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Coaching- Technical
- The Loop: Advanced Coaching Elements
- Looping: History and Theory
- Thinking Points on the Forehand (Drive and Topspin)
- Coaching and Playing Points
- Stroke Correction Techniques
- China Training
- Requirements for Table Tennis
- Evolution of the Player
- Multi-ball: High level training
- One Leg or Two:
- Player - Focus Points
- Player Evaluation
- Simplicity
- Speed equals coordination. Author / Translator: Gunter Straub
- The Way the Chinese use Multi-ball
- Technical 2
- Movement Patterns
- Critical Features of the Forehand Topspin
- Table Tennis without Glue or Boosters
- Beginner/ Intermediate Points to Remember
- Stroke Analysis
- Prime Themes
- Line of Play
- Technique and Improvisation
- High Level Performance (Summary)
- High Level Performance
- Long-term Athlete Development
- Modern Cross-step
- Modern Techniques -- Tips
- Training Themes
- Use the Whole Table
- Economy of Movement: the Key to Speed
- Coaches
- Coaching Development Course 1
- Coaching Development Course 2
- Coaching Development Course 3
- Coaching Development Course 4
- Themes for Short Training Sessions
- Coaches’ Seminar: Summary
- Coaching Course Summary
- Manuals and Policy
- Coaching Approach
- Develop Excellence and Expertise in Coaches
- Periodisation: Training Planning
- Produce the Champion
- Table Tennis as an Extreme Martial Art
- Table Tennis of Tomorrow Part 1
- Table Tennis of Tomorrow Part 2
- Technique only Half-way there
- The Coaching Manual: What Should be Included
- The Coaching Relationship
- Coaches 2
- Educating Leaders
- Training: Group Schedule
- Teaching Table Tennis
- Coaching: Lateral or Vertical Structure?
- The Coach: Tradesman or Artist?
- Observations on Top Table Tennis Centres for Young Players
- Observations on Coaches/Coaching
- Coach Development
- Coach Maturity
- Coaching the young (Chinese Style)
- Development and Training
- Looking for the Champion
- Looking for the Champion 2
- Looking for the Champion 3
- Progression Ladder
- The Growth of the Coach
- Training Tips
- Girls and Boys: Coaching Development
- Equipment
- Articles
- International Training
- Develop a Winning Playing Style
- Moving Up a Level
- Ten Tips for Future Champions
- What it takes to be a Champion
- The Improvement Pyramid
- The Coach
- Coaching with Carrington
- 7 Point Winning Weapons
- Excellence
- Game Management -- Seminar
- Game Management
- Path to the Future You
- Professional Training
- Sayings from the Past
- The Battle, Weapons and Alternatives
- The Vital Factors of Early Development
- Does the Top Player make the Top Coach?
- Material
- Long Pimple Stroke Play
- Women Individual Development: Pimples on BH
- Women Individual Development: Reverse Rubber on BH
- Material and the Womens Game
- Why use Pimples
- Girls: Long Pimple Development (attack)
- Girls in the World’s Elite and their Playing Styles
- Women’s Playing Styles: the Theory
- Clubs and Material
- Return of the Defender
- Women's Play and the Plastic Ball
- Asia/Europe
- European and Asian Women’s Game
- European Girls
- Girls in UK 2009
- Ready position, serve and receive tactics. Are these changing?
- Win over Asian Women
- A Stepping Stone
- China: National Women’s Team and Pimples
- Asian Women: can Europe ever compete?
- Comments on the European Girls’ Game
- Rise of the Japanese Girls
- The Science of Women's Table Tennis
- Women Asian Superiority
- Women’s Statistics: World Championships
- How do we produce girls who can compete in Asia?
- Development
- Cadet Girls’ Development Sweden
- The Vital Role of the District in Girls’ Training
- Girls’ Table Tennis in Sweden
- Sweden, Girls’ Play: the Big Ball
- Developing the Talent of our Girls
- Women’s Development in Sweden
- Lecture on Girls’ Development
- Europe: Are we aiming to produce only 2nd class women players?
- Coaching women in Europe: ineffectual
- Direction not Sparring
- Improving Women's Table Tennis in Europe
- Research into Women’s Table Tennis
- The plastic ball, will the world's top women spin?
- Women with Plastic
- Teaching
- Technical
- The Big Ball: Girls, Thinking Points
- The Mechanics of the Long Serve and why Women use it more
- Women Close-to-Table; Square or Not?
- Growth after Technique
- Facts and Observations
- The Time Element and Implications
- Differences in Men’s and Women’s Game
- Women's Table Tennis - Singles Progress
- Women: Is practice in Europe relevant?
- Loop Attack and the Women’s Game
- Women's Techniques and the Implications of Time and Distance
- Technical 2
- Just how Should Women Play?
- Debate on Girls’ Training
- Making of a Great Woman Player
- Top 30 Women 2009
- Multi-ball and Women’s Training
- Diversity in Technique and Tactics, Men’s and Women’s Game
- Women: the Simple Facts
- European women’s table tennis
- Girls/Women Players -- Development in Own Hands
- Prime areas in the Development of Women
- Girls Training Needs: a Method
- Technical 3
- Attitude: the Way Forward
- Topspin Myth and Coaching Women
- Girls: Make Things Happen
- Lecture, Coaching Girls — a Different Ball Game
- Destroy the Flair and Spontaneity
- Female Loopers: the Dilemma
- The Girls against the Women
- Coaching the Female of the Species
- Girls' Game: Be Professional
- Modern Women Defenders: The Way Forward
- Women -- Modern Footwork
- Background
- Think Big
- How much does Success Cost?
- Making the Mind Work for You
- Ask Yourself
- Wise Man or Fool?
- Why do we Play?
- Mental Methods
- Success Triangle
- Thailand: 8th wonder of the world
- Flow
- Injury - Chance to Refine/Retune
- Momentum
- Success Body and Mind
- Success Goals and Controls
- The Age of Experience
- The Windscreen
- Training and the Mind
- Approach
- Winning
- In-Depth Mental Training
- Practical Mental Development
- Competition Planning
- Tactical Table Tennis Thinking
- Sports Psychology for Table Tennis
- Basic Sports Psychology
- Coach and Player
- Focus
- Performance
- The Psychology of the Rally
- The Winning Mind
- The Winning Mind: Summary
- To Walk on Water You need first to get out of the Boat
- What is Athletic Toughness?
- Willpower
- Zen and the Art of Table Tennis (Peter K. Tyson)
- Internal
- Change or Die
- The Brain
- Attitude and Doubt
- Attitude on court
- Control the Head (Adam Kelly: Sports Psychology Researcher Southampton Solent)
- Go with the flow
- Limits
- Mental Grip
- Performance and Habit
- Personal Best
- Power of Habit
- The Inner Game of Table Tennis
- The Inner Game of Table Tennis: Summary
- The Path to Self Realisation
- The Young Brain
- To be a Champion
- What stops us from winning?
- Winning and your mind
- Information
- Innovation in Table Tennis
- Coaching in Sweden
- They just don’t get it
- How to Keep Players in Table Tennis beyond the age of 15-16 years
- How we will manage Table Tennis in Sweden
- Inventions and Innovations
- Table Tennis: District Development Project
- Home Truths
- Ideas Base (for new articles)
- Punchlines
- The Coach
- Table Tennis and other Racket Sports
- The Start and Development of Table Tennis
- Training In China
- The Palmaris Longus
- Way Forward
- Are we going in the Right Direction?
- Does the System Protect the Professionals?
- Chinese Views on European Play
- Sweden Will the Old Methods Still Work?
- Is our Priority to Produce Players?
- The Key to the Future
- Maturity or What ?
- Message to All
- Motivation or Methods
- Professionalism in Europe
- Success: Belief, Method and Vision
- Summer offers that rare moment of respite
- Will Sweden become another Chinese Satellite?
- Breakthrough at National Level
- Articles
- The Secrets of Chinese Table Tennis
- The secrets of Chinese Table Tennis Part 2
- How to Win
- National Associations : the way forward
- Styles through the Ages
- Where has all the Info Gone?
- Asia and Europe
- Blueprint for Champions: Ideas from Clive Woodward (2008)
- China’s Dominance in the last 20 years
- Players of the Past : Their Contribution
- Table tennis: fastest ball sport?
- The Modern Game: Recent Changes
- The Rise and Fall of Swedish Table Tennis
- Vision without Execution
- General
- Ban coaching at tournaments
- Style Development
- Advising Players at Tournaments
- Thoughts on Match Play to Eleven up
- Just what makes a Young Player ‘The exceptional prospect?
- Oddments
- Sequential Movement and Adaptability
- It’s all in the Preparation
- Plastic Ball and Balance of Basic Elements
- Plastic Ball and Connecting Areas of Strength
- Plastic and Change
- Practice makes Perfect?
- Speed the Essential Component
- Thoughts on Tactics
- Thoughts on Training
- Science
- Angular Velocity
- The Axis
- Elastic Energy in Stroke Play
- The Main Theme
- Theory of Spin
- The 4 Elements
- Effective Practice
- 5 Steps to Developing Players
- Developing Players: Move with the Times
- Power
- Rigidity
- Table Tennis Player's Bible
- Techniques, Rules and Systems
- The LTAD Model
- Ball Through the Air
- Mechanics of Table Tennis
- Science 2
- Can we use the Body more in Stroke Play?
- The Specific Consciousness of Players
- More Agility, Shorter Strokes
- Achieving Perfection in Performance
- Control of the Racket
- Timing over the Table
- The Modern Blocking Game
- Life after Technique
- Science of the Plastic Ball. Initial Thoughts
- Small Gains and Alternatives
- Table Tennis and Reaction Times
- The 40mm Ball
- Is Trajectory Important?
- Technique Without Direction is an Empty Shell
- The Mechanics of Direction
- Technical
- Offensive Play and Spin
- European Table Tennis: Direction
- The Professional Approach
- Analyse Technique
- Introduce the Mental Side into Physical Training
- The Last Gladiator
- Training Methods for the World Champions of the 2020’s
- How Coaches Analyse Skill
- Danger of Boxes
- Nice to look at or efficient?
- Responsibility for Yourself
- Speed in Context
- To reach the top
- Role of the Coach after Technique
- Timing in the Men’s Game
- Technical 2
- Observations on Protour Finals
- Statistics Men’s and Women’s Play
- Long Pimples Simplified
- The Journey from Reverse to Material
- Misconceptions about Long Pimples
- The Guide to Long Pimples
- Frictionless Long Pimples: the Next Stage
- Alternatives
- Fundamentals of Table Tennis
- Have You the Right Weapons?
- Over-emphasis on Technique
- Prime Thinking Points in Modern Table Tennis
- Shot Selection and the Use of Power
- Technique, Tactics and Style
- Service and Serve Strategy
- Receive of Serve
- The Service Potential
- Service Possibilities
- Maximise your Service Play
- 3rd Ball Expectation
- Service, Receive and 3rd ball against the Left-hander
- Dominate with Serve and Receive
- Spin Efficiency with Plastic
- The Long Serve and Plastic
- The First Four Balls
- Pimples
- Funny Rubbers
- Long Pimples Simplified
- China: National Women’s Team and Pimples
- Material and the Women’s Game
- Defenders with Long Pimples on Backhand
- Misconceptions about Long Pimples
- Differences in Men’s and Women’s Game
- Girls: Long Pimple Development Attack
- Lecture on Material
- Frictionless Long Pimples: the Next Stage
- Background
- Topspin and Backspin
- Bats and Rubbers
- Just what makes a Young Player ‘The exceptional prospect’
- Why use Pimples
- The Guide to Long Pimples
- The Journey from Reverse to Material
- Clubs and Material
- Modern Women Defenders: The Way Forward
- Table Tennis and other Racket Sports
- How Innovation in Equipment and Techniques has changed the Game