GTTP Subscribers Special Offer - Mark Smith Beginner and Advanced Coaching Downloads - $40 $20 Aus!!
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I was fortunate enough to be present with my trusty videocamera when Mark Smith, a leading English table tennis coach, conducted a series of coaching seminars in my hometown of Perth.
Each seminar is over 2 hours, and covers the following topics:
Seminar 1: Coaching Table Tennis Beginners (2 DVD set, over 2 hours footage)
DVD 1: Introduction, Grip Technique, Wrist Movement, Teaching Ball Control, Spinning the Ball, Forehand Topspin Technique, Backhand Topspin Technique
DVD 2: Backhand Push, Forehand Push, Drills for Beginners - Regular and Irregular, Watching the Ball and Awareness on the Table, Service Tactics and Techniques, Return of Service Tactics and Techniques
Seminar 2: Advanced Table Tennis Coaching Topics (2 DVD set, over 2 and a half hours footage)
DVD 1: Introduction, Grip Technique, Ball Control, Forehand Topspin Technique, Backhand Topspin Technique, Watching the Ball and Anticipation, Increasing Power in Your Strokes, Pushing - Use of Wrist and Footwork
DVD 2: Footwork Exercises - Regular and Irregular, Use of Body Lean During Rallies vs Use of Footwork, Recovery Positions, Service Tactics and Techniques, Return of Serve Tactics and Techniques, 3rd and 5th Ball Attacks, Strength Training for Table Tennis, Use of Robots, Multiball vs Robots
Sample Clips from the Advanced Topics DVDs:
Serving - 20MB
Pushing/The Short Game/The Outcome of Every Shot - 20MB
Important Note: The first hour and a half of the Advanced Coaching Seminar has some background noise of players playing in the background - the last part is noise free. Most people have no trouble hearing Mark over the noise, but just in case here is a sample video so you can listen for yourself and see whether your ears are up to the job. And sorry, I don't have the technology to remove the background noise! How to Learn to Loop - 4MB
I've made 4 versions of the downloads at different compressions, to suit those of you who don't have unlimited download accounts. Here are sample versions of the same videoclip at the different compressions I've used.
Original Source File - 70.5MB (5 min)
720x576 pixels - 38MB
640x480 pixels - 18.9MB
320x240 pixels - 8MB
Here are the compression details:
Mark Smith Beginning Coaching (~ 2hrs 20min footage)
- Original Source Files - Full DVD quality - 720x576 pixels at a bit rate of 2072kbps. 2.4GB broken into 6 files ~ 400MB each.
- 720x576 pixels at 1100kpbs. 1.28GB broken into 6 files of ~ 200MB each.
- 640x480 pixels at 550kpbs. 676MB broken into 6 files of ~ 112MB each.
- 320x240 pixels at 230kpbs. 294MB broken into 6 files of ~ 50MB each.
Mark Smith Advanced Coaching (~ 2hrs 40min footage)
- Original Source Files - Full DVD quality - 720x576 pixels at a bit rate of 2072kbps. 2.4GB broken into 6 files ~ 400MB each.
- 720x576 pixels at 1100kpbs. 1.24GB broken into 6 files of ~ 200MB each.
- 640x480 pixels at 550kpbs. 660MB broken into 6 files of ~ 112MB each.
- 320x240 pixels at 230kpbs. 285MB broken into 6 files of ~ 50MB each.
