If you’ve ever played intermediate-level competitive table tennis you’ll know all about flat hitters. Players that poke and slap the ball instead of looping it.
Their technique is questionable at best. They do all sorts of weird and wacky things. And yet… the decent ones aren’t half difficult to beat!
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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
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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It’s less than 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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I never intended this to happen, but my table tennis coaching mantras have turned into a series. This is part three of ‘The Secret to Effortless Loops’. If you haven’t read part one or part two yet, I recommended checking them out.
Today’s blog post is all about “Palm Up, Palm Down”. I like to think of it as the “Wax On, Wax Off” of table tennis. And I think that’s helpful because it has some similarities to the fluid arm and hand movements of the martial arts.
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