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Coaching Tip: Never Give a Server What He's Looking For

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach Most players serve with a purpose. They are trying to get you to...

Feb 10 2014

Coaching Tip: Returning Hidden and Other Tricky Spin Serves

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach What can a player do if he is having trouble reading the spin...

Dec 23 2013

Coaching Tip: Three Reasons Players Miss Against Deep Sidespin and Topspin Serves

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach At the elite levels, deep sidespin and topspin serves mostly get looped, and...

Nov 18 2013

Coaching Tip: Pushing Short

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach One of the trickier things in table tennis starting at the intermediate level...

Nov 12 2013

Coaching Tip: Should you Choose Serve, Receive, or Side at the Start of a Match?

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach [Note - the first half of this is from my book, "Table Tennis...

Oct 21 2013

Coaching Tip: The Many Ways to Receive a Short Backspin Serve

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach I am often left in open-mouthed astonishment when watching matches as players will...

Apr 01 2013

Seth Pech Tells Why He Plays with Tibhar's Q1 XD Rubber

Q1 XD Rubber Analysis By Seth Pech About a month ago I picked up two sheets of Q1 XD from Tibhar to try them...

Feb 08 2013

Coaching Tip: The Banana Backhand Flip

By Larry Hodges, USATT Hall of Famer and Certified National Coach The backhand flip has rapidly become the dominant receive against short serves at...

Jan 21 2013