There may be some coaches that have some disagreement about what I’m about to share about the backhand stroke. Some of what I’ve learned came from other coaches, and some I’ve discovered on my own. I generally hit far more backhands than forehands when I coach, and when I play. I don’t have any idea …
I would have thought that everything that could be said about boosting table tennis rubber has been said already. It probably has. I addressed this a couple of years ago in Speed Glue, Prohibition, and the 55 mph Speed Limit Nothing has really changed since the writing of that post. Players who elect not to …
That’s an excellent question, and one that does not have a simple answer. Last week I put in over forty hours of coaching. I was actually surprised to discover this. I knew it was a lot, but it is looking like forty hours might be my new normal. Some of that time was spent with …
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There’s a new table tennis club in town! That’s something you don’t hear too often, but I just learned that there is a new place to play within ten miles of my home. I heard they had good tables, great flooring, and plenty of room to play. It turned out that all of this was …
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Discipline has gotten a bad name. A quick look at a dictionary definition will reveal that punishment is closely associated with discipline. Self discipline, on the other hand, involves doing the right thing even without the threat of punishment. Watching the Winter Olympics for the last week has reinforced in my mind the importance of …
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