Weekly Training Update - 11/09/2026
Tomorrow is my first tournament of the season at Ballymena TTC. I'm playing in the Open and the Over 40s too. Our friend Jong Gil Kim who played for QUB TTC and has now returned to Seoul, South Korea The tournament is over now and I found it useful and instructive. Tournaments are important for developing players like me so that they can find their level and gain further practise against better players. When I played in England there was always provision for improvers like an improvers group or a division 3. It happens that I won division 3 at the Birmingham Table Tennis Academy and I also got into an improvers semi-final at Warwick leisure centre before being knocked out. These were very encouraging results which demonstrated that I was on the cusp of leaving the improvers level behind and becoming an intermediate player. In Ireland tournaments are mostly for performance level and intermediate players. That's a bit disappointing, th...