Welcome to our Table Tennis Group
Table Tennis
Where We Play!
Community Center - Ardmore Room
Whenever there are changes in these restrictions, you will be informed via Email so please monitor your inbox on a regular basis.
At this time, “ Masks are discretionary”!
How to Schedule Court time
It is important to realize that any resident can use any of the Sports facilities whether or not they have registered for HMSG and/or one or more Sports groups.
In other words, simply stopping down and using a sports facility is fine if it has not already been scheduled by anyone.
To ensure that you don’t run into conflicts, it makes sense to simply schedule the resource that you would like to utilize ahead of time.
[In such a case, the group who made the reservation would have the right to the court]
We Use SKEDDA to maintain our reservations!
- You do need to do a “1” time request of SKEDDA Access if you plan on using it to schedule time for one of the Sports facilities.
- With or Without SKEDDA access, anyone may view the schedule by clicking on the link.
If you would like to stay informed of HMSG plans and events, make sure you join HMSG if you have not already done so. You will be added to that mailing list.
Likewise, if you want to know what’s going on in particular sport groups, let them know so they can add you to their unique mailing list.
Click SKEDDA image below to open SKEDDA tab..
Anyone can view the SKEDDA schedule but you need prior authorization for creating reservations. This is a “1” time process. For more information, please press the “More SKEDDA” button to the right!
Learn all about SKEDDA..
SKEDDA pronounced /sked-dah/
is a web based software system used by Hershey’s Mill for scheduling court time. Being web based means that you can schedule future playing time from any browser on any device you have. Court time can be scheduled for the following Sports Groups:
- Billiards
- Bocce
- Horseshoes
- Pickleball
- Platform Tennis
- Shuffleboard
- Table Tennis
- Tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small paddles. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net.
- Three tables available
- Paddles and balls furnished
- All skill levels welcome
Brought to us by our own Allan Shaffer…
This just might be:
“The World’s Best Brain Sport”
Most exciting, the brain benefits you reap from playing ping pong are so pronounced that it’s recommended for people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Let’s examine why bouncing a little white ball back and forth can have such amazing results for your cognitive ability.
Open Play
Currently Open Play is
The average size of a paddle blade is 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) long and 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) wide.
The international rules specify that the game is played with a sphere having a mass of 2.7 grams (0.095 oz) and a diameter of 40 millimetres (1.57 in). 
The table is 2.74 m (9.0 ft) long, 1.525 m (5.0 ft) wide, and 76 cm (2.5 ft) high with any continuous material so long as the table yields a uniform bounce of about 23 cm (9.1 in) when a standard ball is dropped onto it from a height of 30 cm (11.8 in), or about 77%.
The game was invented in England in the early days of the 20th century and was originally called Ping-Pong, a trade name. The name table tennis was adopted in 1921–22 when the old Ping-Pong Association formed in 1902 was revived. The original association had broken up about 1905, though apparently the game continued to be played in parts of England outside London and by the 1920s was being played in many countries. Led by representatives of Germany, Hungary, and England, the Fédération Internationale de Tennis de Table (International Table Tennis Federation) was founded in 1926, the founding members being England, Sweden, Hungary, India, Denmark, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Wales. By the mid-1990s more than 165 national associations were members.
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First Annual Table Tennis Christmas party - 2019
Have a Request for the HMSC ?
Please download a HMSC Request form on the right.
Fill it out and submit it to Jack Bradley (or any other member of the HMSC).
You can download it in PDF form and simply use a pen/pencil to fill it out
Have Sport Leader sign
Scan and email completed form or simply drop paper copy in their mailbox
If you prefer and are comfortable with Microsofts Word program, download a blank form in .Docx format.
fill out on your computer replacing place-holder X’s with your text.
Have Sport Leader sign
Scan and email completed form or simply drop paper copy in their mailbox
PDF will be opened in a new Browser Window
Word Document will be found in your Browsers Download Folder
Table Tennis Feedback form
If you have any questions, concerns or issues that you would like to bring to the attention of the Table Tennis Team, please give us as much detail as possible…
If you would like to join the email distribution list, please fill in name, email and street address (used to validate HM residency).
Table Tennis day to day operation is run by Dave Kagan & Bob Schullery. Thank you!