June 29, 2020
6 DAYS AGO - Tip of the Week
Training Down the Line.
USATT Coaching Excellence Program
As a member of the USATT Expand
6 DAYS AGO - Tip of the Week
Training Down the Line.
USATT Coaching Excellence Program
As a member of the USATT Coaching Committee, I'm helping USATT put together their upcoming Coaching Excellence Program. (Others on the committee are Pieke Franssen, Gao Jun, and Dave Fullen. USATT CEO Virginia Sung and High Performance Director Sean O'Neill are also involved.) Right now they are working on the Club Coaching Certification Program. (There are four levels - club, state, regional, national.) The biggest question is what should be taught at the Club level, which is for coaches for beginners to about 1500. It's easy to say, "They should know this, and this, and this,..." and pretty soon everything is taught at the club coach level, and there's nothing left for the State, Regional, or National level!
Here was my recommendation on what should be taught at this level. In a regular training camp, I figured you could teach all this in a barebones minimum of 12 hours, but really Collapse
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June 15, 2020
15/06/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM Eastern Time, unless I see myself shadow-practice, in which Expand
15/06/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM Eastern Time, unless I see myself shadow-practice, in which case table tennis clubs will be closed for six more weeks because of coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up: Practice Partner Collaboration - the PPC of TT. And to help tide you over, here's Pongfinity's Hole in the Racket Challenge (4:42)! Collapse
May 26, 2020
26/05/2020 - Tip of the Week
Three Types of Anticipation.
Cartoon of the Week:
Help Wanted: Table Tennis Expand
26/05/2020 - Tip of the Week
Three Types of Anticipation.
Cartoon of the Week:
Help Wanted: Table Tennis Coronavirus Smacker. I had some free time.
Still More Table Tennis Tips
As noted in my blog last week, my book "Still More Table Tennis Tips" came out last Monday! It's in both print and kindle. It's 150 Tips from 2017 to the present, organized in logical order and progression, with much of the wording updated and cleaned up. It's the third in the series, after Table Tennis Tips and More Table Tennis Tips. I've dropped the price on all three - they cost $12 each, or $7 for kindle. It's 187 pages with seven chapters:
Serve and Receive (15 tips)
Strokes (23 tips)
Footwork (10 tips)
Tactics (45 tips)
Improving (37 tips)
Sports Psychology (17 tips)
Doubles (3 tips)
Why not buy the complete set of three? You've got lots of free time to read now, right? A special thanks to Mark Dekeyser, John Olsen, and Dennis Taylor, who (as they did for the Collapse
May 4, 2020
04/05/2020 - This week's blog will go up sometime this afternoon - by 3PM or I have to sprint through a Expand
04/05/2020 - This week's blog will go up sometime this afternoon - by 3PM or I have to sprint through a local hospital without a mask, hand-in-hand with the vice president. Recently, due to the pandemic, I've taken to staying up late and getting up late, and so I got a late start this morning. (Actually, while by day I'm a table tennis coach and writer, by night I'm a vigilante superhero, Pongman, and I walk the dark alleys, looking for bad guys to smack with ping-pong balls.) The Tip of the Week is up: Don't Practice Hesitation. And while you are waiting, here's the King of Attack vs. King of Defense (15:39) - Ma Long vs. Joo Se Hyuk! And for some laughs, here's:
Legos Pong!
Here are two hilarious videos as the "Legos" version of the stars battle it out, with play-by-play by ITTF commentator Adam Bobrow!!!
Timo Boll VS Ma Long • Lego Table Tennis Animation (2:36)
Ma Long VS Fan Zhendong • Lego Table Tennis Animation (2:52) Collapse
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April 27, 2020
27/04/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to drink Clorox Cola and follow the Trump Health Expand
27/04/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to drink Clorox Cola and follow the Trump Health Plan. I'm way, Way, WAY behind today - was up late on something and so got a late start. But the Tip of the Week is up, Don't Warm Up Your Opponent During a Match. And from 1993 World Men's Singles Champion Jean-Philippe Gatien, here's Backyard Improvised Chop Doubles and Exhibition! Collapse
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June 22, 2020
22/06/2020 - Today's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to fly to Tulsa and put on a table tennis Expand
22/06/2020 - Today's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to fly to Tulsa and put on a table tennis demonstration for the huge mass of spectators at a political rally. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Do You Really Have Control of Your Shots? And to help tide you over, here's Through the Scoreboard Practice (45 sec) with Samson Dubina - and see the kid's reaction the three times he makes it! Collapse
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June 8, 2020
08/06/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM (eastern time) or I will be eaten by marauding carnivorous Expand
08/06/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM (eastern time) or I will be eaten by marauding carnivorous dinosaurs, which is what 2020 has planned for us next. But the Tip of the Week is up, How to Never Miss an Easy Smash, and to help tide you over, here's Pool Pong Lobbing and a Diving Counter-Smash (31 sec)! Collapse
May 25, 2020
25/05/2020 - Happy Memorial Day! Like many others, I'm taking today off, and so this week's blog will Expand
25/05/2020 - Happy Memorial Day! Like many others, I'm taking today off, and so this week's blog will go up tomorrow (Tuesday). However, the Tip of the Week is up: Three Types of Anticipation. To help tide you over, here's Weird Ping Pong (3:35) from Pongfinity! Plus, since I had some free time, here's a cartoon I created: Help Wanted: Table Tennis Coronavirus Smacker. Enjoy, and see you tomorrow!
How am I spending my day, you ask? I've spent part of this past weekend as a panelist at the online Balticon Science Fiction Convention, but my panels are done, so I may attend a few panels as a spectator. But I plan to spend most of today moving toward a new goal of mine - to see all 92 movies that have won best Best Picture at the Academy Awards, from "Wings" in 1928 to the present. I've seen 79 of them, including every one from 1947 to the present, so 13 to go! From the link above, from 1928 to 1946 the ones I have seen are Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Mutiny on Collapse
May 18, 2020
18/05/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to hold this pose for a week. Meanwhile, the Tip Expand
18/05/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to hold this pose for a week. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up: Mind Games: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. And while you're waiting, here's a guy setting the world record for hitting ping-pong balls with nunchucks (40 sec). Collapse
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April 20, 2020
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June 1, 2020
01/06/2020 - Tip of the Week
Do You Have a Quadruple Threat Receive?
Franchise-Based Professional US Table Expand
01/06/2020 - Tip of the Week
Do You Have a Quadruple Threat Receive?
Franchise-Based Professional US Table Tennis League
If you want to be a world-class player in the US, then the first thing you have to do after high school (after years of training!) is to get out of the US. It's almost impossible to reach a world-class level unless, at that stage, you spend a few years training and competing against the best in the world, and that means going overseas to play on a team. Most top US players who do this do so in the German leagues, where they both compete regularly against other top players (and gain experience against different styles), and train daily, usually two sessions per day, with the members of their team, along with extensive physical training and serve practice. Most top US players, from past champions Dan Seemiller, Eric Boggan, Sean O'Neill, and Jim Butler, to current US #1 Kanak Jha and other current US players, all developed extensive in European leagues. (The complication, Collapse
Joola Table Tennis - An Interview with Richard Lee
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May 11, 2020
11/05/2020 -
Tip of the Week
Five Ways to Take Away an Opponent's Big Shot.
This is the 450th Tip of Expand
11/05/2020 -
Tip of the Week
Five Ways to Take Away an Opponent's Big Shot.
This is the 450th Tip of the Week I've posted since I started putting them up every Monday starting Jan. 11, 2011, except for a few times when I was out of town. (This is in addition to 177 I did for USA Table Tennis before that, which were published as part of Table Tennis Tales & Techniques.) The first 150 went into my book Table Tennis Tips; the next 150 went into More Table Tennis Tips; these last 150 (ending with today's) make up Still More Table Tennis Tips, which comes out on June 1. The advantage of getting them in book form? I put them in logical progression, by topic, rather than in a random fashion as a weekly tip, plus you get them all right in front of you, making it easy to browse, refer to, and even make notes in the margins. Or you can download them onto a kindle, and also have instant access in logical progression . . . though no margins to scribble in!
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