Advanced skills in table tennis for advanced and intermediate players. When you master the basic skills, you need to improve your techniques like serve, footwork, placement, third ball attack, serve return, etc.
Welcome back to PingSunday, the best place to learn table tennis. Today, we talk about the “Secret of Yoshimura’s serve”. His serve is very spinny and deceptive. Recently, in the Zen-Noh 2019 Team World Cup, Timo Boll has lost to Maharu Yoshimura 3-0 (11-7, 11-9, 13-11). Yoshimura has won a lot of points directly with … Read more
In the modern table tennis, the flick (or flip) techniques are crucial. You can’t survive in this era without the forehand flick and the backhand flick. But which one is more important to learn, to master first? Let’s analyze the new trends in table tennis. Backhand flick and forehand flick are the 2 attacking strokes … Read more
Do you want to win easy points with your tricky serve? If yes, here are the 6 weeks training programs (with 16 short coaching videos) provided by the World Class player Par Gerell. He has a unique tricky serve “hook serve” loaded with a lot of spins. Par Gerell (born 23 June 1982) is a … Read more
Body and Arm Coordination is the main power source in table tennis. The arm is the connection between your body core and your racket. How to increase the power and the speed of your stroke? It is all about this connection. The connection between the arm and the body A player asked me: Good day. … Read more
Chinese table tennis emphasizes a lot on Yin Pai. As table tennis strokes require timing, yin pai, and acceleration. I will talk about the very important concept in table tennis “Yin Pai”. So what is In Pai (or “Yin Pai”) and why it is so important? If you know this concept, you will improve very … Read more
This is the ultimate analysis of Ma Long’s table tennis techniques. This tutorial includes several aspects of the advanced table tennis skills: Ma Long’s grip, Ma Long’s serve, Ma Long Ma Long’s service receive, changing the grip during the rallies, etc. This tutorial will answer these questions: Should I change the grip during the rallies? Does … Read more
There are many differences between professional and amateur table tennis players. Some of them are timing, consistency, power, micro-adjustment, and tactics. To become professional in table tennis, in my opinion, micro-adjustment plays a role very important! So what is micro-adjustment in table tennis? Micro-adjustment is very difficult to be observed. However, micro-adjustment will make you … Read more
What is the best training exercises for table tennis? Today, let’s learn from the best Chinese table tennis players: Zhang Jike. How they train in their normal practice drills. In general, a training session last for 3 to 4 hours. This is one of an example of a practice drill in China performed by Zhang … Read more
Mastering the optimal contact point for each stroke is very important. It will help you make a deceptive serve. And improve the power of your strokes, which is the key of table tennis techniques. What is the optimal contact point on the racket to get maximum spin and speed in table tennis? Coach EmRatThich explains … Read more
How Ma Long practices his powerful forehand? This is the training session of Ma Long in Werner Schlager Academy (WSA). You can learn the footwork and the forehand techniques of Ma Long. Ma Long practices the forehand to forehand topspin drills with Xu Xin. Why Ma Long’s forehand is so powerful? Ma Long’s forehand technique … Read more
Welcome back to pingsunday: A place to learn table tennis correctly and with fun. You would know how to use the wrist in table tennis. Now you will learn the advanced Chinese techniques: how to use the fingers to improve the quality (spin, power) of the shots. Using Wrist is the University Level, and using … Read more
Should you use wrist in table tennis? A player asked me “Should we use the wrist in the Forehand Topspin Stroke in Table Tennis?” This is a very good question, but there are 2 opposite answers. Some coaches say “You should fix your wrist in the Forehand stroke”. Another says “You can use the wrist”. So … Read more
In the modern table tennis, the passive block technique is no longer exist. The player is asked to add more power in the stroke, for both forehand block or backhand block technique. That’s why today, we will learn the “active backhand block” technique of Ma Long. Blocking is very underrated skills that not many players focus … Read more
Zhang Jike is well known for his spinny forehand topspin. His forehand loop is not as powerful as Ma Long’s forehand but is spinnier. Today, I will analyze the table tennis forehand loop technique step by step of Zhang Jike. You improve your forehand loop the topspin ball by learning from the Chinese National Team players. Forehand … Read more
There are 2 types of serve (or service) in table tennis: set-up serve and trick serves. Today, I explain the best tips to perform the “ghost” serve of Ma Lin. Ghost serve is a tricky serve with a lot of underspin. If you don’t know how to return this tricky serve, the ball will go directly to … Read more
How to Play a Backhand Loop in Table Tennis? In the history of table tennis, there are only a few players that can consistently use the backhand attack the backspin ball of a chopper. They are Werner Schlager, Kalinikos Kreanga, Karakasevic and Wang Hao. Even the backhand dominant player like Zhang Jike and Ovtcharov, they always use the forehand to attack the backspin ball … Read more
How to Forehand Loop Against Backspin In Table Tennis? Many players really struggle hitting the forehand topspin shot against a chop/slice. They know how to swing up, but don’t know how to loop powerful (to loop kill the underspin ball). I will show you the best tips to forehand loop against the backspin ball with Chinese Forehand Style. We … Read more
You may know backhand “banana flick” or “chiquita flick”. But have you heard about the “Boomerang Flick” (Strawberry flick) in table tennis? Today, I will show you a training session of Zhang Jike and the China Head Coach Liu Guoliang. What is the “boomerang” flick in table tennis? In fact, the “boomerang” flick is the pure … Read more