A key habit that you must develop in order to become an expert table tennis player is that of self-analysis. It is not enough to simply go through the motions in the practice hall – mindlessly doing the drills assigned…
I first started playing table tennis about 16 years ago, aged 9, at the local leisure centre (Westcroft). The coach there at the time was Marc Burman and it was him who introduced me to the sport, taught me the…
A few months ago I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Laszlo Peli, co-founder of OSP Blades. I hadn’t heard of OSP Blades before he sent me an email (I’m not much of an equipment junkie) but ever since…
How to introduce Larry Hodges? It’s a tough one. He’s probably the busiest man in table tennis! Larry is a full-time table tennis coach at Maryland Table Tennis Center in the US. He also runs the website TableTennisCoaching.com and writes a…
If you haven’t heard of racketlon before you need to check it out. It’s an incredible sport that combines table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis to determine who is the best all round racket sports player. The sport is relatively…
Chris Main is the head coach of North Ayrshire Table Tennis Club, a thriving club located on the West Coast of Scotland in Saltcoats. Saltcoats is a small town about 45 minutes away from Glasgow but Chris is on a…
The following blog post is Chapter 1 of Expert in a Year: The Ultimate Table Tennis Challenge, in full. The book was written by myself and Sam Priestley detailing our experience of The Expert in a Year Challenge we undertook…
Adam Gittings is 18 years old, lives in Doncaster, and has Asperger syndrome, dyspraxia, and type 1 diabetes. Three years ago he was invited to a South Yorkshire disabled sports trial day at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield,…
Tin-Tin Ho first picked up a table tennis bat at the age of two. Three years later, on her 5th birthday, her father announced that she was now ready to begin training for table tennis. She began playing at home…
