Everything takes time and practice. If you aren’t prepared for something, you aren’t going to succeed. If you want to learn how to do something for example. Be ready for it, learn it, and practice it.
One of my favorite projects this year was the innovation project which my teacher proposed to me. When I began the project, I wanted to promote my passion of ping pong to everyone. I wanted to popularize it. At first, I didn’t plan everything correctly, but everything started flowing into my head. Even though I’m in a culture where ping pong isn’t considered a primary sport nor a secondary sport, I decided it’s worth a try and anything can happen. Traditional sports here are basketball, football, baseball and such, but ping pong has never came close. Though it is really hard to gain interests from other people who most of them have never even played table tennis., but nothing is impossible.
What I did was I created a YouTube instructional video series for this project. Filming the entire thing was a blast. I enjoyed it very much and I felt proud of what I did. Even though my videos got a few views, I would still feel happy because it is just the beginning. When my brother saw the video, he actually made jokes about the video but that didn’t put me down. It actually encouraged and hyped me up even more just to hear him say something about it. The whole process took at least two weeks or so. There were many retakes because I would mess up or giggle during a take.
The reason I play ping pong is that it’s an uncommon sport but also it was passed down from my grandpa to my uncle and then onto me! Every chance I would get, I would play. Also, it is beneficial to people who play because it enhances your reaction time, keep you on your feet, and boost your hand-eye coordination. The reason is because of the tiny white or yellow ball, you have to be really focus and be able to react quick enough to hit the ball or else the ball flies past you like a jet. I learn a lot from this 30-day experience and I will continue to make more of these types of videos. One thing I learned was how to learn to take responsibility to plan everything out. I also have old videos of me playing competitive ping pong in tournaments, but I stopped because I don’t have time to play competitive anymore. This video series will continue!
In order to promote it, I put it on social media.
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