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Hi Everyone

Stephen Gertsen National Coach

• Another terrific training night delivered by Stephen on serves and return of serves.
• Although some of the players found the tasks very challenging I think the players did very well.
• Hopefully coaches learned from Stephen the detail required to organise a quality session.

UKCC Level 1 course

• Delighted that we had 7 coaches attending the first part of UKCC level 1 course yesterday on Saturday 3rd November 2018.
• Well done to all.

44th BB Sunday 4th November 2018 Cardonald

• Team A Thomas, Diarmid and Ross
• Team B Michael, Paul and Bruce.
• Thanks to Mark and Diarmid for agreeing to step in for Ashton at the last minute
• It is much appreciated.

WOS Junior League 11th November 2018 – Drumchapel High School

• Address: 340 Kinfauns Drive Glasgow G15 7SQ
• A minute silence will be observed at 11:00am.
• Players must arrive on time – 10:30am to prepare for matches.
• Remember club kit (shirt and shorts) and plenty to eat and drink.
• Any questions let me know.
• http://www.drumchapelhigh.glasgow.sch.uk/

Primary School Event Saturday 24th November 2018 10am

• Bathgate Academy Edinburgh Road Bathgate EH48 1LF.
• Let me know if you plan to attend.

Training Camp JWSC Hall 3 Saturday 24th November 1530 – 1730

• All players welcome.
• Let me know if you plan or do not plan to attend the camp – please respond.

Tuesday Club Night

• Many Thanks to Karen Nicol who dropped off Halloween Treats to those attending Tuesday club night.
• A pleasant surprise which all appreciated.

EKTTC Calendar

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

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 ?
• https://bribartt.co.uk/

Club Meeting Monday 5th November 2018

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

Thanks

• Big thanks to Chris for picking up Robbie Maitland and dropping off Bruce on Friday night.
• To Robbie,Chris,Gregor,Euan,Erin and Brendan for support on Friday night
• To Robbie Maitland and Erin for support on Tuesday night.

Thanks for your support

Peter

Hi Everyone

Stephen Gertsen National Coach

• A return visit by Stephen Gertsen.
• All players should arrive to start at 7pm.
• Parents welcome to come along and watch players in action.
• Always a great night -looking forward to it.

UKCC Level 1 course

• Seven coaching assistants will start their UKCC Level 1 coaching course at the Alistair McCoist Complex on Saturday.
• Good to see this opportunity being made available and looking forward to all being a key part of our club’s future .
• Good Luck.

North Ayrshire Challenge Match – Saltcoats

• Delighted with our visit to North Ayrshire.
• We had an hour of training and then the challenge match.
• Pleased with players who worked had throughout to record a win although some matches were very tight.
• We have still a lot of work to do before junior league but we needed matches to make any progress.
• Many thanks to our small band of supporters.

44th BB Sunday 4th November 2018

• Venue is Cardonald at 2pm, but please arrive for 1:30pm start
• Team A: Thomas, Ashton and Ross
• Team B: Michael, Paul and Bruce.
• Team captain Ashton.
• If you need Travel Directions – please see Peter’s email.

WOS Junior League Drumchapel HS 11th November 2018

• Could you make a payment of £12.00 to club account if you have not done so already please?
• Fixtures as follows:
  • 11th November 2018
  • 9th December 2018
  • 3rd February 2019
  • 17th March 2019
• Div1 Team: Achint, Luke and Jack D Brown.
• Div2 Teams:
  • Team A Robbie McKenzie and Diarmid
  • Team B Ellis, Ross and Ashton.
  • Team C Thomas, Jack Brown and Michael.

Friday club night

• Thanks to Robbie Maitland for organising Butterfly Skills on Friday night.
• Well done to Diarmid on completion of Gold Advance and Butterfly Skills programme – great achievement!
• Bobby not far away with Silver Advance.
• Ross also did well completing Silver Improver.

Training Camp

• Venue: JWSC, Hall 3 Saturday 27th October – 3:30pm to 5:30pm
• Only Chris and Diarmid attended this camp.
• Hopefully Diarmid gave Chris some points 🙂

EKTTC Calendar

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

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 ?
• https://bribartt.co.uk/

Club Meeting – Monday 5th November 2018

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

Thanks

• To Chris for supporting training camp.
• To Robbie McKenzie for support at Hamilton Grammar
• To Robbie,Chris, Gregor, Lauren, Bill, Keith, Euan and Brendan for support on Friday night
• To Robbie Maitland and Erin for support on Tuesday night.

Thanks for your support

Peter

Hi everyone

North Ayrshire  Challenge Match

• Saturday 27th October 2018 at St.Matthews Academy Saltcoats at 11am
• Delighted with squad for North Ayrshire which is as follows :-
• Achint,Luke,Jack D Brown,
• Bobby,Robbie McKenzie
• Thomas and Cameron.
• I will confirm times with NA this week but plan to be at St.Matthew’s for 11-2/3pm.
• Address -St.Matthews Academy  Jacks Rd, Saltcoats KA21 5SH.
• Player’s to bring plenty to drink and eat.I know of one player who needs a lift if any others need a lift let me know a.s.a.p.
• Looking for coaches to support if you can assist let me know. Looking forward to it !!!!

Friday club night

• Thanks to Brendan for organising league ladder on Friday night.

• Next week myself and Bill will organise multiball while Robbie Maitland looks after Butterfly Skills.

44th BB Sunday

• 4th November 2018 Cardonald 2pm – please arrive for 1:30pm start

• Team A Thomas, Ashton and Ross
• Team B Michael, Paul and Bruce.
• Team captain: Ashton.

• Travel Directions – on Peter’s email.

Training Camp JWSC

• Hall 3 Saturday 27th October 1530 – 1730

• Chris has agreed to support a training camp on Saturday at JWSC for all club players -apart from those involved in challenge match.

• Please advise if you can attend.
• Looking for coaches to support Chris at camp.

Volunteers

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else’s life better – even if you never know it.

Club Captain

• Last chance for nominations for club captain. Anyone can nominate. Once we have all the nominees we will have a vote by club players.

• Nominees names required by Sunday 21st October

Wonderkid – Tomokazu-Harimoto

• 15 year old Mens World Ranking January 2018 No.11

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh0QRglzyQk

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 ?

• https://bribartt.co.uk/

Club Meeting Monday 5th November 2018

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

Thanks

• To Chris for supporting new members.

• To Robbie and Chris for session on pushes and drives 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

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!