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World Class Table Tennis Exhibitions and Special Events

Scott and Austin Preiss continue to travel the world and entertain thousands with their wide variety of trick shots and comedy. With every exciting show they play to what they preach,

From the island of Okinawa, Japan to the town of Manitou Springs, Colorado, the father and son duo continue to entertain any audience from Military Bases to Fortune 500 Companies.  Table Tennis has been an Olympic Sport for more than 20 years and most everyone has played the game before.  The highlight to Scott and Austin’s presentation is the tremendous amount of audience participation.  Scott and Austin never turn down a challenge match, and never lose to the public.  In fact, Austin has not lost a public challenge at any of the 250 table tennis exhibitions that he has performed since 8 years old.  His father, Scott, a National Table Tennis Coach and Former World Team Trainer has performed more than 2700 table tennis exhibitions worldwide and has been featured on several National Television shows such as Regis and Kathy Lee, Donny and Marie, ESPN and the Ellen Show.  If you want to impress your clients and friends, invite Scott and Austin to demonstrate and entertain the world’s fastest Olympic Sport at your next event.

“Stay active instead of being inactive”, and “A Family That Plays Together Stays Together”. 

Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Oct 20, 2009 | by AUSTIN PREISS

Most days at school someone will ask me if I am the "Ping Pong Kid." I hesitate for a moment and slowly say, "yes."

Besides table tennis, there are many things that fill my life. I spend half my time as a typical 15-year-old boy. The other half is spent traveling the world as a table tennis player and entertainer.

My story began when I was about 3 years old. My dad, Scott Preiss, is a national table tennis coach and trainer as well as a golfer. I've always pushed around a little white ball. At age 6, I played in my first table tennis tournament. At 10 I won my first junior national title. Since then, I have won seven more national junior titles and I have traveled to nine other countries.

Reaching this level was no easy task. My mom, Hong Yu Preiss, is from Shanghai, China, and I have been brought up with discipline and a hard-work ethic. My first intense table tennis training began when I was 8 years old in China. I practiced four hours a day, five days a week. It wasn't easy, but it showed me that there were no shortcuts to becoming a high-level athlete, and I had a taste for this kind of training.

I trained in Japan last summer in Sendai at a famous university there. My father is friends with one of the professors who arranged for me to train with the members of the Men's Collegiate Team. They trained like animals from 2 to 9 p.m. each day, seven days a week. I think that kind of effort really improved my level of play.

In Colorado Springs, I have two coaches, Coach Li Zhenshi and Coach Zhang Li, both World Champions. They are husband and wife and both train me for about one hour each on different techniques.