The Poetry of Ping-Pong

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
Table Tennis ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Ping Pong ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Yorker

In this chapter, the author looks at the poetry of Ping-Pong, his favorite sport. According to Marty Reisman, the game of Ping-Pong died in Bombay, India, in 1952. Reisman, nicknamed “The Needle,” was favored to win the World Table Tennis Championship that day. The author says he has always loved Ping-Pong because you can get into a rhythm, hit the ball back and forth across the net for hours, with any racquet, and simply talk. Ping-Pong, like poetry, is a players' sport, not ideal for spectators. Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, claims that there is palpable humor in the game. With Ping-Pong, the author insists that we are all capable of attuning ourselves to the hidden life of sports, a relationship that is about kinesthesia and embodiment.

Laughter for Dessert

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
Married Couples ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Humor Theory ◽  
Ping Pong ◽  
Family Folklore ◽  
The University ◽  
The New Yorker

The author reflects here on the important role that laughter has played in his life. His brother Murray laughs harder than anyone else he knows—and he caps it off by clapping in wild applause. The author's daughter, Eliza, once quipped: “We had laughter for dessert.” He even imagined a mystery story in which the murderer kills by devising a perfect joke that convulses people with laughter till they die. He also can remember a girl whose infectious laugh inspired a poem entitled Lily. His friend and Ping-Pong partner Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, is a student of humor; he also teaches a class in humor theory at the University of Michigan. And like many long-married couples, he and his wife have developed routines for their own personal comedy team of sorts. The author adds that banter is a key ingredient of folk culture and family folklore.

Different Techniques Comparison in Biomechanical Analysis of Ping Pong

2012 ◽  
Vol 166-169 ◽  
pp. 3106-3109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bi Jian Mao
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Biomechanical Study ◽  
Biomechanical Analysis ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
Ping Pong ◽  
The World ◽  
Ball Contact ◽  
Speed Parameter ◽  
Male Subjects

Ping Pong has been considered as one of the most popular sports in the world. Fast break and curving ball technology is this game’s core technology, it will be very important to deeply understand this through biomechanical study. In this research, we based on fast break and curving ball features of kinematic to reveal the table tennis forehand techniques. High speed motion analysis was recorded from eight male subjects. The action was divided into three major phases: back swing, attack and follow through. At the end of back swing stage, break and curl technologies, the speed parameter shows some differences. While the fastest speed in ball contact frame, the speed of curling ball was significantly higher than the fast break. Further study could be carried out in detailing analysis at sub-stage of the action for integral considering.

scholarly journals “As Truthful as Our Notion of the Past Can Ever Be”:

Authorship ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Yorker

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Alice Munro drew attention in interviews to her rapt admiration for the work of William Maxwell, a writer she has called “my favorite writer in the world.” The two were not close, although they met a few times through their shared association with the New Yorker. In 1988 Munro published an appreciation of Maxwell’s work and, after his death in 2000, agreed to revise it for a tribute volume published in 2004. During those years too, Munro was at work on a family volume she had long contemplated, The View from Castle Rock (2006), one that was inspired in part by and modelled on Maxwell’s Ancestors: A Family History (1971). This article examines the Maxwell-Munro crux as an example of the dynamics of authorship; it is an important example of two compatible writers who, throughout their careers, created narrative rooted in the very stuff of their own experience in place and time—whether seen as fiction, autobiography, or memoir. Each did so in ways that accentuate, for the critic intent on analysing authorship, the play of the past in shaping of any narrative.

The World through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury

2000 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 1338
Author(s):  
William B. Scott ◽  
Mary F. Corey
Keyword(s):  
New Yorker ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Yorker

scholarly journals Czech and Polish Table Tennis Players of Jewish Origin in International Competition (1926-1957)

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Wiesław Pięta ◽  
Aleksandra Pięta
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Ping Pong ◽  
The World ◽  
World Champion

Czech and Polish Table Tennis Players of Jewish Origin in International Competition (1926-1957)The beginnings of the 18th century marked the birth of Jewish sport. The most famous athletes of those days were boxers, such as I. Bitton, S. Eklias, B. Aaron, D. Mendoga. Popular sports of this minority group included athletics, fencing and swimming. One of the first sport organizations was the gymnastic society Judische Turnverein Bar Kocha (Berlin - 1896).Ping-pong as a new game in Europe developed at the turn of the 20th century. Sport and organizational activities in England were covered by two associations: the Ping Pong Association and the Table Tennis Association; they differed, for example, in the regulations used for the game. In 1902, Czeski Sport (a Czech Sport magazine) and Kurier Warszawski (Warsaw's Courier magazine) published first information about this game. In Czech Republic, Ping-pong became popular as early as the first stage of development of this sport worldwide, in 1900-1907. This was confirmed by the Ping-pong clubs and sport competitions. In Poland, the first Ping-pong sections were established in the period 1925-1930. Czechs made their debut in the world championships in London (1926). Poles played for the first time as late as in the 8th world championships in Paris (1933). Competition for individual titles of Czech champions was started in 1927 (Prague) and in 1933 in Poland (Lviv).In the 1930s, Czechs employed an instructor of Jewish descent from Hungary, Istvan Kelen (world champion in the 1929 mixed games, studied in Prague). He contributed to the medal-winning success of Stanislaw Kolar at the world championships. Jewish players who made history in world table tennis included Trute Kleinowa (Makkabi Brno) - world champion in 1935-1937, who survived imprisonment in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, Alojzy Ehrlich (Hasmonea Lwów), the three-time world vice-champion (1936, 1937, 1939), also survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Ivan Andreadis (Sparta Praga), nine-time world champion, who was interned during World War II (camp in Kleinstein near Krapkowice).Table tennis was a sport discipline that was successfully played by female and male players of Jewish origins. They made powerful representations of Austria, Hungary, Romania and Czech Republic and provided the foundation of organizationally strong national federations.

The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury.

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 738
Author(s):  
George H. Douglas ◽  
Mary F. Corey
Keyword(s):  
New Yorker ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Yorker
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