Tagged “tabletennis”
Weekend notes (18/10/24)
That was a productive and fun weekend.
On Friday, Clair was meeting her mum and cousin in town so I ordered a Kebabish (fish tikka and mutter pilau rice – banging) and watched episode 4 of the The Penguin.
I started Saturday with a short Rudy-walk then it was off to Pete’s for some table-tennis practice. I’ve been playing crap recently and wanted to fix things. Pete was as generous as ever with his tips, and his advice on “the triangle” and "dialling up/down power" was really effective! By the end I was playing both forehand and backhand much better. After this I drove out to Kirky and collected my brother Martin to go for a chat over lunch at Nonna’s Kitchen. On the way home we popped into my niece Chloe’s new house and I enjoyed chasing wee Leo around his garden. At night Clair and I stayed in and watched Where the Crawdads Sing which was enjoyable enough.
On Sunday I had a really lovely autumnal walk around Pollokshields with Rudy and bumped into Mark M, then Dawn A, in the hood. In the evening I caught up with Mick M and, after a beer at Shilling and food at Rosa’s Thai we went to see Skinshape performing at Room Two. The music was great and the bassist was particularly impressive. I just think Will could do with belting the vocals out a tad louder. My favourite moment was hearing The Longest Shadow live.
Secrets To Block Like a Pro Tutorial A-Z
In this tutorial video Seth Pech shares what he’s learned about that most foundational (and important) of table-tennis shots – the block.
Super-reliable forehand loop technique
Nice video here from Tom Lodziak in which coach Emma Harradine demonstrates a forehand loop (against backspin) that just looks so spinny, safe and reliable.
I’ve always liked the idea of this shot – the archetypal third ball in the rally – being like a well-oiled machine, but have never quite nailed it. So I’m gonna study this!
Backhand topspin attack - Amateur vs Pro (Tom Lodziak on YouTube)
Here’s a lovely slow-mo comparison of Liam Pitchford’s backhand technique versus that of an amateur.
These 3 Pro Tips Saved My Backhand (from Table Tennis Daily on YouTube)
In this video we go over the 3 pro tips from Liam Pitchford that helped transform Dan’s backhand!
Pendulum Sidespin Serve
Great video (in German with subtitles) which shows and tells the most important elements of this serve, namely:
- Brush the ball sideways extremely fast;
- Swing your wrist about 90° extremely fast when touching the ball; and
- The third bounce should be close to the side-edge of the table so that the opponent cannot easily attack and your spin has the strongest effect.
See all tags.