Table Tennis with a Heart

yeah thanks. soon the ittf will send me another batch of rubbers this march hopefully we will receive it also with alex li's rubbers and ttrubberman's

nice

i saw a lot of chinese boy!ping bang china!

Thank you Yogi, it's good to see this, great job.

just received the rubbers and 2 blades from chronos yesterday.. i will send this out to 2 of of provinces here due to the kids there who cant even affort a $5 dollar racket thanks to you ted!

I love this thread !! 

great job for both of you,yogi and alex li 

another batch of rubbers and blades sent to kids by our very own forumer slade. thank you very much here are the items he sent - 32 rubbers (pips and inverted) 7 blades. pics of the items and i will post more tomorrow

here are the recepients of the rubbers slade had sent. the lady in red is one of our national players and was just in the pic. i gave 4 rubbers to kttc yesterday and im sending the rest of pips to a province of whom will send the pics to me next week (a dozen)

by all means ate gatz go ahead.

i could donate paddles...decent ones in fact...  how would i do this?

watchski, i think zapenholder is doing the same thing in his country in south africa. maybe you can send your extra rubbers and blades to him

Kids are playing with a great concentration, awesome play and awesome kids.

yogi_bear wrote: a lot of people here are willing to help through small means. you just need to find and convince them. i believe table tennis players are not just good people but also people with kind hearts

When is the next fundraiser?  Book me down for the next drive!

hi Yogi_Bear,

Thank you so much for bringing it up agian.

To give an update on what I have been doing, I have volunteer in coaching the provincial junior team - free of charge. Some of the players folks also approached me asking to coach their kids. I also been doing it free of charge. This coaching is taking about 15 hours a week from me now, as there is a national championship coming up from 30 Sep. I am also taking leave from work, and funding my own transportation (lucky accomdation is free) for 7 days at a city that is 1600km away from me to manage a U17 team and some players at the tournament
Thus I have been more busy than before, but feeling better as I am doing more for others than doing for myself.

I am also trying to start a TT store and to register to be a reseller with certain brands - from there, I am just aiming for little margin and to break even, but rather building relationship with those brands and hopefully I can get some sort of support structure from the vendors to the local TT comunity here. Currently there is Butterfly/Tibhar/Stiga sponsored juniors, but we are talking about less than 5 in total. and there is Stag that donates tables and barriers, other than that - all the clubs and players are spending money (that they may not have) to have children play Table Tennis.

Feedback after my previous post - I see a lot of cadet (U12/U14) using donated equipment -  those recreational bats - which is a big no no. So at it stands - any rubber/blades new or old will be better than those silk like rubbers they have now (unless they want to play anti spin lol)



Edited by ZApenholder - 09/14/2012 at 10:26am