Coach Samson Dubina US National Team Coach 4x USATT Coach of the Year
 

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Roger has been making great progress recently winning the u2300 in Highland and u2400 in Erie! Also, he nearly upset the #1 player on the US National Men's Team with a close 3-2 battle in Highland.
Keep up the good work Roger! Your best days are yet to come!

Satoko Hayashi Interview

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Growing SDTTA

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2018 at the Samson Dubina Table Tennis Academy

2 New Weapons

Watch this video demonstrating fast short serves and slow short serves!

Most club players have 2 types of serves – long ones and short ones.

In this blog, I’m going to talk about 2 different types of short serves – fast short serves and slow short serves.

 

A fast short serve is impacted very close to the server’s end-line, travels over the net and quickly hits twice on the receivers side.  This serve is very difficult for the receiver, because he needs to quickly decide if it is long or short.

 

Inspect Your Opponent's Racket

5 main tips!

Check out this Paddle Palace exclusive article.....page 83
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Spin Question

< 1% of American TT Players Can Answer This Question

Forcing the Movement

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Sometimes when learning a new skill, you just need to force yourself to do the right thing. It may not be your habit, but you need to just remind yourself over and over and over for days and weeks during training and during matches. For Ron, moving doesn't come natural. He demonstrates that he CAN move, but just must force himself to do it. I admire his efforts

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Shaw JCC Mega Training Camp (Dec 27-30)
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“Samson Dubina is one of the best educated and most effective coaches working today in the USA.  If you are looking for a great camp experience, I highly recommend attending any camp that Samson is conducting.”    - Richard McAfee,  (ITTF Course Conductor and Trainer.  USATT Hall of Fame Inductee)
 

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