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Searching for Bobby Fischer
A Must Watch Movie
If you want to be inspired then do yourself a favour and get a copy of Searching for Bobby Fischer for your DVD collection, you’ll be watching it more than once. It is one of my all time favourite films and although the itis based around chess, the themes […]

It has taken us longer than expected but we have finally got our artwork all organised to the specification required by the printers for our Serving Secrets Revealed DVD.

Here are the final images. This means that the DVD will be ready for posting out to everyone really soon! Thanks for you patience.

Serving Secrets Revealed DVD […]

So you think you are good with a Ping Pong Ball? Well take a look at this hugely popular YouTube video which has been viewed over 2 million times!

Are these guys for real? How on earth did they manage to do what they have done?

Have you ever seen a player use a shoe as a bat? How about a massive bat that your opponent simply can’t hit past?

Ping Skills performs exhibitions from time to time and here are some great highlights that are highly entertaining.

Ping Skills has now joined MonkeySee giving you an extra option to view our coaching videos. At the moment we have one video loaded but there will be more to come.
To have a look at the video go to MonkeySee.
We would love to hear your feedback about the new site.

Table Tennis while played indoors can still be effected by the changes in the weather. The most marked differences are the effects on the rubber.
Temperature
The different temperature of your rubber effects the elasticity and therefore how ‘lively’ the rubber is. In hot weather the bat will be faster and you may find […]

Ping Skills has a new logo
Ping Skills now has a new logo thanks to Jack Tse, a graphic designer from the US. We now have a sporty, fun and professional logo to really enhance the entire site.
All of us here at Ping Skills would like to thank Jack for his professionalism, enthusiasm and outstanding work. […]

Basic Rules
There are 4 extra rules when you play doubles:
1. You must take it in turns to hit the ball
2. You can only serve from your right hand box to diagonally. You never serve from your left box.
3. When you serve, you serve to the same side and to the same player for both of […]

I love the website, but you guys really need a better logo! Is that meant to be some kind of Table Tennis ball? You should see if any of your readers are into graphic design.

Ping Skills LogoIt needs replacing

This is some feedback we have received from one of our readers and we really liked their […]

Ping Skills is proud to present more video lessons!

Ping Skills founders Alois Rosario and Jeff Plumb have been working hard once again to bring you a whole set of new video lessons:

How To Serve (for beginners)
Serve Placement
The Backhand Push
The Forehand Push
The Forehand Topspin Against Block
The Forehand Topspin Against Backspin

We hope you enjoy these lessons presented […]

Jorgan Persson edges out Jean-Michel Saive
Photo courtesy of ITTF

Twenty players based on the world rankings gain direct entry to the Olympic Games with the extra condition that only 2 from any one country can qualify. Due to this condition the last direct place is going to the player ranked 27th. This is where it gets […]

If you have tried to ask a question over the last week you will have noticed that we were having some technical problems and it was not working. Nobody was able to comment on any questions during this time as well due to the error.

The good news is that after a lengthy consultation with my […]

Thanks for all your support in 2007, the site has been receiving more and more visitors each month. We’ve got quite a number of ideas to improve the site in 2008 and we’ll start by adding some more lessons.

Have a Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year!

Pingskills has created a new Facebook group. Facebook is becoming increasingly popular and therefore is a great way to promote Table Tennis. So get behind the sport and join our group. We’ve uploaded a couple of our video lessons to kick start the group. Let us know what you think.

Join the Ping Skills Table Tennis […]

For 20 years any new visitor to the Head (Alois’ nickname) household was asked “Have you seen Alois versus Italy?” and then promptly shown this great video. We pick up the match with Alois down 18-12 in the second set after winning the first. In one extremely good point, Alois employs the rarely used “Bird […]

Photo courtesy of ITTF

After a 7 year break from competition, I entered into the Table Tennis Victoria Super League. Being a lot slower and lacking my old level of fitness, I was forced to rely a lot more on my backhand. Although this wasn’t really a choice for me, I noticed that a lot of […]

Photo courtesy of ITTF
A new format

Table Tennis at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will for the first time include a teams event. The doubles events have been dropped to accomodate the new format. This has been a controversial decision with many people believing the decision was made to cut the number of medals China can […]

Serving Short with Backspin

Can you serve the ball short with backspin making it bounce twice on the table? That is step 1 of our challenge. The next step is to serve with enough backspin so the ball rolls back into the net. Check out this amazing video of Ma Lin practising his serve. If you […]

Entertainment at it’s best. Check out the Secretin Show and let us know if you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Ping Skills has joined the YouTube Revolution. We’ve put together some highlights from practice matches and have uploaded it for your viewing pleasure. The video runs for just under 2 minutes. Take a look and let us know what you think.

Ping Skills is a Table Tennis website dedicated to helping players of all standards improve their game. The site is packed full of lessons, tips and tricks to make you a better player. It is run by Australian Olympic Table Tennis Coach Alois Rosario and myself - Jeff Plumb. I was fortunate enough to represent […]