Welcome to the ask the coach show where PingSkills answers your table tennis questions!

This week the show consists of:

 * The Joke of the Week

 * A discussion on Playing to Learn vs Learning to Play

 * The Tip of the Week - How Quickly Should You Progress Your Skills

 * 3 Questions

 * And a fun fact

Training Plan When Using a Table Tennis Robot

I have just purchased the premium subscription and I am looking forward to developing my tt skills. I used to train mostly at home, apart from playing once a week in a tt club as well as playing with friends, and I am using a PowerPong Omega tt robot and the drills it offers. Is the training plan taking into consideration the possibility of using a tt robot? Will it make it more efficient, how to adjust it and what kinds of drills would be most useful?

Playing Doubles

Any tips on positional play when serving and playing doubles?

Don´t Recognize the Spin on my Opponent's Serve

I often can't recognise what spin is on my opponents serve. This happens especially with the pendulum serve then I can only guess and of course I'm often wrong. Anything I can do to reduce my error rate and keep the ball in play?

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