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Bowmar Sports Challenge Match: Estefania Ramirios vs. Logan Rietz

October 20, 2020

(by Steve Hopkins) In recent weeks, the Bowmar Sports Team have conducted a series of challenge matches. Most of these matches have included at least one Bowmar Staff member, but we’ll label these as Butterfly Family matches – as these challenges have sometimes extended beyond our own staff to others in our close circle of […]

Coaching Tip of the Week: Sometimes Hit Twice to the Same Spot

October 19, 2020

(By Larry Hodges) In table tennis, it’s good to keep moving the ball around to make an opponent move. You should play all three spots – wide forehand, wide backhand, and middle (roughly the opponent’s elbow, the transition point between forehand and backhand). However, sometimes you want to go to the same place twice. Here […]

WAB Club Feature: NY Indoor Sports Club

October 18, 2020

(by Steve Hopkins) With their club location in College Point, just off of the 678/Whitestone Expressway, the New York Indoor Sports Club is easily accessible from each of the Boroughs of New York City. They have a large facility that features 17 tables, a pro shop, high ceilings, great lighting, and professional flooring. The NYISC has […]

PongNow: Stephanie Sun

October 16, 2020

(by Steve Hopkins) The PongNow interview series discusses table tennis with some of the best players and personalities in the sport. This week the guest is Stephanie Sun, who moved to the US after playing table tennis at her university in Hong Kong. She has now graduated from Duke University and is living and working […]

USATT’S Thursday Night Live: The Rachel Yang Show

October 15, 2020

(by Steve Hopkins) USA Table Tennis continued its T2 Challenge Series this week. The team format from previous versions has ended (Team Butterfly overcame Team Nittaku 6-3 in that Series). This week, the event matches two top juniors against each other with the event held at the California Table Tennis Center, a Butterfly Club in […]

PINGPOD Hosts Launch Party: Dora Kurimay Series

October 14, 2020

(by Steve Hopkins) This week, PINGPOD held a launch party celebration at their facility in Manhattan. The event was to help promote Dora Kurimay’s new table tennis book and video series, My Stories of Mental Toughness On and Off the Table. The event marked a milestone in Dora’s life. It was a celebration of her […]

Ask The Experts: Truong Tu, No. 360

October 13, 2020

Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer Question: Hi- I am an intermediate player , have good forehand and learning my backhand to be aggressive. I have been using Nittaku / Darker speed/ Darker imperial for sometime with Dignics 09c 1.9mm forehand , but kept changing backhand rubbers. Now, I am using Timoball ALC, with dignics […]

BUTTERFLY FAVORITES: The Control of Tiago Apolonia

October 13, 2020

(by Steve Hopkins) This is a 2014 video posted by TT Tributes. The focus of the video is the control of Portugal’s Tiago Apolonia. Tiago is known for great technique and great movement. He is an exciting and mobile player who has developed a game with many safe and careful shots. His style makes for […]

AIBISS review by Sponsored Coaches and Olympian Tawny Banh

October 12, 2020

(By USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame – Tawny Banh) Butterfly released Aibiss in June of 2020. It is a very tacky, high-friction rubber with a specialized top sheet with a pimple shape that enables heavy spin as well as a curved arc over the net. It has the hardest sponge ever of all Butterfly […]

Coaching Tip of the Week: Don’t Telegraph the Direction of Your Attack

October 12, 2020

(By Larry Hodges) Many players telegraph the direction of their attacking shot. Often, the opponent isn’t sure how he knows where you are going, he just senses it. That’s because when he sees the same stroke pattern resulting in the ball going one way, and another stroke pattern going the other way, it becomes habit […]