The Expert Table Tennis Podcast is an audio show featuring a conversation between me (Ben Larcombe) and a variety of different table tennis players and coaches.
Ever since I started The Expert Table Tennis Podcast, back in April, Dora Kurimay has been on my list of guests I wanted to have on the show. That shouldn’t come as a surprise because Dora is a former Hungarian…
Tom Lodziak is a Cambridge-based table tennis coach who blogs over at www.tabletenniscoach.me.uk and offers one-to-one coaching to players of all ages and abilities. Back in May, Tom made the trip to Austria to visit the Werner Schlager Academy Table…
This is part two of my conversation with English table tennis coach Marc Burman. If you haven’t yet listened to part one you can check that out here. Marc Burman was my first ever table tennis coach and coached me…
I first started playing table tennis about 16 years ago, aged 9, at the local leisure centre (Westcroft). The coach there at the time was Marc Burman and it was him who introduced me to the sport, taught me the…
How to introduce Larry Hodges? It’s a tough one. He’s probably the busiest man in table tennis! Larry is a full-time table tennis coach at Maryland Table Tennis Center in the US. He also runs the website TableTennisCoaching.com and writes a…
If you haven’t heard of racketlon before you need to check it out. It’s an incredible sport that combines table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis to determine who is the best all round racket sports player. The sport is relatively…
Chris Main is the head coach of North Ayrshire Table Tennis Club, a thriving club located on the West Coast of Scotland in Saltcoats. Saltcoats is a small town about 45 minutes away from Glasgow but Chris is on a…
Adam Gittings is 18 years old, lives in Doncaster, and has Asperger syndrome, dyspraxia, and type 1 diabetes. Three years ago he was invited to a South Yorkshire disabled sports trial day at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield,…
Tin-Tin Ho first picked up a table tennis bat at the age of two. Three years later, on her 5th birthday, her father announced that she was now ready to begin training for table tennis. She began playing at home…
