Dan Seemiller: Revelations of a Table Tennis Champion (ETT #40)
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THE EXPERT TABLE TENNIS PODCAST - EPISODE #40
Dan Seemiller is an American table tennis legend. He is five times US Men’s Singles Champion, twelve times US Men’s Doubles Champion, and seven times US Mixed Doubles Champion. That’s pretty impressive, to say the least!
But he didn’t stop there… Dan transitioned to table tennis coaching and coached the US National Team for 10 years. He has also been USATT President and organized dozens of major tournaments. He currently working on the 2018 World Veteran Games, which will be held in Las Vegas.
What makes Dan’s story even more interesting is that he hardly received any coaching as a player. As a junior he trained with his brothers in “the barn” and they all developed their own unorthodox styles of play. Many ‘experts’ told him he would never succeed with such a different technique but Dan was determined to prove them all wrong… and he did!
In this episode you’ll learn:
- All about Dan’s new table tennis book [1:00]
- How Dan first started playing table tennis [4:30]
- What Dan thinks about unique styles and challenging the Chinese [6:45]
- Why Dan reached a higher level than his brothers [9:30]
- When things really took off for Dan as a player [12:45]
- What is the “Seemiller” grip? [16:15]
- Dan’s strengths and weaknesses as a player [20:30]
- How to identify bad habits vs individual styles [25:30]
- How Dan became such a tactical competitor and his tactical tips [28:00]
- What Dan thinks about combination rackets in 2017 [33:30]
- Dan’s prediction for the next big change in table tennis strategy [37:00]
- 2018 World Veterans Table Tennis Championships [39:30]
- How to change your game/style as you grow older [42:15]
- Why you should buy Dan Seemiller’s new book [46:00]
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’ll be back in a month with Episode #41 - to be released 1st March 2017. My guest is still to be confirmed, so if you have any suggestions please leave a comment and let me know.
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Terrific interview
I'm glad someone interviewed this fantastic person. I've met him several times, including attending one of his summer camps in Pittsburgh in 1977 along with Eric. I remember playing "Brazilian Doubles" I'd later get to watch Danny and Eric battle it out at Caesar's Palace for the Title, and in between Danny toured through Keesler AFB in Bilioxi, MS in 1978 and did an exhibition. I got a chance to hit against his lobs and got the greatest compliment in my life from him when I sent a chop slam sailing over his head. I remember Jerry Thrasher was touring with him at the time. He was the Florida State Champ, and was known for his killer backhand loop. Danny is the best ambassador that this sport has ever had and I wish he was on social media so we could re-connect some day.
I live a block from Carrick and I use the Seemiller grip.
I would love to see another U.S. champion using Dan's grip. That would be so cool. And to see the reaction of all the naysayers!
That left handed thing is an interesting one. I basically do everything right handed however if I try to catch right handed I'm hopeless, with my left hand I look like a pro baseball player or something. I watched timo swap hands when I was about 13, so roughly 5 years ago and thought that looked fun. So I had a little practice. I can now do a half decent pendulum serve and my forehand has much more more feeling than my right hand. I played a point this year in our league. Guy smashed, I misread where he was going so I'd already swapped hand, lobbed it back, picked up his drop shot and finished it off with a topspin. All with my left hand. He couldn't believe it. We mess about at the club and we have to kids who r top 100 in their respective age groups and I still pull it off. Our top 100 junior looks completely un natural if he tries it but his younger brother can now do it as well.
Is there a reason on why you upload all your podcast episodes all at once, Ben? I really do think that if you uploaded them twice a week or so a lot more people would watch them, since you´ve been having guests like Dan and all of these people that are really interesting. We would all be waiting for the podcasts to come instead of them all dropping at once and needing all this time to watch them. Your guests are really important people so why not keep us waiting to see who´s next? It´s just my opinion
@Experttabletennis
7 жыл бұрын
Hi Alvaro, They were uploaded all at once just to catch up. From now, a new episode will be uploaded on the 1st of every month.
@AlvaroMunno
7 жыл бұрын
Oh, ok. It all makes sense now