Tip of the week: Make Up-and-Coming Players Your Rivals – and Stay With Them!

Posted on August 14, 2018

Tip of the week: Make Up-and-Coming Players Your Rivals – and Stay With Them! (By Larry Hodges) Here’s a little trick that will give you both incentive to improve, and lead to real improvement. Next time you are at your club, pinpoint someone who is perhaps a little weaker than you, or perhaps your level, […]

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Bty Training Tips: Wenting Zha – Wide Angle Serve

Posted on August 13, 2018

Bty Training Tips: Wenting Zha – Wide Angle Serve (By Brian Pace/Wenting Zha) The training video comes by way of Wenting Zha. It is a drill focused on wide angle serves. Hello, my name is Wenting and welcome to Butterfly’s Training Tips. One of the advantages of being left-handed is being able to create difficult […]

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2018 Butterfly MDTTC August Open

Posted on August 12, 2018

2018 Butterfly MDTTC August Open USATT 3-Star Sanctioned Tournaments Over $2750 in cash prizes Dates: August 18-19, 2018 Venue: Maryland Table Tennis Center Location: Gaithersburg, MD Contact: MDTTC, 301-519-8580 To Register :  In Person at MDTTC: drop off the completed Entry Form(pdf) with payment to MDTTC. Online with credit card: via Paypal at Omnipong By Mail: […]

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Bowmar Sports sponsoring Alzheimer’s fundraiser tournament

Posted on August 10, 2018

Bowmar Sports sponsoring Alzheimer’s fundraiser tournament Play to end Alzheimers. Proceeds go to Alzheimers research. www.alz.org/utah/ Location: Salt Lake City Table Tennis (SLCTT) – 3572 South 1950 West, West Valley City Utah 84119 Time: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm A,B,C Singles $30 Singles will start at 9am with seeding matches. Seeding will be two matches. […]

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Never Think About Winning or Losing While Playing – Excise the Thought and Play Well!

Posted on August 9, 2018

Never Think About Winning or Losing While Playing – Excise the Thought and Play Well! (by Larry Hodges) To some, this might be obvious. We’ve all had that experience where you wanted to win so badly that you get nervous, and your whole game fell apart. It might happen for a number of points, or […]

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AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Receive to Long and Short Serves Richard Prause

Posted on August 8, 2018

AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Receive to Long and Short Serves Richard Prause (Courtesy of ButterflyMag) Welcome to the fourth episode of the new Butterfly AMICUS Training Tips Video Series. In this series Butterfly coaching expert Richard Prause will guide you through a number of coaching videos on how you can effectively use the […]

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AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Use Different Ball Frequencies with Richard Prause

Posted on August 6, 2018

AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Use Different Ball Frequencies with Richard Prause (Courtesy of ButterflyMag) Welcome to the third episode of the new Butterfly AMICUS Training Tips Video Series. In this series Butterfly coaching expert Richard Prause will guide you through a number of coaching videos on how you can effectively use the new […]

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Former Polish Player returns to Table Tennis

Posted on August 6, 2018

Former Polish Player returns to Table Tennis (by Ayan K. Bagchi) MDTTC player Joanna Kubler-Kielb, mother of two boys, returned to competitive table tennis after more than 30 years and won the Bronze Medal in Women’s Doubles at the 2018 World Veteran’s Championship in Las Vegas last month. When did you start playing table tennis? […]

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Bty Training Tips: Coach Li – Forehand Attack Exercises (Video)

Posted on August 6, 2018

Bty Training Tips: Coach Li – Forehand Attack Exercises The training video by Coach Li of NYITTC.  It is a set of multi-ball exercises focusing on skill development of the forehand attack. Three Exercises: Side to Side Movement (Forehand Attack) Random Play Inside Forehand Court (Forehand Attack) Covering the Entire Table (Forehand Attack) The goal […]

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WAB CLUB FEATURE: ICC Table Tennis

Posted on August 3, 2018

WAB CLUB FEATURE: ICC Table Tennis (By Steve Hopkins) HISTORY ICC Table Tennis has humble beginnings.  They started in 2004 with two tables in the lobby of the Indian Community Center in Milpitas, California.  Initially, the focus was recreational play, but they quickly attracted a number of enthusiastic players and by 2008, the group had […]

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