Friday, March 27, 2020

Ping Pong . . .


I have always loved, loved, loved ping pong.
Always.
This old ping pong table I found for $25 many years ago now.
It was in pristine condition.
It's like some original, heavy wood, two piece table made in Detroit.
Used to have a super cool logo on it, kinda worn away now which bums me out.
For a bit of time it was our dining room table at the old house, I likely blogged that. That was fun!
Then it spent time in the garage with a free couch from the side of the road as a little "rec room".
Then it got folded up and then we had to move.
Then it got some water damage in our garage after a couple years out there. That totally bummed me out.
Then Harrison & I miraculously got it downstairs a couple years ago.
We kept it up for a bit then tucked it on the wall.
Then the virus showed up and we are full throttle ping pong playin' over here.
YAH-HOO!

Some things googled recently after some raised voice conversations...

If the serve is legal except that it touches the net, it is called a let serve. ... - There is no second serve in case of fault in Table Tennis (unlike Tennis).

According to these rules, when returning the ball you must wait for it to hit your side of the table first. If you hit the ball back as it is on its way toward the playing surface, your opponent scores a point. You need to let the ball bounce on the table before you hit it. If you don't wait, you lose the rally.

Ok...Gotta go, I left a game at 16-19 to do some googling after a "conversation" and got away with this post...time's up!

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