switching-between-forehand-and-backhand-shots
Jeppe asked 5 years ago
Hey, I’ve recently been practising the backhand block and punch shot.
Now I often find myself wrongly playing a backhand block or attempted punch in the forehand corner, when really i should just do a forehand topspin.
When i do this, i focus extra hard on making the next shot a forehand attack, but this doesn’t work very well when the ball is returned to my backhand.
This can create an awkward sequence of backhands from the FH corner, and forehands from the BH corner
Tom Academy Coach answered 5 years ago
Hi Jeppe,
The best way to avoid playing these backhands from the forehand side is to really focus on the feet and body position. Make sur eyour right foot is always begind the left (If your right handed) and that it doesn’t step in front towards the ball, this can cause backwards from the middle or forehand.
Forehands from the backhand aren’t to much too much of a problem if your footwork is ok, but backhands on forehand mean you get out of position. You need to do lot’s of irregular switching drills where you have to choose backhand or forehand, the best one is someone simply blocking you around the whole table and you topspin into their backhand.
