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Stiga Classic 2 Player Table Tennis Racket Set List Price: $22.94 Sale Price: $11.30  |
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The Stiga Classic 2-Player Table Tennis Set offers a great way to get your ping pong game started! Each set includes 2 of Stigas Hardbat-style table tennis rackets and 3 white 40mm 1-star ping pong balls... |
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Dr Neubauer Table Tennis Technique video in DVD format includes 50 different techniques with Anti-Spin, long pimples with friction, half-long and short pimpled rubbers as well as defensive reversed rubbers... |
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This is a quality ping pong paddle that offer great speed, good spin and good control. This paddle is for all level table tennis players and is best for beginners and intermediate recreational players... |
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Champion Sports PN7 Table Tennis Racket List Price: $17.19 Sale Price: $9.84 |
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The Champion Sports PN7 Table Tennis Racket offers user a high amount of control with a moderate amount of speed and a low spin. This paddle features a 7-ply laminated wooden handle and blade, a pips out rubber face, a 1... |
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Table Tennis or Ping Pong (referred to as t-term and p-term, respectively, throughout this article so as to avoid excessive keyword phrase use): which is the correct term to describe the Olympic sport loved by many around the world? Depending upon whom you ask, you will probably get a different answer. Some people believe the t-term is the proper name to use when referring to a more serious level of play. Athletes who train for hours each day train to play table tennis, not ping pong - according to some.
The p-term is a more relaxed term used to describe the recreational player. The group of kids playing in the basement or garage are playing ping pong - again, the opinion of some. This logic is shared by many around the world, the exception is China were the p-term is still an honorable title for a sport which they dominate. The truth is that the sport and the game were once considered to be one in the same, and the terms are still used interchangeably by many.
The t-term was first used in 1887 on a board game created by J.H. Singer in New York. The p-term was not registered as a trade name until 1901 by John Jacques in England. He later sold the rights to the American gaming company Parker Brothers. This was a time of intense popularity for the game, and it was known by both names. At the height of its popularity, in December 1901, "The Table Tennis Association" and "The Ping-Pong Association" were formed in England. The two associations merged in 1903 to form "The United Table Tennis and Ping Pong Association". This would seem to indicate that, at the time, the two terms were used to describe the same activity.
As interest in the game began to diminish, the association became defunct in 1904. When interest in the sport began to revive in the 1920s, it became referred to more often using the t-term simply to avoid trademark disputes with Parker Brothers'. The company was extremely aggressive in protecting their rights to the p-term and threatened legal action when necessary. This fear of trademark infringement might explain why the governing body of the sport, the ITTF, uses the t-term instead of the p-term in its title.
Without question, a major divide was created when manufacturers were no longer able to use the p-term when describing equipment they manufactured for the sport. Manufacturers began to label their items with the t-term. At that time there was not a difference between the equipment other than the branding. Parker Brothers' simple act of trademarking and prohibiting use of the p-term created two camps of players.
In 1935, as pockets of players began to form around the United States, The American Ping Pong Association, whose members could afford to use the more expensive Parker Brothers' equipment, the US Amateur Table Tennis Association, and the National Table Tennis Association merged to form the USATT [http://www.usatt.org/]. The hope was that one association would be more effective in setting guidelines and meeting expectations for the sport. People continued then, and continue to this day to use both terms to describe the sport.
Whichever term you choose to use, just continue to play and encourage others to join you. Promotion of the sport, using whichever name you choose, is more important than a fight over the name.
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.
Does It Matter If You Have The Best Table Tennis Paddle?
The first memory I have of ping pong was at the park during hot summer recreation days in California when our city had a program where kids from our town would play caroms, get involved in arts and crafts. In addition, one of the most popular activities was ping pong. I remember that for paddles they had these terrible sand paper monstrosities that could hardly keep the ball in the same zip code even if slightly over hit. This prospect of playing a sport where I had zero control of the ball was hardly motivating for me. Not long after my initial introduction to the sport, someone brought in some beginner level ping pong paddles that had actual rubber on each side of the paddle which was a huge improvement in terms of getting the ball under control. Although these entry level paddles were only a couple of dollars each, I found myself keeping the ball much closer to the table when hit.
Let's fast forward ten years. I hadn't played the game much and certainly didn't put much thought into possible advancements in technologies with table tennis paddles. I saw that there was a paddle that had little rubber bumps on one site (also known as pips) and then smooth rubber on the other. The rubber was much tackier that that I had used previously. This "tack" seemingly gave me more control over the ball because I could spin the ball and control the shots that were hit at me with greater ease. With greater control came greater confidence. I could attack and defend more easily than I ever could. Maybe the difference was that my previous experience with the sport was so lousy. These paddles with pips out and a smooth surface on one side were so much better that I gained more confidence than my opponents using the same equipment. Not long after I began spending some time with better equipment my game improve to the point that my competition became defenseless. My skills and confidence had even developed to the point that I could defeat competitors with my off hand.
Fast forward a couple more years and I again gained regular access to a ping pong table. This time I had gotten a chance to borrow a paddle of a co-worker and it was a pre-assembled Chinese import that had a retail value of 30.00. I felt immediately as if I was playing a different sport. My chops had more bite and my loops took my opposition further away from the table so I could easily close out points. To this day, I was amazed with the vast improvement in the quality of ping pong paddle by only investing incrementally more in my equipment. It makes perfect sense to spend the amount of money on a paddle that the professionals do. In the game of table tennis, getting the right ping pong paddles and ping pong rubbers makes all the difference where you stand in the win / loss column. To answer the question posed in the title of this writing, yes. It matters.
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