Ben Larcombe

It’s the penultimate day of Werner Schlager Week here at ExpertTableTennis.com! So far we’ve covered; service and service return, stroke development, and technique and tactics. Today’s quotes look at the area of physical training for table tennis. In the book, Werner splits up his chapter…

I started day one of Werner Schlager Week on Monday with nine table tennis tips from Werner focusing on the area of service and service return. Yesterday was a long one, covering tips for all the major table tennis strokes. Today, we…

I started day one of Werner Schlager Week yesterday with nine table tennis tips from Werner focusing on the area of service and service return. Today, our attention switches to stroke development. We’re going to go through all of the major…

Werner Schlager is a former world champion table tennis player from Austria. Strangely enough, it’s his birthday on Wednesday (he’ll be 44) – which is when I usually release my weekly blog post – so, to celebrate, I have decided to…

Last week I wrote about how to “read” spin serves in table tennis. Today, I’m taking it one step further and looking at how to “return” spin serves. That means you’re going to need to have mastered a wide variety…

This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m calling “A Parent’s Guide to Table Tennis”. I believe this is a really important topic as parents have a big, and often undervalued, role to play in the development…

More so than any other racket sport, table tennis is a game that is dominated by spin. A Japanese study investigating the rotation speed of serves at the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships observed a top speed of 62.5 rps (rotations per second).…

Hello, racketlon players! My name is Ben Larcombe and I’m a professional table tennis coach. On Sunday I played in my first ever racketlon tournament. It’s now Wednesday and my body still aches all over! I’m glad I did it,…