by Samson Dubina on Wed, 2021-12-01 08:41
Try this 1 weird-simple trick!
Serve Return Simplified
There are 2 primary ways to read the spin – watch the racket and watch the bounce. The pitfall that devastates most beginner/intermediate players is the timing. When they don’t know the spin, they panic and trap the ball too quickly. The correct move is to wait. Wait. If you couldn’t tell the spin from the contact point when your opponent touched the ball, then wait. Let the ball rise, then even drop a bit before returning it.
How does that make the return easier? There are 5 ways…
by Samson Dubina on Sun, 2021-11-07 23:16
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by Samson Dubina on Thu, 2021-10-21 06:46
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by Samson Dubina on Fri, 2021-10-15 07:34
Forgetting & Remembering
During a table tennis match, is it beneficial to remember previous points or to just block out the past and play in the moment?
The answer is… BOTH!
To reach your peak potential, you need to forget and remember! I’m going to illustrate my point by sharing a true story that happened to me.
I was playing one of the most important matches of my life.
I was down 1-2 in games in a best 3/5 match.
by Samson Dubina on Tue, 2021-09-14 13:17
Learn to evaluate your training sessions!
3:1 Principle
Inconsistency is likely the main reason for your poor performance in tournaments. Will doing more drills help you? Possibly.
Here at the Samson Dubina Table Tennis Academy, we aren’t just concerned with the number of hours, we are also concerned about the quality of the hours realizing that each individual player might need to adjust his/her drills slightly. In this article, I’m going to briefly outline the 3:1 principle that we have developed.
by Samson Dubina on Thu, 2021-09-02 21:23
NEW Video by Samson Dubina
by Samson Dubina on Sun, 2021-08-29 11:15
New Tactics Article on Beating the Unknown Opponent
The tournament published the draws the night before the event. You found out that you are going to play against Hou Yingchao in your opening match of men’s singles at 9am. You immediately take out your pen and paper and write down some note of how to play him. You arrive in the gym at 7:45am and train accordingly.
Just then…
Without warning…
by Samson Dubina on Fri, 2021-08-20 10:43
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