Greg's Table Tennis Pages

G'day there, fellow Table Tennis/Ping-Pong lovers! Glad you could find your way here to sunny Perth, Western Australia!!

Now, before you dive in too deeply, a few words about what you will and won't find in my Table Tennis pages.

You will find - a site for sore eyes...

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Photo by: Chip Patton, courtesy of ww.nattc.com

Table Tennis Articles

Firstly, you'll find the articles relating to Table Tennis that I have written. There are, of course, articles about tactics, tips, equipment, training, match play and coaching, but I am also hoping to write about some of the less talked about aspects of Table Tennis - instead of just the usual offerings on how to speed glue, which blade is fastest, and why the 3rd best player in the world has a terrible flaw in his game. Maybe I'll write about that in the future (OK - sure I will!), but I'd like my site to be somewhere where the Table Tennis aficionado can come to spend some time in a quiet, entertaining and enlightening manner, rather than just reading the same discussion about equipment over and over again.

Table Tennis Videos - For Free and To Buy

Secondly, you'll also find some table tennis videos to look at. I have a number of free table tennis videos to enjoy, as well as some that I offer for sale. I've put up a few sample clips so that you can see the quality of the video and the quality of the players on offer. Don't feel that you have to purchase them to make me happy (although it would!). I bought a video camera to improve the Table Tennis standard of myself and my girlfriend (I know, a girlfriend who plays Table Tennis seriously - am I a lucky guy or what!!), and kept getting asked by people if they could get a copy of the matches I was taping. So I decided to offer what I had taped to the rest of Australia's Table Tennis players (and now overseas as well), if they wanted them.

Table Tennis Blog

I have also included a personal Table Tennis blog detailing my journey towards the 2006 Australian Open tournament. I'll be adding to it every few days as I prepare for another go against the top players in Australia - I hope that you will come along for the journey with me.

Table Tennis Forum

Yes, notwithstanding what I wrote about Table Tennis forums below, I have put one up on my site. I'm hoping to encourage some intelligent conversation about table tennis, with a lot less of the rubbish that you have to sift through on some other forums. Please feel free to join up and add your words of wisdom to Greg's Table Tennis Forum.

Table Tennis Links

As of the 15th March 2005, I am now including links to some of my favourite Table Tennis websites, as well as some of the other sites that I have browsed from time to time. I'll also be giving my own review and ranking of the sites to help increase your websurfing pleasure.

Table Tennis Ads

I've got a problem - my partner sees me spending A LOT of time on this website that I could be spending with her. (Sound familiar, table tennis addicts?) While I am having heaps of fun doing this website, I need to show her that my time is well spent - hence the ads.

You'll notice on this site a number of ads linking to the shop at megaspin.net. I'll make sure that the ads I put up are relevant to the articles you are reading, as well as throwing in a bit of the usual Greg humour! (Note: long-time readers may notice the change in my ads from my previous affiliate - this is purely a private business decision and no reflection on them.)

So if you enjoy the articles and want to buy some table tennis equipment and are kind enough to go through my ads here, I get a (small!) commission. You get good value for money, I get a cut, megaspin gets a sale, and my partner stays off my back and allows me to keep playing with this website and writing more stuff for you to read and enjoy! Yay for everyone!

Comments

Finally, you will find comments on the articles that I have written, and hopefully in the future, comments about other people's comments. I love the idea of a site with a vigorous, healthy , intelligent debate and exchange of ideas. Someplace where all the comments add something useful to the topic. Aren't those the best threads on the forums? I welcome anybody to send me the comments they want to make, and I promise not to edit them other to remove unnecessary personal attacks and bad language etc. But it's my call whether the post contributes enough to the topic to make it to the Comments section. In time, I hope that the comments will be like a small 'best of the web" for each article topic. High hopes I know, but don't we all have to start somewhere?

So that's what's in store - but what won't you find here?

A forum with endless posts about which rubber is better, or why long pimples/ speed glue/ penholders/ Martians should be banned from the sport. There are plenty of other sites out there that do that much better than I ever could. But I would like my forum to have a bit more meat to it than just that.

Don't get me wrong, I still read and post on other forums too - they are great for meeting and talking with fellow Table Tennis enthusiasts around the world, about any Table Tennis subject imaginable. Some of my favourites are Sean O'Neills aboutTableTennis forum and Denis' Table Tennis forum. Lookout for posts by DTopSpirit or DTop - that would be me!

Given that forums are great, it's funny why 90% of the posts still seem to be the Table Tennis equivalent of "Take a look at the stuff I use! My stuff is way better than your stuff - why are you using such rubbish?.Anyway, you shouldn't be allowed to use anything I don't like. And if you don't agree with me, I'll call you names over and over again whilst putting my hands over my ears so I can't hear you! Nyah Nyah Nyah!" I promise to do my very best to avoid having that happen on my forum.

You also won't find:

The Gospel of Table Tennis according to St.Gregory (although I do like the sound of that!). Unlike certain other people on the Internet who shall remain nameless, I don't claim that my point of view or the articles that I have written are the final word on any subject. I am hoping to entertain you, make you think, and maybe make you laugh here and there. I'm open to differing points of view and more than willing to be convinced otherwise by a rational argument. So whether you agree or disagree, please feel free to hit that Send button and put your point of view across. I'll make sure that your opinion gets a fair hearing and a possibly a place in the Comments section of each article.

Welcome aboard!

Greg Letts, 19th February 2005

Copyright Greg Letts 2005

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