Category The Expert Table Tennis Blog

I believe to become an expert table tennis player you must master the four aspects of the game (technical, tactical, physical and mental). An expert is proficient in all four areas and can be described as a ‘complete’ player. The…

How important is it to warm up before playing table tennis? When I was training as a kid, as a member of group training sessions at Crusaders TTC, we would usually always do a warm up before getting onto the…

It would be nice to win all the battles and the war but sometimes that just isn’t possible. When it comes down to it we need to focus on winning the war.  That might mean losing a few battles along the…

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…