Last night was our tabletennis practice. My tabletennis experience was just playing for fun. I thought it was going to be easy going excercise. But I was wrong! Tabletennis is a pretty tough sports to play. We played for 2 hours and I was tired out by the time it ended. Everyone in the club was kind enough to teach me hitting forms of tabletennis and by the end of 2 hours, I was able to play a doubles game. It was fun! hiroro belonged to tabletennis club when he was a student. He was able to get his instinct back. He said 2 hours went by real fast, which was something you don't hear from him too often. Most members were much older than us and we were lucky to find a sports that we can both enjoy even after we're both in our 60's. I'm more of a tennis player so I have the ability to be better at playing tabletennis but I'm not swinging my racket fully. Tabletennis is really hard!! Because I used the muscle that I normally don't use, I have a muscle pain today.Ouch! But since I got a muscle pain the following day, does it mean that I'm still young?!
Yes, tennis and Table-tennis use completely different muscles. In tennis you are using both your arm and your shoulder but in table-tennis it's more of a wrist action. When tennis players first play table-tennis they tend to swing their arm too much!!
I used to love table-tennis when I was at school but I haven't played for many years! I must be terrible now!
These days I only play soccer and go to the gym. But I've noticed I am getting too old to play soccer because all my opponents are much younger than me!
(2005.03.25 08:59:20)
That's right! They use different muscles. My wrist is a bit sore today. And it's true that I tend to swing strongly. The soccer must be a good excercise running around the field. I love basketball and tennis very much but since I'm getting older, it's very hard for me to keep up with the younger players,too.
(2005.03.25 11:08:15)