PINGPONG_BANANZA

TIPS:                                                                                               

Hold your wrist up and gently push the ping pong ball forward.

Never put your hand on the ping pong table.

It’s better to keep the bounce of the ball low.

Play fun, play fair,.

          My recent match with my grandpa was not as exciting as this one!!!!!

                               PING PONG HISTORY

   The sport got its start in England towards the end of the 19th century when, after dinner, some upper-middle class Victorians decided to turn their dining room tables into miniature versions of the traditional lawn tennis playing field. Several different every-day objects were employed in constructing the sport. They used a line of books as the net. Rackets were lids from empty cigar boxes, and a little later, parchment paper stretched around a frame. The ball would be either a ball of string, or perhaps more commonly, a champagne cork or rubber ball.

                                           DEFINITIONS OF PING PONG

2.5.1           A rally is the period during which the ball is in play.

2.5.2           The ball is in play from the last moment at which it is stationary on the palm of the free hand before being intentionally projected in service until the rally is decided as a let or a point.

2.5.3           A let is a rally of which the result is not scored.

2.5.4           A point is a rally of which the result is scored.

2.5.5           The racket hand is the hand carrying the racket.

2.5.6           The free hand is the hand not carrying the racket.

2.5.7           A player strikes the ball if he touches it in play with his racket, held in the hand, or with his racket hand below the wrist.

2.5.8           A player obstructs the ball if he, or anything he wears or carries, touches it in play when it is above or travelling towards the playing surface and has not passed beyond his end line, not having touched his court since last being struck by his opponent.

2.5.9           The server is the player due to strike the ball first in a rally.

2.5.10         The receiver is the player due to strike the ball second in a rally.

2.5.11         The umpire is the person appointed to control a match.

2.5.12         The assistant umpire is the person appointed to assist the umpire with certain decisions.

2.5.13         Anything that a player wears or carries includes anything that he was wearing or carrying, other than the ball, at the start of the rally.

2.5.14         The ball shall be regarded as passing over or around the net assembly if it passes anywhere other than between the net and the net post or between the net and the playing surface.

2.5.15         The end line shall be regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions.

                     My Match with my Grandpa

                    My grandpa and I did a two out of three ping pong matches.

                    He won the first match, but I came back with the second

                    Match and won! The last match was really interesting!

                    I thought it would go on FOREVER!!! We kept tying

                    The match! But FINALLY after a long struggle I managed

                    to win the game!!!