Table Tennis Blog

By Ji-Soo Woo
Ji-Soo WooBlog Competition Winner
I came upon a wise man sitting under a fig tree. Eyes closed…he was in evident deep reverie. Balanced on his exposed leathery scalp was a table tennis racquet, and the tips of his slender fingers tapered around a three star table tennis ball. He looked like […]

Australian Womens TeamBronze medallists
There were 3 points that stood out for me at the recent Commonwealth Championships.
It has been a couple of years since I have had a chance to watch Table Tennis at the highest level from up close. It was great to see the level of Table Tennis that is played. […]

One of our avid PingSkillers is taking in some of the World Championships in Yokohama. Thanks to Ji-Soo for this report.
To Yokohama With Love
Diary from the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships
Scenes from Yokohama

My friend and I arrived in Shin-Yokohama station a little after 9am on 30 April. With a population of ‘just’ 3.6 […]

Thanks to all those watchers out there who have been asking questions. The Ask the Coach section of the website has been gathering momentum. Already this month we are up to 78 questions which is 6 per day and we are looking at a record number of questions for the month of March.
Our […]

Congratulations to PingSkills’ own Alois Rosario on his appointment as Assistant Coach and Manager for the Australian team for the 2009 Commonwealth Championships to be held in Scotland in May 2009.
Congratulations also to Brett Clarke who will be the head coach and features in the famous PingSkills Exhibition video along with Alois. Good luck to […]

Ben Taylor, SWSA memberBenefiting from the program
During January I conducted further training with the South West Sports Academy. This is an Academy set up in the South West region of Victoria mainly centered in the towns of Hamilton and Warrnambool. Most players in the program live 3 to 4 hours from Melbourne, the […]

Peter, GermanyTable Tennis Secrets Revealed
Well the judges have conferred and made their decision. After much deliberation and consultation, the Winner is…
“PingSkills - Table Tennis Secrets Revealed”
We thought this captures the essence of what we are about, to show players techniques and skills that will help them to improve their game. They are secrets […]

Our training schedule is:
We train from Monday to Friday, having games on Saturday and Sundays is a day off. We have to be at the hall at 8.45 am with a 10 minute warm-up then training starting at 9.00 am and finishing at 11.15 am with a 15 minute break in the middle. We only […]

An ‘Ask the Coach’ Question from Michael has reminded me that we need some of our readers to suggest some ideas for new Online Lessons. We are always looking for ways to help you to improve your game.
Do you have any ideas for Lessons that we have not already covered? They have to […]

Jesse Bricknellin action at National Juniors ‘08
seeing everyone working hard and pushing themselves really gets me into training mode
Before coming to China I was finding it hard to get motivated for training. I’d just started a new school, had a lot of homework and was just generally unmotivated. To be honest, I wasn’t really that […]

PingSkills Looking for a Motto
The PingSkills Motto competition has been hotting up with quite a few entries received already.
PingSkills is looking for a Motto for our website. Something that encapsulates what we are about. If you have an idea, help us to find a Motto that works for PingSkills. Read the entries […]

After our brilliant semi-final win, my team was feeling confident that we could cause an upset in the final against the undefeated Albert Park. We got off to a great start winning the first match but then things started to turn against us. Unfortunately we lost the second match and then I lost to their […]

Last night was the semi-final of the A grade TTV pennant. My team St. Kilda Cricket were up against Macabbi. We had met twice before in the season with both teams notching up 1 win so we knew it was going to be a tough night.

The format of the pennant is 3 players per team […]

I can’t believe that next week it will be 3 months since I wrote about my Winter Flu and committed to running twice a week around the TAN.
How has it gone?
About half way round the track I always think, “Why am I doing this!” But then when I have finished I feel so much better. […]

I had my first failure to run twice a week last week, so I’m making up for it by running around the TAN 3 times this week! On Monday I recorded a PB by running it in 17 minutes and 9 seconds. Hopefully soon I can break the 17 minute barrier.
I’ve played two rounds of […]

PingSkills(PS): How long will you be in Japan?
Jesse Bricknell (JB): Another 2 weeks. I have already been training in Japan for 3 and a half weeks, with the first week and a half being spent at a coaches house.

Try and use the hours that you have for training wisely and efficiently, as you don`t have […]

I’ve been sticking to my commitment to run around the Tan twice a week. Today I recorded my fastest time since I started finishing in 17 minutes and 32 seconds. By the time I crossed the finish line though, I was hurting. I really went out fast and was watching the clock all the way […]

Hey,
The last couple of days have been really hard. I have had to get up at 6.30 to be ready to go for a 4km run at 7.00 everyday and although I`m still training hard it has been physically demanding getting up so early as I`m used to being able to sleep in.

There is […]

This is the 3rd in the series of Blogs from Jesse Bricknell, who is currently training in Japan. If you would like to ask Jesse any questions about his training in Japan, just send them through to the ‘Ask the Coach’ section.

Jesse Bricknell currently training in Japan
Hey,
I’ve realised that the training at Taka’s centre […]

My fitness campaign is underway. On Monday I donated blood. Not only is that good because it saves lives but I get a mini-health checkup. They test my iron and hemoglobin levels, my blood pressure and they check my weight. So now I know I weigh 93kg. It will be interesting to see after 3 […]

I’m in Japan at the moment for training and I’ll be spending a week at a coaches house whose name is Takaharu, then going to the Japanese National Training Centre. The temperature is really hot and humid which is diffult to adjust to after coming from the Australian winter. For the first couple of […]

It all started with my son who came home from play group having picked up the flu from one of his friends. He passed it on to my wife and you can guess what happened next! That’s right, they passed it on to me.

I haven’t been so sick for years. I was getting hot and […]

Hi, I’m Jesse Bricknell and I am a Junior player from Victoria, Australia and will be going to Japan tomorrow for 5 and a half weeks. It will be a good experience training like the Japanese and I will also have the side benefit of trying to learn Japanese, which I do at school.
I […]