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Tulsa Table Tennis Club

Table Tennis is the largest participation sport in the world per the Olympic.org web site.

 

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Friday - 11-6-09
Ray Pestridge called Bob Kyker. Ray is back home from his mission trip to uk.
Ray plans to come to Dawson next week.
Also, last week, someone left a racket with red friendship & black mendo rubber in a new blue juic case.
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Thursday - 11-5-09
Dawson - 7 players.
Zaeen Afzal, Chris Agimudie, Larry Buell, Bob Kyker, Robert McKinney, Amol Mudhale, Alex Tupas.
More Info
Tuesday - 11-3-09
Bixby - 6 players.
Jeff Ravenscroft, Manan Azhar, Melvin Norton, Alex Tupas, Kelly Boyce, John Moore.
More Info

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Video interview shot 5-4-09 by Channel 6, KOTV on the Tulsa Table Tennis club - click here (KOTV web site) and click here
 

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The Tulsa Table Tennis Club meets at 2 places:

Monday      6:00 pm  to   9:00 pm
Tuesday     6:00 pm  to   9:00 pm
Thursday    6:00 pm  to   9:00 pm

Cost to play - $40 per year membership.
First time players - free your first month.

(1) Dawson Community Center
2035 N. Kingston Place, Tulsa, Ok.
No phones.

Meets Monday and Thursdays nights - 6:00 to ?

(no one works at Dawson Community Center - players only)
1 Stiga Expert Rollaway tables and 3 Stiga Private Rollaways
Directions to Dawson:
Dawson is in the northeast part of Tulsa.
Go to Sheridan and Virgin St., then 4 blocks west.
(Virgin is between Pine St. and Apache St.)
 

Welcome New Members!

Antonio Lewis (8-7-09)
Greg McCann (6-9-09)
Igor Shendrik (5-27-09)
Olga Shendrik (5-27-09)
Di Jin  (3-30-09)
Zaeen Afzal (2-26-09)
Dwayne Beavers (2-17-09)
Brett Robbins (2-3-09)
Thomas Berryhill (2-3-09)
Ben Bass (1-20-09)
Dane Boswell (11-17-08)
Chris Agimudie (11-13-08)
Nick Agimudie (11-13-08)
Hung Bui  (10-20-08)
Marshall Earnest (10-7-08)
Phil Narotam  (9-25-08)
Glenn Godsey (9-22-08)
Marshall Earnest (9-9-08)
Steve Ford (8-19-08)
Joe Spaulding (5-19-08)
Yee Yang (5-15-08)
Jim Hughes (4-1-08)
John Moore (3-22-08)
Jim Rice - (2-19-08)
Charles Johnson - 12-27-07
Marty Andrews (11-2-07)
Jody Vivion (6-19-07)
Zack Eldridge (5-10-07)
Corey Flaugher (4-3-07)
Seth Sheriff (1-30-07)
Huy Nguyen (1-11-07)
Ted Bennett (1-4-07)
Mark Wallace (12-21-06)
Taylor Carmona (9-7-06)
Steve Orrick (9-7-06)
Ken Baird (8-22-06)
Mats Johansson (7-27-06)
Ray Wilson (5-25-06)
Bill Ridout (4-10-06)
Alex Tupas (3-21-06)
Tim Yardy (2-9-06)
Gene Bowlin (2-7-06)
Joe Landers (1-27-06)
Ray Awe (10-20-05)
Tao Wang (8-11-05)
Amit Gujar (8-4-05)
Ron Adhikari (7-19-05)
Bill Dickson (4-11-05)
Peter Zhang (4-5-05)
Bob Endres (3-29-05)
Melvin Norton (3-7-05)
Rajat Kaul (3-1-05)
Phil Sallee (12-7-04)
Josh Sallee (12-7-04)
Ted Hill (11-22-04)
Peng Yan (10-12-04)
Zack Pfaff - 9-20-04
Jose Correa (7-17-04)
J. Ray Huang (7-12-04)
Joe Monroe (7-15-04)
George Valverde (6-16-04)
Tony Hicks (6-8-04)
Leonard Williams (5-11-04)
Jeff King (5-11-04)
John Abraham (5-11-04)
John Walsh (4-6-04)
John Walsh Sr. (4-6-04)
Corey Flaugher (4-6-04)
Loyd Garrison (3-30-04)
Richard Selman (3-30-04)
Eddie Collins (3-23-04)
Carl Spendiff (3-1-04)
Rob McKinney (2-23-04)
Laury Lee (12-7-03)
 

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(2) Bixby Community Center
211 N. Cabaniss
Bixby, Ok. 74008
Center Phone: 918-366-4841

Meets Tuesday nights only - 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

(Old Doc's Supermarket)
2 Stiga 3000 Quickplay rollaways (3/4" tops),
2 Stiga Evolution rollaways (3/4" tops)

Directions to the center:
The center is south of Tulsa on Memorial.
Go to  151st and Memorial Dr. then go east 1 block then go south 1 block.
(151st is the 2nd traffic light south of the Arkansas River bridge).
(151st is also Highway 67)

Club Contacts:
Kelly Boyce - email: kboyce@ealloys.com
WK:  918-838-9821 (8-5 - M-F)
HM:  918-355-0156
Cell: 918-640-2209
home email: kelly@ambitiousweb.com

Bob Kyker - email only: robertkyker@yahoo.com

 

Number of email addresses signed up for the email newsletter:

10-10-09 - 161
02-12-09 - 141
02-26-08 - 129
09-04-07 - 119
05-10-07 - 104
12-28-06 - 97
07-17-06 - 93
03-21-06 - 82
12-17-05 - 78
08-06-05 - 67
04-09-05 - 65
12-11-04 - 60
10-24-04 - 52
07-17-04 - 40
07-09-04 - 34

 

Coles Table Tennis equipment comments from Tulsa players -
click here
 

 

 

Links:

7/09 added: What is a "ping pong door"?  click here

7/09 added: Where is the most expensive table tennis club in America? Spin New York

7/09 added: President Obama buys a ping pong table for the White House - click here

11/08 added: Cole Ely's table tennis equipment site (best prices) - click here

8/08 added: For links to videos of the China Olympic table tennis- click here

5/08 added - Table Tennis is the largest participation sport in the world per the Olympic.org web site:


(1) For information on the Oklahoma City Table Tennis Club CLICK HERE.

(2) For National Ratings - by player name - of table tennis players - click here

(3) For a list of the other Table Tennis Clubs or Ping Pong Clubs in any state - click here

(4) List of top 25 players in the USA - go to the home page of the USATT  - on the left nav bar under "Ratings Search", hit the down arrow and click on "top 25 players".

(5) For a National Member Ranking Chart (no names - number only) - click here

(6) For a National # (number of players only) of Members by State Chart - click here

(7) For a list of the tournaments in this region - click here

(8) USATT home page: click here

(9) Tulsa Table Tennis Club Membership by Expiration date and expired memberships: click here

(10) Misc. old info and links and web pages that used to be on the home page - click here

(11) For a glossary of table tennis terms -

(a)  http://www.geocities.com/tianchee/termsTop.htm

(b)  http://www.usatt.org/organization/glossary_tt.shtml

(c) http://www.hickoksports.com/glossary/gtabletennis.shtml

(d) http://www.tabletennisdayton.com/pages/ttinfo/glossary.html

(12) For a list of USATT members - click here

(13) For a list of World Ranking of players - click here

(14) For an article on Ping Pong Diplomancy 1971 (They were the first group of Americans allowed into China since the Communist takeover in 1949 and started the last table tennis craze in America) click here

(15) What style of player are you?
Go the the "facts" web page (click here)and scroll down to article #24 for a list of the 8 styles or types of players.

(16) For some funny online videos and games of table tennis-
      (a) miniclip.com table tennis - click here (recommended by CoryTaylor)

(17) The ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) home page - click here

(18) Advice on your first table tennis tournament - click here (from About.com)

(19) Other clubs websites  - click here

(20) Table Tennis rules - from Pong WorldITTF rules, from Paddle Palace

(21) Table Tennis fun and games from the USATT.ORG site - click here

(22) To see how the USATT rating system works - click here

(23) Old blog page from 11/2003 to 6-29-09 - click here

 

Techniques on how to play and other informational sites


(24) Thinkquest.org site - click here  (lots of links to click on the left side).

(25) Table tennis tips from Table tennis pioneers - lots of short articles (about 130 !)

(26) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis - general info and links to other sites

(27) Megaspin.com table tennis info page - click here

(28) Butterflyonline.com FAQ page - click here

(29) http://www.newgy.com/ttcommunity/CoachingArchives.html - coaching links

(30) http://www.usatt.org/organization/instructors_guide.pdf - a pdf from the USATT on strokes.

(31) http://www.robopong.com/PingPongBasics/3basic_principals.html - 3 basic principals of strokes

(32) http://www.jimlangley.net/aboutjim/pingpongprimer.html - Ping Pong primer

(33) http://www.pongworld.com/tips/tips_comp.php3 - tips for competitive play

(34) http://tabletennis.lifetips.com/cat/60202/ping-pong-rubbers/index.html - table tennis rubber info

(35) http://tabletennis.lifetips.com/tip/89403/table-tennis-tips/table-tennis-tips/what-are-my-table-tennis-player-styles.html - styles of play

(36) http://www.answerbag.com/c_view.php/749 - from Answer Bag - questions and answers page

(37)These are all PDF files.

 http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part1.pdf - getting started

 http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part2.pdf - fundamentals

 http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part3.pdf - advanced strokes

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part4.pdf - service game

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part5.pdf - service returns

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part6.pdf - footwork

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~httc/files/part7.pdf - structured practice

 

Ron Shirley, from the Oklahoma City table tennis club, passed away Thursday, March 1, 2007

Read more about Ron here

 

 

                                                                                                                                                

Tulsa Ping Pong Club uses yellow Nittaku Regular 3 star balls.
For more contact info for the Ping Pong Club, see contact page. ("Ping Pong" is a registered trademark of Escalade Sports).
Donations to play at the Tulsa Table Tennis Club - $40 per year. New players - free for first month out..