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Entries for August, 2008

Table Tennis Forehand Counterhit Lesson

Forehand counter technique from former Australian Olympic coach, Alois Rosario, and Jeff Plumb, a member of Australia’s 2000 Olympic Table Tennis team.  Table Tennis Coaching and DVD’s from PingSkills.com

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Table Tennis Backhand Counterhit Lesson

Proper backhand counter technique from former Australian Olympic coach, Alois Rosario, and Jeff Plumb, a member of Australia’s 2000 Olympic Table Tennis team.   Table Tennis Coaching and DVD’s from PingSkills.com

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The most important skill in Table Tennis

Consistency, duh. :)  Some of us need to pay much more attention to the very basic lesson in this video.
Yes, this is very basic stuff in this video, but it’s a good reminder for newbies and those of us who have been playing awhile to focus more on consistency.
Another video by former Australian Olympic [...]

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Proper penhold and shakehands grips for table tennis

I stumbled across a very good site with some online video tutorials that I’ll be embedding here from YouTube.
The site is run by a former Australian Olympic coach, Alois Rosario, and a member of Australia’s 2000 Olympic Table Tennis team, Jeff Plumb.
The site is called PingSkills.com and offers some great Table Tennis Coaching and DVD’s
For [...]

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Move over Balls of Fury, here comes Ping Pong Playa

According to the Ping Pong Playa site, this film is due out in September.
Hopefully, I’ll find this film to be more entertaining than Balls of Fury.

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Pittsburgh’s South Park Table Tennis Club Results for 08-19-08

Tuesday night league results for the South Park Table Tennis Club in Pittsburgh on August 19, 2008.
Club turnout for this week was 20 players.

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Pittsburgh’s South Park Table Tennis Club Results for 08-12-08

Tuesday night league results for the South Park Table Tennis Club in Pittsburgh on August 12, 2008.
Club turnout for this week was 28 players.

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South Park Table Tennis club ratings updates delayed

Due to some lovely viruses on our club President’s laptop, we have been unable to get the ratings updates for the last two weeks posted.
We hope to have this situation rectified shortly.
Sorry for the delay.

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2008 Olympic Table Tennis Coverage

For those interested in seeing some table tennis action in the 2008 Olympic Games, go to the NBC Olympic’s website for schedules and to view online. You have to download something called Silverlight from Microsoft to view it online.
I’ve only seen one match on TV and that was the U.S. women’s team getting pounded [...]

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South Park Table Tennis mentioned in 3 recent Tribune Review articles

I just happened to stumble across two articles in today’s Pittsburgh Tribune Review online written by Les Harvath discussing local players anticipation of seeing some table tennis coverage during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Looks like the author tracked down club member B.J. Janadri and Ken Roskos for interviews, with some contributions by club President Gary Egri [...]

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