Greg's Ping-Pong Blog February 2008 Archive

It's been another busy week in the About.com table tennis forum, as ping-pong players from around the world get together to discuss table tennis - and ... Read More

Despite what you read about "putting your best foot forward" and "never taking a backward step", sometimes in table tennis you have to go backwards if ... Read More

The USA Women's Team finished Stage 1 of the 2008 World Team Table Tennis Championships in fine style, with a 3-2 win over Korea DPR to cement 2nd position in ... Read More

The USA Women's team continues on its winning way in Division 1 at the 49th World Team Table Tennis Championships, with the team of Gao Jun, ... Read More

Sooner or later you will come across a player that you simple hate to play. Whether it is a clash of styles, personalities, or the fact that you simply can't ... Read More

The USA women's team has made a good start at the 2008 World Team Table Tennis Championships, with the team of Gao Jun, Wang Chen and ... Read More

I mentioned on Monday that I receive a number of emails from readers, but not all of them are questions! Some, like the one I received from Ray Arditi, are ... Read More

I'm always interested to hear from my readers (although I admit I'm terrible at replying quickly - sorry!). Here's a selection of reader questions and my ... Read More

I first used Yasaka Anti Power antispin rubber way back in the early 1990s, when I was going through an attacking combination bat style phase. I recently managed to borrow ... Read More

One area where many of us shakehand table tennis players are envious of our penholder brethren is that of service variation. The penholder grip is naturally ... Read More

I get asked fairly frequently by new ping-pong players about which long pips rubber or antispin rubber they should use. My answer? Neither. Why is that? Why shouldn't new players use junk ... Read More

My 2008 season has begun with a bang, so now is the time for another personal table tennis blog update. I've made a good start, but ... Read More

If you'd like to do something small but meaningful to improve US troop morale in Iraq, here's your chance. Some of our forum members are getting together to send a ... Read More

The Xiom brand is a relative newcomer to table tennis circles (their parent company, Champion Co. Ltd. is a Korean company that has been making table ... Read More

The starting date of August 8 2008 for the Beijing Olympics is creeping up on us all, and in the meantime I've been chained to my computer keyboard trying to ... Read More

Just because I've been playing table tennis for over 20 years, that doesn't stop me from making the odd boneheaded mistake now and then. I've made ... Read More

I wrote some time back about my method of gluing long pips rubbers with no sponge to your table tennis blade. At the time, one of my readers suggested a ... Read More

Werner Schlager (Austria) returned to speed gluing and returned to form at the Europe Top Twelve Tournament in Frankfurt from the 2-3rd February 2008. Schlager defeated ... Read More

As part of the Olympics section that I'm currently working on, I've done some updating of the Brief History of Table Tennis article on this website. ... Read More