ALPHA TT Modern Table Tennis 101 - Table Tennis Video

Safer Spin attack with upgraded control

• More chances and less miss-outs with "big window"
• New Black carbo-sponge to generate more power
• Longer lifetime and durability of rubber

Vega Europe has the highest ball-trajectory to create a larger safe-zone (big window) over the net. Empirical test shows bigger window effectively increases the success rate of your attack and reduce the chance of miss shots. Very easy to make spins Vega Europe also has the deeper ball catching feel at impact for the control. New black Carbo Sponge maximized the internet efficiency to generate additional energy onto the ball. Ball flies with more power as a result. Resilient tensile structure improves the lifetime of rubber by 30-50%.

In the modern table tennis game, the outcome of many matches depends on which of the players controls the early part of the point better. The best counter looping or hitting techniques will be of no use to a player who cannot get beyond the first two ball exchanges of the point. This video tape concentrates on the main points of serving and serve-receiving. It is assumed that you are familiar with the basic techniques of table tennis as they are discussed in the video "Modern Table Tennis 101". Now, Wei and Sean concentrate on deepening your understanding of the serve motion, serve strategy, receive motion, receive footwork and receive strategy. Since there are many different ways to receive a serve, all basic techniques, including pushing, dropping, flicking and sliding are covered. As in the previous tape, stop- and slow motion are used to clearly show all movements. Examples from international competitions are used to show, how each of these techniques is applied by world class players competing against each other. At the end of each main section, Wei and Sean show you practice drills designed to build consistency in that specific phase of the rally. 

Technique and strategy of the following are covered:

The Serve:

- Forehand Top- and Sidespin Serves
- Forehand Underspin Serve
- Backhand Top and Sidespin Serves
- Backhand Underspin Serve
- Serve - Attack Drills

Receiving Serves:

- Forehand receives
- Backhand receives
- Receive Drills

Rules notice: Since this program was produced, the international rules of table tennis regarding serves have been modified to state: "As soon as the ball has been projected, the server's free arm shall be removed from the space between the server's body and the net."

In some of the serves in this program, Wei's arm remains in front, which under that rule is no longer legal. All technical portions of this program remain valid, with the modification that the free arm must be pulled back after the ball is projected.

Watch some of the world's best players at work. Observe their strokes close up and personal. This video shows them at practice and allows a clean analysis of their technique.

This is the footage used in the time lapse picture series articles in the USATT Magazine.

Players included are:

1. Vladimir Samsonov (BLR)
2. Kong Linghui (CHN)
3. Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
4. Fredrik Hekansson (SWE)
5. Werner Schlager (AUT)
6. Kalinikos Creanga (GRE)
7. Jorgen Persson (SWE)
8. Wang Liqin (CHN)
9. Lucjan Blaszczyk (POL)
10. Andreas Podpinka (BEL)
11. Oh Sang Eun (KOR)
12. Patrick Chila (FRA)
13. Timo Boll (GER)
14. Danny Heister (NED)
15. Michael Maze (DEN)
16. Hiroshi Shibutani (JPN)
17. Koji Matsushita (JPN)
18. Liu Guoliang (CHN)
19. Kim Taek Soo (KOR)
20. Ma Lin (CHN)
21. Chiang Peng-Lung (TPE)
22. Toshio Tasaki (JPN)

Last year saw the introduction of the highly successful JOOLA energy, but now, JOOLA energy X-tra takes this one step further. The 37.5 degree soft sponge with the inclusive speed glue effect provides for even more spin and speed. It is especially suited to players who put emphasis on control of their strokes without renouncing the advantages of speed glueing.

Advanced development of "JOOLA Green Power" technology. The 37.5 degree soft sponge provides incorporated speed-gluing effect in a new dimension, for even more spin and speed.

Joola Green Power Technology:

Green Power is a rubber technology, whereby the performance achieved from fresh glueing is permanently incorporated into the rubber. Trajectory, playing feeling and the sound of fresh glueing are ever present features of this new product.

Incorporated speed glueing effect.

The Joola Energy X-tra gives consistent performance for longer than the regular Joola Energy rubber.

Superior rubber for the professional player who needs spin and speed!

SPEED : 12.8
SPIN : 12.0
PRECISION : 9.4
HARDNESS(SPONGE) : 44.0 degree

FOR TECHNICAL STYLE PROS KEEN ON BALANCED AGGRESSION
DEEPER AND LONGER BALL DRAGGING AT THE SURFACE
EXTRA POWER SPINS FROM HIGH-DENSITY CARBO SPONGE

NEWLY INTEGRATED DYNAMICS AND PERFECT HARDNESS FOR RELIABLE CONTROL
 
Hyper Elasto technology rubber upgraded by new chemical composition and new Carbo Sponge. Solid ball-capturing at the surface and perfectly matching sponge hardness promote extra spins and control at ball contact. OMEGA IV EUROPE produces significantly higher ball trajectory to make bigger window over the net. OMEGA IV EUROPE stretches the ball from opponent's court aggressively as if launched from speed-glued rubber. Clicking sensation at the ball contact also reflects the maximized built-in tension simulating full speed-glue effect.
Omega Series

Built-in tension of OMEGA series exceeds the average speed glue effect and the booster effect made by uncomfortable and illegal liquid gluings.

Boosters and Speed Glues are illegal

VOC packed speed glues damage the environment and the health of the people. It has also been damaging the image of table tennis. Since ITTF announced the new regulation to stop the speed glue for the benefit of table tennis, as a bounce back of some habitual gluers, some boosters were introduced to the market. But boosters are still skin-irritating hazardous compounds against the spirit of new regulation. Finally ITTF also banned the boosters along with any substances other than water glue simply to attach the rubber on the blade.

The ITTF regulation 2.04.07 "The covering material should be used as it has been authorized by ITTF without any physical, chemical or other treatment, changing or modifying playing properties, friction, outlook, colour, structure, surface etc..."

True spirit of ban can be found in new technology applied to OMEGA series. OMEGA series of Rubbers are not only clean and safe but also professionally performing at top level of table tennis play. Speed and spin the players used to get from VOC speed glues are fully built into the OMEGA series. Level of built-in-power and spin effect in OMEGA series is even higher than those from boosters and speed gluers. Instead of struggling with toxic substances, you simply put OMEGA and just focus on your game to win.

2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist Ryu Seung-min demonstrates techniques. Powerful forehand, amazing foot works, tricky serves and backhand techniques are demonstrated and explained by Ryu himself. This guide book DVD for penholder players introduces amazing penholder skills and techniques.

The techniques:

• Forehand Basic Stroke
• Forehand Top Spin
• Backhand Block
• Backhand Attack Stroke
• Backhand Attack Stroke + Backhand Smash
• Backhand Push
• Forehand Push
• Sideway Footwork
• Sideway Footwork with topspin
• Falkenberg Footwork (Sideway Footwork with Backhand)
• 3 Points Footwork
• Attack with Footwork
• Combination of Forehand and Backhand
• Footwork and Combination
• Forehand Topspin and Backhand Smash
• Variation of Direction
• Topspin against Topspin
• Counter Topspin
• Service
• Receive
• Block against Topspin
• Sidespin Block and Counter Attack
• Backhand Fish and Counter Topspin
• Service and 3 rd & 5 th ball attack
• Receive and 4 th & 6 th ball attack 

This 80 minutes video has commentary in Korean and Japanese only.