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The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Table Tennis (S02E02)

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This is Episode #2 of the new style Expert Table Tennis Podcast! I’m joined once again by my good friend Harrie Austin-Jones and this week we’re chatting about the ultimate beginner’s guide to table tennis.

Harrie’s been playing table tennis for about two and a half years now so, in effect, I’m asking him… “If you could go back in time to when you first started; What would you tell yourself? What would you do differently? What do you think you did right?

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Who is Harrie Austin-Jones? (S02E01)

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After a two-year break, The Expert Table Tennis Podcast is back! From now on, I’ll be joined for each episode by my good friend Harrie Austin-Jones.

This first episode (of what I’m calling “Season 2”) is your chance to get to know Harrie and his epic table tennis journey, so far.

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1 Trick to Get More Spin on Your Sidespin Serves

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I just got back from a 90-minute coaching session with Harrie. Today, I was helping him get more spin on his backhand sidespin serve and I thought it would make an excellent mini blog post.

Lots of intermediate-level table tennis players struggle to get heavy spin of their serves. Often, this is down to poor service technique/mechanics. But this isn’t the case with Harrie.

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3 Tips for Developing ‘Feeling’ in Table Tennis

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Have you ever heard a fellow table tennis player described as having great ‘feeling’? It’s clearly a good thing, but what does it actually mean? And how do we improve our table tennis ‘feeling’?

According to my good friend EmRatThich, ‘feeling’ is the first principle of the Chinese table tennis philosophy! So, here are three tips to help you develop your ‘feeling’ for the ball.

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