Season 2009~10 begins September 4, 2010
Mondays and Fridays
7 PM till 10 PM
Contact: Daniel Tessier to Join
Phone: (519) 488-1695
La Tamise Table Tennis Club in it's 5th season operates in a gymnasium of Académie de La Tamise in London, Ontario, Canada, with 6 professional Tennis "Double Happiness" Tables and 2 "Dom" Tables.
The gymnasium has excellent Hardwood floor, with high ceilings, upgraded superior lighting and sound absorbing walls, all to give the players a premium playing experience.
This year we will again try to make one table available to beginners with some coaching time, with a member designated to give tips and good technical advice.
The game originated as a sport in Britain during the 1800s, where it was played among the upper-class as an after dinner entertainment activity, commonly known then as "wiff-waff". A row of books were to be stood up along the center of the table as a net, two more books served as rackets and were used to continuously hit a golf-ball from one end of the table to the other. Later, table tennis was played with paddles made of cigar box lids and balls made of champagne corks. Eventually, table tennis evolved into the modern game in Europe and the United States. .
Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of "wiff-waff" and "Ping-pong"..
The name "ping-pong" was in wide use before it was trademarked it in 1901. The name "Ping-Pong" then came to be used for the game when played with expensive equipment, while less expensive manufacturers calling theirs table tennis. .
The next major innovation was the use of novelty celluloid balls that were found them to be ideal for the game. This was followed in 1901with the invention of the modern version of the racket by fixing a sheet of pimpled, or stippled, rubber to the wooden blade. .
In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in Britain, and the International Table Tennis Federation followed in 1926. London hosted the first official World Championships in 1926. Table tennis was introduced as an Olympic sport at the Olympics in 1988.
In the 1950s rackets that used a rubber sheet combined with an underlying sponge layer changed the game dramatically introducing greater spin and speed .
The use of speed glue increased the spin and speed even further, resulting in changes to the equipment to "slow the game down"..
Toward the end of 2000, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed First, the older 38 mm balls were officially replaced by 40 mm balls. toincreased the ball's air resistance and slow down the game, as players had begun increasing the thickness of the fast sponge layer on their rackets, which made the game excessively fast, Secondly, the ITTF changed from a 21-point to an 11-point scoring system. To make games faster paced . The ITTF also prevented players from hiding the ball during service, and mandated duel colour to increase the average length of rallies and to reduce the server's advantage. .
