LW Table Tennis Club may improve love life
February has been wintery with chilly temperatures and many days of rain. To chase the blues away and stay in shape, people may consider playing table tennis in Clubhouse 6. Table tennis offers great mind-body stimulation, aerobic exercise, and social interaction.
In Leisure World there are high quality customized net dividers to prevent balls escaping from the playing area, and a robot practice machine, though one needs to be a Table Tennis Club member to use it.
Hankin Le, new president of the LW Table Tennis Club, shares a condensed table tennisrelated romantic excerpt from the May 4, 2016 San Diego Union-Tribune: “After 94 years as a bachelor, table tennis legend Si Wasserman, an Oceanside resident, tied the knot with 64-year-old Patty Martinez of Seal Beach, who was widowed. Martinez met Wasserman six years ago at a table tennis tournament. Their love gradually blossomed during weekly practices at the Senior Center in Oceanside. They both are lifelong avid table tennis players. He was the leader of the 1959 U.S. team and she won the U.S. Open at the young age of 13. Wasserman never intended to be a lifelong bachelor, but he was so busy working while playing and training table tennis that he didn’t have time to get married. He gave up on ever finding love after the age of 40. On Wednesday morning, the couple exchanged vows at the senior center with paddles in hands and wearing matching t-shirts. The wedding cake was decorated to look like a pingpong table.”
Le hopes this timely Valentine story will provide enough inspiration for paddles to be dusted off and table tennis to be played. The club provides loaner paddles if needed.
—Hankin Le
Customized net dividers pre - vent balls from escaping the play area in the table tennis zone of Clubhouse 6.
Paul Kryczko
