Ready-to-use Meeting:
Playing table tennis

Aim of this session
To play a bit of table tennis.

Preparation
You'll need to put up the table tennis table if you're to get anywhere with this session. Unfortunately 68% of youth club table tennis tables have dodgy mechanisms. Do your best to put the table up - but for future reference make a mental note to ask your employer whether he/she is willing to send you on a table-tennis table mechanism training course. The resulting certificate will help you find your next job if nothing else.

Warming up
Hit the ball back and forth across the net. Back and forth, back and forth. When you've done this for a while ask someone else to join in or ask the young people whether they'd like a go.

Time for action
Continue to hit the ball, remembering that it has to bounce on the other persons side, except when you're serving when it should really bounce on both sides. If that becomes to difficult to sustain just hit the ball as hard as you can so that your opponent has to scrabble behind some stacking chairs to get it out. Repeat as necessary. You may find that the ball gets stepped on and the rubber bits get stipped off the racquets. That's entirely normal and happens in the Professional arena too.

Reflecting
Some people call table tennis 'ping pong'. Why do you think that is?

To Finish
Well, that's it. Everyone's gone home and it's just you. Alone. With your thoughts.

Found this session outline useful? Try:

Playing pool
Hanging around by a bus stop
Playing table tennis
Getting into a little bit of trouble
Putting on some music
Not really doing anything in particular