Our mission is to promote Table Tennis by providing guidance and support for our members and to encourage prospective players.
We play at the Hilo Boys & Girls Club
Saturdays (4:00-7:00 PM)
Sundays (1:00-4:00)
Visitors are welcome! Call Clyde Young at (808)443-6978.
Becoming a Member
See Karen upon arrival for a membership packet!
Play your first two weeks free!
An ex-professional table tennis player who used to practice at our club told a story of his meeting with J.O. Waldner many years ago out on the world tour. He had asked the master what the secret to table tennis was and Waldner had answered, “The wrist!”
At the time the conjecture seemed as enlightening as Michael Jordan confiding that the secret to basketball was “the feet”. There was no context.
In the few seconds which elapse between points in a table tennis match a player has several tasks to accomplish.
Beginning table tennis after a tennis career, I sought those identifying names for the basic set of shots that make up the game. In tennis we have serves, volleys, ground strokes, plus a few specialty shot types like overheads, half-volleys, and drop shots. With a few modifiers that’s about it. You can understand and play all phases of the game with just those few sensible, commonly used terms.
USATT Sanctioned 2 Star Event
Location: THELMA PARKER GYM, 67-1209 Mamalahoa Highway, Waimea, HI 96743
Sponsored by: Table Tennis & More, LSW Consulting, Inc, Waimea TTC, North Kohala TTC
As we watched the amazing Chinese National Team players demonstrating drills at our club, we noted a very clear distinction between the movement of these visiting athletes and our club players. Despite adequate strength and fitness, our own tottering mortals lurched and lunged for shots that those lighter-than-air ethereal players seemed consistently poised to consummate.
Recently our club had the good fortune of hosting former world champion Jiang Jialing and two members of the women’s Chinese National Team. In awe we watched demonstrations of their drills – loop versus block, dancing footwork across the baseline – and then as a finale, these champions each played a single game with one of our players.
When we search for a table tennis coach, there’s a tendency to look for the very best player we can find. It’s true that the best players are examples of optimum execution in the sport. Great coaching certainly is critical to great play. But does great play necessarily predict great coaching?
In an article posted on USATT Insider entitled Middle-Aged Table Tennis Training, author, Joe Ciarrochi relentlessly exhorts us to accept the gradual physical deterioration which inevitably accompanies age. I suggest a more elevating perspective for table tennis players, competing from ages 8 to 80. Table tennis is a game of physical, mental, and emotional skill. Certainly our physical fitness might deteriorate with age, however strength, agility, and quickness comprise only one dimension of "physical skill".
This USATT sanctioned 1 star tournament takes place on Saturday February 7, 2015 at the Waimea Community Center. It is a one day Super Round Robin and Handicap event sponsored by Table Tennis & More, Waimea TTC, North Kohala TTC, and Waimea Athletics in partnership with Parks & Recreation Waimea. For more information, and to enter, visit the tournament event link below.