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Vic Smith Vic Smith is offline
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Default Olyimpics ... wow

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:24:32 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:46:17 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Yep, that was my choice. Saw about 15 minutes of Ping Pong.
I used to be the park fieldhouse champ. Jigsaw cut plywood paddles.
No, rubber and no spin.


The cheap paddles used to be covered with sandpaper, which is not as
good as rubber.

Yeah, I've seen them. The plain plywood ones we used were bigger than
a reg paddle and probably just cut using the eyeball as a jig. Don't
know was providing them, probably a park district guy where they had a
bandsaw. Used to select them like you would a pool cue.

--Vic