Coaching Summary — Women’s Development (2002)
- The prime skill of table tennis is to be able to adapt in an ever changing situation.
- Training is repetition in the right environment and with the right attitude.
- To be a top player your development must be in the right direction.
THE IMPORTANCE OF T I M I N G!
- PHYSICAL CHAINS – Basics, technique, tactics and movement. Materials. Play against other styles.
- MENTAL CHAINS — Rigidity of play and thought. Innovation and change. Women’s play — speed control, opening and converting, short play, serve and receive, variation, use of table and equipment, stronger BH, positive attitude, winning weapon, be different.
- OWN STYLE – Understand this, best distance from the table, know BH and FH split, right movement patterns, how to win points, right training.
- ADVANCED TECHNIQUES – short play, pace variation, slow loop both short and long, early ball push, chop/stop blocks, late-timed pushes, blocks and flicks, block play on the FH, use of angles, killing through loop, sidespin loop, dummy loop, early ball hit v topspin, sidespin push and block, short drop balls, alternating topspin and drive, alternating topspin/block.