February 9, 2015

Exhausting Weekend

Ever have one of those weekends where you leave early Friday morning for the five-hour drive to the Grand Tour Final in New York, spend that night and the weekend watching spectacular table tennis matches, get back home very late Sunday night, and then stay up until 4AM working on something? Yeah, it was one of those weekends. Plus I've got a zillion emails and a todo list from here to eternity. Let me take today off, and tomorrow I'll blog about the North American Grand Tour Final as well as the Tip of the Week. Meanwhile, here's are a few coaching and news items. (And here are some photos from the Grand Tour Finals - yes, that's me playing with a clipboard on Friday night against Crystal Wang; she won 11-8.)

Forehand Smash

Here's the new coaching video (4:54) from PingSkills.

Ask the Coach - Werner Schlager Academy Version

Here's the video (2:22, in German with English subtitles): What is a good exercise?

Perfecting Tournament Tactical Performance

Here's the new video (8:36) from Coach Brian Pace from Dynamic Table Tennis, which highlights his new Tournament Tactics video.

North Korean Ping-Pong Diplomacy with U.S. Table Tennis Star

Here's the article from TMZ, where Adam Bobrow does a Glenn Cowan with the North Koreans.

Chinese Table Tennis Pro Aims for Olympics

Here's the article from USA Today on Kai Zhang. (I had dinner with Kai and his father on Saturday night at the Grand Tour Final in Westchester!)

Wang Chen Table Tennis on TV

Here's the video (46 sec) of a news segment on the Wang Chen Table Tennis Club in NYC, as part of their "Fit Kids" feature.

Table Tennis: "Just Do It!"

Here's a new highlights video (5:26).

Long-Handled Paddle

For reaching those wide corners!

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