Thursday, March 05, 2026

League Players Practice Sessions - on trial Wednesdays

Our Thursday evening practice sessions have been full on a few occasions during the league season and this is good news. It does mean that sometimes some of us have not been able to get a practice session when we would like. The waitlist facility does help and as some of you have experienced, sometimes spaces are released to those on the waitlist. Please do continue to register on the waitlist if applicable because not only might a space become available, also it helps to have an indication of unmet demand. Thanks.

We want to try out having an additional session on Wednesdays to see if players find this worthwhile. During Februay, we have booked half the hall on Wednesday 7:30pm to 9:30pm, i.e. enough room for 3 tables. We will limit this to 8 spaces and the cost will be £3.50 per session. As this will be an unsupervised session and no coaches will be in attendance, these sessions are for league players who will be responsible for setting up and packing away. Being on a Wednesday it provides an opportunity for league players to practice even if they have a league match on Thursday. New players and juniors can continue to play on Thursdays when there is lots of informal coaching and advice on hand. To book a slot on the trial Wednesday session, use the link below. There will be a link added to the website menus to display bookings for Wednesdays, but it will be a raw spreadsheet so won't be neatly collated and formatted as the table for Thursday sessions. If we take Wednesday sessions forward after the trial, we can look at improving that.

Wednesday league players practice (trial)

After the end of the trail, we will invite feedback and assess how best to take this forward.

Thanks.

Practice arrangements over Christmas and New Year

With two forthcoming Thursdays coinciding with Christmas Day and New Year's Day, this coming Thursday's (18th) practice is the last one for 2025 and we restart for 2026 on 8th January. If anyone wants to practise during this period, please let us know and we can facilitate with hall booking. We hope everyone has enjoyed their table tennis during 2025 and look forward to seeing you all in action next year.

Just one plea. Please do keep the bookings system updated, especially if plans change and bookings need to be cancelled. We deliberately operate on a finely balanced financial basis, so lost revenue from unused spaces will have an impact. This especially applies to cancelled home matches because that affects 3 spaces and we rely on the bookings information to allocate and set up match tables accordingly. Thank you for your help in this regard.

Level 1 Coaching course- expressions of interest

At the NDTTA AGM, we raised the possibility of arranging a Level 1 Coach course to be hosted at Kintbury TTC. There was a good level of interest and we have sent a query to Table Tennis England about the minimum number required and possible dates. Our venue has already been accepted as meeting the requirements to host a coaching course.

The greater the interest we get, the more likely we will be able to organise one with Table Tennis England. If you are interested, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For Kintbury TTC players, the club is offering to subsidise 50% of the cost of the course for the first 4 people who commit to taking the course.

Information about coaching courses can be found at the link below, or you can email queries to the email address above.

Coaching courses - Table Tennis England

UPDATE

Having contacted Table Tennis England, they have advised that they are in the process of updating their training courses and new courses will be launched in September 2025, We have logged our interest in hosting courses when available. Please do contact us if you are interested so that we can provide Table Tennis England with an indication of numbers. Thanks.

Ping Aspire at Kintbury

Table Tennis England are running a series of Ping Aspire competitions aimed at players taking their first steps into competition or returning to the fold after a break. There will one at Kintbury on Sunday 30th November. Information about this event and how to enter can be found using this link myTT | Play Table Tennis Your Way

UPDATE on entry criteria: we have been advised by the organiser of these competitions that they are open to anyone who does not have a Table Tennis England ranking in any age category. Therefore, most of our league players are eligible. It should be a fun event, so we encourage you to enter. There will be prizes!

New Booking System

Sorry for the delay, but we have now set up the new booking system. Please use this for booking practice session spots and tables for home matches from 1st May 2025.

Instructions on how to book can be found in this document link Practice Session and Match Table Booking

The booking system can be accessed here https://kttc_thursday_practice.eventbrite.co.uk/

You can also access the "How To" document and the Booking System by selecting the drop downs from the Practice and Table Booking menu on this website. You will also find a link there to see who else has booked for each week under SESSION ATTENDEES

If you have any problems making a booking, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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