Hey ttvrn! We hope you’ve been enjoying the Academy and found it helpful so far. That’s great, now is a good time to get some feedback and watch yourself on video whilst the normal training isn’t available. I’ve had a look the videos and I think you have very solid technique overall on both sides, just a few small things that will help.
With your forehand your action is nice and smooth and you have a good acceleration and contact on the ball, I would say try not to let the bat drop too low between shots, try to back swing on a slightly higher level, this will help a lot when having to recover quickly and switch from forehand to backhand. Right now in this drill it’s fine as you know where the ball is coming but for development in random and match situations that will be important. Also just remembering to keep your nice low base with the legs and your body forward, which mostly you are doing.
On your backhand, again very nice technique overall! The main thing I would say is your follow through can shorten down and this will save you time on recovery and make it easier to stay compact. At the moment your follow through is a bit long and your bat finishes across to the side of your body, if you can focus on finishing the shot more in front and keeping the swing a little shorter. I think by doing this you will achieve the same shot quality if you can keep the acceleration but you’ll be much quicker at recovering and it will be less effort too. It does also look like you are a bit square to the table when playing your backhand and could bring the right foot back slightly so your feet position is closer to what you have on your forehand. The things I have mentioned are pretty small changes and I’m very impressed with your technique in general!
I think you are definitely at the stage where you should try to work on switching between backhand and forehand and doing in movement drills, so for example 2 backhands 2 forehands and practice linking the shots smoothly together and the recovery from each one. Not sure if it’s possible on the robot you have but I would also suggest some irregular drills which really test your technique under pressure as you don’t know were the ball is going, but for you I think that’s what your next stage is to improve as in static positions you look very solid.
I hope that all makes sense, any questions or things you aren’t sure on just comment back to me below.
