Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Learn table tennis tactics from U. Includes tactics against different styles, grips, and surfaces as well as tactical and strategic thinking.
Larry Hodges is a pseudonym used by the author of The Expert at the Card Table, a book detailing sleight of hand, cheating and legerdemain using playing cards. I love table tennis and I love books.
On this page, I will be linking to all of my favourite table tennis books. It is my hope to produce lots of Expert Table Tennis books aimed at helping you to improve your table tennis performance.
Some of these I will create on my own. For others, I intend to team up with coaches and experts to give you access to the knowledge and wisdom of those guys too.
I have created a free eBook for my readers, called The Table Tennis Playbook, all about the best service and receive drills. Following the success of The Expert in a Year Challenge in , I co-authored a book with Sam Priestley the guinea-pig of the challenge sharing our experiences and the lessons we learned from a year of table tennis.
It was a lot of fun reminiscing over our favourite moments from the year and thinking long and hard about the lessons to be taken from it. The book is very cheap on Kindle and has received very positive reviews on Amazon.
Listen to my interview with Sam on the podcast here. So, if you would like to find out more about those books make sure you check out those interviews. This is definitely the most popular table tennis book of all time. Former professional table tennis player Syed investigates the myth of talent and the power of practice using plenty of examples from his experiences in table tennis.
Bounce by Matthew Syed is a brilliant book and has inspired me greatly both in my playing career and as a coach. It would seem that doing this would take the receiver out of position, leaving him open on his backhand side, but if you move back quickly, it's not a major problem. Some of the best players get back so fast they can follow with a forehand from their backhand side. This is one of the biggest changes in recent years at the higher levels. Most lower-level players who had done this before did so because they found it tricky to attack short balls with their forehand, especially against backhand sidespin type serves, where you have to aim to the right to compensate for the sidespin.
At the higher levels, they do it because of the extra topspin they can create with the backhand over the table compared to the forehand over the table , and also because it's also easier for them against backhand-type sidespin serves, just as it is for lower-level players.
Many top players who receive backhand against short serves to the forehand only do so against this type of sidespin. However, for players who use banana flips, it's often the opposite. Another advantage of the backhand receive against short serves to the forehand is that players are not used to it. Few things are more disconcerting to a server than having your short serve to the forehand flipped with a backhand to your own wide forehand!
It's hard to guard against this shot since you also have to guard against the flip down the line to your backhand, and compared to the forehand flip, the backhand flip is easier to change directions at the last second. Photo by Diego Schaaf A flip is how you attack a short ball. Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server.
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