Review Technique On My Drills
Nikola Novakovic asked 4 days ago
Hey folks,
New to this forum but been on regular TT Daily forum for a bit. I’m an adult developing player that is trying to get better. For context I’m 6″5′, pretty athletic (been into other sports, lifting etc my whole life) and been playing table tennis for ~ 1 year (I played when I was a kid for a bit but I’m not counting that haha). My biggest weakness is footwork and getting my body in the right position to perform the shot. So I bought a robot to practice that (I can only go to a club 1-2x a week because of adult responsibilities haha). Been mainly focusing on transitioning between BH to FH and then FH footwork. I improved a lot since I started using the robot 3ish months ago (I feel like now I can take a game or two from ~1700-1800 USATT memebers), but still have lots of room for improvement.
Video I’m about to share is from last week where I try to do FH wide then FH middle and this one is actually not looking too bad. This is honestly one of the first times where me performing this exercises looks remotely good (when you compare it to players with very good footwork) and I’m super happy with the progress (again I know room to improve). The next exercises is 1BH 1FH random here the goal is to get my feet wher ethey need to be before performing the shot and I think I do that fairly well. My FH is looking rough on the first few shots (no follow through and no weight transfer) so need to polish that up.
Excited to be a part of this community and would love to hear your feedback!
https://youtu.be/0e7PeS1dWjk?si=xxeMSll9nrJOYCxC
Nikola Novakovic answered 3 days ago
Here is actually a video of me today doing the same drills + a few more. This time the loop on the 1 BH 1 FH exercise is looking a lot better I think (follow through is there + weight transfer). Second thing I was working on was getting in ready position after the serve (a lot of times in a match I just stand there staring at the ball after I serve as opposed to getting in the ready position lol) and last but not least is looping BH against underspin. My favorite serve is heavy underspin short to the BH and that usually results in a half long or long push to my BH (at least at my level), so being able to loop undersping with my BH is important. Been working on the timing and getting low. Here’s the video
https://youtu.be/SvSMISy7UJE?si=0T5cXTSKDysS82wu
Would love to hear what y’all think! Feedback welcome! 🙂
