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We want to start the Perth Pong League (PPL) with monthly meets, drinks and bands. If you're a table tennis player or know a player, email us at info@popp.net.au
City of Fremantle now stores free bats and balls under each of their Kings Square tables for visitors and residents to use at any time.
In Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, as one of three new POPP outdoor table tennis tables was being installed, we had some tough looking kids drop their BMXs and skateboards for a game. They stayed for hours. Competitive, messy and ridiculously fun.
City of Fremantle commissioned local Perth artist Jae Criddle to create a piece of engaging public art for one of the City's Kings Square outdoor ping pong tables. The result, a project of perspective. A man with wings. Or, a man with a pheasant pecking at his back. The table has been both a talking point for Fremantle residents and a positive addition to public art scene. The table of course continues to be used endlessly, for ping pong.
Our friend and London-based photographer, Jonas Bresnan (www.jonasbresnan.com) deserved a rest from shooting famous, beautiful people (really?) so he came to Perth, drank cider and played ping pong with us. Perth, rather unsurprisingly, produced more fine fine weather for a day of craftily-spun serves and desperate, lunging dives.
'You could take to it with an iron bar and there wouldn't be a scratch on it.' The City of Sydney, pleased with the nigh-indestructible nature of the infamous POPP table.
Fortunately, POPP will be filling in for Fidel at the Parks and Leisure Australia National Conference (Newcastle, September, 2012) and the Landscape Australia Expo (Sydney, September, 2012). Come and catch us for a game comrades |
Who knows Dee Why on Sydney’s northern beaches? This is where a new POPP outdoor table tennis table will be heading. Boom. |
New artwork has adorned one of the City of Fremantle’s two outdoor table tennis tables. Crabs and fish are the theme for this installation. Crabs and fish. The City also supplies free bats and balls day and night providing for endless pong. |
With the help of some very kind woodsmen, we’ve started to make our own range of POPP outdoor table tennis bats. Heavier and less spongey for harder hitting ground strokes. Very much the POPP style. |
Princess Kate Middleton laid down some sharp spin and power serves to defeat Prince William in an exhibition match of ping pong at the Olympics. This on the back of the Ping London / Sport England initiative to get 100 outdoor ping pong tables across London. Into it. |
St Marys Anglican School for Girls recently installed a POPP table for their boarding students. Local artist Anya Brock painted the table. |
