This blog post is offensive!!! Defense is dead, and your funny paddle will lock you in a world of perpetual mediocrity. Without the latest offering from Butterfly for your backhand, and some boosted Hurricane for your forehand, what chance do you have? Isn’t that just like a blocker? He brings a knife to a gunfight. …
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I recently posed a question on Facebook to my thousands of table tennis friends. A grand total of sixty nine people either loved the picture, liked the post, or otherwise noted that they had not ignored my query completely. I did get fourteen thoughtful responses, plus my answer to my own question. The question was, …
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I don’t know exactly how much help this will be to the larger table tennis clubs. I don’t envy anyone having to monitor groups of players to make sure that they are playing at a safe distance. It’s not such an easy task to disinfect every possible surface that somebody might touch or breathe on. …
Essential workers are usually thought of as people whose work protects public safety or property. In times of an emergency some professions are obviously essential. There are a lot of jobs that we’ve recently found are not absolutely necessary. As a table tennis coach, I was not surprised to find that the world could get …
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