In our first ever podcast with Team JOOLA's newest addition, we talked table tennis with 4-time Team GB Olympian Liam Pitchford.

We had the chance to speak about the different stages of his table tennis career, and how his priorities, needs and training habits changed as he passed through different levels of development and professional competition.

This was very insightful to see, not only how the types of training changes, but also how he became significantly more focused on the mental aspects of sport as he got to the higher levels and was chasing the 1% which would ultimately make the difference between better and best.

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In this episode of Talkin' Smash we sat down with JOOLA's Vitor Ishiy to talk more about the process of developing your own playing style and identifying what your potential strengths are.

One interesting area of conversation was about the impacts of trying too much to mimic a favourite player or style and how this can have an impact on player development.

As always a pleasure to sit and chat with Vitor and to get some of his experience, particularly with regard to how he developed his own playing style more.

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This was another great podcast with someone that has a lifetime worth of experience in the game as a player, but also a lot of knowledge as a coach. We enjoyed sitting down and chatting with Thiago Monteiro about whether table tennis players fixate on the wrong things when they are trying to improve their table tennis game.

Key areas we spoke about were things like how much players focus on the latest equipment, how obsessed players get over rating systems, and other areas of the game.

It was great to speak about these topics and hopefully it will give listeners more insights into where they should really be focusing in order to better their game!

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