WAB FEATURED CLUB: The TopSpin Table Tennis Center
WAB FEATURED CLUB: The TopSpin Table Tennis Center
(by Steve Hopkins)
With its location in Santa Clara, the TopSpin Table Tennis Center is in the middle of one of the largest communities of table tennis players in North America. The center is just North of San Jose within easy reach of much of the Bay Area including San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, and Oakland. The 13,000 square foot facility features 19 tables, rubberized flooring, 20 foot ceilings, party rooms, and a robot practice room. The space is designed to be an ideal facility for training or competition.
Their motto outlines the club’s philosophy: Bringing table tennis to the masses. Everyone is welcome at this club, from first time players to past Olympians. TopSpin has posted five core values which are at the center of activities :
1.Respect each other
2.Respect our equipment / facility
3.Be a good sportsperson
4.Use kid-friendly language
5.Most importantly – have fun!
The coaching staff is led by Khoa Nguyen, a two-time US Olympian, USATT Hall of Fame member, and a former Pan-American Games Champion. Both private and group coaching is available for all levels. The center also has a stocked pro shop with a wide selection of high-quality Butterfly equipment.
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The Google Sheets image takes you to a spreadsheet that gives the settings for each drill. While these won’t be the exact settings for the Control Panel on your robot, they will give you an idea of where to start, and you’ll need to adjust from there. At the bottom, we’ve included the ranges and defaults for the setting on a Prime so you can compare these to the ranges and defaults on your own robot. In general, default settings should give you a similar ball regardless of what model you have. If a drill has a change of speed, spin, or trajectory, you will be unable to replicate that drill on a Basic or Start model.
Amicus Prime owners, save these drills to your device via the following steps:
Click the Drill image below to download the file to your tablet, cell phone or other device that has the Amicus app on it.
Open that file and a window will appear in the Amicus app to confirm you want to import those drills. Tap Import to add the drills to the Exercise List.
You can then play those drills just like any other drill in the Exercise List.
Tip – After importing the drills from a Fethomania Session, tap on the drill description to reveal Stefan’s technique pointers for that drill!
Amicus Prime owners, if you want a video of a Fethomania drill, you will need to manually link the video for a particular Fethomania drill with the following steps:
Download the video to the device that contains the Amicus app (probably to the Downloads folder).
Open the Amicus app on that device.
Select the matching drill in the Exercise List.
Tap on the Drill Description. The Set Exercise Properties popup window will appear.
Tap on Select Video button at the bottom of that window. Then navigate to where the video is located in the file directory and select that video.
Tap Save at bottom right of the popup window, Save at the top right of the main window, then Save in the resulting popup window.
Tap the Drill Description again and the title of the video should now appear in parentheses after Select Video.
To play the video, tap the Play Video button on the Play Exercise screen.