Ashley: If you are new in table tennis, you are obviously looking for some new helpful ways to get you playing as soon as possible.
Which term do you prefer, table tennis or ping pong?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: Of course it's table tennis.
Ashley: Hi, welcome to WatchMojo.com, I am your host Ashley, and toady is the opportunity to speak to Canadian champion Pierre-Luc Hinse.
Pierre-Luc Hinse: Ping pong, it sounds more like garage and basement, so table tennis, its more like the professional way to say it.
Ashley: Can you tell us a little bit about the history for table tennis and why it became so popular?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: It started in England many years ago and then it became very famous in China.
Ashley: Is there a difference between competing in America, Europe, and China?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: There is a huge difference. It's much more professional in Europe and Asia, training is very strict there. In China, for example, it's all their life. They don't have to worry about -- like the food is given and everything, so it's only table tennis.
Ashley: So can you tell us a little bit about the rules for table tennis.
Pierre-Luc Hinse: Now it's games of 11, two serves each. So you can serve all over the table. It has to be first bounce on your side and then second bounce on the other side, over the net. It can touch the edge, it's good. If it touch the net and goes on the other side, it's good too. When you serve, it touched the net and goes on the other side, then you restart the serve.
Ashley: What quality traits do you think someone should have to be a good table tennis player?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: The technical part needs to be strong, physical part, tactical part. I mean, mentally it can be very hard sometime. You have got to take the risk sometime. Sometime you can get really pissed off. I mean, if you lose yourself, then you are like finished for the game. You always have to have good self-control, and tactically of course it's always changing, and the person would change something tactically, so you have got to adapt yourself, you have got to always find solution.
Ashley: How many hours do you train a day?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: Six hours a day. Three hours of training in the morning, three hours of training in the afternoon, and in the evening, I would do like physical training, like one hour, one hour-and-a-half. So it's taking all day.
Ashley: What is the longest match that you have played?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: About 45 minutes, it's quite a long time.
Ashley: Who won?
Pierre-Luc Hinse: I am pretty sure I won.
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