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Want to improve your table tennis game? Start here with the most important rules to learn, how to score and umpire matches, grip types, playing styles, how to choose your first racket, all about spin and how to play the basic strokes of ping-pong.

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Basic Strokes - Backhand Loop vs Loop - Side View

Thursday January 12, 2012
Back to finishing the basics...
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Time to complete the explanation for another basic stroke of table tennis, this time the backhand loop vs loop - side view. I'd posted the front view version a month or two ago, so now lets see else what we can discover about the stroke from the side view perspective.

Basic Strokes - Forehand Loop vs Push - Front View

Friday January 6, 2012
Back to finishing the basics...
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Time for another look at a basic stroke of table tennis from the front view perspective - this time I'm discussing the forehand loop vs push.

IPONG Catch Net - Review

Saturday December 31, 2011
There's always a catch...
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Now that I've finally reviewed all three of the IPONG robots, I thought I'd round out 2011 by taking a look at the IPONG catch net that is available for purchase as well. After all, who wants to spend all their time searching under the sofa for lost balls?

Greg's Table Tennis Blog - New Year's Resolutions for 2012

Friday December 30, 2011
Happy New Year!
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Hi all - although I did mention that my last blog update would probably be the last for the year, I couldn't resist the temptation to write up a New Year's Resolution update, dealing with some other interesting things that I have learned in the last few months which I am now about to apply to my table tennis.

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