Welcome to Ben Larcombe’s table tennis blog. The Expert Table Tennis Blog features regular articles on table tennis coaching and table tennis equipment to help you improve your performance.
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,…
Ever since the launch of the iPhone in 2008, apps have taken over our lives. It’s got to the point where many people are giving up on computers and laptops completely and instead doing everything via apps on either their…
We’re into the last week of summer now (it’s absolutely boiling today) and the new table tennis season is almost upon us. Personally, I’ve had a very chilled out few months – you may have noticed I haven’t written a…
I’ve always been quite a consistent table tennis player. As a junior I was probably overcautious – I often relied on my pushing and blocking to win matches instead of using the loops I had been working on in training.…
Are DVDs still cool? I can’t remember the last time actually bought a physical DVD! Anyhow, if you are after some top quality table tennis instruction you’ll want to find the best table tennis DVDs and training videos. Perhaps physical…
