My Table Tennis Mission

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These TT posts were first published in the ‘Gone Active’, exercise focused blog
during 2020 which is no longer live, hence archived here for reference

Gone Active, former exercise blog site (goneactive.co.uk)

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Having seen the video’s and heard the stories, from the first ITTF Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championships held in New York, USA, October 2019, I was determined to form a squad to represent my country and play in the next WPTTC. To do this I became the self proclaimed PingPongParkinson® Ambassador for table tennis within the UK.

My mission now being to:

• EDUCATE: exercise research and the benefits thereof specifically related to PD
• EXERCISE: finding or setting up local TT session
• ENGAGE: taking part in local & national tournaments for PD table tennis players
• EXCITE: creating a team to represent UK/England at the 2nd ITTF-Foundation Parkinsons TT World Championships in Berlin

You can follow my progress through the original website – https://sites.google.com/view/parkinsonsttuk/events (copy and paste url if link does not work, this blog and social media:

Facebook: ParkinsonsTT_UK group or PDTT.UK

GAME ON

[1] Dr Daniel Amen member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology,
and a Japanese Table Tennis Association sponsored clinical study on “The
Effectiveness of Exercise Intervention on Brain Disease Patients: Utlising Table
Tennis as a Rehabilitation Program“

[2] https://www.ittf.com/2019/10/08/establishing-close-relations-promoting-parkinsons/

[3] https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/a-pilot-study-of-the-feasibility-and-
effects-of-table-tennis-training-in-parkinsons-disease/

[4] http://www.saefusa.org/why-table-tennis
[5] https://www.batfoundation.com/bat-therapy-table/

Edited by Andrew Cassy