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The forehand loop is probably the most important advanced table tennis stroke you will ever learn. In the modern game the majority of attacking shots are loops and the forehand loop is particularly dominant. It is therefore an important weapon…

In a previous post I wrote about the importance of developing a super heavy backspin serve. If you are a beginner (up against another beginner) and you can serve heavy backspin you are giving yourself a big advantage. But it’s…

Last week I was contacted by fellow table tennis blogger Larry Hodges. “I’ve got a new book out!”, he said. “Brilliant!”, I thought (I’d read his book Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers and loved it). “It’s a ping pong fantasy novel.” “Oh, that sounds……

If you are a beginner, or fairly new to table tennis, learning a couple of ‘good’ serves can make all the difference in your matches. A super heavy backspin serve could easily be the difference between winning and losing a…

The following post was adapted from an email I received from Bryan Song, an Expert Table Tennis reader and follower of the Expert in a Year challenge. Bryan has a great story to tell and finds himself in a fairly…

They say that at the highest level of sport it’s an athlete’s mental strength that is the difference between winning and losing. All the top table tennis players can play the best shots, and are in great physical condition, but…

I still haven’t quite decided how important physical table tennis training is for table tennis players. There’s no question that elite-level players need to be doing physical training but should beginners and intermediate-level players be allocating any time to it? I think…

I came back to table tennis training in January after 12 months of coaching Sam for the Expert in a Year challenge. I’d been playing pretty much every day in 2014 but it certainly wasn’t deliberate practice. I felt slow and…