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.
For years, players and coaches have believed in the importance of early specialization in table tennis. In my dissertation, one of the most common answers I heard from players, when asked “Which factors do you think prevented you from reaching…
If you caught any of the table tennis at the recent London 2012 Olympic Games, you will have noticed that China completely dominated. They completed their second straight clean sweep of the medals (they did it in Beijing too!), winning…
So, you would like to become a professional table tennis player, or at least learn how to make some significant improvements to your current standard. We’re all after that massive trophy really, aren’t we? In this article I will be investigating…
So you want to improve your table tennis serve… join the club. My service is probably one of the weakest areas of my game, which is stupid because it’s so important! When you are serving in table tennis you have…
A post entitled Table Tennis Rules and Regulations might sound boring, but it isn’t! At least, I hope it won’t be. In this post, I will clearly explain the most important rules of table tennis and in doing so, put…
Ariel Hsing is the current up-and-coming star of women’s table tennis. She put in a great performance at London 2012, only narrowly losing 4-2 to the eventual winner, Li Xiaoxia of China, in the third round. And she’s only 16!…
If you love coaching table tennis you may have toyed with the idea of becoming a professional table tennis coach. Wouldn’t it be great to get paid to do something that you love. To get to spend your days helping…
The tagline for the book ‘Bounce’ by Matthew Syed is ‘How champions are made’, which sets the tone for a book dedicated to searching through academic literature, and engaging with top professionals, in an attempt to determine the causes of…
While flicking through some table tennis videos on YouTube I came across this one of Paul Drinkhall’s multiball training. A big thanks to Table Tennis Talk for the video and I especially liked the use of the two camera angles.…
