{"id":1708,"date":"2022-11-24T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T04:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/?page_id=1708"},"modified":"2022-11-24T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T04:50:52","slug":"get-active-more-often-table-tennis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/get-active-more-often-table-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Active, More Often: Table Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Get Active, More Often: Table Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all who joined our table tennis come and try day as part of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/get-active-more-often\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get Active, More Often<\/a>&nbsp;program!&nbsp;<br><br>The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre was&nbsp;a hive of activity,&nbsp;with many&nbsp;sports and&nbsp;swim events, as well as&nbsp;plenty of action across the basketball and squash courts.<br><br>The Club21 group was under the expert coach of John Ind and Sean Sturrock, the Program and Participation Officer for Table Tennis Victoria. They&nbsp;had&nbsp;an amazing time learning some news tricks and also showcased&nbsp;some hidden talents. So much so that when staff and volunteers were invited to the table, it wasn&#8217;t without some hesitation!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/MT1_6590-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/MT1_6590-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/MT1_6590-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/MT1_6640-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/MT1_6640-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/MT1_6640-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A highlight of the day was when Australian Paralympic Head Coach Alois Rosario came over to the group to say hello.&nbsp;However&nbsp;before he could utter a word, Kieran had given his head a rub, breaking the ice and giving everyone a laugh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to find a table tennis association near you, you can find a list of clubs on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaaplay.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">AAA Play website<\/a>.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Coming up in November 2022 for\u00a0Get Active, More Often, Club21 will be served some skills and opportunities on\u00a0the tennis courts!<\/strong><br><br>Join Club21 for the next Get Active, More Often adventure at the home of the Australian Open, Melbourne &amp; Olympic Park on Sunday 27 November 2022 from 10am-12pm. All the details can be found\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/get-active-more-often\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Active, More Often: Table Tennis Thank you to all who joined our table tennis come and try day as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"state":[],"class_list":["post-1708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}