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Alex Horscroft: Serving Your Way to County Champion (Bonus Interview)


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The Expert Table Tennis Podcast is back (finally). But we’re currently in lockdown because of coronavirus, so I thought I’d do something different. In this episode, I’m joined by Alex Horscroft – a new guest writer for the Expert Table Tennis blog!

Alex only started playing table tennis at the age of 12 and he admits that he didn’t even take it very seriously at first. Despite that, he managed to become the top-ranked junior in his county of Suffolk. And interestingly, he attributes his success to the quality and deceptiveness of his serves.

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Talent, Practice, and Why Harrie Almost Quit Table Tennis (S02E08)


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This is Episode #8 of The Expert Table Tennis Podcast with Ben Larcombe and Harrie Austin-Jones. This month we’re talking talent, practice, and why a few weeks ago Harrie almost quit table tennis altogether!

If you’ve ever worried that you might be untalented and felt on the verge of quitting, this is the episode for you! I hope it’ll also be interesting for anyone who’s pondered the impact that natural talent has on your table tennis potential.

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10 Table Tennis Christmas Gift Ideas (2020)


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It’s just over a month until Christmas, which means it’s time to start thinking about buying presents (and writing your own Christmas lists too). So, what are the best Christmas gifts for a table tennis player?

In this article, I’ll go through some of my favourite table tennis gift ideas and show you a few of the things that have made it onto my Christmas list. There’s a mixture of stocking fillers (small/cheap gifts) and more expensive presents.

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Table Tennis Stance and Ready Position (with Fan Zhendong)


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Table tennis stance is the second aspect of table tennis technique that I teach to my players. The first is the correct shakehands table tennis grip.

This post is part of my How to Play Table Tennis series. Today we’ll be whizzing through how to stand, where to stand, and why. And we’ll be using the great Fan Zhendong as our example!

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Tom Lodziak: How to Crush It as an Adult Beginner (Bonus Interview)


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Harrie’s not been very well this month so this is a special bonus episode of The Expert Table Tennis Podcast with Ben Larcombe. In this episode, I’m joined by Tom Lodziak for a chat about how to crush it as an adult beginner.

Like Harrie, Tom didn’t start playing table tennis until his mid-twenties. Over the past 12 years, he’s worked hard to improve his game, move up the levels, and he now competes (very well, I might add) in the top division of the Cambridge Table Tennis League.

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