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Both are important but if your technique is garbage then playing matches will only take you so far. Playing matches can be useful in finding weaknesses so you can practice them during your other training sessions. Another thing you need to consider are your goals. If you want to beat someone...

In the northeast of the USA, the coaches won't do anything unless they get paid. If you asked pretty much any coach to feed you multiball for free, you would be laughed out of the club. Some people coach 8 hours a day and it is their only job. They are too exhausted to do things for free...

Any professional player will loop a long push into oblivion. You want to get better long term right? Then any long push that comes your way MUST BE LOOPED. If you miss now, eventually you will figure it out and become a much better player in the long run. If you miss, odds are you misread the...

I would avoid that like the plague. Unless you are a professional player, the potential long term side effects are not worth it.

Massimo Costantini is really smart, especially when putting together match strategies. In my opinion he is one of the top coaches in the world.

Where are you staying in NYC? Manhattan? Queens? Some of the clubs in NYC are rather spread out. If you are willing to travel to Princeton NJ, there are many MLTT professional players there who coach. When are you coming as well because there is a camp occuring run by 3-4 players of the...

I guess this depends on the players level and their physical preferences. Hardly anyone plays choppers with their backhand, so I would say in general the forehand loop off underspin is much easier than with the backhand. The backhand seems to have less flexibility and requires more precise...

In America a pretty decent player (2700+) wrote to a company for sponsorship and was told they only sponsored people who were top juniors or ranked 100th or better in the world. At the time, outside of the juniors, that meant they would only potentially sponsor 3 people in the USA. You...

Way to go guys! Congrats on the WR!

For me, the handle can feel different during a training session because of the excess water thus effecting the way I hold my racket which causes all kinds of problems. I am not sure if my hands are swelling or the blade is so wet the handle is changing shape slightly. The racket would just sit...

The problem is so bad with some people, even watching table tennis on TV will cause their palms to sweat like a torrential downpour. If someone's hands are wet with no racket in their hand, how can they hold the racket even looser? If I held my racket looser, I would kill at least 3 people at...

If you have the problem bad, most gels are useless. There are gels doctors can prescribe that have tons of aluminum in them and probably aren't good for you considering connections between aluminum and neurological issues. Playing with the glove is like night and day. No slippage. I can...

Today I tried these gloves in practice and they make a tremendous difference. There is absolutely no slippage. Serves are much easier to do as is every single aspect of the game. Get the racketball gloves for $19.99: https://www.bionicgloves.com/

If your brother has only been playing for 18 months or so, I don't think they need to find any magical coach in China or Korea to work with them. They need volume now. That is to say see if you can find a place they can play 6-8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Maybe they can get 1 hour of...

Right now when you aren't feeling well, just view practice as physical training. If losing annoys you, as it does most people, just do drills and have fun controlling the ball. Rather than focus on power, see if you can control the arc of the ball. Vary the spin, vary the height, vary the...

You need both a large group of players and a good coach to guide you to reach your full potential. Showing up for group training without a coach or only playing 1 on 1 with a coach will end in disaster. If your technique is lacking then it is probably better to spend time with a coach to fix...

100% unquestionably an edge. Unreal that Gauzy claimed side and even more unreal that the ref gave in.

I find playing long pips pretty easy unless the player completely outclasses me. However I would still ban them from play. Table tennis is already viewed as a sideshow by the general public and seeing long pips in action is just going to turn off most spectators. It makes table tennis look...

New article about Princeton qualifying for the playoffs: https://www.majorponghead.com/blog/the-revolution-is-here-princeton-advances-to-the-playoffs-with-stellar-performance-in-front-of-rabid-home-court-fans

Since you are in the USA, I would say take the money you would spend on hotel and airfare and get a coach in the USA. Unless you are willing to spend a ton of money to train with a province team, you are just wasting your time. Training in China is very hit or miss. I traveled to China to...