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Young players in the Philippines with Dr. Miran Kondric. - Photo courtesy of Dr Miran Kondric from www.ittf.com ***Click photo to read the article, link will take you to www.ittf.com***

“The second reason of our visit to Philippines was to experience the vintage game Liha; a table tennis game where the players use sandpaper instead of the rubbers”, continued Dr Miran Kondric. “It’s the game which is played only in Philippines and in the USA, at the local club in Malabon City we were amazed by the warm hospitality and the perfect lesson provided for this vintage game.” – Dr Miran Kondric

“The Filipinos are probably the best hosts you will find in the world even though people mostly aren’t “rich” in their wallets, they are very rich in their hearts; everywhere you can witness their hospitality”, smiled Dr Miran Kondric. They will never show you that they have to struggle through the life, even now when typhoons have reached their country, so it was a great honor for us to have been invited to come to their country.” – Dr Miran Kondric

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[Download the letter in PDF]

Dear “liha” friends from Malabon!
On behalf of my own and on behalf of Dr. Gordana Furjan-Mandic as well as Dr.
Nicolae Ochiana, I would like to express my deepest thanks for your very warm
welcome and kindness during our stay at your club. As Peter invited us to visit
Philippines and made us acquainted with the game named “Liha”, we had no clue
what that means in real world. All the three of us had in mind that this is similar to the
table tennis game but only with the old roots. What a mistake! Although we are all
scientists and I am supposed to be an expert in table tennis, I felt like a firstyear
student in the college. Before our trip Peter gave me some information regarding
“Liha”, but it is always something different when you read about or when you see it
live. Read the rest of this entry →

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In behalf of my colleague Mr. Peter Cua, I would like to give my heartfelt appreciation to the three European guests namely: Prof. dr. Miran Kondric (Slovenia), Prof. dr. Nicolae Ochiana (Romania)and Prof. dr. Gordana Furjan-Mandic (Croatia) for sharing their expertise during the recently concluded seminar workshop held in U.P. NCPAG and CHK gym last October 21, 2009. With close to 150 participants, they captivated the participants with the current trends in the field of sports science through their lectures ( morning session) and workshops ( afternoon session) wherein most of them are relatively new compare to our present methods here in the Philippines. IN addiiton to that, they also donated top of the line Tibhar table tennis equipment to young kids during the recently concluded Vicente Hao Chin Sr. Memorial Cup National Inter-scholastics Table Tennis Championships held in Ateneo.
I am sharing you some of the handouts given during the event. I also have with me  three(3) DVD copies which includes:

1. Physical preparation for table tennis players
2. Many Balls Training and;
3. Basic Exercises in Table Tennis Training Read the rest of this entry →

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For the love of table tennis and curiosity of Liha, VIPs from Slovenia, Romania and Croatia are coming to town.

Witness how they train and produce world class players like…

• Bojan Tokič SVN (ITTF rank 43)
• Martina Safran SVN (ITTF rank 156)
• Zoran Primorac CRO (ITTF rank 24)
• Tamara Boroš CRO (ITTF rank 33)
• Adrian Chrisan ROM (ITTF rank 32)
• Elizabeta Samara ROM (ITTF rank 34)

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VIP- EUROPEANS COMING FOR  A PHILIPPINE VISIT BECAUSE OF OUR  ”LIHA”

We have table tennis visitors coming from Europe next month, stay tuned. For now we have the letter from them…

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USTTA? Nope, USSTTA.  Exciting, fun, skillful approach to table tennis!!!

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Forgot to place the link to the testimonial letters when I posted the Press Release: Untold Story of “Liha” Sandpaper Racket. The letters where from:

• Nicolae Ochiana (Romania) – Vice president of Romanian Table Tennis Federation
• Miran Kondric (Slovenia) – Member of ITTF Sports Science Committee, visit his website at…
• Chuch Hoey (ITTF) -  Curator of ITTF Museum

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English translation of’ world news’ newspaper article
– after their trip from Japan.
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Lecture and desmonstration of “liha” table tennis  by Philippine representatives in the  11th International Table tennis Federation sports science congress amazed international representatives.

( below is the narration of the performance of Mr. Peter Cua and a Filipino professor at the 11th ITTF Sports Science Congress )

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Tick tack, tick tack , the ball  sounded exceptionally crisp  as it was being hit by sandpaper table tennis racket and slowly moves From  one end of the table to the other .

Philippine representatives   Mr.  Cua and professor santelices demonstrated the sandpaper racket table tennis in the 11th international table tennis federation sports congress which was held  in Yokohama Japan.

Before the closing ceremony each country’s representatives were preparing for their friendship match , Philippine representatives Mr. Peter Cua ,
a Filipino –chinese former national table tennis player whos currently the officer of the Filipino-Chinese Table Tennis association together with professor Oscar Santelices ( Mr. Cuas former comrade in the Philippine National Team) and currently a physical education consultant of University of the Philippines and Philippine  women’s University were demonstrating the playing of the table tennis using sandpaper rackets.

After a short demo, international representatives including those  from mainland China,   Taiwan, Iran , Japan, Egypt, and Slovenia curiously held this so called “sandpaper” racket which was long been banned in the international competitions , eventually they started playing it with eagerness filling the venue with laughter and cheers !!! Read the rest of this entry →

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Peter Cua’s beautiful Liha racket donation finally glued on ITTF website. The blade is kept and preserved at ITTF museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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