IMPROVE FASTER at table tennis - Do these 3 drills

If you want to improve at a quicker rate, there are three table tennis drills, which are essential. These three drills are really easy to do. They can be done at any level and they have the potential to transform your game. So if you want rapid improvement, keep watching. Over the years, I have coached hundreds of players, social level, amateur level, local league level, and there are three drills, which I do way more than any others. I'm going to show you these three drills, how to do them and explain the benefits they will bring to your game. The first drill is random top spin to backhand block. This drill is so simple, but it helps you develop so many different skills. Now it works like this. One player is going to block with the backhand, but the blocker can block anywhere on the table. The top spinning player has to play forehand top spins, backhand top spins, but all the top spins go back to the backhand side. So why is this drill so good? Well, when you're the top spinning player, doing your forehand top spins and your backhand top spins, this drill really helps you develop your footwork, moving from side to side. It helps develop your top spin rallying skills, switching between backhand top spin, forehand top spin. It helps you develop the skill of hitting your top spins from different parts of the table, wider to the backhand, wider to the forehand, balls which come to the middle. But the key feature is the randomness. Because the blocker can block the ball anywhere on the table, this will help you improve your reading skills. It's going to improve your reaction skills. It's going to really help you get better at dealing with randomness. And this skill will translate into your matches because a table tennis match is completely random. The balls are going here, there, everywhere. There's no pattern. So if you get better at dealing with randomness, then you're going to be winning more points and more games. The next drill I want to show you is push, loop, counter. You start with a push, then you do top spin versus back spin, and then you do a drive or a counter top spin against the block. So why is this drill so important? Well, if you can master these transitions, going from push to loop, and then going from loop to counter, it means you can develop a very strong attacking game. Now you can do this drill in several ways. You could focus just on one side. So maybe you'll do your backhand push, your backhand loop, and then a backhand counter. Or you can do it on the other side. Forehand push, forehand loop, forehand counter. Or you can mix it up and make it more random. So maybe you're going to end up doing a backhand push, a forehand loop, and then a backhand counter. You can stop the drill after three shots, or you can play out the rally. Choose the option which works best for you. Now, if you do this drill lots and lots, you'll get much more confident at going from push to then attacking. And once you've looped against back spin, you'll have the confidence to keep on attacking. And that is going to make you a much stronger player. And the third drill I want to show you is serve and attack. This is also a really simple drill. You simply serve, your opponent returns, and then you attack the next ball. So why should we do this drill? Well, you get to improve your serves, keeping them nice and tight and low over the net. You'll improve your recovery after your serve. You'll improve your understanding of how your serves are returned. And crucially, you're going to improve your ability to attack after your serve. If you get the first attack on the table, you are more likely to win the point. Now you can do this drill in a more structured way. So for example, you start with a back spin serve, your partner pushes the ball back, and then you loop. Or you start with a top spin serve, you get a block return, and then you attack. Or to make it more of a challenge, you can do any serve and your partner can return in any way, and you still have to try to attack. Now what I really like about this drill is that for the server, you get much more used to serving, recovering, expecting the ball back, okay? So we know how many of us are guilty of sometimes just serving and stopping. Ooh, I wonder if I'm going to win the point. And then the ball comes back, uh-oh, messed it up. But this drill develops that skill of a really good recovery and linking the serve to the next shot. And once you've repeated this drill enough times, you're going to find that you get way better at this serve and attack. And I promise you, that is going to help you win a load more points. Now there are potentially hundreds of drills you can do, and I've just picked out three. And I'm not saying that all the other drills aren't worth doing. There are loads of drills which are really, really useful. And depending upon what you are currently working on your game should really dictate what types of drills you do. But if you're at that kind of amateur level, you perhaps stayed at the same level for some time, maybe focus on these three drills. I think these three drills are the ones which are going to help you get out of this period of stagnation and then push you up to that higher level. Now, if you want more ideas for training drills, then please join my online academy. I have a library of training drills on all aspects of table tennis, and I regularly add new drills. And you can sign up at tomsttacademy.com. Thank you very much for watching. I'll have more videos coming soon. Until then, keep playing table tennis.