5 HRS AGO - This week's blog will go up by 3PM or everyone learns the truth. I'm QAnon. Meanwhile, to tide you over, here's the Tip of the Week, Finding Simple Tactics That Work. And here's Another Year of Ping Pong (10:53) with some really entertaining stuff from Adam Bobrow! Collapse

04/01/2021 - Today's blog will be up by 2:30 PM or every player I ever beat in a tournament can contact the umpire or referee for the match and pressure them to find enough points for them to have won against me. I'm going to do the same - I've had some heart-breaking losses, but I'm going to be contacting those umpires and see if we can scrounge up enough points so I win. (I was up late watching movies again and so got another late start.) Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Play Both Weaker and Stronger Players. And to tide you over, here's a Christmas Paddle Video (53 sec) - "This truly is a special moment... boy gets the perfect gift this Christmas." A must watch. Collapse

14/12/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM eastern time or I have to go to law school this afternoon, get my law degree on Tuesday, get appointed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, and on Thursday rule that yes, in fact, our next president is Grogu ("Baby Yoda"). Vote Baby Yoda!!! Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Use It or Lose It! And to help tide you over, here's World's Longest Ping Pong Shot (8:02) from Pongfinity! Collapse

30/11/2020 - This week's blog will be up by 3PM, or I have to turn down my lifetime dream, Biden's invitation for me to be Secretary of Ping-Pong, a cabinet-level position that would allow me to argue for the one thing progressives and conservatives can agree on, a ping-pong table in the Oval Office. (And did you know that it is second in line to the presidency, after the VP?) Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Letting an Opponent Control Play is Risky. And to help tide you over, here's Lego Table Tennis! Women's World Cup Final: Chen Meng VS Sun Yingsha (4:09) Men's World Cup Final: Ma Long vs Fan Zhendong (3:27) Collapse

09/11/2020 - Today's blog will be up by 2PM (eastern time) or the networks have to call Alaska and North Carolina for Trump, Arizona and Georgia for Biden. Meanwhile, here's the Tip of the Week, Think Tactics, Then Let the Shots Happen. To help tide you over, here's The Craziest Table Tennis Jump Shot You Will Ever See (43 sec)! Collapse

19/10/2020 - Today's blog will be up by 2PM or I have to hold a town hall meeting where I'm asked why my strokes are too stiff, why I can't cover the wide forehand anymore, and who the heck am I anyway. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Sometimes Hit Twice to the Same Spot, and to help tide you over, here's Grunt Pong (19 sec)! Collapse

05/10/2020 - Tip of the Week Exaggerate Serving Follow-Through in "Wrong" Direction. This is B.E.S.T. Week - Buy Every Seemiller Tome! Here's the new Dan Seemiller page, where you can buy both of the books by USA's greatest modern player. (It's a relatively simple page I put together.) One teaches you how to play table tennis; the other is about his table tennis life. Here's Dan's very short resume: Dan Seemiller's USATT Hall of Fame Profile (by Tim Boggan) 5-time U.S. Men's Singles Champion: 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983 12-time U.S. Men's Doubles Champion: 1976-1983, 1990-1991, 1994, 2009 7-time U.S. Mixed Doubles Champion: 1976-1978, 1981-1983, 1988 U.S. Men's National Team Coach, 1999-2009 U.S. Men's Olympic Coach, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens 3-time USOC Coach of the Year for Table Tennis South Bend Table Tennis Club Head Coach 1996-present President of USA Table Tennis, 1990-1995 Hall of Fame Inductee, 1995, Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 Collapse

14/09/2020 - Tip of the Week A Trick to Beat a Tricky Pusher. Weekend Coaching On Sunday, I worked with Group 3 of our Junior program. Most of the group did a practice tournament. However, two of the players weren't really ready for matches, and so I worked with those two the entire session. Focus was on fundamentals. I came up with what will now go down in history as the greatest table tennis joke, to be retold through the ages. (But you have to pay me $1 every time you use it.) I asked one of the kids how many hands he has. He said two and held them up. I said I have four hands. He didn't believe me, so I shadow-practiced my forehand and said, "See, these are my four hands." (Here's the reaction.) On Saturday, as usual I did a one-hour session with Navin Kumar. (I'm retired from private coaching, but made the one exception for "The Bionic Man." He has Parkinson's Disease and Congenital Heart Disease - his heart is mostly artificial - and he won two medals Collapse

26/08/2020 - Tip of the Week On Short Serves to the Forehand, Challenge the Forehand, Often Go to the Backhand. Two Weeks Training at the Samson Dubina Mega Camp in Ohio So what was I, at age 60 and out of shape, doing training with players one-fifth to one-half my age, including numerous footwork drills that left me gasping for air and my body screaming at me to have common sense and go home and watch TV? Like many others, I was stuck at home for five months because of the pandemic, where I got way out of shape and gained weight. So I decided to do something about it. (My club, MDTTC, where I coach, was partly open, but all group sessions, including training camps, had been cancelled.) So I contacted Samson and arranged that I'd come as a player in the mornings, a practice partner in the afternoons. That would mean five hours of intense play each day, Aug. 10-14 and 17-21. Then I hopped in my car and drove the five hours from Maryland to Akron, Ohio and the Samson Dubina TT Academy. It was a Collapse