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Coaching Tip Of The Week: Ten Table Tennis Truisms: Larry’s Laws

(By Larry Hodges)  If you can’t do it in your sleep, you can’t do it consistently in a match. Practice everything in your game, but focus on your strengths and weaknesses. Remove the weaknesses and turn the strengths into overpowering ones. At the higher levels, if you can see it, loop it; if you can’t […]

A Table for One: Table Tennis and Isolation

(by Steve Hopkins) With schools and events closing, and many of us banished to our homes even for work, table tennis is one of the few sports that can survive in the limited spaces we have available in our basements and other spare spaces indoors.  When this storm has passed, our sport will be one of […]

Tip Of The Week: Practice Attacking the Middle in Rote Drills

(By Larry Hodges) One of the toughest things to make a habit of in a match is attacking the middle. (That’s the midpoint between backhand and forehand, roughly the playing elbow.) There are two primary reasons for this. First, it’s a smaller and moving target than the corners, which are easier to attack. But there’s […]

WAB Club Feature: Spin & Smash Table Tennis & Ping Pong Club

(by Steve Hopkins) Central Ohio is home to Spin & Smash, a table tennis club that is part ping pong social club and part table tennis training center. The club is located on the West side of Columbus just off of I-270, the Jack Nicklaus Freeway.  The club features eleven Butterfly tables and there are leagues, classes, […]

Qatar Open Recap: Fan Wins, Pitchford Wows

(by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) The 2020 ITTF World Tour Platinum Qatar Open concluded on Sunday in Doha in an event wrought with upsets.  Two of the top seeds didn’t make it to the Quarterfinals, and World No. 1 Xu Xin fell in the Semifinal.  Ultimately, the tournament title went to Fan Zhendong – a […]

Tip of the week: Proper Forehand Technique – Circling and From Side

Tip of the week: Proper Forehand Technique – Circling and From Side By (Larry Hodges) Here’s a video (3:56) of all-time great Ma Long looping forehand, including slow motion. (It starts with one backhand loop – which you should also study! – and then goes to forehands.) Note in the video how he basically rotates his […]

Revoldia CNF – A Category Creator

Revoldia CNF – A Category Creator (By Brian Pace) Revoldia CNF – A Category Creator One of the advantages I have had with Butterfly is being a longtime equipment tester since 1986. In the 1980’s we would get a racket from Tokyo with a code imprinted on the right side of the handle. The most […]

Qatar Open Update: Upsets Early in Doha

Qatar Open Update: Upsets Early in Doha (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) The 2020 ITTF World Tour Platinum Qatar Open is underway in Doha, and two of the top seeds didn’t make it to the Quarterfinals.  As a Platinum Event, many of the World’s best are present – and that includes eight of the Top 10.  The […]

WAB FEATURED CLUB: Flushing Table Tennis Center

WAB FEATURED CLUB: Flushing Table Tennis Center (by Steve Hopkins) Flushing Table Tennis Center s is conveniently located in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City in the borough of Queens, within easy reach of major highways and public transportation.  It is to the Southeast of downtown Flushing towards Kissena Park.  A friendly atmosphere with […]

World Rankings for March: Largely Stable at the Top

World Rankings for March:  Largely Stable at the Top (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) The March rankings are out, and the Top 10 lists are largely stable.  Xu Xin maintains his narrow lead over Fan Zhendong (a 345 point margin that amounts to approximately a 2% lead in total points).  Ma Long is third, and Lin Gaoyuan is […]

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