I apologize for not being able to post my next entry sooner. I've been caught up with too much GCSE coursework, as I have to hand it in tomorrow and I haven't even finished it yet!
Anyway, I went to the 'open evening' last week which the club holds every Friday. During the open evening anyone can come, pay £3 and stay as long as they like. It was interesting to see what the place is like, the people, etc.
My dad came with me, so we took a table for ourselves. There were plenty of 'em; around 15 if I remember correctly. Anyway, we started knocking up and after about two rallies my dad said, "Are you sure about that grip?" He was, of course, talking about my penhold grip. I think he must be some sort of miracle-worker because although I didn't realize it at first, that grip was holding me back.
Then, one of the coaches came over and said a similar thing, although it was more like, "Don't use this grip, use this grip." Then I was introduced (well, more like 'converted') to the shakehand grip. I was surprised to find that it made a huge difference to how I played. I thought I was playing well before, but I was wrong. That was against school kids, this was against my dad!
Anyway, the coach continued to give me a few hints on the basics of footwork, pushing and looping. Because I've never had any coaching of any sort before this really helped. Now I feel I've improved significantly.
Well, gotta go to school now. See ya!
Thursday 3 April 2008
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Introduction
Hi folks. This is the first post of my first ever blog, so bare with me, k?
Many of you reading this probably know me as "fishy" over at the One Of A Kind Trading forums. If you don't, let me introduce myself. I'm Andrew. I'm 13, I live in London (UK, not Aus) and I've been playing table tennis for a couple of years now on and off. Until recently, I'd never really played 'seriously' and I'd never got any sort of coaching. However, I've decided to take up the glorious sport properly. I'm joining a club and I've got myself a decent bat to be getting on with.
This blog is just for recording my progress as a table tennis player. I hope you enjoy it. So here it goes, my first post.
Many of you reading this probably know me as "fishy" over at the One Of A Kind Trading forums. If you don't, let me introduce myself. I'm Andrew. I'm 13, I live in London (UK, not Aus) and I've been playing table tennis for a couple of years now on and off. Until recently, I'd never really played 'seriously' and I'd never got any sort of coaching. However, I've decided to take up the glorious sport properly. I'm joining a club and I've got myself a decent bat to be getting on with.
This blog is just for recording my progress as a table tennis player. I hope you enjoy it. So here it goes, my first post.
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