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What Type of Backhand Flip Should You Develop?

(by Larry Hodges) As a player, I’m old-school – my backhand flip against a short ball is light topspin, basically a standard backhand drive against most spins. Against short, heavy underspin, I just open the racket and drive up and forward, and focus on medium speed and spin, depth, and placement. But these days top […]

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American Juniors in ITTF Youth Rankings

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) As 2024 is coming to a close, here’s a quick review of the ITTF Boys’ Singles and Girls’ Singles youth rankings by category.  The top players in U19 Boys should be familiar to all table tennis fans as China’s Lin Shidong and France’s Felix Lebrun are first and second among […]

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WAB CLUB FEATURE: Silicon Valley Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) The Silicon Valley Table Tennis Club is located in Milpitas, just North of San Jose on the Southern edge of San Francisco Bay.  From this spot in Silicon Valley, they have easy access to Oakland (35 miles) and San Francisco (50 miles) finding themselves accessible to one of the largest hot beds […]

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WTT Releases 2024 Earnings List

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Its certainly not at the levels of Basketball, Football, or Baseball, but when WTT released their 2024 Prize Money Leaderboard, they showed 6 figure earnings across the top 13 men.  As you’d expect, World No. 1 Wang Chuqin led the way with over $261,000 in prize money.  Lin Shidong was […]

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Puerto Rico Shines On The World Junior Stage In Sweden

(By: Edgardo Vázquez/National Youth and Adult Coach) The 2024 World Junior Table Tennis Championships, held in Sweden, marked an unforgettable chapter for our Puerto Rican delegation. This prestigious tournament brought together the best youth talents in the world, and our young athletes not only represented our island with pride, but also demonstrated that hard work, […]

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Lessons Learned: Jessie Xu Reflects on Challenges at the World Mixed Team Cup

(by Bowmar Sports) The Canadian Table Tennis Team participated in the second edition of the World Mixed Team Cup, held in Chengdu, China, from December 1 to 7, 2024. This innovative event united men and women on the same teams, competing in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles matches. A unique scoring system added to the […]

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Viscaria Pro-Line Review with Brian Pace

(by: Bowmar Sports) This Viscaria Pro-Line consist of the Viscaria blade and Dignics 05 on both the forehand and backhand side. Stay “In The Loop” with Butterfly professional table tennis equipment, table tennis news, table tennis technology, tournament results, and We Are Butterfly players, coaches, clubs and more.

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FETHOMANIA 20: Drill 3

https://youtube.com/shorts/kqOKzInPojo All FETHOMANIA drills are performed on the Butterfly Amicus Prime Robot. To learn more about the Amicus Prime, click here. For more FETHOMANIA content, click here.

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MLTT Week 6: Can You Guess Our Special Guest?

(by: Major League Table Tennis) WESTCHESTER WEEKEND IS HERE! We’ve got the Princeton Revolution, Seattle Spinners, Florida Crocs, and defending champion Texas Smash on tap for Week 6. Westchester Table Tennis Center is the place to be and a few select tickets are still on sale; snatch them up by hitting that red button below while you still […]

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Bowmar Sports Tournament Highlights – Tiffany Ke US Nationals Highlights

(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Bowmar Sports Tournament Highlights, Tiffany Ke is in action at the US Nationals https://youtu.be/KLqsKUHNbKA Stay “In The Loop” with Butterfly professional table tennis equipment, table tennis news, table tennis technology, tournament results, and We Are Butterfly players, coaches, clubs and more

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United States Smash: Harimoto and Chuqin to Clash in Finals

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(by Steve Hopkins) Fans in Las Vegas were treated to two epic Semifinal matches on Saturday at the… Read More

United States Smash: Semifinals

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(by Steve Hopkins) When all was said and done, it was the top three seeds (and the sixth… Read More

Nishant Lebaka – Forehand Smash with Short Pips

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(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Nishant Lebaka is executing the Forehand Smash with short pips… Read More

Serve Into the Body

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WAIT FUNCTION: Serve long serve to elbow, Robot plays topspin to Backhand, Backhand spin block down the line.… Read More

Playing Kids

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(By Larry Hodges) Let’s face it; they’re probably faster than you. They might have a coach working with… Read More

#2 A Skill That Is Likely To Score – Backhand Down The Line

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[[Feature] [Special Feature] American Stars! Jha’s Strengths #2 A Skill That Is Likely To Score – Backhand Down… Read More

United States Smash: Tight Scores and a Big Upset in Early Action

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(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Action is underway in the main round of the United States Smash, the… Read More

MLTT Featured Team: Bay Area Blasters

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(by Steve Hopkins, photo MLTT) The Bay Area Blasters plan to blast through the upcoming Major League Table… Read More
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