Don Pooley Mike and Julie Futscher are members of Robson Ranch Table Tennis Club, and prior to August 2023, they played table tennis three to four days a week. In August 2023, Mike and Julie suffered a terrible car accident returning to their Robson Ranch home from vacation. Mike was paralyzed from the waist down…
Don Pooley And the winners are … Joe Dougherty and John Wyant. In second place was the team of Bill Cashin and Caryn Galderisi. The winner and runner-up trophies were presented at the club’s 20-Year Celebration on Oct. 18, 2023. Below are the teams’ total wins through the end of the tournament, Oct. 18, 2023.…
Don Pooley For the past six weeks, 10 Robson Ranch residents attended the New Member Table Tennis class. Instructed by certified table tennis instructor Tom Taylor, each student mastered the basics of table tennis play, learning and applying the different strokes, serves, and skills used in playing table tennis. Each student was assigned their own…
Don Pooley When I started playing table tennis against my dad 65 years ago, the choice for a paddle was a blade with a knobby rubber or a sandpaper finish. Wanting more ball reaction, I chose sandpaper. Over the years, table tennis paddles and associated blade finishes have evolved, and each is now rated based…
Don Pooley On Jan. 13, 2020, the Robson Ranch Table Tennis Club held its annual meeting. Following the meeting, 39 club members participated in a play session. This was the largest play session (number of participants) in the club’s history and sets the stage for a group of fantastic activities planned for 2020. First, beginning…
Don Pooley The 2019 Table Tennis classes began on April 1, 2019. Tom Taylor, a certified table tennis coach, from the Farmers Branch Table Tennis Club, is conducting the classes over eight weeks, covering the basic strokes and footwork of playing table tennis. Already, the students have been working on forehand stroke, foot positions and…
Don Pooley Tom Taylor, a certified table tennis coach from the Farmers Branch Table Tennis Club, is again conducting a table tennis class for members of the RR Table Tennis Club. The class will be on Mondays from noon until 1:30 p.m. starting on Monday, April 1, 2019 and will last for eight weeks. The…
Don Pooley Join the Robson Ranch Denton Table Tennis Club in 2019 and begin enjoying the benefits of club membership throughout the year. As a club member you can: * Enjoy 9.5 hours of planned play sessions a week (moving to 11.5 hours with renovation of old exercise room) * Receive equipment and accessories’ discounts…
Don Pooley On October 13 the Table Tennis Club at Robson Ranch Texas hosted the Farmers Branch Table Tennis Club in a Doubles Table Tennis Tournament. Partners were selected in a blind draw that matched a Robson Ranch club member with a Farmers Branch club member. All eight tables were used in the tournament with…