Hi All,
Recently I bit the bullet and made the switch from Tumblr to WordPress. Things might seem a little wierd around here till I get the chance to customise everything and move some posts over. You can still access all the interviews up until 2 October 2011 by going to archive.primetimepingpong.com.
Hope to see you here again soon and have some cool new features ready for you then!
Jackson
Jason Liem (thepongcast.com) and I got together again this week to create Episode 3 of our podcast series recapping recent events from the table tennis world.
This weeks topics include:
What do you think could make table tennis more popular? It seems fans of the sport everywhere are asking this question. Continue reading
More astute readers of my blog will notice there has been no new interviews lately. There’s several reasons for that. One of which being the week I spent in Adelaide at the Australian Athletes With Disabilities (AWD) Table Tennis Championships.
I was asked to write an article for my club newsletter about my experiences there, so I thought I’d post it here too. Hope you enjoy.
Also, don’t forget my interview with Spin New York co-founder Jonathan Bricklin is still in the editing room, so be sure to check back soon for that! Continue reading
How many times have you been surfing the web for table tennis news, and come across a site in Chinese or another language you don’t understand? It’s happened to me so many times.
Until now, we’ve had no choice but to move on, leaving valuable and interesting information behind.
This week’s interviewee, Roberto Alamos, decided to do something about it. Continue reading
Todays guest is Greg Letts. You’ll remember the full interview I did with him back in February. He’s joining me today from on location at the Australian Open in Hobart, Tasmania.
Unfortunately, through fault of my recording software, I lost the first part of the interview that I did with Greg inside the venue, where he talked about the results of the teams event, where, to summarise, NSW swept every category and, also, the preliminary stages of the singles events, where Greg himself lost in the group stage but went on to win the consolation event.
So lets pick it up where we begin talking about the change in format of the teams event this year, which has brought about some controversy.
Previously, teams would consist of 3 players, resulting in 9 singles matches being played, with the winning team winning 5 or more games. This year, a best of 7 format was adopted, 6 singles and 1 doubles, where each player would play 2 singles matches instead of 3, and the first team to reach 4 wins had the option of whether to play the remaining matches or not. This results in a lot less matches for all players, especially those from weaker states.
About Greg
Greg is an Australian table tennis player and guide at www.tabletennis.about.com
He also runs an online coaching course for long pimple and anti-spin players at www.gregsttpages.com
Greg can be contacted at: greg@gregsttpages.com
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