The Best Table Tennis Books 2025

1. Table Tennis: The Skills of the Game, Used [Paperback]

Table Tennis: The Skills of the Game by Gordon Steggal

Table Tennis: The Skills of the Game, Used [Paperback]

2. Table Tennis: Steps to Success (Steps to Success Activity Series) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Table Tennis: Steps to Success is the first book to give you a self-paced program for learning the important skills and game strategies in table tennis. By following this unique step-by-step approach, you will improve the level of your game and learn to play like a champion. Written by master teacher, coach, and player Larry Hodges, this table tennis book is part of the Steps to Success Activity Series--the most extensively researched and carefully developed set of sport skills instruction books ever published. Each of the 15 steps featured in Table Tennis: Steps to Success provides a solid foundation of basic skills and concepts. As you progress, you will learn how to adapt your game using the advanced strategies and playing techniques. Each step (chapter) - explains why the skill or concept is important, - identifies the keys to correct technique, - helps you correct common errors, - explains how to practice each skill in realistic ways, - lists specific performance goals for each drill, - gives you a summary checklist for evaluating proper technique, and - lets you proceed at your own pace. Drawing upon his vast coaching experience and his extensive involvement with the U.S. Table Tennis Association, Larry Hodges presents useful advice in game strategies and tactics. He also covers two areas of the game that are very important, yet often overlooked--footwork and mental preparation. In addition, you will learn how to - select serves and return shots that will give your opponents problems; - add excitement to your game by putting topspin, backspin, or sidespin on the ball; - choose the proper stroke to match your particular needs--whether for quickness, power, deception, or just fun; - select the grip that is best for you; - improve your practices and games by starting out with an effective warm-up routine; - find and enter tournaments; and - prepare for tournament competition so that you'll perform your best. Table Tennis: Steps to Success features over 120 drills and 140 illustrations and will help students get started, make steady progress, practice match-winning skills, and correct problems as they develop. The result--successful table tennis players who will enjoy the game for the rest of their lives. So learn how to play an effective game of table tennis; let your opponents play "Ping Pong" See all the titles available in the Steps to Success Series.

Table Tennis, Used [Paperback]

3. Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins: Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Ping-pong, played in every corner of the world by over 250 million people, cast a hypnotic spell on Jerome Charyn's imagination early on. Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins portrays the great pongistes, from Ruth Aaron, the Ginger Rogers of table tennis, to writer Henry Miller. From ping-pong detente in China to the underground bars of New York, the playlands of Las Vegas, and the convention centers of Florida, Charyn details the sport's history while passionately arguing for its benefits in combating aging-related depression. The book includes photographs of ping-pong's champions.

Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins : Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive, Used [Hardcover]

4. Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins: Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Ping-pong, played around the world by over 250 million people, cast a hypnotic spell on Jerome Charyn's childhood imagination. Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins portrays the great pongistes and includes photos and interviews with table tennis legends Marty "The Needle" Reisman and Dick Miles. From ping-pong detente in China to the underground bars of New York City, Charyn details the sport's history while capturing the intellect, excitement, and anarchic spirit of ping-pong's golden age. This offbeat and entertaining chronicle of one of the world's quirkier Olympic sports is presented in a completely redesigned trade paper edition. "Table tennis can now add to its two certified American superstar players a certified American superstar chronicler -- The New York Times "Both an informed history and an intimate memoir.... Charyn's] book is a giddy delight and a sweet elegy." -- The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins : Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive, Used [Paperback]

5. Winning Table Tennis [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Winning Table Tennis by Tim Boggan

Winning Table Tennis, Used [Paperback]