Table Tennis - Beating the Blocker Blues

Beat this - Australia's own William Henzell giving it the full face of the bat at the 2006 Slovenian Open

Photo by: Damijan Klajic, courtesy www.ittf.com

Paul Brandrick wrote:

Hi Greg,

I have a question about playing blockers....my style is looping and general attacking and at the club I play at most people are blockers with the occasional attacker.....some of the blockers are very patient and just seem to put the racket on anything I send at them...I am wondering if it would be better for me to put more spin and less speed to combat them.....any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks

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So what do you reckon? Have you got a special strategy to counter the masters of the counter-attack? Email me and I'll add your two cent's worth below.

COMMENTS

Friday March 3rd 2006

Paul Brandrick wrote:

Great blocking article Greg and good strategy thanks very much it really is appreciated, you really know your stuff.

Your website has a wealth of information for any TT player to improve their all around game.