Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies
by Dan Seemiller, Mark Holowchak

Whether you’re a competitive tournament player or a serious recreational player, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies will help you improve your game.

Dan Seemiller, 5-time U.S. singles and 11-time doubles champion, shows you all the shots and strategies for top-level play. The book features 29 drills for better shot-making, plus Seemiller’s own grip and shot innovations that will give you an edge over the competition.

Featuring the most effective table tennis techniques and strategies, Winning Table Tennis shows you how to

• choose the right equipment,

• serve and return serves,

• use proper footwork and get into position,

• practice more efficiently,

• prepare for competitions,

• make effective strategy decisions in singles and doubles play, and

• condition your body for optimal performance.

"Danny does an excellent job for all serious tournament players wanting to go to that next level. If you can't make it to one of Danny's private camps, this book is the next best training assistant."

Sean P. O'Neill Two-time member, U.S. Olympic Team National Coaching Chairman, USATT

Dan Seemiller knows table tennis, drawing from years of professional competition, international-level coaching, and his love of the game.

Seemiller was the #1 player on the U.S. table tennis team from 1973 to 1983. He was U.S. singles champion 5 times and doubles champion 11 times, winning 8 years in a row. In 1977 he and his doubles partner made the quarter finals of the World Championships--the first U.S. team to go that far in international competition. During his playing career, Seemiller reached a world ranking of #19.

Seemiller, who coached the U.S. National Men’s table tennis team in 1988 and 1989, has been teaching table tennis at clinics and camps for more than 20 years. He is the inventor of the American "Seemiller grip," which combines two other popular grips to provide better racquet control.

Past-president of the United States Table Tennis Association (USTTA) from 1990 to 1995, Seemiller was unanimously inducted into the USTTA Hall of Fame in 1995. He now coaches and travels throughout the world, giving clinics on table tennis and producing instructional videos. For more information on Seemiller’s clinics and videos, call 412-884-5864.

Seemiller lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Valerie, and their children, Sara and Daniel, Jr. He enjoys golf, softball, and yard work.

Coauthor Mark Holowchak combines a keen interest in sport performance with a great enthusiasm for table tennis. He has been an avid player since 1973 and has been coaching power lifters at the University of Pittsburgh since 1988.

Holowchak has written numerous articles on fitness, nutrition, strength training, philosophy, and sport psychology for weightlifting and table tennis magazines. He has a master’s degree in philosophy from Wayne State University in Detroit and a master’s degree in history and philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh. A member of the USTTA, he is completing his PhD in history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Holowchak lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and enjoys lifting weights, reading, and traveling.

Table Tennis: Steps to Success (Steps to Success Activity Series)
by Larry Hodges

You have taken your first step to success in learning table tennis with the purchase of this book. Table Tennis: Steps to Success combines the knowledge and experience of master teacher Larry Hodges with the latest developments in learning how to become a proficient player.

Table Tennis: Steps to Success is a unique guide designed to maximize your table tennis progress. It is a breakthrough in sport skill instruction through its development of complete learning progressions—the steps to success. You will climb 15 steps on your way to table tennis success. Each step (chapter)

• explains why the concept or skill is important,

• identifies the keys to correct technique,

• helps you correct common errors,

• explains how to practice each skill in realistic ways,

• lists specific performance goals for each drill,

• gives you a summary checklist for evaluating proper technique, and

• lets you proceed at your own pace.

Each of the steps you will take is an easy transition from the one before. Your first few steps provide a solid foundation of basic skills and concepts. As you progress you will learn how to choose the proper stroke to match your various table tennis needs—whether for quickness, power, deception, or just fun. As you approach the top of your climb to success you will have gained confidence in your table tennis ability and experienced the satisfaction of becoming an accomplished player.

"Even a good player who reads this book will become much, much better."

Amy Feng U.S. Women's National Table Tennis Champion

"The best presentation of table tennis techniques and strategies ever written. At last! A book that really covers the sport."

Todd Sweeris U.S. World Team member

"Written by one of the most knowledgeable and experienced coaches in the U.S., this book gives away the secrets of China and Sweden."

Diana Gee 1988 & 1992 U.S. Olympic Team member

"The first real book on table tennis! A must for every table tennis enthusiast. Awesome!"

David E. Sakai President, Senoda Inc. North American Senior Champ

"Outstanding! The most thorough book ever written on table tennis. Larry's drills on each stroke will make any player better if they follow them."

Dan Seemiller Table Tennis Coach Former U.S. Men's Coach

Larry Hodges is the national coaching chairman for the United States Table Tennis Association (USTTA) and a past vice president. He is also director and a coach at the National Table Tennis Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland. As a certified National Coach, Larry has worked with the best players in the country. He managed and coached at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from 1985 to 1989, and he has been the U.S. Junior Coach at the U.S. Open Table Tennis Championships since 1990. Larry has taught table tennis classes in colleges, recreation centers, clinics, and clubs all over the United States.

Larry is the editor of Table Tennis Today, the national magazine for table tennis. He is also the author of the book Instructors Guide to Table Tennis and more than 200 articles on table tennis. Larry has been playing serious table tennis since 1976. He has been ranked among the top 30 players in the United States and has won state championships in North Carolina, Maryland, and Colorado. He is also a former National Collegiate Doubles Champion. When he's not coaching, playing, or writing about table tennis, Larry enjoys reading and writing science fiction, playing tennis and basketball, and tutoring kids in math and English.

Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins: Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive
by Jerome Charyn

Ping-pong, played around the world by over 250 million people, cast a hypnotic spell on Jerome Charyn’s childhood imagination. Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins portrays the great pongistes and includes photos and interviews with table tennis legends Marty "The Needle" Reisman and Dick Miles. From ping-pong detente in China to the underground bars of New York City, Charyn details the sport’s history while capturing the intellect, excitement, and anarchic spirit of ping-pong’s golden age. This offbeat and entertaining chronicle of one of the world’s quirkier Olympic sports is presented in a completely redesigned trade paper edition. "Table tennis can now add to its two certified American superstar players a certified American superstar chronicler — The New York Times "Both an informed history and an intimate memoir.... [Charyn’s] book is a giddy delight and a sweet elegy." — The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Desktop Table Tennis
by Andrew Kirk

Who needs a basement to play ping-pong? Now you can play the world's most popular game any time, anywhere, with the exciting new mini ping-pong travel set. The Desktop Table Tennis boxed set features the following.

As the first-ever ping-pong travel set, this comes with everything you need to set up a rollicking rally anywhere you go. Each set includes two mini paddles, 1 ball, 1 mini net, and a rule book..

With wonderful illustrations and clever writing, the set-up is a snap — in seconds you'll be playing like a real ace.

This is the perfect antidote to boredom on the road. You can set up your mini ping-pong set wherever you go: hotel rooms, airport lounges, your office, or wherever your imagination takes you.

Science and Racket Sports III; The Eighth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress and The Third World Congress of Science and Racket Sports
by ADRIAN LEES

Know the Game: Table Tennis (Know the Game)
by The English Table Tennis Association