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I would like to tell you all about an adventure, an adventure like no other.
An adventure that sent me on a journey, a journey of discovery, of journey discipline and a journey of patience. (A lot of Journeying!)
A journey that meant my living room was transformed into a land where all the lamps in the house were used balanced and angled in strange positions to get the best light situation possible, a land of focus where only the tick-tocking of a table tennis ball could be heard rebounding off rubber …

The time was 5:30pm, the GPS was set and off we drove on our adventure to see our friend Matthew Van Hoek in his school concert.
You may already know Matthew, he was my team-mate for the 14km run I did a little over a month ago at the 2010 City2Surf. Together we raised almost $2,000 for a charity that is special to both of us The Starlight Foundation.
Matthew and his family came to support Stevie and I at our Table Tennis (Pingeddy Pongeddy) adventure a few weeks ago. So …

How did this Ping Pong ‘thing’ come about?
Well Stevie and I as we often do, say ‘Yes’ to many funny and ridiculous suggestions.
(These suggestions more often than not come from one of us.)
As I remember it, we were just having a casual Table Tennis game when the one of us used the ‘I’ word. This ‘I’ word nearly always means a silly but fun suggestion is about to follow.
The ‘I’ word is ‘Imagine’
“Hey dude, imagine if we entered like, a massive Table Tennis competition, a national championship. I wonder how …

Filming a Hi-5 series can be, ironically, quite a stressful time for all of us. There are a lot of lines and scenes for us to learn and perfect and unlike other productions, where there are many cast members, having just five in our cast means that we are often called on for filming each day. This in turn means there is not much down time for us over the two months or so of the filming process.
So after days upon days of line learning and rehearsing it is really …