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.
What is the most important stroke in table tennis? The serve? The loop? The topspin? The block? In today’s post I’m going to be putting forward the humble push as potentially the most important of them all! “The push!?”, you…
If you have spent even a tiny amount of time working with a coach to try and improve your table tennis I bet you’ve been told to try and be more ‘relaxed’ when you play. For us coaches, it seems…
In a nutshell, I’m using today’s post as another opportunity to convince you of the power of filming yourself playing table tennis. But I’ll also go a bit more into the reason why you need to start filming and analysing your own…
Today’s post is a collection of thoughts I had whilst watching Sam play at a local club this week. I realised that if you want to get good at table tennis… YOU NEED TO BECOME YOUR OWN COACH! The problem is…
Table tennis is a brilliant sport to get into at any age. Why? Well, because unlike many other sports, such as football and tennis, you can continue playing competitive table tennis well into your 50s, 60s and beyond. Learn to…
I’ve always been a bit obsessed with table tennis rankings and ratings. Like many players I used to track my ranking each month and often know before I left the tournament hall how many points and I gained (or lost)…
Als Trainer werde ich häufig gefragt, “Was ist der beste tischtennisschläger für anfänger?”. Dies ist eine wichtige Frage. Als Anfänger brauchen Sie nicht gleich den besten Schläger der Welt, aber Sie benötigen einen Schläger, der es Ihnen erlaubt, dem Ball…
If you’re new to table tennis and just looking for a good quality first bat then I would recommend you check out my post The Best Table Tennis Bat for Beginners. If you’ve been playing for a while, and you’re…
Over the last few years there has been a lot written about the roles of talent and practice in the process of skill acquisition and the development expertise. The majority of this (Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Bounce by Matthew Syed,…
