How to Play a Table Tennis Backhand Drive - Stage 2 Speed

Thanks for the video rated 5

yeah pinarello001 is too sensitive!

He must have failed to understand this is for
INTERMEDIATE players!

Not Circuit players

Detailed response from Jim Clegg forwarded direct to pinarello001.

For the record your comment about Jim being amused by the failure of the receiver to return the ball is inaccurate. Jim was pleased because he'd demonstrated the shot he was describing not because the other player couldn't return it. It is not easy to be filmed coaching, talking, playing and demonstrating all at the same time.

There seems to be a common thread of over-simplification of what is theoretically the most technical game in the world. We have not got kids beyond the age of 18 into senior ranks because we fail to provide them with the technical confidence required. The modern game is so fast and so dynamic that we cannot teach kids this way. Where is the fun in this delivery? Why was he amused by the failure of the receiver's struggle to deal with what is essentially a medium paced ball with little top-spin?

Response from Jim to follow.

'Amazing speed' - who are you kidding?
Where is the top-spin? He's far too rigid.
Its much more importatnt to get young players loose with their actions and then get control and consistency with time. It is extraordinarily difficult to take a player who is too rigid and try to get them to loosen up - you must start from the beginning. Look at Tisch-Tennis DVD with Christain Suss and the way beginners are introduced to forehand topspin kneeling on the floor, same with backhand.

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great video, easy to follow

I recently started table tennis and i will incorporate these techniques regarding posture and speed in my play to improve my game.Excellent description and very easy to follow.

Nederlander kan je merken aan het accent of het is gwn amerikaans :P maar wel good gedaan !

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Hi, thanks for your comments and please don't stop using your wrist! Jim covers using the wrist in the third part of this four part backhand series. It follows on from this video because Jim considers using the wrist to be a more advanced level and he wanted to get the basics right first(stage 1 video) and then build on the basics of control with speed, wrist and posture (stages 2, 3 & 4 videos). I hope the video's help you at practice. Thanks

im a table tennis player (for 9 years)and i found his advice useful even though his movements are a bit weird..ill try this tomorrow at my practice...we will see...i always play with using my wrist...(too much maybe)but i do it at the contact with the ball..at the end of the contact with the ball, i use my upper-elbow...

Great stuff. Will be remebering this in mind when I play next

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