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Table Tennis Videos

Send us links to your own videos! For now, I'm only including free online videos. This section will probably grow rapidly - there's a LOT of video out there.

Websites with Table Tennis Video

ITTF Video Page
Dynamic Table Tennis, Brian Pace's coaching video site.
SmartPong, numerous videos on the major strokes
Pingskills, with videos of the major strokes and techniques.
Table Tennis DB. Lots of nice videos.
USA Table Tennis video collection
About.com Table Tennis Coaching Videos
MyTableTennis videos
Forty Great Online Instructional Videos of World-Class Players, by Encralis
Table-Tennis-Videos. Some great selected videos of world-class players.
21 instructional table tennis videos by Tahl Leibovitz.
23 instructional table tennis videos from Elie Zainabudinova
ttCountenance table tennis videos
TTEdge. Six free videos, very nice. (Other videos require membership.)
Youtube. You can go to Youtube and put in Table Tennis and any stroke or technique, or the name of any world-class player, and you'll get a flood of great videos.

Some Selected Instructional Videos

Chinese footwork
- Chinese Footwork Part 1 - Forehand From Half Table (2:36)
- Chinese Footwork Part 2 - Connecting Forehand and Backhand (3:07)
- Chinese Footwork Part 3 - Pivot and Cross Step (3:56)
- Chinese Footwork Part 4 -- Small Steps (3:53)
- Chinese Footwork Part 5 -- Body Balance (1:03)
- Chinese Footwork Part 6 - Forehand from the middle (3:53)
Tilden Table Tennis - world-class players in slow motion
- Transcending Table Tennis 1 (5:50)
- Transcending Table Tennis 2 (4:37)
Table Tennis Shots in Slow Motion (4:06)
Wang Liqin's forehand loop, in regular and slow motion (0:46)
How to Grip the Paddle by Jared Neusch (2:28)
Tips from Fan Yiyong (2:20)
Penhold Techniques (11:30)
Penhold Never Dies! (Lots of great penhold play.) (2:01)
Massimo Costantini (head coach at ICC and former long-time member of the Italian National Team) training Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang in doubles (1:09)
Table Tennis History and the Science of Spin (18:08)
Top Europeans Training (7:11)
The Backhand Loop by TTEdge (4:02)
Forehand loop demo by Jean-Michel Saive (1:32)
Forehand loop taught by Stefan Feth (1:43)
Looping with sidespin by PingSKills (3:08)
Wang Liqin's inside-out forehand loop (0:09)
Sean O'Neill teaches stroking fundamentals (8:21)
Physical training for table tennis
- Travail physique Pôle espoirs Centre (9:01)
- Programme physique été 2011 (3:06)
- Rapidité Appuis/ Préparation physique/coaching sportif Nantes (7:41)
- EXERCICES PREPARATION PHYSIQUE ADRESSE ET EQUILIBRE TENNIS DE TABLE N°2.mpg (2:54)
- Le travail des appuis (1:52)
- les appuis (1:05)
- Préparation Physique _1 (0:18) (This is the first of 13 very short videos, but if you like this one, you can go on to the next 12.)
Multiball Training with Coach Brian Pace
- Video 1 (5:27)
- Video 2 (2:01)
- Video 3 (2:32)
- Video 4 (3:03)
- Video 5 (2:17)
- Video 6 (2:06)
- Video 7 (1:35)
Troubleshooting with Coach Brian Pace
- Video 1: Shot selection and short serves - great graphics and examples! This is really two distinct topics in one video. (10:01)
- Video 2: "Technical Property Line" - nice graphical presentation of the various skills that make up your game. This one is harder to describe without watching the video. (3:45)
- Video 3: When to start forehand looping - nice comparison of the loop and drive, and discussion of when it's time to learn to loop. (5:02)
- Video 4: Sidespin serve return - demonstrates both the serve itself and how to return it. Nice graphics. (5:05)
- Video 5: 4:36 Building fitness - just what it says, with emphasis on cardio. (4:36)
Coach Tao Li
- How to play long pips (10:38)
- How to set up a fourth ball attack (4:18)
- How to develop an aggressive backhand (4:35)
- How to loop a long, fast push to the backhand (3:01)
- How to Practice Without a Serious Practice Partner (4:58).
- Featured video on home page (changes week to week)
- How to be aggressive with third-ball attack (4:55)
Serving
- How to Serve in Table Tennis. Set to music. Some pretty good serves demonstrated by unknown player. (3:56)
- Pro Table Tennis Serves: A clip from the Pro Table Tennis Serves DVD by Alpha Table Tennis Productions. (1:19)
- Ten Serves (slow motion). (1:58)
- Timo Boll Serves. (1:57)
- Learning the Ma Lin serve, step by step. (5:12)
- Wang Hao practicing serves with Coach Liu Guoliang. (0:59)
- Magic Serves (3:51)
- Reverse Pendulum Serve (1:48)
- Hyperbolic serve (1:04)
- Backhand tomahawk serve (0.38)
- Jun Mizutani's backspin serve (0:55)

2011 World Champion Zhang Jike of China

Multiball Training

Timo Boll multiball training (2:33)
Ma Long multiball training (1:42)
Ma Lin multiball training (0:44)
Kong Linghui multiball training (1:47)
Brian Pace on multiball training (2:01)
Lee McCool feeds multiball to 9-year-old (5:15)
Multiball with the Indian National Team with Coach Massimo Costantini. (5:31)
Multiball demo from English TTA (1:09)

Presentations

Setting Up and Running Junior Programs: Larry Hodges two-hour presentation at the USATT Coaches Seminar at the USA Nationals, December, 2009.

Spectacular Videos

Magic Ball - theme song at the 1989 Worlds, with scenes from those Worlds.
Beyond Imagination Part 1. Montage of world-class players doing spectacular shots. (7:56)
Beyond Imagination Part 2. Montage of world-class players doing spectacular shots. (5:32)
Beyond Imagination Part 3. Montage of world-class players doing spectacular shots. (8:56)
Great points in slow motion, set to music. (7:26)
Compilation of slow-motion play of top players, also set to music. (7:44)
A great point. Anyone know who the players are? (0.40)
"Top Ten Ping Pong Shots of All Time." (2:57)
Compilation of some of the best points ever. (7:06)
Probably the best compilation of great table tennis I've seen. (15.00)
Exhibition point between Wang Liqin and Ma Lin (1:06)
Table Tennis at its "Worst" highlights reel (4:16)
Defensive play, Part I (9:36) and Part II (7:32)

Other

Visit to a Chinese Table Tennis Club. Set to Rocky music, nice training sequences. (2:25)
Boot Camp at the ICC Table Tennis Club, 6:10 AM, Nov. 24, 2010. Set to music. (1:03)
More Boot Camp at the ICC Table Tennis Club. (5:42)
Timo Boll through the Years, starting at age four. (5:48)
Here's a highlight video (1:58) that shows the rackets used by the best Chinese players in the world, set to music.

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