I built a little interactive "museum" so my junior players can finally see spin
Quick disclaimer: I'm honestly not sure whether this counts as self-promotion under the sub rules. If it does, I apologize in advance, and mods, feel free to remove it or point me to the right thread. I'm mainly here to share something that's been fun to use with my players and to get feedback from other coaches.
I built an online Tabletennis Museum, an interactive website where you can through the basics visually:
What is Spin?
How to make Spin!
How pimples work?
Rules
Types of strokes
Ratings
What i Need to play table tennis
Cheap vs. Pro rackets
Fun Player type test
Fair play
Glossary
I've been coaching in our club's youth department for about ten years now, and over that time I've noticed the same questions coming up again and again, from kids, from parents, and from the adult beginners who train with me too:
How does the rating system actually work?
What kind of racket do I need? Is a cheap one fine, or do I need an expensive one? What's the real difference?
What are pimples? How do I play against them? And why does my ball keep going into the net against them?
…and so on.
At some point I started writing all these questions down. Then I thought: why not build a small interactive website where kids and adults can actually see how all of this works, a place that answers their questions properly instead of me explaining the same thing for the hundredth time.
You can find the website here:
https://smashstarter.com/museum/en.html
A quick note on how it was made: I'm a coach, not a software developer, so I built the interactive elements with the help of Claude Code to make everything as visual and easy to understand as possible.