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If you want to improve your overall level in table tennis, spending a bit of extra time working on your serve is probably a good idea. A strong serve can be the difference between being an intermediate and advanced player,…

Do you ever feel like your table tennis team mates are actually your most significant opponents? Or are you a coach or club owner struggling to manage the dynamics of your players in regards to team or squad selection. Table…

In my last post, “Are Table Tennis Drills a Waste of Time“, I attempted to objectively look at the effectiveness of the drills we perform in our practice sessions. It was quite a long post (“You can say that again!”)…

“Hang on a second! Did he just say what I thought he said?” “A coach, questioning the effectiveness of drills, surely there’s been a mistake!” Don’t worry, I haven’t gone mad. It’s worth pointing out as well that I’ve spent…

This post is all about the physical side of our sport – table tennis fitness, to be specific – and to make this article the best it can be I’ve enlisted the help of an expert, Steve Brunskill. Steve is…

Drill #3 in Level 2 of my How to Play Table Tennis series continues to use alternate backhand and forehand strokes but now incorporates a slightly more advanced movement pattern, with forehand being played both from the middle of the…

Today’s drill really builds on ‘2 Backhands, 2 Forehands‘ drill covered in Level 2.1. We’ll be cutting down the number of strokes played on each wing from two to one and that’ll means you’ll need to be much better at…

Hello and welcome to the first lesson of Level 2 from my How to Play Table Tennis series. You should now be able to play 100 forehand drives, 100 backhand drives, 100 forehand pushes and 100 backhand pushes with correct…

TenZone Ultra is the latest rubber to be released by Adidas and they were kind enough to send me a sheet to test and review. This is the first time that I have done a full review for a piece…