a blog.

As I mentioned in my previous blog post from a few months ago, I've been taking table tennis seriously and trying to reach a rating of 2000. As of this writing, I've been playing seriously for about 8 months (since 10/2018), and you can see my progress below. month end club 1 club 2 club 3 USATT rating (avg) 10/1/2017 670 850 760 11/8/2017 900 900 12/3/2017 1059 1059 1/17/2018 1058 1058 2/18/2018 1128 1128 3/21/2018 1231 1250 1241 5/9/2018 1304 1280 1292 5/10/2018 1296 6/1/2018 1399 1446 1480 1446 1444 I have been making steady progress and improved my rating from 800 to ~1450 in 8 months, which is pretty good by most standards.  I played my first USATT tournament in Sacremento back in May.  I did pretty well, including upsetting a 1600 rated player, and achieved a USATT rating of 1446. Some observations: There are some key skills that I had to learn at each level / rating tier in order to reach the next.  I will try to summarize them below. ...

My first drone video! I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but I've finally create a drone montage video of all my travels.   It was fun making this video. I learned how to use Adobe Premiere and I hope to make even more content to post on Youtube in the future.  Some of the things that I plan to create include: - data science learning videos - travel videos - life vlogs - funny videos