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The Newgy Newsletter
Ping Pong/Table Tennis Tips from Newgy Industries: Serving - Part
I
October 19, 2004
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in this issue
-- Serving-Part I
-- Robo-Pong Specials for October
Greetings!
If you haven't already received your Robo-Pong Ping Pong
Rules poster, it should be in your mailbox shortly. We
hope that you will post it near your ping pong table--to
help peacefully resolve those "friendly" ping pong disputes
that can pop up in the heat of battle. If you haven't
played much ping pong (AKA table tennis or vice versa)
for a few years, you'll be surprised to know that several
rules have changed.
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Serving-Part I
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This is the first in a series of Ping Pong/Table
Tennis tips from Robo-Pong starting with the SERVE (Part
I):
- The ball must be placed in the stationary, open palm
of the free hand. It must remain behind the end line
or its imaginary extension and above the level of the
table top. The ball does not, however, have to remain
between the two sidelines or their imaginary extensions.
- The ball must be thrown near vertically upwards at
least 6 inches and then struck as it is descending from
the peak of its trajectory.
- The ball must remain above the level of the playing
surface and behind the server's end line from the time
the hand is stationary to the time contact is made with
the ball.
- The ball cannot be hidden from the receiver by any
part of the body or clothing of the server. The free
arm, after tossing up the ball, must be pulled away
immediately so it does not hide the ball from the opponent.
- The ball must first hit on the server's side of the
table, pass directly over or around the net and its
supports, and then touch the receiver's side of the
table.
- If the ball touches the net or its supports after
having first landed on the server's side of the table
and then landing on the receiver's side of the able
or touching the receiver's racket without having touched
anything else first, the serve is a "let" and is served
over. There is no limit to the number of lets one can
serve.
- Once the ball is tossed up, the ball is in play and
the server must serve. If he/she stops the serve, even
if he/she does not swing at the ball, he/she loses the
point. Likewise, the server loses the point if he/she
swings at the ball and does not contact the ball.
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Robo-Pong Specials for October
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Don't forget to shop
early this holiday season for that ping pong fanatic (and/or)
get your request into Santa now for your Robo-Pong ping pong robot, and here are
our current specials until October 31st.
- Order Robo-Pong 2040 and get Robo-Tote FREE ($50 value)
- Order Robo-Pong 1040 and get Catch Net II, Side Nets,
& Pong-Pal for only $70 more (save $46)
- Order Robo-Pong 540 and get Catch Net II, Pong-Pal,
and 48 Robo-Balls for only $70 more (save $61)
Get more details on the current specials!
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