Table Tennis Blog

Table Tennis is a strange game. It’s not like Diving or Gymnastics where you are judged on how your technique looks. What matters in table tennis is keeping the ball on the table one more time than your opponent. There is an area that one PingSkiller refers to as the ping pong zone. Watch this [...]

The Chinese have dominated the London 2012 Olympics taking all 4 gold medals plus 2 silvers. Under the current rules this is the best results possible for China. In this PingPod, Alois and I discuss the effect China’s dominance has on people’s interest in table tennis, and whether more should be done to level the [...]

Do you think Timo Boll can win in London 2012? Alois breaks down the tactics Timo Boll will need to employ against Zhang Jike if he plays him in the final of the London 2012 Olympics. A big thank you to the ITTF for allowing us to use the footage from the World Table Tennis [...]

From the site of the 1956 Olympic rowing, at Lake Wendouree, Alois and I discuss the dominance of the Chinese since table tennis was introduced to the Olympics in 1988. We also try some basketball trick shots, but if you want to see some seriously awesome tricks, make sure you watch Dude Perfect’s videos. Plus [...]

The PingSkills Classic was a huge success with Simon Gerada taking out the title. In this PingPod we discuss some of the highlights from the tournament. The upset of the tournament was Brian Berry taking out Shibaji Datta in the quarter finals. The shot of the tournament goes to Percy Lu for his around the [...]

The PingSkills Classic qualifying tournament was a huge success played in front of a crowd of over 50 people at the Coburg Table Tennis club. There were 10 athletes competing in the tournament which were split into 3 groups. The winner of each group would play another round robin with the top 2 progressing to [...]

In this PingPod we discuss the strengths of Christopher Kek and talk about how far he can go in the PingSkills Classic? Christopher has a great forehand and great footwork. He’ll need both of these to be working extremely well if he’s going to press for a semi-final birth or better. If you like cool [...]

In this PingPod we’re talking about Eric Tan who is the only penholder in the PingSkills Classic. He uses the reverse penhold backhand which is very rare to see in Australia. To get past the quarter finals Eric will need to be fired up and play very aggressively by serving well and making a lot [...]

Percy Lu is going to get a lot of support in the PingSkills Classic and will have a home ground advantage since he is from the Coburg Table Tennis club. He’s going to need to make use of his deadly serves if he has any chances of getting past the quarter finals and into the [...]

Brian Berry is the oldest and most unique player in the PIngSkills Classic. His game varies from fast aggressive topspins to heavy defensive chopping. The biggest problem facing Brian will be his consistency. To beat the top players he will need to mix up his game and have a very low unforced error count. Brian [...]