05/04/2021 - This week's blog will be up by 2PM eastern time or I have to give back all the colored ping-pong balls I stole yesterday from the Easter Bunny. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Reading Service Spin. And to tide you over, here's King of the Frozen Table (7 min) from Pongfinity! Collapse

15/03/2021 - This week's blog will be up by 3PM or I have to wear a pink unicorn mask with sparkles everywhere I go for the next month. (Blame Daylight Savings Time and late night reading.) Meanwhile, here's the Tip of the Week, Do You Really Play the Middle? And to tide you over, here's the Butterfly Manyball Dance Battle (30 sec)! Collapse

11/03/2021 - Stiga Pro Carbon ReviewAuthor: Kevin James, Last updated: 15/02/2020Hello, fellas! Today we'll be taking a look at one of the … Stiga Pro Carbon Review Read More » The post Stiga Pro Carbon Review appeared first on Ping Pong Bros. Collapse

01/03/2021 - This week’s blog will be up by 3:00 PM or I have will go outside and see my shadow, and we’ll have six more years of pandemic. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Learn Something New Each Time You Play, and to help tide you over, why not enjoy some Beetle Bailey table tennis cartoons, including the new one that came out Sunday? Collapse

08/02/2021 - This week's blog will be up by 1:30 PM Eastern Time or I have to give up the Super Bowl ring I won in the Puppy Bowl last night. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Locking Up Your Opponents. And to tide you over, here's Top 10 Best Table Tennis Trick Shots 2020! Collapse

01/02/2021 - Tip of the Week Play the Middle Against Tall Players, Wide Angles Against Short Players. $3000 Nittaku Ohio Open I had a great time this weekend coaching at the Ohio Open  - as always, they run nice events at the Samson Dubina TTA. The tournament staff was Steve Graber Josh Graber, Sam Dubina, Mike Boyd, Blake Cottrell, and of course Samson Dubina (who also acted as referee). Here are complete results, with Gal Alguetti over Sharon Alguetti in the Open final. Here's video (21:53) of Sharon Alguetti's five-game win over Yahao Zhang in the Under 2650 final. All the expected Covid precautions were taken, with everyone's temperature taken on the way in, social distancing, and masks required except when actually at the table playing. (As a precaution, I'll get Covid testing in the next day or so.) And they had free lunch and dinner for everyone on Saturday!!! I was there coaching Stanley Hsu (12, 2286, #1 in 12 and Under in US) and Ryan Lin (11, 2038, #2 in US in 11 Collapse

11/01/2021 - Tip of the Week Should You Experiment If You Have a Big Lead? Mercy Points and Comebacks There was quite a lot of discussion on Facebook from my blog last week about whether to give "mercy points." So let's revisit.  The basic rule is that it's up to you if you want to give a mercy point at 10-0. Both Ma Long and Jan-Ove Waldner, generally considered the two main candidates for Greatest of All Time, have given away mercy points or played exhibition at the end of a lopsided match. Other top players are die-hard try to win every point, even at 10-0 against a beginner. Some players might be insulted if you "give" them a point, so it depends on the player and circumstances. As I said, in a non-competitive match, I prefer to put a ball up and let them "earn" the point. It also depends on the event. A senior focused on winning Over 50 at the Nationals shouldn't take chances there, but might give a point (or go easy) at 10-0 match point in a Collapse

21/12/2020 - I'm way behind today. This week's blog will be up by 3PM or I will declare martial law (or is that Pong Law?), send out the troops (marauding players with deadly ping-pong paddles), declare the recent USA Table Tennis election a let, and take over USATT by storm. Meanwhile, the Tip of the Week is up, Proper Strokes Are 1-2-3: Don't Forget the Neutral Position! And to help tide you over, here's Watchin' Sid & Nandan's Guest Appearance on Ryan's Mystery Playdate (2:52)! Collapse

07/12/2020 - Tip of the Week Should You Stick With Your Best Shot If It Is Missing? Weekend Coaching On Sunday, I asked one of our junior players what she wanted to work on, and she wanted to do side-to-side footwork drills. We must be doing something right!!! As usual, we focused on fundamental as I was working with our younger kids. I also set up targets on the table for serve practice and they took great joy in knocking them off - though I kept insisting that they weren't really knocking them off, they were just showing me what it would look like if they were to knock them off, so that if they were to actually knock them off, I'd know what it would look like. Did you get all of that? They played up-down tables the second half of the session. They would hide the ball to see who served first. If the server scored two in a row, he became the receiver, and the goal was to be the receiver. They would play for about five minutes, and then whoever was receiving at that time moved up, the Collapse