I’ve never had a table tennis DVD before. I’ve watched hours and hours of table tennis online but I’ve never had an actual physical copy of a table tennis DVD. That is until now. Samson Dubina, a professional table tennis player…
Table tennis bats can be expensive. I remember at the start of the Expert in a Year challenge telling Sam that mine cost almost £200, and that you have to replace the rubbers regularly, and I don’t think he could…
It’s been over a month since I last wrote a blog post! That’s pretty shocking. The Christmas and New Year period is always a busy one but this time it has been even more hectic due to it coinciding with…
This blog post is a collection of thoughts I’ve had this week about the importance of carefully selecting both our training partners and our tournament opponents. You may think that you have little choice in these matters. After all, for…
From time-to-time I convince Sam to write a blog post about his experiences of the Expert in a Year challenge. This time I didn’t have to. He came up with this idea all by himself! It’s clearly something he has…
Fan Zhendong is 17 years old and has already achieved more in table tennis than most of us can ever dream of. Does this mean we should all just give up now? Are you too old to start playing table…
What is the most important stroke in table tennis? The serve? The loop? The topspin? The block? In today’s post I’m going to be putting forward the humble push as potentially the most important of them all! “The push!?”, you…
If you have spent even a tiny amount of time working with a coach to try and improve your table tennis I bet you’ve been told to try and be more ‘relaxed’ when you play. For us coaches, it seems…
In a nutshell, I’m using today’s post as another opportunity to convince you of the power of filming yourself playing table tennis. But I’ll also go a bit more into the reason why you need to start filming and analysing your own…
