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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Racket games > Table tennis
Step up to table tennis success "Table Tennis: Steps to Success"
combines the knowledge and experience of master instructor Richard
McAfee with essential table tennis techniques and strategies for
today's player.
With a unique 11-step approach designed to maximize table tennis
instruction, you'll learn the proper grip for your style of play,
execution of the basic strokes, and the correct way to apply spin
to the ball. Then, build on these core techniques with masterful
footwork, serves, returns, and stroke combinations.
Best of all, learn how and when to apply those skills in match
play. With competitive strategies--adapted for both you and your
opponent's playing style--you'll raise your game to a new level.
And with clear instruction, comprehensive coverage, detailed photo
sequences, and drills to ensure mastery of every technique, you'll
be playing--and winning--in no time.
As part of the Steps to Success Sports Series--with more than
1.5 million copies sold--rest assured that "Table Tennis: Steps to
Success" is the #1 resource for learning, and loving, the game.
Peak Performance Table Tennis comprehensively covers game aspects
needed for peak performance and provides action steps for athletes
to ensure they perform at their peak when it matters most. This
book contains cutting-edge sports science, curated specifically for
table tennis athletes. It dives deep into sports nutrition,
supplementation, training methodologies, advanced recovery tactics,
injury prevention, psychological and emotional skills training,
motor learning, and more.
Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will
help make you a better sportsperson whether you are learning the
basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the
fundamentals of your game. Featured in this book are: information
boxes containing Top Tips and Key Points; an introduction to the
rules, equipment and tournament play; colour action shots, sequence
photographs of the strokes and detailed diagrams; an analysis of
the skills and techniques needed by players just beginning table
tennis, and by intermediate and advanced level players; helpful
advice on different styles of play and tactics, and finally,
practical information concerning coaching, table exercises,
training and nutrition.
Table Tennis Tales & Techniques contains the best published
work of USATT Hall of Famer Larry Hodges. This well-known author,
coach, editor, promoter, and club, tournament, and league director
has penned some of the best table tennis writings you will find.
Much of the book contains excellent table tennis instruction
including, but not limited to: Serving, Receiving, Rallying,
Footwork, Tactics, How to Improve, Miscellaneous Coaching, and
Hardbat. This volume goes into much greater depth than Larry
Hodges' earlier book published by Human Kinetics, and offers more
than other table tennis instructional books. That in itself is a
reason to read this book. But also compiled here are Larry's most
humorous and insightful writings about table tennnis, such as his
essays "How Marty Reisman Ruined My Life," and "Death of a
Backhand." There are table tennis movie reviews, an article on the
Secrets of Chinese Table Tennis, an article about table tennis
exhibition tricks, and so much more. This book is delightful
reading for anybody with a brain who likes table tennis.
In this book, Timo Boll and Bernd-Ulrich Gross provide the reader
with as much information as possible about modern table tennis.
Timo's exceptional technique and successful game are analyzed in
more than 50 instructional photo series with nearly 700 serial
photos and more than 100 individual photos. The left-hander is
considered the master of rotation. This book will tell you exactly
why. Timo's many checks and tips provide a wealth of information
for one's own practice. His thoughts on tactics and playing
philosophy, as well as information on racket material and training,
complete the book. It is a tutorial for all players and coaches who
want to take their game to the next level. The extensive photo
material will be a valuable resource for achieving ambitious goals
in table tennis.
The Badminton Handbook is a compact, groundbreaking training manual
that gives the reader an overall insight into the world of
badminton. It is divided into two parts.
The first part deals with training theory while the second
contains background information about the sport and its stars, thus
giving the reader an overall insight into the world of
badminton.
The Badminton Handbook is groundbreaking in many ways. It
combines training theory and information about badminton stars by
reinforcing basic explanations on badminton technique with tips
from the pros.
It not only relates the excitement of this sport with Asian
origins, but tells you all you need to know about badminton from A
to Z. It is a reliable reference book that readers will want to
turn to again and again.
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