How to Do a Table Tennis Backhand Block | Ping Pong

Put some Spin on that Backhand: Ping pong is enjoying a surge in popularity and professional tennis table player Tahl Leibovitz is here to help you jump on the bandwagon. In this video, he&teach you how to do a backhand block. My name is Tahl Leibovitz and I&here at SPiN, New York. I am a professional table tennis player who has been competing internationally since 1995. I am here today to speak to you about the intermediate and beginner aspects of the Olympic sport of table tennis I&gonna demonstrate the backhand block. The backhand block is very, very important in table tennis. From 1985 to 1993 the Swedish were very, very successful against the Chinese mainly because of the backhand block. The backhand block is a ball where we have to have the racket very, very compact; the racket cannot move long. The more we move the racket when our hand is close to the table, the more chance we can miss the ball. So what we do with the backhand block is we have two ways to block, which are probably the only two ways that you really need to focus on. We have one where we try to slow the pace of the ball down, and we do that because the player is far from the table. When they&far, we try to block with very little hand movement; we just sort of move our hand very, very little. The other way is where we try to push the ball, the balls are little medium or slow, so we try to block with a little bit of speed. The block is very short, very compact. This is the block, right here. Very...