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| Can You Handle The Pips? Photo © 2006 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc. |
| Most coaches and experienced table tennis players would recommend that new ping-pong people should stick to using inverted rubber on both sides of their racket, until the basic strokes have been mastered. But is this truism good advice? Or can table tennis beginners use junk rubbers? |
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Should Table Tennis Beginners Use Junk Rubbers?
Monday February 23, 2009
Common Grip Errors in Table Tennis
Friday February 20, 2009
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| Thumbs Down on Thumbs Up - Your Bat! Photo © 2009 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc. |
| They say that there is a thousand ways to skin a cat, and sometimes it seems that there are almost as many ways to hold your table tennis bat! And while variety is the spice of life, most table tennis players are better off sticking to conventional grip types. Today I'm examining some common ping-pong grip mistakes made by new players - is your grip on the list? |
Table Tennis in the News - 18th February 2009
Wednesday February 18, 2009
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| What's News? Photo © 2007 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc. |
Table tennis has been making headlines in a number of different areas of the media of late, including the following articles:
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How to Play the Basic Strokes of Table Tennis - The Forehand Counterhit
Monday February 16, 2009
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| Start with the basics! Photo © 2007 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc. |
| If you are a recent convert to the sport of table tennis, then you need to master the basic strokes as soon as possible. While there still exists some debate about which strokes to learn first, there is little doubt that one of them is the stroke I'm highlighting today - the forehand counterhit. |
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