Cambridge, United Kingdom Let's Get Moving, 9 Jan 2020

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Recording from last virtual satellite club of Summer 2020 programme (01/09/2020) Participants range in age from 12 - 19.

Session delivered by Fred, Table Tennis Activator for Cambridge City Council in partnership with Sam, Coach from Cambridge United Community Trust.

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A few swings and have my back in the ready position in between so swing, ready swing, ready swing, ready swing and so on. Numbers are a bit down at the moment, but we'll wait. We'll have another couple of minutes waiting for a few more to join us.

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Once we're here guys we'll have a little rain how's everyone's week been ah ten we'll check, ready.

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My week has been.

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A 10-point week for.

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You sam, what have you been up to arsenal won on saturday so that helps tom's on an eight? I think there was that, were you an eight or seven.

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Seven guys, how can we make that a 10 today? What's going to make it a 10, it could be anything it could be table. Tennis could be going out in the sun.

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Give me some ideas.

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Going out in the sun out on the bike sounds like a good move for me.

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To do than it did the past few days.

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An attempt with you, tom, getting rid of all these fruit.

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Flies in the kitchen.

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They got one of those table. Ten, have you got one of those um zappers? Have you seen the tennis bat.

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I'll, let you know how many I knock out, but a man.

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I reckon there's going to be a few more people joining us late. I don't know whether it's just towards the end of summer holidays people getting up a bit late. We are going to get cracking um so sidestep, I'm trying to oh that's the reason why I don't have a 10 star a week, my brand new mobile phone just burnt up and just fried on saturday morning, like 200, quick down the drain, I don't know what's wrong with it, so this is a slightly different uh session.

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I'm doing this with my laptop and I apologize now. If my head keeps disappearing. That's all right, so we're gonna do some side steps and you also need to see my feet. So, let's just tilt this down a little bit. uh Last week I introduced tilt it down a bit more. Last week I introduced the one two three lift one, two, three lift one, two, three lift. So can we go for a few of those?

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So when you lift it gives you impetus to change direction, lift two three lift one, two three lift and so on. So you can't see my head and you can't see my.

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Feet and so on and let's try a few zigzags going towards the screen. um So I'm imagining that I'm now defending and then I'm going to attack table to this table so zigzagging forwards until I go as near as I can, and let's go zigzagging back as well little steps little steps perfect right. Oh we are going to go for straight in and I'm going to go back up a bit. Now, that's a bit better! um You will need a ball. You don't quite need a bag. Yet thomas! You just can't wait.

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We did this last week, arden.

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Okay right, we did this last week, I'm going to call this my little crocodile or ball drop, so I'm going to drop the ball from one hand to the other, and my crocodile is going to get further and further apart and when I get quite a long way apart, this quite difficult and I've missed it very straight arms, sam, looking very good, looking good kobe.

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This is difficult guys, I don't know about you, but when, when your hands come out of your eye line, that is when it's most difficult, like coordination.

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It and don't even look at your hands.

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Are you doing it without looking tan.

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Yeah, that's that's extra coordination. That's fine! It's! Never! That's going to go! Oh.

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Let's see if you can really stretch and get it as far as you possibly can. Oh that's, not bad. um You can always try, try it from one hand, to the other hand, yeah well, that feels quite unnatural to be dropping left to.

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Did you catch that one sam or did it just drop out of the screen.

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Cody's, the only one who's got his camera sort of portrait, which is really good. For this now good to see you thomas wearing your lovely.

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T-Shirt welcome and we missed you last week, but you are back now thomas. We are just dropping the ball from one hand to the other and trying to get further and further apart completely missed it. This is a lot harder than it looks. You've really got to watch the ball yeah, while this is catching up with us. I'm going to pick up my table tennis, bat and.

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Drop the ball from one band and I'm gonna try and catch it with my back. So it's gonna look like this and when I do it, I have to step forward to catch it so drop and catch drop and catch.

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I really really like that one from last week- and I thought we're gonna- have to do this- one again drop and catch. Let's see thomas you haven't seen this before. Can you drop it? I don't know how bouncy your floor is. Thomas.

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Can you drop.

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It so it bounces off the floor, and then you catch the ball on your back.

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I noticed thomas you've sort of got an l shape again, which is good when you're controlling the ball, looking good to make it a little bit harder. Then can.

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Because we're so good at this see how low we can catch the ball. So we're going to let it bounce on the floor once and then we're going to try and cushion it like this.

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Guys, like we did guys like we did with a crocodile, I want everyone to reach as high as they can.

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Flexibility, nice did you can't sleep over there.

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Yeah yeah, you got it nice.

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Thomas is getting incredibly low down. Good cody's got one knee right on the floor. Your bat's nearly touching the floor, fantastic effort, thomas, is nearly under the kitchen table. My.

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Hurricane thomas, you tested me today, fred because sometimes I know you know you get a little gap between each tile. Sometimes it can hit that and go in different directions. So extra attacks- okay, oh yes,.

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We're going to come back to that later. Actually now.

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Can you can you this time, drop the ball when you cushion the ball on your back you're gonna. Have probably your spare hand out for balance. Can you strike some sort of superhero pose as if you're flying, um probably yeah iron man might spring to mind? So, do I look like iron man, yes or.

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Love it. What are we gonna? Are we gonna give him a thumbs up thumbs down thumbs up if fred done a good iron man or thumbs down.

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Then let's have a superhero pose. Can you give us love with that thumbs.

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Up, thank you, thomas okay. I'm going ninja pose.

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All right ready guys, looking good.

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You frozen, oh no, oh nice pose.

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Any more poses.

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We have evans joining us a minute or two late good morning to ivan no doubt he's got his baton, ball and he'll be flying around and always disappeared again. We'll see him in a minute right then last one.

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um Instead of catching the ball really low, can you try and catch the ball as high as you possibly can? When I tried this earlier, I couldn't get much further than above my chin. As soon as I got really high, I found it really difficult. So how high can you cushion the ball good morning ivan? Are you with us.

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Excellent good lad.

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Guys, do you think fred? Do you think someone could catch it above their head.

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You can try that's what I'm aiming for thomas you're, not catching the ball up. There are you, oh.

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I find it easier if I all looking good. I find it easier if I try and catch it on the backhand side, so yeah, the back of your hand. Forehand, is definitely almost impossible. So backhand side have a couple. More goes at that.

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Even then we're going to drop the ball then, can we try and push it as high as we possibly can not bad.

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When it goes over your head, it's so difficult to balance.

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It's it's a bit like it's out of your um it's out of your normal comfort zone. Isn't it I think right we are going to move on to ah we'll do a couple of these the old fast feet with the chopping motion, I'm going to do this from side to side this week, because I've got more room so.

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Oh evan, you are the.

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Expert of this every time I see you doing this, your feet are a blur across your carpet. We're looking for very fast feet and a chopping motion then walking back when you're ready. You join in.

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Perfect and walking back it's a blur ivan household, looking good, like sonic.

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Thomas, do you remember to put the brakes on or you'll go flying through the kitchen?

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Come on tom, give me your best salad, bands, nice.

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Oh thomas, that's looking dangerous.

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If you've been doing any washing.

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Up or anything make sure your kitchen floor is dry, otherwise you will go crying uh right. We'll have five more of those um with me. Going now. Bye.

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And last one, I'm gonna try and do this.

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I saw tom doing a bit of salsa as well. Fred, do you think anybody's ever done a salsa, entertainment, tennis, game.

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I could try it now. There's a challenge.

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That's your next one! Whenever, when everyone's back on the table, you should try and do a rally whilst they're in salsa at the same time, so you could do dance and table tennis in one.

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I reckon sam you're coming up with some crazy ideas this week.

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In the meantime, we are going to move to blimey we're halfway through already so uh evan devodet, thomas and thomas sam cody and elizabeth good to have you all on board for the next activity.

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You will need- and I hope you do have two bats and a ball, and I can see that thomas has two bats. Does other thomas have two heaters right? We're used to having two bats for this one. Let's blend the camera down.

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I actually want you to start without the ball in your hand, and I want you to see if the camera can show it to try and pick the ball up between your backs. So you're, not even touching the ball.

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Next to my kettle, you probably can't see it that far away, so I'm gonna pick the ball up between my two fast I've now got it ready like this thomas good crouch and pose so you look like you're about to go skiing or something or boxing, so you've got the ball between your two bats and then we're gonna try to get it just going between our two bats, one of my old favorites, getting into a nice rhythm, looking good sam, looking good thomas in a really good rhythm. There cody's definitely got the ball under control.

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That's beautiful, even you're, flying around. I reckon next time, even just to make it a real challenge for you um next one after this, instead of doing it one bounce on each side can we have two bounces on each side, so.

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I'm trying to mix up your timing, looking very good.

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You could do looking around the world after each bounce, so you could do one two all right. Every single.

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Bounce come on.

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Yeah, oh, I did two.

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Try the try the around the worlds, guys that.

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Is yeah again, sam you're really challenging us this week.

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Looking good good sleep.

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And oh one thing I forgot to mention is I started with the ball between two bats? Can you try and finish with the ball between two bats, as well, so you're trying to cushion it between the two bats? It'll? Probably look a bit like this.

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So I'm actually going to keep this one simple sam. Can you start with the ball between two bats? Try and do 10 shots side to side and then catch it again, and if you can give us a thumbs up.

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If you mess it up, have another go nobody mind if we mess it up. We just keep trying one two three here.

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I wonder how fast I.

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How quickly can you start from your middle position? Do your 10 and then catch it? Okay, let's see so we all start at the same time. Fred and see see that sounds good to me, sam I'll, be the I'll be the eyes I'll have a look at who's the quickest, so everyone.

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The magic word okay is table.

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Nice, I think we had devil death thomas, it was a. I think it was literally a photo finish on that, and then I saw coding right at the end fred you're on the table. Did you join a full-time.

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Who's, the time keeper do you want to go? Do you want to be the time keeper this one? You might have more.

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I'll go for it. Sorry, the sound keeps coming out, we're gonna go for it, so the magic word is table. Tennis, isn't it.

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Okay right in a ready position, two bats with a ball in between, and bananas.

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Ping pong table.

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Oh cody and devidet that was close.

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Yeah I saw cody as soon as I finished. I saw cody. It was already ready. I didn't I didn't see. I didn't look up in the corner, but they're up there again. I've.

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Got you two in two opposite screens, so I can't see you both at the same time all right. Maybe we should have a head-to-head just cody and deputy for the championship. Oh david cody ready table tennis.

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I just mixed it denver.

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Debt good effort, but cody is today's champion. That was pretty remarkable good effort for everybody. We are now going to move on to one of my favorite warm-ups and I've just reminded myself. I might need some foreign language experts for this one. We're.

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One of my old favorites, the in and out, jumps I normally count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two one. Would anybody like to do the countdown for us, nice and loud any language you like.

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Silence anybody god's.

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A language per se, but I could do pig latin yeah- do.

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Whatever that sounds good to us,.

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So the in and out jumps are in and out double bound, so in out in out in out so tom did you say, pig latin.

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Yeah is this the different way of changing english.

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This is a new one for me when you're ready, tom, nice and loud, so I'm ready.

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For faye ife, xa evan say: hey, I'm a entei.

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I haven't no idea what you were saying thomas, but thank you very much. Anybody.

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At all, you moved the first letter to the end of the word and just that a at the end, okay, secret's out, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I've got to go.

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We'll try it um always confusing me, um I'm going to go for french backwoods. If you don't mind and I'm going to introduce you to one of my favorite words, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. Yet america, if you were with nasa, you go ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four three g, one liftoff in france.

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They have a completely different word. In fact, I will tell you it now. The french word for liftoff is al-jumaaj.

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Can we all say after three al-umaaj, so you might need to put your sound on for this ali marge three.

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So these nerf week, I'm just trying to remember my french numbers, and here we go dies.

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Hey, hopefully that is a word you will never forget. I love that word. We are now in a condition to try the thing I always find most difficult.

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Target practice.

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You will need some form of box or container um I've got a biggie barrel this one and I'm gonna try and adjust my screen down a bit. That should do the trick.

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The bigger container you get the easier it will be sam. I reckon sam if you just open your fridge. That would be a good target.

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I take it. The lid comes off, oh wow, so sam. If you hit it from if you hit it in the right place, you could even get the lid to sort of spring back down and close that we have.

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I think tom's got an easter egg.

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Box, it's gonna be difficult.

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I tried this this morning when I made my practice, video and I took three shots and I actually got one in so here's my target on the floor and to start with I'm going to play backhand shots, that's the back of my hand and I'm going to try and hit it straight into my biscuit barrel and see how we got on with this. If you keep missing, get a bit closer, if it's too easy get further away, concentrate for head concentrate come on and again.

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First time lucky: beginner's luck, everybody's disappeared off screen.

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Thomas is aiming at something different. I wonder what you're aiming at cody's got some sort of little blimey. That is a small target cody. If you can get the ball in there, cody you're, a genius.

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Good shot, mr sam and again this boy's on fire.

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It harder for you, sam.

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Can we have the ball bouncing once first before it goes in, so it's a bit like you're practicing serving last time, but about once then going. I find this incredibly difficult.

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We haven't heard much from elizabeth today. I wonder how you are getting on elizabeth. Can we have a thumbs up from you, elizabeth? If you get all into it or a little message, it will be good to hear from.

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You yeah, because it's only the size of my fist, all right.

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That would be absolutely tiny if you can get something like a big fruit bowl or something that might be easier target. The side of your fist challenge promises, looking concentrated.

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That's definitely harder fred trying to serve oh yeah. No, that's why we're practicing it.

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Now we have very little time left. In fact, let's just double check. According to my clock, we only have one minute left. We are going to do one more thing, but before we do that, I am going to say thank you for joining us over the last three four five or more weeks, it's been great, uh having you being enthusiastic every tuesday morning, I know for some of us, it's been a struggle even getting out of bed.

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If this has been something that has motivated you to get out of bed every tuesday morning, then it's a winner um next tuesday morning, quite a lot of you are going to be back at school again, um a half past 10, if you're in the middle of a boring, maths, lesson or geography, lesson just think of a ping pong ball for half a minute and it might put a smile on your face.

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um Who knows we might go into a lockdown again if that happens in december, or something we'll try and start something like this up again.

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um If the ping pong parlor opens up in the next few weeks, I am going to try and do a teenagers club at the ping pong parlor and definitely all of you would be welcome. I would be in touch I'm going to stop talking last thing. Before we go a little bit freestyle.

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I would like you, you can belt the ball anywhere, but I want you to try and see. Can you try and control it again afterwards, so fingers crossed that this works? It's a bit like you doing, but occasionally you're going to hit it against something, and then can you control it afterwards, so I'm going to aim at the wall behind the camera.

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Can I then control the ball afterwards.

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A little bit fragile, guys, yeah good point.

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I, like it thomas that went flying past you.

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I tried this against the ceiling earlier and I was absolutely no good at all.

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Looking good tom.

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Looking good thomas.

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I can't believe how quickly the time has gone today.

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I reckon it's gonna have to be some time to say goodbye, um any last messages before we go sam.

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Just I guess thank you guys for for being so good in the well over locked down and in the last four weeks. um I hope you enjoyed yourself uh and I think we'll if everyone comes off from you and we'll give fred a big thank you for all of his help and all of his videos he's created. That'll be absolutely perfect. So if we can all come off the new and on we'll go three two one.

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Thank you frank. Thank you, everybody, but.

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Yeah, I've definitely been you've, definitely been a smashing group and I would say, because I've never used zoom before very much I'm doing this stuff in the kitchen. I've learned an awful lot. I just hope you have as well, and on that note I salute you.