I’ve practiced serves for years. They have gotten better, but not as much as I would have hoped. When I do practice, I almost always gain new insights into serving; but the overall quality (speed and spin) rarely improves. I’ve read about serving and watched videos. Nothing seemed to help. I was just about to …
You never know. I spent the pandemic anticipating an eventual return to playing at the Atlanta Table Tennis Center. If you are interested in buying their building and starting your own table tennis center, it can be purchased for $1,399,000.00. Since I don’t have an extra million available to me, I began to explore my …
Continue reading “Picking Up the Pieces of Public Ping Pong”
For this post, I’m borrowing an idea from Scott Adams. Scott is the creator of the Dilbert cartoon strip. He has been widely criticized for suggesting that Donald Trump might not actually be Satan. One of his key concepts is the idea of a talent stack. In the table tennis world, it helps to have …
If you are reading this post and hoping to learn something, you’ve come to the right place. You could learn things from my other posts as well. Every week I attempt to share some of what I know, or think I know about table tennis. This post is completely different. Rarely will you get a …
Continue reading “All the Things We Don’t Know About Table Tennis”
May 1st! That’s the date I’m shooting for. I was willing to drive one hundred miles to get my first vaccine; and I’m more than willing to drive another hundred for the second. By the first of May I will feel like I have done everything in my power to stop the spread. I actually …
I’m considering writing a table tennis book. I’ve already published a book on Amazon. If you want to read my initial effort at fiction, checkout Smart by Jon Gustavson. It can be read on a Kindle or a smartphone. There’s a free preview and the book costs $10. The question for me is, should I write …
Continue reading “A Practical Path to Table Tennis Improvement”
Lots of people play table tennis. Some people train for table tennis. A few people coach table tennis; and a very few write about table tennis. I could have gone one step further and said even fewer people write well about table tennis. The truth is that anybody who had the confidence, ability, or nerve, …
Every player you encounter plays at a different speed. Players have a range of speed that they are relatively comfortable with. Some players will attempt to slow down their opponents. Others will try to overpower them with their own fast shots. I had the chance to do a little speeding this week. One of my …
Well, it was a full week that I had to refrain from table tennis. I don’t get sick often; but when I do the world stops spinning, the sun refuses to shine, there’s weeping in the streets, the stock market crashes, and world leaders call for a day of prayer and fasting. I release daily …
Even with my own private training studio, I’m starting to miss table tennis. I’ve probably been able to play more this year than most people; but I think it’s about time to bust loose on the greater world of our sport. Coaching has been going well; and I get to play competitive matches on a …
