There are numerous videos, articles, and books written that address the importance of blocking. The ITTF Advanced Coaching Manual lists no fewer than seven types of blocks and how to execute them. Aside from all the technical aspects of blocking, there are some simple things that every player should know about this often neglected stroke. …
Table tennis is often promoted as a sport for every age. On my own Jon’s Table Tennis Training website, I advertise coaching for ages 6 to 100. So far, I’ve coached one six-year-old, but nobody close to one hundred. Even in my earliest coaching experiences, it seemed that my six-year-old cut off had more to …
I really like the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) coaching manuals. Actually, I like some of the ITTF coaching manuals. In reality there were some very good and helpful portions of these manuals, but probably more information that was not particularly helpful. If not for just a couple of sentences under “How to use this …
Where did the table tennis players you know get started? In my experience of being around table tennis clubs in Atlanta, Georgia, it seems they come from two places. If you take a look around most clubs in the U.S., you will find a number of players who were either born in other countries or …
