Women’s Game (52)

  • WOMEN — ASIAN/EUROPEAN
    1. European and Asian women’s game. A comparison of European and Asian women’s play and conclusions as to why one is successful and the other isn’t.
    2. Ready position, serve and receive tactics. Are these changing? Based on a study of the top men and women. Comparisons between men and women and between European and Asian women.
    3. Win over Asian women. Is the two-winged topspin style the way to beat them?
    4. A stepping stone — Ian Marshall. The Chinese girls deserve to win!
    5. Chinese National Women’s Team and pimples. Have the top Chinese women stopped playing with material?
    6. Women — Asian superiority. Why are Asian women superior and what can the Europeans do to change this?
    7. Women’s statistics — Worlds. Statistics on singles 1926 — 2001 and on team 1933 — 2001.
    • WOMEN — DEVELOPMENT
    1. Observations on cadet girls’ development. Looking at cadet girls in Sweden and areas requiring improvement — applicable to most countries in Europe.
    2. The vital role of the District in girls’ training. The importance of controlling girls’ training in Sweden if girl players are to develop to European level.
    3. Swedish girls and the big ball. A look at girls’ play and how this will be affected by the big ball. Ideas on future development.
    4. Development of girls’ table tennis in Sweden. An in-depth look at the problems in developing good girl players in Sweden. Applicable to many countries in Europe.
    5. Developing the talent of our girls. How does a promising young girl reach the top?
    6. Women’s development in Sweden. Does the system in Sweden give the girls a fair chance to reach the top and to develop their full potential?
    7. Lecture file on girls’ development. A detailed evaluation on how we should train girls and how and why this differs from coaching boys.
    • WOMEN — MATERIAL
    1. Long pimple stroke play. Exercises and ideas on how to play with long pimple (attacking).
    2. Women’s development — pimples on the BH. A plan to play to and ideas on development when women play with pimples on the BH.
    3. Women’s development — reverse rubber on the BH. A plan to play to and ideas on development when women play with normal reverse rubber on the BH.
    4. Material and the women’s game. Too many coaches, trainers and parents are against material for women. Are they right?
    5. Why use pimples? Why do many more women use material compared to the men? Do they really gain an advantage from this and how does it benefit them?
    6. Girls — long pimple development. Even with material there should be a path of development.
    7. Clubs and material. Why many girls don’t use pimples and why perhaps they should!

    8. Girls in the World Elite and their playing styles – Lars Borg.  Examination of Protour events and the variety of women’s styles at top level.

    9. Women’s playing styles – the theory. A follow-up on Lars Borg’s article analysing some of the theory behind why the top women play so differently.

       

    • WOMEN — TEACHING
    1. A Programme Layout – Girls’ training in national centres. A suggested programme for an approach to girls’ training at the highest level.
    2. Girl players and National Centres (direction). What should National Centres in Europe be doing with girl players and what questions should parents and coaches be asking?
    3. Coaching summary — women. Summary of the prime areas in coaching women.
    4. A theme for girls’ groups. Ideas for aspects to explore with girls’ training groups.
    5. Women — key issues. Summarises the essential aspects of women’s play and the consequences.
    6. Girls’ seminar. Seminar to girls’ training groups, emphasising the dissimilarities between the women’s and the men’s game and stressing important areas for girls to work in.
    7. Girls’ groups — key aspects. Areas to look at when coaching girls.
    8. Practical exercises for girls. Why coaches should give more thought as to which exercises they use in group training sessions for girl players.
    9. Seminar on girls’ coaching. Outline of seminar on development of girls.
    • WOMEN — TECHNICAL
    1. The mechanics of the long serve and why women use it more. Requirements for serving long and why women serve long more than men and should think more about the long receive.
    2. The big ball — girls, thinking points. What the top players say about the big ball and some conclusions as to future direction.
    3. Growth after technique in the women’s game. What is the next stage in development after technique?
    4. Women’s play — facts and observations. Do coaches throughout Europe really understand how to develop the full potential of our girl players? A look at the realities and what the top women actually do.
    5. Time element and implications. How the time element affects the women’s game and what it means.
    6. Differences in the men’s and women’s game. A look at the differing tactics, techniques and materials and the significance of these.
    7. Loop attack and the women’s game. How should women loop and why? Should they spin the same as the men? Thoughts and ideas.
    • WOMEN — TECHNICAL 2
    1. Just how should women play? Statistics and which areas women should work in to reach full potential and be successful in the women’s game.
    2. Debate on girls’ training - Sweden. The current direction of girls’ training in Sweden, ideas for the future. Applicable to most countries in Europe.
    3. Multi-ball and women’s training. Ideas as to why multi-ball training for women should not be the same as for men.
    4. Diversity in technique and tactics — women’s game. Why techniques and tactics, which work in the men’s game, aren’t always suited to women’s play.
    5. Women — the simple facts. Essential differences in the women’s and men’s game — based on a study of the world’s top players. Highlights aspects that many women don’t know about women’s table tennis.
    6. Girls — training needs, a method. Aspects to look at when training female players.
    • WOMEN — TECHNICAL 3
    1. The way forward — girls’ attitude. A look at the stress of competition.
    2. Coaching girls - a different ballgame. Outline lecture on coaching/development of the female player.
    3. Girls — make things happen. Girls, control your own destiny.
    4. Destroy the flair and spontaneity. The dangers of over-coaching.
    5. Female loopers - the dilemma How should women topspin and why? What other related aspects are also important in the overall female tactics?
    6. The girls against the women. Who should win and why? Which tactics?
    7. Coaching the female of the species. Lecture series on the different approach required when coaching women.