OOAK Table Tennis Forum

After years just reading the forums I decided to create an account.

Well, I can see the forum ain't that active as it used to be, but it still has a great archive for material and techniques, It's always nice to have this kind of information available to everyone.

I'm from Sao Paulo, Brazil

Blade: Avalox P700 C-Pen ( Also Clipper Wood C-Pen)
Forehand: 729 Friendship 563 Mistery 3 (1.5mm Red)
Backhand: 729 Friendship Super FX Blue Sponge (1.0mm Black).

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Blade: Avalox P700 C-Pen ( Also Clipper Wood C-Pen)
Forehand: 729 Friendship 563 Mystery 3 (1.5mm Red)
Backhand: Globe 999 (1.0mm Black).

Welcome to the forum Sao

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Hello, and greetings from NJ, USA. My name is Raegen and I'm 47 years old. Thank you very much for adding me to your community! I came across this forum while researching custom bats, and thought I would officially join.

About 4 months ago, I picked up a bat for the first time in around 30 years, and instantly fell in love with the game. I played all throughout my adolescent years, and have always enjoyed it very much. No official competitions or anything, just matches with friends and family. My buddy recently got a table, and we have been having weekly games at his place. Currently the owner of the table and myself are pretty evenly matched, and seem to be a bit better than the other two people that play with us. We are all very much beginners though.

My table tennis goals are pretty simple:
1. Purchase a custom bat (There are so many options available, and I don't really know what style I am, so this is proving to be a challenge)
2. Take some lessons (I do not have any equipment at home, so my practice consists of standing in front of a mirror holding a hair brush, and practicing some beginner strokes that I saw on youtube)
3. Dominate my garage game (And possibly find a club to play at, once the country opens up again)

Thanks again for the add, and taking the time to read this.

Welcome Raegen.

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My name is Boris & I am 28 years old from Corner Brook, Canada. I have been playing basement table tennis since I was in my early teens & thru college. I have even found a club and an active group of players

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Hi everyone,

My name is Noll and I live in New York, USA. I had a brief encounter with competitive table tennis during my school years, then didn't really touch it for about 30 years. Flash forward - now I have three sons and we picked up a respectable Stiga table for the basement. We're really enjoying it, I'm a penholder and am getting into the jpen style blades. Currently using the Sanwei SU series, very comfortable. So much fun; and who knew the dizzying amount of possible blade and rubber combinations out there!? Cheers!

my name is Tarun and live in New Delhi . Today I got to know about OOAK forum , seems like it has good information about table tennis, I have started playing TT long ago in high school for a while and couple months ago decided to pick-up what I left since then.

Now I am 33 year old and work as a software developer but recently quit my job to become a blogger. My current game is better than average and my knowledge of TT equipment is getting better - thanks to this forum and all of you who answer my questions.

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Cheers guys!

Table Tennis Player for the last 10 year and a full-time blogger
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Hi everyone - nice to meet you all. My name is Antony and I play TT since 2006, in the French league. I love this sport very much and also created a startup in the TT domain.

Cheers

Hello dear people,

I'm apparently supposed to introduce myself here so thats what I'm gonna do.
My name is Kai and currently I'm 18 years old, I play table tennis in the Netherlands.
My play style is classical defense with short pips (TSP SuperSpinPips chop II) on my backhand side but I twiddle a lot.
During this pandemic I'm kind off reinventing my play style, I found out that classic defense isn't as effective anymore and I'm trying to attack more.
Furthermore I'm looking for a new pips out rubber, for myself I was thinking about the Friendship 799, 802, spectol or anything that produces more backspin than the spinpips chop II so I was hoping that you guys can give me some kind of advice.
Most people adviced me to play with long pips but I just don't like the feeling of them, 799 is kind of a medium pip I thought so I'm open for that.

I'm Stojan from Macedonia. Have been playing in high school. Recently have more time to learn and improve my gameplay. Have some equipment, not professional but will do the job.