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Title: Table Tennis: Steps To Success
Code: B24035
Author: Larry Hodges
Year: 1993
Length: 160 Pages
Price: £11.99 
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Overview:

Each of the 15 steps featured in Table Tennis: Steps to Success provides a solid foundation of basic skills and concepts. As you progress, you will learn how to adapt your game using the advanced strategies and playing techniques. Drawing upon his vast coaching experience and his extensive involvement with the US Table Tennis Association, Larry Hodges presents useful advice in game strategies and tactics. He also covers two areas of the game that are very important, yet often overlooked - footwork and mental preparation.

Contents:
  • Step 1: Grip and Racket Control
    Step 2: Spin and Racket Angles: It's a Game of Spin
    Step 3: Ready Stance and the Forehand and Backhand Drives Step 4: Beginning Serves, Getting the Initiative
    Step 5: Positioning and Footwork, How to Move to the Ball
    Step 6: Pushing, Your Basic Backspin Shot
    Step 7: Blocking, Close to the Table Defense
    Step 8: Looping, Topspin Attacking
    Step 9: Flipping, How to Attack Short Balls
    Step 10: Chopping, Backspin Defense
    Step 11: Lobbing, How to Return Smashes
    Step 12: Advanced Serves, Really Getting the Initiative
    Step 13: Playing Styles and Rallying Tactics
    Step 14: Advanced Service and Receive Strategy
    Step 15: The Physical and Mental Game
    Playing in Tournaments
    Rating Your Total Progress

Reviews:

The best presentation of table tennis techniques and strategies ever written. At last! A book that really covers the sport.
Todd SweerisU.S. World Team member

Written by one of the most knowledgeable and experienced coaches in the US, this book gives away the secrets of China and Sweden.
Diana Gee1988 & 1992 U.S. Olympic Team member


About the Author:

Larry Hodges is the national coaching chairman for the United States Table Tennis Association (USTTA) and a past vice president. He is also director and coach at the National Table Tennis Centre in Gaithsburg, Maryland. As a certified National Coach, Larry has worked with the best players. He managed and coached at the Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs from 1985 to 1989, and he has been the US Junior Coach at the Table Tennis Championships since 1990.
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