Congratulations to Kenneth, Mike K and Clayton. Mike and Clayton were elected as
"Directors at Large" and will fill the two new positions.

There are now 7 board members:

President: Kenneth
Vice President: John
Secretary: Dwight
Treasurer: Tom
Director at Large: Don
Director at Large: Mike
Director at Large: Clayton

I believe the club is very fortunate to have Kenneth back and involved again as
President. Many of you know that Kenneth was the president of the club for years
and helped keep it going and growing through the 80s and 90s. Kenneth has
mentioned that he wants to get even more involved than he has been in the past
with more coaching, exhibition events, and starting programs with schools. He is
willing and able to dedicate the necessary time to the these efforts, and the
club needs that now more than ever. It's an exciting time now that we're in the
larger building. The club will definitely need to take on a new "atmosphere"
with attention focused more on the general market and getting more novice
players through the door (and coming back). Kenneth understands that, and I'm
sure he is up to the challenge. Mike and Clayton are also great additions and
have contributed a good deal of volunteer work at the new building.

It's been an honor to serve with the Board of Directors for the past few years.
I'm proud to have been a part of the big reorganization and the planning and
implementation of the new building. I only have a few hours a week to spend at
the club, but I'll continue helping out as much as I can to finish my current
projects and any new ones that pop up. See you at the club!

Sincerely,

Joe

http://austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=83

The deadline for nominations was Thursday night. One person was nominated but
did not accept, so here is the final:

President:
Kenneth B.

Secretary:
Dwight B.

Directors at Large (2 spots):
Clayton, Jev and Mike K.

Kenneth and Dwight are unopposed.

The vote for Directors at Large will take place this week and final election
results will be announced Thursday night. To vote, you must have been an active
member (monthly or annual) for the last three consecutive months and over 18.
Email us at information@... with questions.

Sign up to our online community to communicate with other members:
http://austintabletennis.com/forum/

Posting in the ATTA Info Forum:
http://austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=78

Now that the new bylaws are in effect, we can start the election process. Below
are the positions up for election. Nominate yourself or someone else by Next
Thursday, May 21, 2009 so we can create the ballot. Talk to Dwight (club
Secretary) or email your nomination to information@... and
we'll contact the person to confirm the acceptance of their nomination. We hope
to finalize the election by May 28.

President (I'm not running this time. Read more about the president slot:
http://austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35 )

Secretary (Dwight is planning to run again)

Directors At Large (2) (Clayton has accepted a nomination for one of these two
slots.)

Thanks!

Joe

http://austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=76

If you subscribed to the ATTA Info forum (not many of you have), you would
already know about the clinic.

See you there!

We're holding a novice clinic this Saturday from 10a to 1pm at the new facility.
This is for novice players to get introduced to the club, learn the basics of
the strokes, and learn more about the sport. It's free to monthly members. The
daily fee applies for non-monthly members ($7 adults). The fee pays for the
whole day. Send an email to codes@... for an autoreply with
new location info and the new gate code. Email information@...
if you need more information.

Also, there's a posting on the forum for a "never been used" STIGA table so go
check that out if you've been thinking about getting one:

http://austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=46

See you Saturday!

Joe

Please come and support your table tennis club by helping move the tables to the
new facility on Saturday April 4th.  We will be meeting at Uncle Bob's at 9 am
and loading up tables.  We hope to be able to open up for regular play by 1 pm
with everyone's help.  Call Tom at 419 9550 if you have questions or
suggestions.

The club will be open for play at Uncle Bob's as usual until Saturday, April 4.
Saturday morning we're moving the tables. The new club will be open for play at
1pm Saturday. Feel free to come early and help out.

The new facility is on the south frontage road of 183 just east of Burnet. If
you're going north on Burnet you would take a right at 183, then look to your
right for the entrance just before the railroad tracks, behind Sherlock's. Look
for the AAA Storage sign and pull in there. If you pass the RR trax you missed
it.

Join our new online community. Be sure to subscribe to the ATTA Info forum so
you'll get email alerts when there is club news. Go to the link below. Choose
the ATTA Info forum and look in the bottom left of the screen for a checkbox and
click "Subscribe".

http://www.austintabletennis.com/forum/index.php

Joe

Please check the forum for the draft of revised bylaws:
http://www.austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33

And read about the upcoming elections in "The Club" forum:
http://www.austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35

REMEMBER TO "SUBSCRIBE" TO THE "ATTA INFO" FORUM SO YOU GET EMAIL ALERTS WHEN
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE POSTED. IF YOU WANT, YOU CAN "SUBSCRIBE" TO THE ENTIRE
FORUM SO YOU GET ALERTS WHEN ANYONE POSTS.

Thanks,

Joe

--The board met tonight. We plan to move the club at the end of the month. We'll
post signs and send out the final plans soon. We'll need help.

--We're drafting a revision of the bylaws to add 2 more board member slots.
Qualified voting members will be contacted for the vote.

--We'll elect 2 additional members and hold an election for the director
positions of president and secretary in May.

--A poll has been started at ATTA online. Sign up and tell us why you play this
crazy game... http://www.austintabletennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15
A new forum has been added as well.

--I've disabled member posting on this group list so we can transition over to
the forum. Again, you won't miss anything posted to this list if you subscribe
to the ATTA Info forum. In fact you'll get things sooner. (This message is
already there.)

Joe

Hi Everyone!

We've had quite a few postings to this list lately that would be better served
by forum software. In a forum, you get better back-and-forth communication, and
you have a lot more control over what and how you read. (On the yahoo group,
messages are just blasted out to all the list members no matter what the topic.)
I've installed one of the popular, free software packages and the other board
members and I have done some testing.

You register by selecting a user name and entering your email address. Then you
confirm the address. I know, it's yet another Web account to create. But, I
think you'll enjoy it. We'll post club announcements on the "ATTA Info" forum as
well as here on the yahoo group (for a while). I'd like to phase out this yahoo
group after we get a good base of users on the forum.

Take 2 minutes to sign up, then contribute by posting or asking a question.
There are only a few messages there already from the testing we did.

You can "subscribe" to forums or individual "topics" so you get an email
notification when there's a new post. That way you don't have to keep checking
in.

http://www.austintabletennis.com/forum/

If you have any comments or suggestions, please email
information@.... It's very new, so I may still need to adjust
some of the settings.

Thanks,

Joe
("Administrator" and "Ping-Pong Joe" on the forums.)

Is this the first time you guys record matches? I don't recall video from
previous tournaments. It would be cool to check out. Let us know when the video
is available.

Victor

Jon Dorn, John Miller and myself went to the Newgy tournament on Saturday. It
looked as if it had a good turn out , but I don't know the exact numbers.We all
played well but started off slow.
We all got to playing better as the day progressed . We have John Miller playing
a match against a 1890 player and it is one of the most impressive displays of
play I have ever seen at any level.
He lost the match but you will have to see it to believe it and it will be
posted on the internet. I played in 1700 , 1950 and doubles. I was expecting to
be the 3rd seed in my first group of 1700 but was the top seed. I advanced #1
and progressed 3 rounds but lost to a player rated 1407. Before the loss to him
I had been beating all my opponents fairly easily in straight game. His name is
Chiesel is mainly a defender type style. As I was mainly playing a counter game
he didn't give me anything to counter and I lost in 5. I have hopes he will be
re-rated because last I talked to him he was still progressing in the 1700
finals. John Miller played in the u-1500 , u- 1700 and u-1950. He came out of
both 1500 and 1700 and went into the 2nd round. John M amd I also played 3200
doubles where we lost in the first round to a father and son team at 11-8 in the
5th. I had hopes we would do better but I was still playing a little too passive
at that time, putting a lot of pressure on John to hit the winners. We will do
better next time.In the 1950's John had a match that was purely incredible. I
can't do it justice so we will just let everyone watch it for themselves.In my
first round of the under 1950 I lost to the A- player --- 11-9, 11-6, 16-14,
13-11. i played my best match of the tournament against this young man but lost
a close one. In my next match I played another young man rated 1693 and won that
match in 5 games. It was my best win of the tournament. We only had 3 in our
group so I advanced. I lost in the next round 13-11,11-6, 11-7 ,this players was
not only good but was smart and after the first game changed his tactics and
almost shut me down completely.
      Now to Jon Dorns' play . Jon was playing at a very hight level by the end
of the tournament but finally had to default his final matches in the under 1950
because of back problems and fatigue. He played Doubles and with his partner
progresses several round before loing to Mark H and his partner. He played in u-
2150 and came out to play 2080 chopper and lose to him in an exciting match that
match old stlye smashing again a new style chopper. Jon was excellent with his
drop shots and smashes but lost a close match. In his first round he beat the c
and d players in his group but lost to the a player(2030) in another close match
which he could have won. In the 1950 s Jon beat everyone in the first round
fairly easy and was doing the same in the second round when his back started 
hurting. I attribute most of our fatgue and physical problems to poor planning
on our part. We didn't bring any food or drinks and didn't have anyone to send
out so from 8 am to 8 pm we had only water to drink and no food. Next time we
will plan better.

  We all had a lot of fun and looking forward to next time. i promise it won't be
another 8 years before I attend another.

                                                      Kenneth B.
                                                      masher61

Both of those tables look like a great deal. It's going to be in your garage so
I would highly recommend a cover if one doesn't come with it. I keep my garage
spotless and the dust accumulates like crazy. I would get the least expensive
one and use the difference for a table cover. That will make the playing surface
last longer.

Or save the money and come to the club more often (bring the kiddos). nothing
worse than texas heat in the garage.

Victor

Friday March 6th is Newcomer's night. Come enjoy a relaxed evening of pong
geared towards welcoming new players to the club. There is no charge and hot
dogs, chips and sodas are on the house. So bring those special people in your
lives to share this wonderful thing we have. We will be open from 6 to 10 pm.

This is basically a question on how to return servers in general
because almost all servers will have spin.

Basic strategy:
From my experience, the best way to get keep control of the return is
to reverse the direction of the spin on the ball.  i.e. if you get a
backspin ball, chop it back.  Trying to add to the same direction of
spin on the ball will be a topspin return, which is more difficult.

This technique I think gives the best chance of putting the ball back
in play, however, it may not give you the best chance of winning the
point.  ... but at least you won't lose immediately by hitting the
ball out or in the net.

If you want to return the ball, such that, you'll be favored to win
the point, is a complex question that I'm not prepared to answer ...
I'll leave that to a better player to answer :)

--- In ATTC@yahoogroups.com, "drcgori" <drcgori@...> wrote:
>
> hi.
>   can anybody advice me about how to return spin service
>

Friday March 6th is Newcomer's night.  Come enjoy a relaxed evening of pong
geared towards welcoming new players to the club.  There is no charge and hot
dogs, chips and sodas are on the house.  So bring those special people in your
lives to share this wonderful thing we have.  We will be open from 6 to 10 pm.

hi.
   can anybody advice me about how to return spin service

We have coaching on Monday and Wednesday nights for $10.00(for 3
hours each night, 6 to 9 pm) if you are a ATTC member. If you are
not a member it is $15.00. We have players from beginners to
advanced practicing on these nights. Also there is every level of
player at the club on regular nights, so don't be intimidated , come
on out and have fun. We all started as a beginner, just some don't
remember sometimes.

                Kenneth











--- In ATTC@yahoogroups.com, "SUJITKS" <sujitks@...> wrote:
>
> Hi There, New to Austin, last played Ping Pong in High School Ten
> Years ago - Would like to Pick back up again. Looking to Play at
least
> once a week with someone who's a beginner and looking to Improve
their
> game. If I dont get any responses, I guess I'll just go down to the
> ATTC and get taken to the cleaners =)
>

Welcome to the list! There are almost always other novice players at
the club, so don't feel like you're always doomed to defeat by going.
Plus, we have a free novice clinic on the second Saturday of the
month. The novice clinics are a great way to learn and practice with
other players around your skill level.  (We had to skip the last two
clinics, but we'll be back on next month -- stay tuned to this list).
We also have coaching available Mondays and Wednesdays at 6pm hosted
by a regional coach, Ken Beauchamp, who has coached many of us at the
club.

In any case, if you want to be a good at table tennis, you'll have to
be able to get "cleaned" and learn from those cleanings.

Joe
President
Austin Table Tennis Cleaners

--- In ATTC@yahoogroups.com, "SUJITKS" <sujitks@...> wrote:
>
> Hi There, New to Austin, last played Ping Pong in High School Ten
> Years ago - Would like to Pick back up again. Looking to Play at least
> once a week with someone who's a beginner and looking to Improve their
> game. If I dont get any responses, I guess I'll just go down to the
> ATTC and get taken to the cleaners =)
>

Hi There, New to Austin, last played Ping Pong in High School Ten
Years ago - Would like to Pick back up again. Looking to Play at least
once a week with someone who's a beginner and looking to Improve their
game. If I dont get any responses, I guess I'll just go down to the
ATTC and get taken to the cleaners =)

bjcn,

Some of these new tension rubbers make looping effortless, fast and
spinny. so while you may have to change your stroke slightly, I don't
think by much. mind you this is just the looping stroke. the new
tension rubbers do affect the short game.

One of the guys at the club had this to say when he tried the Numbus.

wow, I don't have to swing as hard yet the ball jumps off the paddle.
May not be an exact quote but close enough. he was trying my paddle
since we have the same one but mine has a straight handle.

if you can, see if a member at your club has one of these new rubbers
and try it for yourself. they are pricey though. I treat mine like a
rare collectable comic to prolong the life of the rubber.

Victor

--- In ATTC@yahoogroups.com, bjcn bjcn <bjcn_bjcn@...> wrote:
>
> thnaks for your suggestion. the problem for me to change rubber is
that  it means I have to change  many things technically. I am not a
professional player. I play it just for fun and keeping fit. what's
more I like the gluing coz it makes looping more stronger .