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PHOTO CONTEST: Win An Autographed Blade

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  ENTER YOUR PHOTO FOR OUR FACEBOOK CONTEST AND TRY TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED BLADE! The Photo with the Most LIKES Wins.  The Prize? A Butterfly Harimoto Innerforce ALC Autographed Blade! HOW TO ENTER Take photo of your Butterfly racket or rackets (with or without rubber) OUTDOORS. (Please don’t submit photo of the racket indoors) Send photos to […]

WAB CLUB FEATURED: Folsom Table Tennis Club

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(By Steve Hopkins) The Folsom Table Tennis Club has two locations in Folsom, California to the Northeast of Sacramento.  The Folsom Sports Complex location has ten tables and there are twelve more at the Rusch Park Gym location in Citrus Heights. Between the two locations, the Folsom Table Tennis Club serves about a hundred players each […]

USATT’s Thursday Night Live Series: Jennifer Wu puts Nittaku on the Board

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(by Steve Hopkins) USA Table Tennis conducted its fourth Challenge Series event on Thursday.   This week, “America’s First Virtual Table Tennis Challenge” matched Jennifer Wu (2473) for Team Nittaku against Tahl Leibovitz  (2457) for Team Butterfly.  Table tennis is one of the few sports where men and women compete against each other in major tournaments […]

PINGPOD featured on Balitang America

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(Courtesy of Balitang America) PINGPOD: FIL-AM ENTREPRENEUR’S INNOVATIVE WAY TO MAKE TABLE TENNIS SAFE TO ENJOY AMID PANDEMIC NEW YORK — With social distancing in mind, PingPod is also the future of table tennis. PingPod co-founder and chief product officer, Ernesto Ebuen, said PingPod is the world’s first network of autonomous table tennis pods. Each “pod” is fully run […]

Take Table Tennis Photos Like a Pro

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(by Steve Hopkins) In this week’s PongNow interview, USATT’s Photo Historian Mal Anderson shared some tips on how to take the perfect table tennis photo.  A two minute segment of that interview is posted below (click here for the full PongNow interview ).  This article collects tips and tricks from Mal Anderson, Truong Tu, and […]

More NBA (table tennis) Updates

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(by Steve Hopkins) The NBA restart is underway, and table tennis side games continue. Most recently, fans were treated to photos of  Dallas Mavericks Luka Doncic and Boban Marjanovic (photo above) making a full size table look really, really small.   Not to be outdone, the Utah Jazz posted photos of their team table tennis […]

BUTTERFLY FAVORITES: Hitoshi Ueda Forehand Touch Serve Returns

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(by Steve Hopkins) This is a recent video posted by Japanese player Hitoshi Ueda.  It shows  two techniques for forehand short serve returns.  *I am sure there is a lot of great commentary that I am missing (with my language barrier), but the instruction is pretty straight forward (visually) in the video.  Arrows and repetition […]

BUTTERFLY FAVORITES: Anton Kallberg’s 10 Best Bundesliga Points

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(by Steve Hopkins) This is a 2019 video posted by Tischtennis Bundesliga.  It is a Top 10 list of Anton Kallberg’s best points in the German Bundesliga.  Kallberg is World No. 57 and he plays for perennial power Borussia Dusseldorf along with Timo Boll, Sharath Kamal Achanta and Krystian Karlsson. Kallberg has great technique and […]

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