The general rule is based on our Biblical scripture from Luke 6:31 “Do to others as you would have them do to you”. Therefore, we expect mutual respect to each others. No foul languages are allowed any time during the meeting. You can download this document for reference.
Traffic Rule:
Reduce your speed if you are driving along the Old Spring Road as you enter the church. Especially on winter snowy days, this road becomes very small, narrow and slippery and extra caution is needed for safety reason, and for a good witness to the neighbors, complaining about the speeding.
Parking Rules:
Do not park along the fire lane (the entrance drive-way to church parking lot). Do not park on reserved spots for handicapped. Do not park along the circle near the side-entrance door.
Please drive all the way to the three main parking lots and park your cars in one of them. There should be plenty of parking space for this group.
For detail information, please check out the map in church parking.
Table Etiquettes:
There are ten Table Tennis tables; one table used as robot station in a semi-private room, three tables for youth in the room next to the robot station room, and the rest seven tables for adult.
While you are playing on one table, please be considerate to others who are waiting long in line.
While you are playing in one table, please be considerate to others who are waiting long in line. You can either use a timer (either 10 minutes or 20 minutes) or initiate a match with the opponent. The loser comes out; the winner stays up to maximum of two matches. If more people are waiting for the tables, please consider playing double matches.
Please take off your street shoes or snow boots which causes dark colored scratches and streaks on the floor. We often receive complaints from the cleaning service mostly about this problem.
Game Rules:
Depends on whether it is busy or not, you can either play best-of-three or best-of-five match with 11 point score game. Whoever scores 11 points by a margin of 2 wins the game.
Robot Station:
Robot station could accommodate up to 5 or 6 players with each player limited to either 5 or 10 minutes. If you are the next player waiting in the line, please help picking up the balls from the floor and feed them into the robot bucket.
Since the robot is used mostly for training the beginners, we prefer a fixed position of the robot head (either forehand or backhand). Do not rotate the robot head, change the speed or the spin. If you don’t know how to operate the robot, please contact one of the coordinator. If you change the setting of the robot (e.g. under spin or side spin), you must put it back into the normal position (which is the top spin).
We suggest you to have partners to take turns between each other, one collecting the balls into the robot bucket, while you are hitting against the robot, and vice versa.
Safety Rules:
No food or drinks are allowed near the Table Tennis tables to avoid the spill. On Saturday potluck dinner day, avoid dropping any trash or food left-over on the floor. Help collect and discard them into the trash bins.
No running is allowed near the players while the game is in progress.
Heating/Electricity Usage Guidelines:
You are encouraged to have pre-game stretch out and exercises to warm up your body before jumping onto the ping pang tables. Once you are warm up, we encourage you NOT to turn on any heat thermostat. This is one way to make you exercise harder and, in the other way, we save the cost of heating for the church.
Turn off all lights (heat) when the meeting is done.
Dining Tables & Chairs:
After Thursday night meeting, the dining tables and chairs are left empty as the way they are, so that the basement space can be used again on Saturday night meeting.
After Saturday night meeting, the dining tables and chairs are moved back to get ready for the next day Sunday lunch.
Please make sure no chairs or tables blocking the doors of the Elevator Machine Room and other Utility Rooms near the elevator. We have received several complaints in the past when the service/repair men could not enter these rooms in emergency case.
Church Properties:
Since we are operating table tennis activity within a church basement, we should cherish other church properties used by other church groups, such as musical instruments, sound equipment, books, and toys, and (last but not the least) chairs and dining tables. Please take best effort to maintain and protect these properties from being abused or broken.
Waiver of Liability and Release:
You are required to sign the form “Waiver of Liability and Release”. You can get the form from the coordinator of TTOF when you show up, or you can download the form, sign the form and return to the coordinator of TTOF.
