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How to Make Your Strengths Stronger with Serve and Receive

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(by Larry Hodges) How to Make Your Strengths Stronger with Serve and Receive Excluding serve and receive, what’s the strongest part of your game, or the part that you want to make the strongest part of your game? There’s an old adage, to state the obvious, that practice makes perfect. But doing something in practice is not […]

Tip of the week: Develop Power Timing by Slapping

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(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Develop Power Timing by Slapping Power in table tennis comes primarily from timing. Not just timing with the ball, but timing the proper use of each muscle used, in the proper order and duration, while timing all this while also hitting the ball. For example, when forehand hitting […]

Tip of the week: Tactical Thinking Between Points

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(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Tactical Thinking Between Points Everyone has their own tactical thinking ritual . . . or doesn’t have one. If you don’t, you should. What is a tactical thinking ritual? It’s when you habitually think tactically about the next point. Different players have different rituals, but most are similar. […]

Tip of the week: Serve and Attack . . . Almost Always

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(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Serve and Attack . . . Almost Always When serving, don’t look for a ball to attack. Unless the receiver does something to stop you from attacking, serve and attack over and over. If you aren’t confident in your attack, then this will make your attack much stronger and turn […]

2018 Hopes Regional Hopes Camp and Trials at MDTTC

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(By Larry Hodges) 2018 Hopes Regional Hopes Camp and Trials at MDTTC The camp had 37 players, ages 7 to 14, including many of the best 12 and under players in the northeast and other regions – including the California invasion that snagged both golds. Most were here for the Regional Hopes Trials on Sunday, […]

Tip of the week: Weaknesses Can Be Strengths

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(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Weaknesses Can Be Strengths If you have a weakness, you try to avoid using it, correct? That’s the normal thinking. However, sometimes a “weakness” can be a strength, plus (perhaps more importantly), if you use a weakness over and over, it might become a strength, or at least […]

Tip of the week: Are You a 10-8 or an 8-10 Player?

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(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Are You a 10-8 or an 8-10 Player? Some players play best when their back is to the wall – when they are down 8-10, they come alive and play like champions. Others are best when they are ahead and have more confidence in going for their shots […]

$2700 3-Star Butterfly MDTTC April Open

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$2700 3-Star Butterfly MDTTC April Open April 14-15, 2018 • Maryland Table Tennis Center • Gaithersburg, MD By Larry Hodges, tournament director Lots of five-game matches this time, with an epic seven-gamer in the Open final! What a tournament it was. Alas, I missed much of it because I was at the control desk running […]

WAB Club Feature: Maryland Table Tennis Center

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WAB Club Feature: Maryland Table Tennis Center (By Larry Hodges) The Maryland Table Tennis Center, founded in 1992, has been a successful full-time table tennis training center in the United States for almost 30 years. The club dominated play in the U.S. in the 1990s and much of the 2000s, winning over half of the gold medals […]

Tip of the week: Sound and Feet

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(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Sound and Feet The Chinese know something about table tennis, and there’s a stereotype about Chinese coaches that we can learn from. The stereotype is that in a group training session, they often walk around with their heads down as they do two things – listen to the […]

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