Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers

by Larry Hodges

Learn table tennis tactics from U.S. National Coach and Hall of Famer Larry Hodges. Includes tactics against different styles, grips, and surfaces as well as tactical and strategic thinking. 21 chapters, 102,000 words, 90 photos.

Genres: Sports

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 6, 2013

About the author

Larry Hodges, from Germantown, MD, was going to be a math professor (bachelor's in math), but science fiction writing and table tennis (yes, ping-pong) sidetracked him, and now he writes (and coaches the latter) for a living. He is an active member of Science Fiction Writers of America with over 80 short story sales. "Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions" is his third novel, and combines three of his favorite things: science fiction, politics, and table tennis. He's a graduate of the six-week 2006 Odyssey Writers Workshop and the 2008 Taos Toolbox Writers Workshop, and is a member of Codexwriters.com. His story "The Awakening" was the unanimous grand prize winner at the 2010 Garden State Horror Writers Short Story Competition. He's a full-time writer with eleven books and over 1700 published articles in over 150 different publications. He also writes about and coaches the Olympic Sport of Table Tennis, is a member of the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame (Google it!), and once beat someone using an ice cube as a racket. Visit him at www.larryhodges.org.

Reviews

[Hung Tran]

Need to read again in 6months

[Srini Venkataramani]

Useful read for players at all levels

Lots of useful tips for players and coaches at every level..learned a few new tactics to use in matches that are already winning me points. And even if I knew some of these things it's a good validation that I've been doing it right.

[Paddy Kinsella]

There was so much useful information in this book which I can’t wait to introduce to my game. However, as someone who mainly read novels and interesting non-fiction, I can’t say the same excitement was there to crack open this every day to read about pushes, pips, grips, topspins and loops

[John Pham]

This book give us the right way to use our techniques (even you only have few techniques, that still workable and still win)