How to Play a Table Tennis Backhand Drive - Stage 4 Posture
Written by ace.
All Levels: Upper body posture is key to being able to play the backhand drive. Part 4 of a 4 part series: Jim Clegg a Level 4 Coach with the English Table Tennis Association and Head Coach of the Preston Table Tennis Association explains and demonstrates how your upper body posture affects your ability to play a backhand drive.
watched from….part 1 to this…. coach is good
Sometimes taking an intentional break worked for me to get rid of a bad habit. I use plenty of wrist, so when it works it is quite handful and deceptive and my main point earner. But I am ready to start fresh. My far from the board with slight topspin returns are working, problem is close to the table shots, I am dropping my wrist too early. Thank u so much for taking time to discuss it with Jim and providing me the ans.
Thank you so much for answering in details. I am playing for many yrs, though there are yrs of gaps in between. I understand the age factor as it is becoming difficult for me to unlearn or learn. But recently I have successfully (slightly) modified my forehand with better effect. So I am hopeful. I will follow your instructions. Thanks indeed. Main prob is I can not make time to practice regularly. But I will try for sure.
Choose the stroke you are going to try to change.
Get someone to feed the ball to you, play it back trying the new style and then stop the rally.
Discuss the result with your partner.
Do this with every stroke you want to change, over and over again.
Once you are happy with the new style of one stroke, then play a rally to your partner using that one stroke only.
Do this with every new style of stroke, then move into playing rallies playing all the new style strokes together. Jim C.
Jim says this is not an easy one to answer as it depends on the age of the person and how long they have been playing however, his reply is below.
Very interesting question abed83a. I have plenty of bad habits,some from playing other racket sports. I’ll ask Jim and post his reply here. Thanks for the feedback.
Thank you very much. I have watched (several times and will watch many more) this backhand seris. This is the most detailed one. I play only for recreation purpose and have no proper coaching. So this kind of lessons are very helpful for me. I am recently trying to reconstruct my ’sometimes excellent sometimes erratic’ backhand. Hope it will solve my problem. Any tips to unlearning old bad habits? Thanx in advance.
good coaching
thank you
very helpfull
thank you very much
real coaching
please continue
i just watched the 4 videos too, this is easily the most helpful stuff on youtube
Awesome! You just solved my backhand problem. I was slouching. That makes my back straighten up depending how hard the stroke is. So a medium return hits the table but a hard return goes high. Now all my strokes are hitting the table(more or less). What a difference technique makes!
I just finished watching all four videos…good job! Very helpful I think and clearly explained.
good coaching