! They are located in the basement of the Faith Baptist Church, 1015 Livingston Rd. PhoenixVille. PA 10460. They meet Tuesday nights from 7 pm. to 10 pm. Your first night is free, after that it will be $2 per night to play. They also offer yearly and family memberships. They have 5 tables, balls, and some loner paddles. You have to follow the club rules which would be good to know before you start playing. Then you could start right away. As of January 2010 they have 51 players and average about 22 players per night.
The director may have seen this blog and he invited me to come and see the club. Unfortunately I have not been yet able the go to Pennsylvania. This may change soon because I am interested in going to different clubs and meeting different players. Being between beginner and intermediate player I am still a bit unsure of myself but I am willing to give it a try. I think it is a good idea for all players to try different places and players so they can play on any table and with anyone.

Table Tennis Videos and DVDs

I was looking up various Table Tennis sites and I found
that there are a lot of sites that have interesting movies for real cheap. At Amazon.com there are a few strange
movies. I believe they are comical and they cost about
3 dollars. They also have some serious ones that cost
about 20 dollars. One is Killerspin success in Table
Tennis DVD. Amazon also has other DVDs and interactive game programs that are pretty cheap.
I also found a site called Total Table Tennis where
they have some really great DVD's. There are teaching
DVD's for beginners, intermediates, and advanced. There are also some great DVD's about professional
strokes up close and how they attack and defend in the
game. There are also really good DVD's about the
greatest in action. Even some of you who are advanced
will be amazed at the athleticism of these players.
Another site I found was Sport Videos that give DVDs
and VHS Videos. The Table Tennis Videos are really at a
low cost and worth it if you still have VCR player. If you
are looking for Olympic Table Tennis memorablilia the site you might like is Discount Pin Store. They have decorative pins on the Olympics, World Series, etc.
I have been looking to get the Videos from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I can't seem to find it on the internet.
I will try to find out where this video can be bought.

An Interesting Site - The ITTF Museum

I was recently browsing the ITTF site and I saw a link to the Table Tennis Museum. This is a very interesting site where you can find things such as a view of the Photo Gallery of all World Champions, enter a Photo Gallery of all ITTF Hall of Fame members, find all Olympic medal winners on one page, read the latest Museum Newsletter, read a history of Table Tennis, take a tour of the Museum site, and even play a simulated game of ping pong. There is also much, much more. If you have an interest of the history of table tennis and its folk lore I recommend visiting this link on the ITTF site.

ITTF Top 20 World Rankings December 2009

ITTF World ranking - Men top 20


1 (<<) 12812.50 WANG Hao CHN
2 (<<) 12807.25 MA Long CHN
3 (<<) 12707.25 MA Lin CHN
4 (<<) 12604.25 BOLL Timo GER
5 (<<) 12590.75 WANG Liqin CHN
6 (<<) 12448.75 SAMSONOV Vladimir BLR
7 (<<) 12325.25 HAO Shuai CHN
8 (9) 12287.50 CHEN Qi CHN
9 (8) 12267.75 MAZE Michael DEN
10 (<<) 12239.75 JOO Se Hyuk KOR
11 (16) 12198.25 ZHANG Jike CHN
12 (11) 12181.25 MIZUTANI Jun JPN
13 (12) 12164.50 OH Sang Eun KOR
14 (13) 12131.50 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER
15 (<<) 12105.50 CHEUNG Yuk HKG
16 (14) 12101.50 SCHLAGER Werner AUT
17 (<<) 12073.75 KREANGA Kalinikos GRE
18 (24) 12056.00 XU Xin CHN
19 (18) 12054.25 CHUANG Chih-Yuan TPE
20 (19) 12028.50 RYU Seung Min KOR



ITTF World ranking - Women top 20


1 (<<) 12771.50 ZHANG Yining CHN
2 (<<) 12753.25 GUO Yue CHN
3 (<<) 12684.00 LIU Shiwen CHN
4 (<<) 12587.75 LI Xiaoxia CHN
5 (6) 12506.75 GUO Yan CHN
6 (5) 12469.25 FENG Tianwei SIN
7 (9) 12434.75 DING Ning CHN **
8 (7) 12404.50 WANG Nan CHN
9 (8) 12344.50 KIM Kyung Ah KOR
10 (19) 12316.50 FAN Ying CHN
11 (10) 12295.75 JIANG Huajun HKG
12 (<<) 12275.50 PARK Mi Young KOR
13 (11) 12255.00 WANG Yue Gu SIN
14 (15) 12199.50 TIE Yana HKG *
15 (14) 12164.25 LI Jia Wei SIN
16 (13) 12156.25 LIU Jia AUT
17 (22) 12153.25 SUN Bei Bei SIN
18 (17) 12149.25 CAO Zhen CHN
19 (20) 12144.75 DANG Ye Seo KOR
20 (18) 12136.75 WU Jiaduo GER