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T.G. ENTERPRISES TABLE TENNIS EQUIPMENT COMPANY

Guenther Schroeder - Owner

ADDRESS:

T.G. ENTERPRISES
29393 Murray Crescent Way
SOUTHFIELD MI 48076

PHONE:

VOICE: 1-800-825-7664

FAX: 1-810-356-5871

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USATT - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION

Headquartered at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USATT is a Group A member of the United States Olympic Committee and has been a member of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) since 1993. In these roles, USA Table Tennis is responsible for organizing and training teams for national and international events including National and World Championships, U.S. Olympic Festivals, Pan American Games and the Olympics. It also works closely with over 150 international table tennis associations and approximately 250 table tennis clubs in the U.S.

Through its network of affiliated clubs in 50 states, USA Table Tennis has nearly 300 sanctioned tourna ments each year in addition to league play, coaching programs, exhibitions and other promotional, recreational and educational activities. It also sanctions regional and national championships in several age classifications, conducts local and national player development clinics, approves and studies equip- ment and financially supports national team members. USA Table Tennis also provides a computerized national athlete rating system.

Coaches, officials, and club directors benefit from training manuals provided through the National Coaching Program and Officials Program. These books improve the knowledge of coaches and officials through careful study, training and examination. USA Table Tennis provides uniform rules, interprets those rules and supports approximately 250 affiliated table tennis clubs.

To keep every registered member informed, USA Table Tennis produces Table Tennis Today, its bi monthly magazine, which contains tournament results and wraps-up athlete ratings, advice columns, feature articles and the latest in table tennis information. USA Table Tennis works closely with many national organizations to promote the sport including the American Wheelchair Table Tennis Associa- tion, Amateur Athletic Union/Junior Olympics, National Senior Games, Association of College Unions, and International and State Games.

Finally, USA Table Tennis provides information and assistance for conducting tournaments and directs America's most prestigious table tennis events, the USA Table Tennis Open Championships and the USA Table Tennis National Championships.

AFFILIATED CLUBS

CERTIFIED COACHES

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ITTF - INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION

The founding of the International Table Tennis Federation, one of the largest sports organizations in the world, took place on January 15, 1926 in Berlin Germany. The historic meeting followed an invitational tournament hosted by Deutscher Tisch-Tennis Bund and was spearheaded by the German asscoaition's president, Dr. Georg Lehman. The original meeting created a "provisional federation" which was officially established the following December at the first Congress of London. The ITTF confirmation immediately succeeded the first World Championships and nine associations were listed as founding members, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, Demark, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden and Wales. The United States Table Tennis Association joined the ITTF in 1933. The ITTF presently consists of 156 members, more affiliate associations than any other racquet sport in the world. The World Table Tennis Championships, sanctioned by the ITTF, are held biennially in odd years and include men's and women's team competition as well as individual events.

GOALS

To develop the spirit of friendship and nutual assistance among associations and players

To regulate relations between association and other organizations

To seek continual improvement in the technical standard of table tennis in the extent of participation in the sport throughout the world

To foster friendly competition and to elimate unfair and unsporting practices such as the use of drugs to affect performance.

To define the requirements for Olympic eligibility

To establish and maintain the Laws of Table Tennis and the Rgulations for International Competitions

To publish the standard text, which shall be the English text, of the rules, consisting of the Constitution, the Laws and the Regulations

To encourage the publication of the rules in other languages and to check the accuracy of such publications

To promote and to supervise the World title competitions

To employ the funds of the ITTF as may be expedient in the interests of international table tennis

MANAGEMENT

The governing body of the ITTF shall be the General Meeting, consisting of the assembled representatives of associations

Each association in full membership shall be entitled to two representatives and each association in membership "in good standing" shall be entitled to one representative

A general meeting shall be normally held once every two years and shall be known as the "Biennial General Meeting"

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Table Tennis Background

Table Tennis is the second most popular sport in the world next to soccer.

In 1992, more Americans played table tennis (19.8 Million) than baseball
(14.8 million), sking (13.8 million), or foitball (11.4 million).

Table tennis can be enjoyed by almost anyone. It's an all-weather sport
that is inexpensive to play, excellent for hand/eye corrdination, adaptable
for people with disabilities, and is great exercise for people from eight to
eighty.

Many top athletes train up to six hours a day. Zhenshi and Zhang Li, U.S.
National Team Coaches, have their athletes run, sprint, cycle, jump rope,
weight train, and play basketball and soccer for physical conditioning.

A group of elite Swedish table tennis athletes was in the upper 5 percent
of their age group in terms of aerobic capacity.

A well-played 30 minute recreational game burns about 150 calories for
a 150 pound person, the equivilant of a brisk 27 minute walk or 32
minutes of light gymnastics.

Top U.S. players by using a fully-programmable computerized robot made by SITCO USA
of portland, Oregon, that mimics the playing styles of the world's top athletes.

Sweden, China, Korea are currently world powers in table tennis. The U.S. men's team is
ranked 25th, and the women's team is ranked 20th.

"Flim-Flam", "Gossima", and "Ping Pong" are names of early versions of the modern sport of
table tennis.

Early racquets were made of materials such as cork, vellum, cardboard, and wood and covered
with cloth, leather, or sandpaper.

The racquet (also called a bat or blade) may be of any size, shape, or weight. Its surface must
be dark colored, with one side usually being red and the other black. The racquet may be
covered with pimpled rubber of total thickness of 2 mm or a "sandwich" consisting of a layer
of cellular rubber surface by having either inward or outward pimples with thickness not
exceeding 4 mm.

Early versions of table tennis were sometimes played with champagne corks or light-knitted web
balls.

Table Tennis was banned in the former Soviet Union from around 1930 to 1950 allegedly becuse it was
harmful to the eyes.

The 1971 USA Table Tennis delegation to the People's Republic of China created front page
news as "Ping Pong Diplomacy". The trip not only created greater awareness for the sport but
helped pave the way for improved diplomatic relations between the United States and China.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was formed in 1926 in Berlin with Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden, and Wales as members.
USA Table Tennis became a member of the ITTF that same year.

American Sports Data (1992); The Olympic Fact Book: Visible Ink Press, 1992; and USATT Media Guide, USA Table Tennis, 1992

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