Thanksgiving Tournament — Culver City Senior Center

Culver City Senior Center (CCSC) is a great success story in jump-starting a thriving ping pong community for seniors! Earlier in the year PongFit donated a competition-grade table and equipment, and it sparked a frenzy of enthusiastic play at the center. For Thanksgiving that year, PongFit helped run CCSC’s first official ping pong tournament, with a strong turnout and PongFit gear for prizes!

“Thanks to PongFit’s support provided at this event, our community had a great time. They keep asking for more!”

- Community Services Coordinator, Culver City Parks & Recreation

SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH – PING PONG PIZZA PARTY & TABLE DONATION

Safe Place for Youth (S.P.Y.) in Venice, CA provides a clean, safe, supportive community to young people experiencing homelessness. That includes housing, meals, clothing, job assistance, a computer lab, and an overall chill hangout space. PongFit partnered with S.P.Y. to throw a good ol' ping pong pizza party – on a brand new table and gear donated by PongFit! S.P.Y. now has a fun, healthy, community-building activity for its residents. WATCH VIDEO >>

“PongFit gave an upbeat, engaging presentation, showing how ping pong is great for de-stressing and fun. I most appreciated the opportunity for our members to show off their skills and enjoyment of the sport. I didn't realize we had so many ping pong enthusiasts on site! Thanks for an amazing event!”

- Program Manager, Safe Place for Youth

CULVER CITY SENIOR CENTER – TABLE DONATION & PONG PARTY

For half a century the Culver City Senior Center has served a vibrant and diverse community of seniors. Its membership is now some 5,000 strong. It offers social, disability, and emergency services, along with health, fitness, and educational classes. But until recently, no ping pong! So PongFit donated a table and equipment to the center, and co-hosted a ping pong party for an enthusiastic group. The center now has open play hours on its weekly schedule, with healthy participation. We call that a success! WATCH VIDEO >>

“Thank you, PongFit, for your huge part in our event! The seniors loved it and are extremely excited to start using the table. It was great to see so many smiles and seniors on their feet and active!”

- Community Services Supervisor, Culver City Parks & Recreation

SANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITies LEAGUE – TABLE DONATION & PONG PARTY

The Santa Monica Police Activities League provides underprivileged kids a safe place to go to learn, play, or hang out with friends and mentors. PongFit donated a table and ping pong equipment to the center so the kids could enjoy a healthy, social activity for a long time to come. We had a great time playing with the kids, eating some ice cream, and showing them some tips and fun games. WATCH VIDEO >>

“Our youth had a blast playing with and learning from the PongFit team. I look forward to watching the kids play a lot more on our new table — thank you! It made my day seeing how excited they were.”

- Program Supervisor, Police Activities League

EXHIBITION AND PLAY AT ASIAN WORLD FILM FESTIVAL

PongFit procured a table and set up an exhibition near the red carpet at this international film festival held in L.A. Actors from Crazy Rich Asians were there, among others. We played with festival guests and VIPs, to raise awareness of this great game. It provided a healthy stretch of physical and social activity for the guests before and after films. WATCH VIDEO >>

“What a great idea… to entertain our VIPs, filmmakers, and visitors in our lounge. It was such a treat and most of all what a healthy way to spend time, relax, and enjoy. Please come back next year!”

- Film Festival Executive Director

interactive ping pong demo at worldz conference

The cutting-edge WORLDZ conference of creative innovation and business culture took place at the swanky Performing Arts Hall in Long Beach’s Convention Center. Luminaries from tech, marketing, and pop culture swirled in the mix of talks, seminars, and interactive experiences. From Shaquille O’Neal to the Buzzfeed CEO to marketing heads from Calvin Klein, Vans, and T-Mobile, hundreds of forward thinkers shared their visions of impacts we can all make. PongFit was happy to demo high level, invigorating table tennis to hundreds of attendees, promoting workplace and community wellness through the sport. And we got to share the table with many enthusiastic hitters!

“PongFit’s creative approach to ping pong fit right in with our conference themes of building culture and community immersion. We saw our attendees benefit in many ways from a fun PongFit presence. Thank you!”

- WORLDZ Experiential Director

exhibition at L.A. Open

The prestigious L.A. Open table tennis tournament, with some 200 regional and national-level players, ran alongside a unique ‘Ping Pong Fit’ festival at the Long Beach Convention Center. A VIP delegation from China visited the event to promote cultural relations between our two countries. PongFit Pro volunteers interacted with tournament visitors and played with kids, parents, and everyone who wanted to get a rally going. “PongFit Pete” the table tennis T-Rex made an appearance too. The tournament organizers invited him to play Olympian Wei Wang at center court before the Finals. WATCH VIDEO >>

World Table Tennis Day – April 6

Table tennis is the ultimate inclusive sport, accessible to virtually all players regardless of age, skill level, gender, income, religion, or geography. The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) created World Table Tennis Day in 2015 to celebrate and grow this amazing sport. Recently, there were 914 events in 107 countries around the planet that celebrated the day! PongFit hosted its own fest on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, with open play for all. We had about 250 visitors engaged, from at least 11 different countries. And of the 900+ worldwide events, the ITTF Foundation gave awards for the top 13 — including PongFit! WATCH VIDEO >>

“The Third Street Promenade had ping pong tables set up – what a pleasant surprise! I’m a 77-year-old grandmother and I had a great time playing ping pong with my son there. The people running it were very pleasant and fun. They even put on a professional demonstration for us. I love when our community puts on this type of event. We need to do these more often.”

- Event Visitor

“PONG ON THE PROMenade”

Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. wanted to increase visitor engagement at its renowned Third Street Promenade. So they approached PongFit. We set up and managed a summer series of open play on five tables every Wednesday through the prime summer season. 1,400 engaged visitors later, we look back at a fun and successful happening - which included a T-Rex playing table tennis! WATCH VIDEO >>

“We wanted to increase visitor engagement on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and PongFit provided a great solution: A summer series of open ping pong play in the evenings! PongFit guided us through the whole process of sourcing equipment, setting it up, and then managed more than 1,000 visitors smoothly and professionally. It was great fun and family-friendly.”

- Promenade Special Events Manager