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I need an invite. There's nothing better than a round robin when everyone is really good.

TM

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You're. Not. In. A. Country. Club. ?.

Don't fight it. The level of table tennis play at most clubs is elite. (It's the squash guys, who have lost a step but not that competitive spirit!)

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More of a sport than fuckin golf.

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I am mind-blowingly good at shuffleboard.

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I don't have $80k to blow -- and my local one doesn't have tennis?

Platform tennis is where it's at.

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Hey - I LOVE ping pong. Not knocking it at all.

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And nothing worse when everyone but you is bad. I can't stand holding back.

I play tennis with a guy who is hyper competitive but not as good as me - I always try to keep the ball in play at the beginning of match (because it's more fun that way), until his hyper competitiveness rears its ugly head. Then I crush his will.

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More bars need table-top shuffleboard.

ETA: SUPERFECTA!

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Not fair. You probably ran home from school to go curling with your friends.

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What sort of kids do well with field hockey? Not sure that soccer is the right sport for my daughter.

eta: Or curling?

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I played field hockey and I am good at curling and shuffleboard, so basically kids like me -- it helps to be Canadian and born with a stick in your hand and a curling rock in the other. Those sports just seemed to come much more naturally than soccer to me, mostly because kids just played pickup hockey (street hockey, pond hockey, etc ) every day pretty much, and I curled from when I was about 5, so it just came more naturally than soccer, basketball, etc.

That's not much help to you if she's not already doing some kind of variation of the sport already so you can see if she has affinity for it.

I will say that curling is a good sport if you enjoy stuff like chess and planning and strategy. It's like Game of Thrones on ice -- all kinds of plotting and battles. Less blood usually.

And field hockey is very aggressive, lots of sly shin whacking. It helps to be devious.

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If the other kids in your neighborhood are at camp or practice telling your kid to go out and play with the other kids doesn’t work.

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I've always sucked at tennis. But, yeah. We used to have a ping pong table at my last firm and we'd sneak and play every once in awhile. We asked a summer once if he wanted to join the "club." I played him and he was very competitive, but just not good enough (being the best in your family doesn't mean a damn thing, homie). So he would try shit like trying to serve before I got back to the table after I was retrieving a ball. Shit like that. Had to get smoked.*

TM

*And, yes, I realize a punishing ping pong game is probably the least impressive thing in the world. But I just let me have it. ;-)

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Very short, very quick and fast girls who don't mind pain.

TM

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Exactly. This was the point I made to my mother. Shit has completely changed.

TM