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In a couple of days I am going to be 41 Read the rest of this entry »

Happy New Year!

Answer for game 4: Oscar Yoshihiro Santelices

Picture taken from early 80’s SEAG. Post your guess, who is the unmasked ponger? Hint: Penholder with anti-spin on one side. Read the rest of this entry »

Answer for game 3: Player from Thailand, I don’t know his name. Not sure if he is Chartchai Teekaveerakit.

Merry Christmas! Here is our Christmas eve game.

Picture taken from early 80’s SEAG. Another easy one, who is the unmasked ponger? Read the rest of this entry »

Answer for game 2: Eustaquio Santelices

Picture taken from early 80’s SEAG. Post your guess. This one will be hard to guess, who is the unmasked ponger? Read the rest of this entry »

Have you heard/seen a return board? Read the rest of this entry »

Answer for game 1: Michael Ngo

Picture taken from early 80’s SEAG. This is an easy one, post your guess. Who is the unmasked ponger? Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s an update from Fil-Chi (Manila) trip to Puerto Pricesa, it is their second pingpong tourism trip within the year of 2008 with Thailand being the first.

With Mayor Hagedorn’s dream of Puerto Princesa as being the sports tourism capital of the Philippines, both camps proposed some friendly matches in conjunction with planned tour to Puerto City’s natural wonders.  Read the rest of this entry »

Created 4 albums and Upload some pix today.

2008 Binay Cup
YMCA Youth Membership Cup
2008 National Championships
2008 National Liha Championships

Added some to Memorabilia album

Photo courtesy of Peter Cua

“I feel very comfortable at this 147-pound weight right now,” … “I’ve fought larger guys before. It’s not a problem”

more by Manny Pacquiao »

Here’s a short video from Butterfly Japan about the shakehand backhand top-side spin over the table. Japanese call it Chiquita, name derived from Chiquita Banana maybe because the ball curves like banana. Petr Korbel usually use this stroke to receive short service on his backhand side, for execution details; read it on page 6 from Butterfly September 2006 news. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been playing table tennis in the 80’s or earlier, you may know more about our table tennis history especially if you played for our country. I started to play table tennis in 1982 with Liha and my chance to play with high caliber pongers started in MMPTTC or Precinto in 1985, mostly sponge players with few Liha and Hardbat players like Hardbat master Mang Tayong and famous Mang Pilo Ybañez who play Liha, Hardbat and Sponge. In short, I don’t know much about the history of Philippine Table Tennis, but there are few articles in the internet that the Philippines had great table tennis history. There should be more from Bulletin Today (now Manila Bulletin) archive and un-published story from our veteran players.

For now, here are the articles that interest me. If you have more, please feel free to share by posting comment below. Read the rest of this entry »

The best team in the world, China, signed a long term agreement with Stiga. China once again chooses Made in Sweden STIGA blades.

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We have a congress of different nations and congress within nations and some sports congress. Have you heard of the so called ITTF Sports Science Congress? If not, read it here…

Picture taken from early 80’s SEAG. Post your guess, who is the ponger on the left? Read the rest of this entry »

For the past months, Microsoft has organized happy and healthy activities for its employees, which include free healthy meals daily; membership at one of the more exclusive health clubs in town; shuttle services; free parking; free use of billiards, table tennis, and Xbox; and a three-day leave to volunteer in any charitable organization of one’s choice.

Maybe better if they invite our high level pongers for exhibition game.