Table Tennis in North-Netherlands!

Hello all,

In this video you see the first team of our table tennis club in their first league game of the season.

The team is playing on the highest Northern-level, one level below the National third division-level.

Enjoy this video. Comments are always welcome!




Edited by Slupmi-Atled - 10/08/2016 at 5:03am

Guy in the orange has a crazy good backhand!

Baal wrote: Guy in the orange has a crazy good backhand!

amateur wrote: Baal wrote: Guy in the orange has a crazy good backhand! The whole team wears orange... There's a girl on the other team - are all leagues in North-Netherlands coed?

in Belgium,female players can play in the men's competition till the first division, included. But they are not allowed to play in the men super division. The best female players usually play their matches in the women's competition and another match the same day in the men's competition. Of course, Belgium is a small country, maximum distance is 300 km.

the 2nd orange man has a real cheating serve, just what he does

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Edited by BeaverMD - 09/10/2021 at 8:52am

Slupmi-Atled wrote: Baal wrote: Guy in the orange has a crazy good backhand! Which player do you mean exactly? Because they are all orange, haha!

Obviously the very tall lefty. Very fast and hard to read stroke.

smackman wrote: the 2nd orange man has a real cheating serve, just what he does good to see others from other Countries

If you (in any competition whatsoever) look closely at the serves, you will see that almost all the players do make some mistakes there.

kakapo wrote: amateur wrote: Baal wrote: Guy in the orange has a crazy good backhand! The whole team wears orange... There's a girl on the other team - are all leagues in North-Netherlands coed? in Belgium,female players can play in the men's competition till the first division, included. But they are not allowed to play in the men super division. The best female players usually play their matches in the women's competition and another match the same day in the men's competition. Of course, Belgium is a small country, maximum distance is 300 km.

By the way... a woman needs, before she can play division in the Netherlands, to show a certain level. She must win at least half of her matches.

smackman wrote: the 2nd orange man has a real cheating serve, just what he does good to see others from other Countries

Nice, a reaction all the way from New Zealand! What is the situation there? Are there many clubs and regional / national table tennis competitions? Always interesting to hear, i am really curious.

Slupmi-Atled wrote: Slupmi-Atled wrote: smackman wrote: the 2nd orange man has a real cheating serve, just what he does good to see others from other Countries Nice, a reaction all the way from New Zealand! What is the situation there? Are there many clubs and regional / national table tennis competitions? Always interesting to hear, i am really curious. I still hope to hear from you

Hi normal all around the World, many social players will bring their bat to the ball and not try 

smackman wrote: In New Zealand the sport is growing again, a good push in School;s and many new immigrants from Asia and they love their table tennis,(well the adults more so) the kids play many sports or none  I have gone to some clubs where 95% of adults were not born in NZ I normally play interclub in 3 venues a week, (I would the only person who does that here) as I know all the venues

Good to hear that the sport is growing again! That's very neat, especially because New Zealand is primarily focused on rugby and cricket. Are you someone who is busy promoting table tennis?

mickd wrote: Wow. Is that a mini table? Or is everyone in the Netherlands just really tall?

BeaverMD wrote: Slupmi-Atled wrote: BeaverMD wrote: No, no, no, no, NO! You are not allowed to wear capris while playing table tennis.  Tell the Danny Heister looking dude not to ever pull that stunt again. By the way, nice that you know Danny Heister as (i think) American. Years back, Heister gave a table tennis demonstration at our club. Very entertaining. I think the first time I saw Danny Heister play (on video) was watching him and Trinko Keen play doubles in the 1993 WTTC if I remember correctly.  I was thinking "what a waste of two left handers playing together.  Doesn't the Netherlands have a couple of righties to pair with each of them?"

Those were the good old times... the level in the Netherlands is no longer as high as it was then. We certainly still have talented players, but at the international level we are beginning to become less and less . What is the situation with the table tennis sport in America?

Skyline wrote: keen and heister were probably one the best left handed doubles in the world.

I always hear from many players that it is difficult to play against two left-handed players... A nice advantage for Keen and Heister at the time, but of course they were simply good players too.