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Table tennis has become an extremely popular recreational and competitive sport all over the world. Whether you are a beginner player, intermediate player or professional player, joining a table tennis club will reward you with tremendous benefits and will undoubtedly help improve your game playing skills.
For beginner players, the benefits of joining a club are tremendous. Usually, new players are not yet ready to delve into purchasing expensive, high quality equipment. Most clubs purchase premium equipment and the equipment is, therefore, available for to you to use. Typically, clubs purchase regulation tennis tables that fall within the legal guidelines of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Rest assured, when you join a club, you are playing on a real, high quality, and legal tennis table and with regulation ping-pong balls.
Likewise, many clubs offer training equipment, such as automatic ping-pong ball machines that serve balls to you in varying speeds, locations, and frequencies. These machines can also serve ping-pong balls with spins so you can learn how to return a spinning ball properly and effectively. The most wonderful function of the automatic serving machine is that you return the balls into a net which collects the ping-pong balls and sets them up to serve again. When you join a club with an available servicing machine, your days of chasing balls around the basement are over!
Most clubs offer training classes and individual coaching sessions for every level of play. Many beginner players need a helping hand to learn serving tricks, ITTF regulation rules, proper stance, and return tricks. When you join a club, you can take advantage of the training classes the club has available or you can sign up to receive individual coaching lessons. Many clubs offer weekly training programs for members only and some offer sessions once a week for several weeks. On this same note, more advanced table tennis players are always willing to help those who are seriously interested in learning the game. You will find a variety of players offering to help, providing of course, it does not take away from their own training sessions.
Regardless of your playing level, clubs offer a great way to practice playing your game and trying out your new skills. With the increase in popularity, you will find club members with varying degrees of skill levels and ages. You can practice against players with a similar skill level, or when you are ready for the challenge, you can play against opponents rated at a higher level than yourself.
Additionally, some clubs hold internal tournaments, which is a great way for beginner and intermediate players to try their hand at competitive play before advancing. Sometimes several clubs hold a tournament together, giving you the advantage of playing the game against non-members or your club.
Many table tennis clubs also offer deep discounts on table tennis equipment as well, from paddles, to paddle rubbers, regulation ping-pong balls to tapes, books, and videos on how to improve your gaming skills.
Of course, the biggest benefit of joining a table tennis club is that you will constantly be around those who are like-minded and who enjoy the game as much as you do. Some players may be more competitive, but do not let that dissuade you from joining a club. Just remember, they are there because they love the game too, and with their help, you just may always learn a trick or two.
