Gossima: The Culture of Ping Pong

Cary Table Tennis Association

In the video above, Dr Michael Babuin, founder and president of the Cary Table Tennis Association, goes through a historical overview of the items on display at the Cary Table Tennis exhibition. Go to the Cary Table Tennis Association Website to check out some photos of antique Gossima, ping pong, Whiff Waff and table tennis sets. The collection also features lots of table tennis memorabilia and books.

Ping! London Map

 

Ping! London

 

• 4 weeks

• 100 tables

• 4,000 bats

• 10,000 balls

On July 23, ping pong tables will pop up across London in parks, train stations, squares and shopping centers for Ping! The London Ping Pong Project. The tables are open for anyone to play on. In addition to free play, there are a host of programmed activities, such as a literary ping pong quiz at the British Library, Round the World at the Natural History Museum, Whiff Waff at the Geoffrye Museum, and Sing ‘n’ Ping at the Victoria Embankment Gardens, among many other tournaments and events. You can also host your own event. Check out pinglondon.com for more details. Ping! London is produced by Sing London, the arts organization that last year in London produced, along with Luck Jerram, Play Me, I'm Yours.

Ping Pong

乒乓		Pīngpāng		China
ピンポン		Pinpon		Japan
Ping Pong		Ping Pong		Hungary
Ping Pong		Ping Pong		Czechoslovakia
Ping Pong		Ping Pong		Sweden
Ping Pong		Ping Pong		Romania
Ping Pong		Ping Pong		Germany
핑퐁		pingpong		South Korea
Ping Pong		Ping Pong		Austria
핑퐁		pingpong		North Korea

A Ping Pong T.V. Show – It's a Reality

Spin, the elite ping pong club in New York City, recently began filming an episodic ping pong documentary television show—under the working title The Magnus Effect—which focuses on the characters who train and frequent Spin New York. The title of the show refers to a phenomenon in which an object such as a table tennis ball spinning through the air creates a whirlpool of air around itself, and experiences a force perpendicular to the line of motion. The show will initially follow some of the top junior players and Olympic hopefuls, including Michael Landers, the current U.S. men's singles table tennis champion. Later episodes will likely showcase table tennis personalities Soo Yeon Lee, Wally Green, and Marty “the money player” Reisman, among others. Susan Sarandon, a co-owner of Spin, will narrate the show and BBC America has signed on as the production company.

Ping Pong at Puma Social Club

Tonight, I’ll be playing some ping pong at the Puma Social Club, from 9 PM to 1 AM, on Puma's brand new limited edition chalk board table designed by aruliden. Come down and check it out for yourself.

Back from Spring Hiatus

Hello Gossima fans, I'm back from taking some time off from Gossima: The Culture of Ping Pong. It's been a very exciting spring and early summer for ping pong: the Puma PT3 tournament; NYTTF 6^th anniversary; the brand new SoHo Pong; Puma's Social Club at South Street Seaport; the U.S. Table Tennis Open in Grand Rapids; Spin's World Champion event and their announcement of expansion to other cities; among lots of other ping pong news. Stay tuned this summer for more frequent postings about the amazing wide world of ping pong.