May 2023 - Tom Lodziak Table Tennis Coaching

DON’T PANIC! How to learn from your serve receive errors

05/04/202422/05/2023 by Tom Lodziak

Learning to read service spin is a vital skill in table tennis. 50% of points start with your opponent serving. If you can’t read your opponent’s serves, you are at a major disadvantage and will likely lose. Even though reading service spin is essential, it doesn’t make it easy to do. In this article I focus on one aspect of reading service spin which is often neglected… learning from your errors. Keep reading

Can adult players change technique?

15/05/2023 by Tom Lodziak

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, so the saying goes. But can you teach an adult table tennis player a new technique? As a later developer myself – and having spent the past 10 years coaching a lot of adult players – I know how challenging it can be to change the way you play a shot. When you have spent years (or decades!) playing a shot in a certain way, it can be very difficult to change technique. But it’s not impossible… Keep reading