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GTTP Subscribers Special Offer - Mark Smith Beginner and Advanced Coaching Downloads - $40 $20 Aus!!

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Photo © 2007 Greg Letts

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)

  1. Original Source Files - Full DVD quality - 720x576 pixels at a bit rate of 2072kbps. 2.4GB broken into 6 files ~ 400MB each.
  2. 720x576 pixels at 1100kpbs. 1.28GB broken into 6 files of ~ 200MB each.
  3. 640x480 pixels at 550kpbs. 676MB broken into 6 files of ~ 112MB each.
  4. 320x240 pixels at 230kpbs. 294MB broken into 6 files of ~ 50MB each.

Mark Smith Advanced Coaching (~ 2hrs 40min footage)

  1. Original Source Files - Full DVD quality - 720x576 pixels at a bit rate of 2072kbps. 2.4GB broken into 6 files ~ 400MB each.
  2. 720x576 pixels at 1100kpbs. 1.24GB broken into 6 files of ~ 200MB each.
  3. 640x480 pixels at 550kpbs. 660MB broken into 6 files of ~ 112MB each.
  4. 320x240 pixels at 230kpbs. 285MB broken into 6 files of ~ 50MB each.

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Thanks For Your Order - GTTP Special Offer

Thanks for taking me up on my special offer for GTTP subscribers. I'll be in contact via email very soon, in order to give you the username and password to download the videos.

Unfortunately, I'm not a tech wiz, so I have to do this part manually. That means there may be a delay in my sending the email to you, since I don't spend all my time in front of my computer! Surprised But it shouldn't be more than half a day or so, since I do check my email every morning and night.

Thanks again,

Greg

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This page is now kind of redundant, and no longer updated. GTTP members should go to my Free Videos Page to get the latest free videos.

Greg

 

Welcome to the GTTP members free videos page!

From here you'll have access to the full free table tennis videos that I have put up on the site.

If you are not a member and would like to view the full videos, then use the Subscribe form over on the top right to sign up and I'll send you the username and password. It's free and you'll also get my newsletter informing you about the latest updates to the site as well!

Video File Size

Based on the poll results so far (see the poll on the right), I've decided to put one large high resolution file out for those of you lucky enough to have no download restrictions (and a fast connection), and another medium resolution version of each match split into 2 pieces, which should keep the file sizes down to the 40-75MB mark in most cases. This looks like the best solution for most people.

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NEW 09/02/09!! - 2004 Brisbane Open Quarterfinals - Trevor Brown vs Andy Shih - 720x576 pixels - 113MB, 640x480 pixels - 60MB

NEW 06/02/09!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Shibaji Datta vs Kyle Davis - 1024x576 pixels - 212MB, 856x480 pixels - Part 1 - 54MB, Part 2 - 54MB

NEW 02/02/09!! - 2005 Australian Open Teams Match - Brett Clarke vs David Zalcberg - 720x576 pixels - 238MB, 640x480 pixels - Part 1 - 61MB, Part 2 - 61MB

NEW 30/01/09!! - 2006 Australian Open Teams Match - William Henzell vs Robert Frank - 720x576 pixels - 217MB, 640x480 pixels - Part 1 - 57MB, Part 2 - 57MB

NEW 30/01/09!! - Online Coaching Program Sample Videos - Long Pips & Antispin vs Backspin -  428x240 pixels - 54MB, Long Pip & Antispin Basic Push - Discussion - 428x240 pixels - 12.5MB

NEW 26/01/09!! - 2007 Australian Open Teams Match - George Tang vs Wang Xiao - 720x576 pixels - 155MB, 640x480 pixels - Part 1 - 42MB, Part 2 - 40MB

NEW 23/01/09!! - 2005 Australian Open Teams Match - Simon Gerada vs Kyle Davis - 720x576 pixels - 175MB, 640x480 pixels - Part 1 - 46MB, Part 2 - 45MB

NEW 21/01/09!! - Online Coaching Program Sample Video - Important Concepts - The Playing Elbow - 428x240 pixels - 19MB

NEW 19/01/09!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Scott Houston vs David Powell - 1024x576 pixels - 155MB, 856x480 pixels - Part 1 - 43MB , Part 2 - 28MB.

NEW 16/01/09!! - 2006 Australian Open Teams Match - George Tang vs Trent Carter - 720x576 pixels - 147MB, 640x480 pixels - Part 1 - 32MB , Part 2 - 45 MB.

NEW 13/01/09!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Chamara Fernando vs Craig Campbell - 1024x576 pixels - 193MB, 856x480 pixels - Part 1 - 45MB , Part 2 - 43 MB.

NEW 09/01/09!! - 2005 Australian Open Teams Match - Simon Gerada vs David Zalcberg - 720x576 pixels - 218MB, 640x480 pixels - Part 1 - 58MB , Part 2 - 57 MB.

NEW 07/01/09!! - 2007 Australian Open Teams Match - William Henzell vs Simon Gerada - 1024x576 pixels - 209MB, 856x480 pixels - Game 1 and 2 - 50MB , Game 3 and 4 - 54 MB.

NEW 04/01/09!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - George Tang vs Kyle Davis - 1024x576 pixels - 191MB, 856x480 pixels - Game 1 and 2 - 42MB , Game 3 and 4 - 49 MB.

NEW 01/01/09!! - 2004 Australian Open Teams Match - Alex Swanson vs Kamalesh Tharmasuthan - 720x576 pixels - 193MB, 640x480 pixels - 101MB.

NEW 30/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Closed Semifinal Highlights - 856x480 pixels - 16MB.

NEW 29/12/08!! - 2006 Australian Open Teams Match - Anlin Hao vs Xuyen Tran, Games 1 to 3 - 109MB , Games 4 and 5 - 68MB (720x576 pixels), Games 1 to 3 - 57MB, Games 4 and 5 - 35MB (640x480 pixels).

NEW 26/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Jon Schubert vs Kyle Davis, Game 1 and 2 - 92MB , Games 3 to 5 - 155MB (1024x576 pixels), Game 1 and 2 - 44.5MB, Games 3 to 5 - 75MB (856x480 pixels). This is for Jon, Wiggy and the lads at DTTW. Enjoy!

NEW 25/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Jon Schubert vs David Zalcberg, 1024x576 pixels - 173MB, 856x480 pixels - 83MB

NEW 22/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Closed Men's Singles - David Powell vs Ho Nam Oh, (Game 2) 1024x576 pixels - 152MB, 856x480 pixels - 74MB

NEW 19/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - John Tawadrous vs Chamara Fernando, 1024x576 pixels - 142MB, 856x480 pixels - 68MB

NEW 17/12/08!! - 2005 Australian Open Teams Match - Trevor Brown vs Kyle Davis -  640x480 pixels - 95MB

NEW 14/12/08!! - 2007 Australian Open Teams Match - Paul Pinkewich vs Greg Letts -  720x576 pixels - 196MB, 640x480 pixels - 98.5MB, 320x240 pixels - 55.5MB. Check out the twiddling!

NEW 11/12/08!! - 2008 West Australian Open Men's Singles - Gio Cnapich vs Colin Bowler - 1024x576 pixels (316MB), 856x480 pixels (152MB), 428x240 pixels (85MB) . This is for the guys and gals at the One of A Kind Trading TT Forum. This was a pretty awesome match to watch live. I should know, since I was umpiring after losing to Colin in the semis!

NEW 08/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Closed Men's Singles - Sharad Pandit vs Kyle Davis - 1024x576 pixels (188MB), 856x480 pixels (90MB). I had promised a couple of readers a while back to put up some video of Sharad, since he is one of Australia's best users of short pips. Thought I had better not wait too long!

NEW 06/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Justin Han vs Greg Letts - 1024x576 pixels (183MB), 856x480 pixels (87MB). I added these to my Who is Greg? page, so I thought I should probably list them here as well.

NEW 03/12/08!! - 2005 Australian Open Teams Match - Brett Clarke vs Chamara Fernando - 51MB. This is an old pay-per-download video that I found when doing some spring cleaning on the site. I've found a few more that I'll put up every now and again. Enjoy!

NEW 01/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Kyle Davis vs John Tawadrous - 720x576 pixels - 119MB, 640x480 pixels - 62.5MB

NEW 01/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - William Henzell vs David Zalcberg 720x576 pixels 130MB, 640x480 pixels - 68MB

NEW 01/12/08!! - 2008 Australian Open Teams Match - Fabian Moritz vs Nana Boateng 856x480 pixels - 142MB, 428x240 pixels - 76MB

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Mark Smith Coaching Downloads

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Look and Learn from the Voice of Experience
Photo © 2007 Greg Letts

For those of you who'd rather download the seminars than wait for DVDs to arrive, I've set up http:// and ftp:// access to the Mark Smith Beginning and Advanced Coaching Seminars. Once I have received your payment, I'll email you a username and password that will give you access to download the seminars.

Since the original source files are quite large, 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)

  1. Original Source Files - Full DVD quality - 720x576 pixels at a bit rate of 2072kbps. 2.4GB broken into 6 files ~ 400MB each.
  2. 720x576 pixels at 1100kpbs. 1.28GB broken into 6 files of ~ 200MB each.
  3. 640x480 pixels at 550kpbs. 676MB broken into 6 files of ~ 112MB each.
  4. 320x240 pixels at 230kpbs. 294MB broken into 6 files of ~ 50MB each.

Mark Smith Advanced Coaching (~ 2hrs 40min footage)

  1. Original Source Files - Full DVD quality - 720x576 pixels at a bit rate of 2072kbps. 2.4GB broken into 6 files ~ 400MB each.
  2. 720x576 pixels at 1100kpbs. 1.24GB broken into 6 files of ~ 200MB each.
  3. 640x480 pixels at 550kpbs. 660MB broken into 6 files of ~ 112MB each.
  4. 320x240 pixels at 230kpbs. 285MB broken into 6 files of ~ 50MB each.

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

Purchasing and Prices

I'm selling each 2 hour seminar set for $30 Australian. Since there is some overlap between the two seminars, I'll sell the complete 2 seminars for $40 Australian. If you just want the one set, I'd personally recommend the Advanced Topics seminar, since the Coaching Beginners is more of a 'how to coach new players' approach.

Both Seminars
($40 Aus)

Advanced DVDs Only
($30 Aus)

Beginner's DVDs Only
($30 Aus)

Once I have received your payment, I'll set up a Username and Password for you, so that you can download the seminars via http:// or ftp:// - I'd recommend using ftp:// - especially on the larger files, since it allows you to resume downloads that get interrupted. Please bear in mind that this isn't automatic, I have to manually set it up once I receive notification of your payment. So you may have to wait a while if I am asleep at the time you pay!

Note: Just want to make it clear - you get the downloads instead of the DVDs, not as well as the DVDs. That's why they are cheaper - because I don't have to go to the trouble of making a DVD set and sending them off via postage.

If you don't like PayPal, please email me direct at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (change the xx to tt), and include "Mark Smith Coaching Videos" in the Subject line so I know it's not more junk mail, and I'll be in contact to see if we can sort out an alternative payment method.

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