I’m pleased to announce that it is now even easier to find all of our video answers on Ask the Coach. All you need to do is use the right hand menu navigation under the heading “Ask the Coach” and click on video answers.
We’d like to thank all of the PingSkillers who suggested this to us. It is rewarding to receive useful feedback and then to be able to actually implement those suggestions. Keep on improving!
The second part of my interview with Arnab Ghosh is now available on his blog “Keeping in Touch”. This time Arnab asked me more interesting questions including:
There is a saying that the first day is always the worst. What happened at you first ever, practice session?
If you want to read my answer and find out more about the interview then check out part 2 of the interview.
The photo of Jeff is by courtesy of the ITTF.
Downloading the premium lessons has been a long requested feature by our premium members. Well I’m excited to announce that you can now do exactly that. This makes it easier for those with a slightly slower internet connection to watch the videos without them buffering and ruining the viewing experience. Now you can simply download the video in your own time and watch it at your leisure. All the premium lessons are in flash format (fly) and require a player that can handle that. If you don’t already have one I recommend VLC media player.
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Arnab Ghosh has interviewed me on his blog Keeping in Touch. The interview is broken into 2 parts. He has asked some very interesting questions such as whether I thought you needed to start young to be good at Table Tennis. If you want to read my answer and find out more about the interview then check out part 1 of the interview.
The photo of Jeff is by courtesy of the ITTF.
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 net backhand. The match of the tournament was the final between Simon Gerada and Miao Miao which went down to the wire. Simon ended up winning 11-9 in the 7th. Christopher Kek and Nathan Van Der Heiden also had a great tournament. Watch the PingPod to see the highlights.
The PingSkills Classic was a huge success and we saw some great matches and some amazing points. None were better than this one between Percy Lu and Simon Gerada. Percy Lu was enjoying the home crowd support and although he ended up losing to Simon Gerada 4-1, we have this shot recorded for everyone to see! Watch this amazing shot.
The 2011 PingSkills Classic final will go down as one of the best matches of the year. Simon Gerada played against Miao Miao and it went down to the wire. With the scores locked at 9 all in the final 7th set, no one was sure what was going to happen. Earlier in the match Simon went up 3 set to nil and everyone thought that the match would be over quickly. Miao had other plans and staged an impressive fight back. She became more aggressive taking more risks and they paid off. She took the fourth set, yet no one really believed she could win the match. Then she took the 5th and people started to wonder if she could get back on level terms. When she took the 6th it was any one’s game once again.
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 the main draw.
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 calm players with great footwork and powerful forehands then you should be supporting Christopher!
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 of good third ball attacks.
