Ducks Makes a Splash: Their New Spin on Melon (by Steve Hopkins) August was a big news month for Ducks Eatery, a restaurant on East 12th Street in New York City. They introduced a dish featuring smoked watermelon and the internet went crazy. The original YouTube video posted by Food Insider has 2.3 million views, and […]
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How to Punish those Slow, Spinny Loops
How to Punish those Slow, Spinny Loops (By Larry Hodges) It’s almost a cliché that players have more trouble with slow, spinny loops than faster ones, at least below the higher levels. There’s a simple reason for this – slow, spinny loops are mostly against backspin, and come out with a higher spin-to-speed ratio than […]
Gold in Luxembourg for Puerto Rico’s Afanador
Gold in Luxembourg for Puerto Rico’s Afanador (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) The Luxembourg Open Table Tennis Championships was held a week ago in Kirchberg in the Northeast quarter of Luxembourg City. The tournament’s top seed was Lioney Weber of Switzerland. There were 42 participants in all, with nearly all representing European countries. Nicholas Tio represented […]
WAB FEATURED CLUB: Table Tennis Minnesota
WAB FEATURED CLUB: Table Tennis Minnesota (by Steve Hopkins) Table Tennis Minnesota has three locations in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area. The Training Center location is on Concord Street in South St. Paul, the Jewish Center location is on Cedar Lake Road in Minneapolis, and the Bloomington Armory location is in Bloomington. The Training Center is open […]
Hurricane Florence: A Heavy Spin Serve in to the Coast of North Carolina
Hurricane Florence: A Heavy Spin Serve in to the Coast of North Carolina (by Steve Hopkins) Bowmar Sports / Butterfly North America announced earlier this week that operations would likely be affected. In the announcement, we asked that orders be placed by Wednesday so that shipping could be done before the storm arrived. While the […]
Develop Ball Control by Playing with Different Surfaces
Develop Ball Control by Playing with Different Surfaces (By Larry Hodges) Today’s tip will be controversial. Some might not agree the following, but I’ve found it to be consistently true, and it makes sense if you think about it. Have you ever noticed how some players seem to have great ball control? They can seemingly […]
WAB FEATURED CLUB: Texas Table Tennis Club
WAB FEATURED CLUB: Texas Table Tennis Club (by Steve Hopkins) The Texas Table Tennis Club (“TTT”) is one of the largest table tennis clubs in the State of Texas. They have 12 Butterfly tables on red rubber flooring in a 6500 square foot facility. The ceiling is 13 feet high with excellent lighting. The club […]
No, The Bruce Lee Nunchucks Ping Pong Video Is Not Real (Stop Sending it to Me. Really.)
No, The Bruce Lee Nunchucks Ping Pong Video Is Not Real (Stop Sending it to Me. Really) (by Steve Hopkins/Photo credit: Warner Bros.) There is a video clip showing Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks (also called “nunchuks” or “nunchaku” – two sticks held together with a chain or rope and used as a weapon). […]
The Flat Smash That Isn’t
The Flat Smash That Isn’t (By Larry Hodges) Many players with good looping strokes, and others that don’t, have trouble doing “flat” smashes because they don’t understand what the shot is – or more exactly, what it isn’t. The main thing to understand about a flat smash is that it is NOT flat. There is […]
September ITTF Rankings: China Sān
September ITTF Rankings: China Sān (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) In China the word for “three” is sān, and the written character is three horizontal lines. Three is among the lucky numbers in China in part due to the closeness in pronunciation to the word for life (or “to live”). In September, “three” has certainly […]
Ducks Makes a Splash: Their New Spin on Melon
September 21, 2018
Ducks Makes a Splash: Their New Spin on Melon (by Steve Hopkins) August was a big news month… Read More
AMICUS Training Tips Series: Irregular Practise Tips (Random Mode) with Richard Prause
September 20, 2018
AMICUS Training Tips Series: Irregular Practise Tips (Random Mode) with Richard Prause (Courtesy of ButterflyMag) Welcome to the… Read More
Tenergy 05 Hard: Reviewed by Current US National Team Coach, Stefan Feth
September 18, 2018
Tenergy 05 Hard: Reviewed by Current US National Team Coach, Stefan Feth I tested the “Tenergy 05 Hard”… Read More
WAB Featured Club: PongPlanet 6th Anniversary
September 18, 2018
WAB Featured Club: PongPlanet 6th Anniversary (by Bruce Liu) According to Business Insider, 99.7% of all business in… Read More
How to Punish those Slow, Spinny Loops
September 17, 2018
How to Punish those Slow, Spinny Loops (By Larry Hodges) It’s almost a cliché that players have more… Read More
Gold in Luxembourg for Puerto Rico’s Afanador
September 17, 2018
Gold in Luxembourg for Puerto Rico’s Afanador (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) The Luxembourg Open Table Tennis Championships… Read More
2018 Fall SpinMaster TT Tournament
September 16, 2018
2018 Fall SpinMaster TT Tournament (Courtesy of Grapevine Ping Pong Club) When: October 21st (Sunday), 2018. Where: The… Read More
AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Use Interval Training in Table Tennis with Richard Prause
September 14, 2018
AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Use Interval Training in Table Tennis with Richard Prause (Courtesy of ButterflyMag)… Read More
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