Author: bfekttc

Some great matches again tonight but Robbie Maitland’s and Euan McLaughlin’s age and experience showed through in the end!

And here are the starting positions…drawn at random by young Bill Cummings:

Hi Everyone

Peoples Project 2019

• Big news this week is that we have passed the first stage in the Peoples Project 2019.
• However still a bit of work to be done.

Welcome

• To Lauren Sweeney and Gregor Stewart who visited the club for first time on Friday night and were given a warm welcome by all.  
  

Friday club night

• Good session from Chris and Robbie Maitland on pushes and drives. Well done to all players in the newly refurbished Hall 3 at JWSC.
• This coming Friday – Brendan will organise another league ladder. Bring it on !!!
• Delighted to see Andrew Irwin and Jack Regan who returned to club on Friday night.
• Andrew for a visit and Jack making a return to assist the club with coaching.

Challenge Matches 

• Delighted to announce two forthcoming challenge matches.
  
• North Ayrshire 
  • Saturday 27th October 2018 in St.Matthews Academy, Saltcoats at 11am
  • Looking for players to compete in this match at all levels so please let me know if you are available to attend. Timing is from 11am to 2pm/3pm.
  • Thanks to players who have confirmed.
  • Could we look at car sharing if that helps players attend on the day?
• 44th BB 
  • Sunday 4th November 2018 in Cardonald at 2pm
    
  • Team 1: Thomas, Ashton and Ross 
  • Team 2: Michael, Paul and Bruce.
    

Volunteers

• “Work for a cause, not for applause”
  

Club Captain 

• Looking for nominations for club captain. Anyone can nominate. Thanks to Euan for his support in that role in the past year or so.
• Once we have all the nominees we will have a vote by club players. 
• Nominees names required by Sunday 21st October.
  
• We had one response last week thanks to Diarmid 😉
  

EKTTC Calendar

• Club dates and events to put in your diary.
• More dates to follow.
  

Tom Lodziak

• https://www.tabletenniscoach.me.uk/7-common-beginner-mistakes-table-tennis/
• https://www.tabletenniscoach.me.uk/video-blocking-tactics-mess-opponents/
  

Bribar Table Tennis

• Let me know if you would like to purchase TT equipment from Bribar or if you need advice just ask.
• Club kit – shirt and shorts cost £30.00 available in many sizes. Do you have suitable footwear for TT ?  Do you need new rubbers ?
• See product catalogue here: https://bribartt.co.uk/
  

Club Meeting on Monday 5th November 2018

• Murray Owen at 7pm.
• All welcome.
• Always looking for people to help us progress the club.
  

Thanks

• To Chris who organised a coaches meeting before club night on Friday and to all who attended.
  
• To Robbie and Chris for session on pushes and drives on Friday night
• To Euan,Robbie Maitland and Erin for support on Tuesday night.
• To Brendan,Chris,Euan,Jennie and Bill for support on Friday night

Following our recent video application to The People’s Projects 2019, we are delighted to announce that we have been selected for the next stage!!

Over the moon at Camp EKTTC!

We are now invited to provide a more detailed proposal of what we plan to do!!

We’ll keep you posted.

#woohoo #tabletennisscotland

Welcome

• A warm welcome to Lauren Sweeney and Gregor Stewart who have become new members at our club and soon to be part of our growing coaching team.
  

Friday club night

• Good session from Euan on serves.
• Players need to look to improve this area of their game and listen to advice provided by Euan.
• This coming Friday – Robbie and Chris set out to improve F/H and B/H drives and pushes.
• This session will be in a newly refurbished JWSC Hall 3 from 700pm -promise this time🙂
  

Tuesday Club Night

• Delighted that Erin Shepherd joined our session to focus on coaching, hopefully we will have Erin’s support over coming weeks.
  
• Also a thanks to Conor Flanagan who was presented with a club award to recognise his contribution to the club over the past two seasons.  
  
• Please see email below received from Alistair McCoist Complex this week:
  

“We have had several complaints at the Alistair McCoist Complex regarding people parking in the disabled bays without displaying a blue badge.
We will have a member of staff patrolling the car park for the next few weeks but are looking for your assistance in reminding your teams/parents that these spaces should only be used by blue badge holders.
We have several groups that use the centre and rely on the additional space bays to get out of their cars.”

Volunteers

• “You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you”.
• Our club coaches have been inspired by someone who gave up their time to coach them in a sport. 
  

Club Captain

• We are looking for nominations for Club Captain.
• Anyone can nominate.
• Thanks to Euan for his support in that role in the past year or so.
• Once we have all the nominees we will have a vote by club players.
• Nominees names required by Sunday 21st October 2018.

EKTTC Calendar

• Club events and dates to put in your diary.
• More dates to follow.
  

Bribar Table Tennis

• Let Peter know if you would like to purchase TT equipment from Bribar or if you need advice just ask.
• Club kit – shirt and shorts cost £30.00 available in many sizes. Do you have suitable footwear for TT ?  Do you need new rubbers?
• Product catalogue here: https://bribartt.co.uk/
  

Tom Lodiak – how to improve returning serves- watch and learn

• https://www.tabletenniscoach.me.uk/video-simplified-approach-returning-serves/
  

Thanks

• To Euan for session on serves on Friday night.
• To Robbie Maitland and Erin for support on Tuesday night.
• To Brendan, Chris, Euan, Jennie and Bill for support on Friday night.

Thanks for your support

Peter

Hi Everyone,

People’s Project 2019

• Many thanks to Ewan McCormick for his advice and expertise in putting together this small video which can be found on our club website this week.
• Also to Brendan for his participation and commitment in delivering this application to People’s Project 2019 in such a short timescale.
• If you could share this with family and friends.
• If (WHEN) we make the shortlist we will need everyone associated with the club to play their part in voting and with social media updates. 🙂
  
• https://ektabletennis.com/2018/09/27/our-peoples-projects-2019-video/
  

Friday club night

• This week we had the return of the league ladder. Thanks to Brendan for organising the session.
• Well done to all players.
• For league ladder results visit: https://twitter.com/ekttc
• This coming Friday, Euan will look to improve serves.
• This session will be in a newly refurbished JWSC Hall 3 from 7:30pm.
  

Intro TT course

• This course will now take place at Duncanrig HS on Monday 19th November at 9:00am (in service day) for 25 pupils at local schools.
  

EKTTC Calendar

• Club events & dates to put in your diary.
• More dates to follow.
  

Hamilton Grammar

• Euan McLaughlin plans to visit Hamilton Grammar this week to see how things are progressing since the school started up an after school club.
  

Be inspired by Harimoto Tomokazu

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSnD4h04C8
  

Bribar Table Tennis

• Let me know if you would like to purchase TT equipment from Bribar or if you need advice just ask.
• Club kit – shirt and shorts cost £30.00 available in many sizes.
• Do you have suitable footwear for TT?
• Do you need new rubbers?
• Catalogue available at: https://bribartt.co.uk/
  

Thanks

• To Brendan for league ladder on Friday night.
• To Chris, Euan and Robbie Maitland for support on Tuesday night.
• To Chris, Euan,Jennie and Bill for support on Friday night

Thanks for your support

Peter

We were invited by the Big Lottery Fund to apply for the People’s Projects 2019. Our Video application is below….we had great fun making it, so please enjoy!

Hi everyone

Club Meeting

• Many thanks to everyone who attended our club meeting on Monday night.
• Great work going on behind the scenes to improve the structure and development of our players and club.

Volunteers are not paid– not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless. 

Intro to Table Tennis course

• Unfortunately due to poor weather conditions we were unable to go ahead with our planned Introduction to TT course for 25 pupils at local schools.
• The course will be rescheduled as quickly as possible by Active Schools.
  

Stephen Gertsen

• Great session from Stephen and well done to the players who responded.
• The players are working hard and will need to continue to do so to meet the challenges set out by our National coach.
• We look forward to Stephen’s next visit.
  

AGM

• The club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) normally takes place in December each year.
• However, this has been a little bit problematic as the club’s financial year runs to the end of December and we are never able to share our final accounts at the AGM.
• To resolve this,it has been proposed to change the date of our AGM to the end of January each year to allow for a complete year end report to be shared with members.
• This proposal was accepted and approved by the club’s Management Committee.
• So, the next AGM will take place in late January 2019 – we will share the precise date & time when we have the booking confirmed.
• Note: This will require a change to the Club Constitution which will be formally endorsed by members at the AGM.
  

Tuesday club night

• Please note that Euan, Chris and Robbie Maitland will organise session on Tuesday night in my absence.
  

Friday club night

• This week we will see the return of the league ladder/s. l look forward another frantic night of challenge requests.
  

EKTTC Calendar

• Club Calendar 2018-19 to put in your diary . More dates to follow.
  

Achint Makesh

• Good luck to Achint Makesh who will play his first match for 44th BB this week in WOS Senior League.
  

Welcome

• A warm welcome to new members Keith and Bruce who picked a good night to join up with club members.
  

Peoples Project 2019

• Thanks to Brendan and Ewan who have put together a small video which we will share on our website this week.
• The video will show our ambitious development plans and the structure we hope to put in place if we are successful with our Peoples Project application.
  

Bribar Table Tennis

• Let me know if you would like to purchase TT equipment from Bribar or if you need advice just ask.
• Club kit – shirt and shorts cost £30.00 available in many sizes. Do you have suitable footwear for TT ?  Do you need new rubbers ?
• See the catalogue at https://bribartt.co.uk/
  

Thanks

• To Jennie for excellent feeding to Stephen on Friday night
  
• To Euan and Robbie Maitland for support on Tuesday night.
• To Chris, Brendan and Bill for support on Friday night

The club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) normally takes place in December each year. However, this has been a little bit problematic as the club’s financial year runs to the end of December and we are never able to share our final accounts at the AGM.

To resolve this, it has been proposed to change the date of our AGM to the end of January each year to allow for a complete year end report to be shared with members. This proposal was accepted and approved by the club’s Management Committee.

So, the next AGM will take place in late January 2019 – we will share the precise date & time when we have the booking confirmed.

Note: This will require a change to the Club Constitution which will be formally endorsed by members at the AGM.

Thanks for your continued support.

Brendan Faulds, Chair.

Hi Everyone

Training Camp

• Delighted with players response at training camp on Saturday.
• Thanks to everyone for their effort and attendance.
• Well done to Bobby who completed the training camp challenge.
• Many thanks to Chris for his support.
  

UWS

• Brendan has successfully recruited two UWS students to our club after two presentations to students at the campus last week.
• We offered students the opportunity of a UKCC 1 level course in return for their commitment to our club development programme.
• Also delighted to announce that club player Erin Shepherd has also agreed to join the UWS students on this course.
• We now have going forward potentially 6 new UKCC Level 1 coaches which is fantastic.
  

Stephen Gertsen UKCC Level 4 Coach 

• Looking forward to Stephen Gertsen visiting the club this coming Friday 21st September 2018.
• Players to arrive for 7pm prompt.
• Stephen is a former Welsh international player and Scotland’s National Coach.  www.stephengertsen.co.uk
• Last year he visited the club 3 times and not only inspired the players but also the coaches.
• Don’t miss this !!!
  

Introduction to TT course at Calderglen High Sschool Wed 4-6pm

• Hoping for a good response from 5th year pupils in EK and Strathaven schools.
• We hope these students will help us build a good foundation for table tennis in our local area.
• Looking forward to it!!!
  

• If you would like to help support this club in anyway, or have ideas that help us run a better club, feel free to come along.
  
• Or, contact Brendan (brendan.faulds@yahoo.com) with your ideas.

• Peter will be unable to attend the club night on Tuesday 25th September . Robbie and Euan will organise the session in his absence.
  

• Club Events & Dates to put in your diary .
• More dates to follow.
  

• To Chris for his support with Friday club night session on footwork and training camp on Saturday.
• To Ewan for his offer of assistance on a video clip for Peoples Project 2018
• To Bill for making up players bats
• To Euan and Robbie McKenzie for support with Hamilton Grammar school club.
• To Euan and Robbie Maitland for support on Tuesday night.
• To Chris,Brendan,Bill,Chris, Jennie and Euan for support on Friday night.