The training app for table tennis

Never again: what are we training today?

Say what you want to work on — Penhold builds a finished session for you. 45 drills collected from real coaches, every one with a ball-path diagram.

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Built by Bene — after 16 years as an attacker, he's relearning table tennis from scratch as a defender.

The problem

How club night actually goes

“Let's just play a few games.”

You get to the hall, knock up for a bit — and then what? No plan, no deliberate work on your weaknesses. Coaches rarely have time to prepare something for every single player. In the end your hall time goes on deciding instead of training. That is exactly what Penhold is for.

The proof

This is what a session looks like

Goal

Eröffnung & Angriff

3 exercises · with a partner

Heads-up: the drills themselves are written in German — that is the only language the app ships in today. The diagram reads the same either way.

1 Eröffnung mit Umlaufen 9min
2 Endschlag aus der Bewegung 4min
3 Eröffnung nach kurzem Spiel, unregelmäßig 9min

The ball path for exercise 2 · Endschlag aus der Bewegung

Rückhand-Topspin halten

Wechsel in die Vorhand, Endschlag

you partner

Stroke sequence

Rückhand-Topspin halten

1Topspin in seine Rückhandecke
2Block in deine RückhandeckeEin- bis dreimal — wie oft, entscheidet der Partner

Wechsel in die Vorhand, Endschlag

3Topspin in seine Rückhandecke
4Block in deine Vorhandecke
5Topspin in seine MitteEndschlag, frei platzierbar — hier als Beispiel die Mitte

This session is not made up: it comes straight out of the app's engine — goal “Eröffnung & Angriff”, 3 exercises, seed 3. The diagram is drawn by the very same function that draws it on the phone.

The solution

A session at the push of a button

45 drills from real coaches

Footwork, opening & attack, consistency, defence — every drill comes from a coach or a strong player, with a description and the reasoning behind it. Nothing scraped together off the internet.

Every one with an animated ball path

A green table, numbered strokes, the ball plays the drill through once — plus the stroke sequence in words. You understand the drill before you have to explain it.

A training plan you can tick off

Put sessions on days, tick off what you did, and see in the week or month view what you actually trained.

Session mode for the hall

One drill per screen, a timer with an adjustable duration, a buzz when it runs out. The screen stays awake; swipe on to the next drill.

Works offline No account needed No ads No tracking

LaterFor coaches: build group plans and take them into the hall on a tablet — coming after the launch for players.

Why I'm building this

From attacker to defender

I'm Bene. I've played table tennis for 16 years. But it was only when I started over as a defender with short pips that it hit me: without a systematic plan and the right drills, you simply stop getting better.

So I started collecting drills from coaches and strong players, writing them down and drawing them out. That turned into Penhold — for me, for my own training, and for everyone who wants their time in the hall to go back into training instead of planning.

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