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I was watching a few table tennis videos on YouTube yesterday and stumbled across this old video of Ma Long practicing his backhand loop with multiball, fed by Liu Guoliang. I’ve seen this video before but it was only this…

If you follow the ITTF World Tour, or international table tennis in general, you’ll know all about Fan Zhendong. For those that don’t here’s a very quick overview… Fan Zhendong appeared pretty much out of the blue in 2012 as…

I’m continuing my series looking at lessons we can learn from other sports and games. Today I’m looking at basketball and in particular, the scrimmage. I have to admit I’d never heard of a scrimmage until a few months ago…

With all the research I’ve been doing for my book (looking at the late bloomers of table tennis) I’ve been coming across lots of information about the benefits of sampling sports during childhood. Aside from the psychological and social benefits…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the best strategies for playing table tennis. In particular I’ve been focusing on the different styles of play and the game-plans we can implement when we come up against certain opponents. In my…

I stumbled across a video on YouTube yesterday showing Xu Jinglei, a famous Chinese actress, mingling with the Chinese National Team in their training hall in the lead up to the 2013 World Championships and speaking to the players and…

Yesterday I stumbled across a table tennis video on YouTube from PintoTM. If you haven’t already, I recommend subscribing to his channel as he regularly releases interesting table tennis videos. This video was entitled, ‘5 Peculiarities to Become a Great…

I’ve spent the last few months thinking about how we (the table tennis community) practice; why we do the things we do and if there are any better ways to go about it. In my mind there is no argument…