Video
Table Tennis Videos
Send us links to your own videos! For now, I'm only including free online videos. This section will probably grow rapidly - there's a LOT of video out there.
Websites with Table Tennis Video
- ITTF Video Page
- Dynamic Table Tennis, Brian Pace's coaching video site.
- SmartPong, numerous videos on the major strokes
- Pingskills, with videos of the major strokes and techniques.
- Table Tennis DB. Lots of nice videos.
- TT Planet
- USA Table Tennis video collection
- About.com Table Tennis Coaching Videos
- MyTableTennis videos
- Forty Great Online Instructional Videos of World-Class Players, by Encralis
- Table-Tennis-Videos. Some great selected videos of world-class players.
- 21 instructional table tennis videos by Tahl Leibovitz.
- 23 instructional table tennis videos from Elie Zainabudinova
- ttCountenance table tennis videos
- TTEdge. Six free videos, very nice. (Other videos require membership.)
- Youtube. You can go to Youtube and put in Table Tennis and any stroke or technique, or the name of any world-class player, and you'll get a flood of great videos.
Some Selected Instructional Videos
- Chinese footwork
- Chinese Footwork Part 1 - Forehand From Half Table (2:36)
- Chinese Footwork Part 2 - Connecting Forehand and Backhand (3:07)
- Chinese Footwork Part 3 - Pivot and Cross Step (3:56)
- Chinese Footwork Part 4 -- Small Steps (3:53)
- Chinese Footwork Part 5 -- Body Balance (1:03)
- Chinese Footwork Part 6 - Forehand from the middle (3:53)
- Tilden Table Tennis - world-class players in slow motion
- Transcending Table Tennis 1 (5:50)
- Transcending Table Tennis 2 (4:37)
- Table Tennis Shots in Slow Motion (4:06)
- Wang Liqin's forehand loop, in regular and slow motion (0:46)
- How to Grip the Paddle by Jared Neusch (2:28)
- Tips from Fan Yiyong (2:20)
- Penhold Techniques (11:30)
- Penhold Never Dies! (Lots of great penhold play.) (2:01)
- Massimo Costantini (head coach at ICC and former long-time member of the Italian National Team) training Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang in doubles (1:09)
- Table Tennis History and the Science of Spin (18:08)
- Top Europeans Training (7:11)
- The Backhand Loop by TTEdge (4:02)
- Forehand loop demo by Jean-Michel Saive (1:32)
- Forehand loop taught by Stefan Feth (1:43)
- Looping with sidespin by PingSKills (3:08)
- Wang Liqin's inside-out forehand loop (0:09)
- Sean O'Neill teaches stroking fundamentals (8:21)
- Physical training for table tennis
- Travail physique Pôle espoirs Centre (9:01)
- Programme physique été 2011 (3:06)
- Rapidité Appuis/ Préparation physique/coaching sportif Nantes (7:41)
- EXERCICES PREPARATION PHYSIQUE ADRESSE ET EQUILIBRE TENNIS DE TABLE N°2.mpg (2:54)
- Le travail des appuis (1:52)
- les appuis (1:05)
- Préparation Physique _1 (0:18) (This is the first of 13 very short videos, but if you like this one, you can go on to the next 12.)
- Multiball Training with Coach Brian Pace
- Troubleshooting with Coach Brian Pace
- Video 1: Shot selection and short serves - great graphics and examples! This is really two distinct topics in one video. (10:01)
- Video 2: "Technical Property Line" - nice graphical presentation of the various skills that make up your game. This one is harder to describe without watching the video. (3:45)
- Video 3: When to start forehand looping - nice comparison of the loop and drive, and discussion of when it's time to learn to loop. (5:02)
- Video 4: Sidespin serve return - demonstrates both the serve itself and how to return it. Nice graphics. (5:05)
- Video 5: 4:36 Building fitness - just what it says, with emphasis on cardio. (4:36)
- Coach Tao Li
- How to play long pips (10:38)
- How to set up a fourth ball attack (4:18)
- How to develop an aggressive backhand (4:35)
- How to loop a long, fast push to the backhand (3:01)
- How to Practice Without a Serious Practice Partner (4:58).
- Featured video on home page (changes week to week)
- How to be aggressive with third-ball attack (4:55)
- Serving
- How to Serve in Table Tennis. Set to music. Some pretty good serves demonstrated by unknown player. (3:56)
- Ten Serves (slow motion). (1:58)
- Timo Boll Serves. (1:57)
- Learning the Ma Lin serve, step by step. (5:12)
- Wang Hao practicing serves with Coach Liu Guoliang. (0:59)
- Magic Serves (3:51)
- Reverse Pendulum Serve (1:48)
- Hyperbolic serve (1:04)
- Backhand tomahawk serve (0.38)
- Jun Mizutani's backspin serve (0:55)
2011 World Champion Zhang Jike of China
- Reverse pendulum serve in slow motion
- Forehands and backhands
- Forehands and backhands from mid-distance
- Backhand and forehand training with Xu Xin
- Warming up with Wang Hao
- Looping against backspin
- Forehand loop against backspin
- Serve and receive practice with Xu Xin
- Third-ball attack practice with Liu Guoliang
- Match with Germany's Bastian Steger
- Warming up with Xu Xin, mostly serve and receive
- Reverse pendulum serve
- Backhand over-the-table loop against a short ball
- Looping against a chopper
Multiball Training
- Timo Boll multiball training (2:33)
- Ma Long multiball training (1:42)
- Ma Lin multiball training (0:44)
- Kong Linghui multiball training (1:47)
- Brian Pace on multiball training (2:01)
- Lee McCool feeds multiball to 9-year-old (5:15)
- Multiball with the Indian National Team with Coach Massimo Costantini. (5:31)
- Multiball demo from English TTA (1:09)
Presentations
- Setting Up and Running Junior Programs: Larry Hodges two-hour presentation at the USATT Coaches Seminar at the USA Nationals, December, 2009.
Spectacular Videos
- Magic Ball - theme song at the 1989 Worlds, with scenes from those Worlds.
- Beyond Imagination Part 1. Montage of world-class players doing spectacular shots. (7:56)
- Beyond Imagination Part 2. Montage of world-class players doing spectacular shots. (5:32)
- Beyond Imagination Part 3. Montage of world-class players doing spectacular shots. (8:56)
- Great points in slow motion, set to music. (7:26)
- Compilation of slow-motion play of top players, also set to music. (7:44)
- A great point. Anyone know who the players are? (0.40)
- "Top Ten Ping Pong Shots of All Time." (2:57)
- Compilation of some of the best points ever. (7:06)
- Probably the best compilation of great table tennis I've seen. (15.00)
- Exhibition point between Wang Liqin and Ma Lin (1:06)
- Table Tennis at its "Worst" highlights reel (4:16)
- Defensive play, Part I (9:36) and Part II (7:32)
Other
- Visit to a Chinese Table Tennis Club. Set to Rocky music, nice training sequences. (2:25)
- Boot Camp at the ICC Table Tennis Club, 6:10 AM, Nov. 24, 2010. Set to music. (1:03)
- More Boot Camp at the ICC Table Tennis Club. (5:42)
- Timo Boll through the Years, starting at age four. (5:48)
- Here's a highlight video (1:58) that shows the rackets used by the best Chinese players in the world, set to music.
