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Hi Everyone, Due to age and injuries that have slowed my footwork, I can no longer effectively play my normal inverted forehand attack game, where I’m always stepping around. So, I’ve been experimenting with blocking with long pips or frictionless antispin on the backhand. With inverted, I have...

Even Yet Still More Table Tennis Tips, the fifth and likely final book in my Tips series, is now on sale at Amazon for just $14.95. It’s another 150 Tips of the Week, put together in logical fashion in 148 pages. (Here’s where you can find all of my books, including the first four books in the...

What's a good club in Toronto, CAN, where I could play some matches with players in my range (2100 in US ratings)? I will be there Nov. 5-10 (Tue-Sat), and am hoping to play some matches perhaps on Wed, Thu, or Fri nights. If there's a junior program, I could also help out as a practice partner...

After a five-week absence due to travel, I'm back to blogging every Monday. This week I wrote about the upcoming US Table Tennis Hall of Fame Inductions and Banquet in Houston on Oct. 10 (I'll be there) and a number of other TT segments. If anyone has suggestions on future blog topics, let me...

“First Galactic Table Tennis Championships,” by Larry Hodges, is likely the world’s first science fiction table tennis novelette. Published by New Myths Magazine on June 16, 2024, the 10,000-word story has aliens from around the galaxy converging on Beijing for the Championships. The story is...

My new book is out at Amazon!!! It’s 133 pages, with 109 pictures and illustrations. There have been many instructional books on singles, but rarely more than perhaps a few pages on doubles. So, if you like doubles, this is for you! (I’ve won a lot of doubles titles, but more importantly, I’ve...

My new book is out, "Yet Still More Table Tennis Tips"! It’s the fourth in my Tips series and my 20th book overall. 162 pages. Here’s the description from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87C1H8C Here are all my books, both table tennis and science fiction...

My new novelette is out, “First Galactic Table Tennis Championships”! It comes in both print and kindle formats. It’s about 10,000 words, about 40 pages double spaced. It takes place about 100 years from now – and the title pretty much tells you what it’s about! Here’s the back cover...

Below are links to the nine articles I wrote (in order) at the Classic Hardbat World Table Tennis Championships, held Aug. 6-7 in Missouri City, TX, just outside Houston. Read them in order or pick and choose! Open Hardbat is the last article, with (spoiler alert!) the big final between...

Here's my interview at Kevin Table Tennis! You may know Kevin Nguyen (from Portland, OR) for his table tennis trick shots, and he's also among the best of his age in the country, rated 2062 at age 12. Hope you enjoy some of the funny stories I tell! Take it in two sittings, perhaps, but once you...

Three table tennis books have come out in the last few weeks. Here they are!!! Winning Table Tennis, by Dan Seemiller and Mark Holowchak Winning Table Tennis is back! This is a reprinting of the best-selling table tennis book from 1997. Whether you're a competitive tournament player or a...