February 2nd, 2010 by Stephen Arliss · No Comments
I’ve booked a table for Saturday 6th Feb, 7pm at Marcos Restaurant. Currently we’ve got 10 people going. I’ve managed to get the same offer as the Tennis club which is a selection of starters, a main course (either a pasta or pizza dish) and a bottle of red/white wine between two people for £10 each. I hope that’s okay with everyone! We can then see what everyone wants to do afterwards in terms of if were heading to some bars and clubs! Marcos is just further up from Sugarhouse and Elements as if your going away from Sainsbury’s. You’ve probably seen it before. There is a waiting area in the restaurant so if we meet just before.
If you haven’t told me already and you want to go then let me know asap!
November 1st, 2009 by Stephen Arliss · No Comments
Every year we take on a large number of people at the trials but many then don’t attend our sessions as they join other clubs or societies and can’t find the time when university work starts to mount up. Therefore if your interested in joining the club but either missed the trials or didn’t get a place then let me know that your interested in joining through the contact form on the right hand side.
September 8th, 2009 by Stephen Arliss · No Comments
LUTTC play in the British Universities league and also in the Lancaster, Morecambe and District Table Tennis League. Table tennis at the University is going from strength to strength after a hugely successful year where our Men’s 1st team won not only the local Lancaster and Morecambe league but also the BUCS Northern 2A division. LUTTC Men’s 1st team will be competing against some of the top men’s northern University Table Tennis teams in the 2009/10 season in the Northern 1A division.
However whilst BUCS is suitable for our more experienced players, the local league gives our members chance to compete at any level in our 3 teams and our practice sessions allow members to play for recreation. LUTTC has three practices a week of 2 hours each; one for advanced players, one for novices and improvers and one general match night available to everyone. Due to the number of fixtures we have to fulfil we are always looking for new members and therefore dedication and participation are just as valuable as ability. Therefore we are not only looking for talented players but also those who have a passion for the sport and are looking to improve and participate in our practice sessions and fixtures.
Apart from playing table tennis the club is a great place to socialise and meet new people and hopefully friends who also enjoy playing the same sport. If you’re interested in joining the club then please attend one of our trials at 7pm either on Tuesday the 6th of October or Thursday the 8th of October at the Sports Centre Gallery or alternatively pick up a leaflet at Fresher’s Fair on Thursday the 1st of October.
As with all sports the table tennis season does not run the whole 12 months of the year, stopping in April to reconvene in September, which of course begs the question of how to fill the time. After a short break of a week or so, the itch to get back on the table to play often refuses to disappear, yet training in preparation for a local league with no competitive matches in the near future can quickly equate to something bordering on boredom.
There are those sport addicts who will sell-out and take up other sports, with tennis the pick of the bunch (a completely different sport of course, but somehow attractive to players of table-tennis…perhaps the similarity in the names is misleading, or maybe people realise that summer sports either consist of running around {athletics}, or err, cricket – in which case a player needs a lot of free time, along with a good book if he’s forced to field on the boundaries at local level, and so tennis really may be the only other viable option).
Anyway in order to scratch the itch and stick two fingers up to anyone that suggests the need to play in a summer league, University sent a team of three (myself, along with now Ex-President Robin Honey and Heiko Kausch) along to Garstang to face a team dubbed the ‘New Spinners’, with Spinners regulars Martin Shaw and Paddy Maher teaming up with Garstang’s Graham Coupe, in a post-season friendly match.
Were anyone to question how spending the whole evening talking about the outcome of the local league AGM, watching Ukrainian football triumph in the UEFA cup and getting beaten 8-2 could have been “great fun” they might be understood to an outsider. But for us it’s a way of life; the alternative – tennis? Not for us thanks. As Graham thoughtfully remarked on the night “it’s a girl’s game!”
Below are 2 articles, both from this weeks (20/05/09) SCAN. The first one is taken from the front page of SCAN about Roses as a whole, where I even manage to get a mention, being quoted on my thoughts of our training facilities. The second is a round up of the Roses Table Tennis event.
