Last updated on 09-Apr-2013 09:26:07 PM
Hi coach!
I watch your videos and I think it is fantastic. I am begginer in ping pong and I do not have anywhere to practice it. My friends do not know how to play ping pong so I ask you how I can practice alone? I have a table in my basement and I really do not know how to practice.
I think you are the best!!!!
Hi Marko,
Learning to play without a partner is a difficult one, but you have the main ingredient to getting better and that is you are very keen.
Try:
For all of these activities You can use the PingSkills Consistency Chart.
Alternatively, try to find a local club. If you are having difficulties finding one let us know and we will try to help.
I hope you can use these tips. Maybe one of our Ping Skills friends can make a suggestion for you as well.
Let me know if you have any other ideas. Put them here on Ping Skills and see if we can help Marko.
Hi Marko,
When practicing alone, you can always work on your serve. Take a look at our video lesson "How To Serve". Once you have mastered the basic serve, you can work on some more advanced serves. Stay tuned for a video on this topic.
IF this guy called Loveleen can drive upto 30 miles to play good table tennis then I beleive even you can becuz ...just think of something called " WHEN YOU"RE PASSIONATE ,YOU GET COMMITED"
you could also use a robot. these are very good to practise with, however, are expensive.
beggining at about £300 Uk pounds i think.
tim
Hi, Marko
I'm from maldives. when I start playing TT I don't have even a table and any No friends who knows how to play.. You know how I did it?? I used to hit the wall of my room. I keep on trying to hit more and more. at first I tried with forhand then later Backhand. after tht I mixed it up and tried. it helps me lot on foot work, body movement plus my speed and accuracy.
after all, when you face with table you will have more confident on your self. with proper shedule start training a close friend. even I did it. Now I have a group of 8 memebers who regularly comes to practice. we all joined club and they found us great.
with all effort, I'm really happy that we got a silver medal on netional level competition. so bro...possible is everything. just keep on mooving forward... BEST OF LUCK
FLEMING's Loop BLOCKER is the Answer to training without a partner.
I recently made a DVD of its use and will be creating a coaches guide for using the FLB as an assistant coach.
I designed and built the FLB's as a tribute to my former coach in Scotland and have been giving them away to prospective coaches as a training aid.
It worked really well (whilst i was coaching in Micronesia) for me to domonstrate techniques on my own, with accuracy and consitancy being the goal. Normally a coach requires another player of reasonable skill level to facilitate good domontration quality techniques........ but what do you do when an assistant coach is not available and the skill level of the students is too poor/inconsistant to be of constructive value??
My students now play full matches against FLB's with the only differing criteria from ITTF rules being that the ball must return (like squash) a certain number of times from each blocker before winning a point legally. One of my students has become "addicted" to this way of training and has been observed/heard practicing on her own from 9pm until after midnight..... only stopping becase the neighbours were complaining about the noise coming from the carport!!!
As soon as I learn how to post short DVD clips on my web-site I will post it immediately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S27hOi0Tww&feature=relmfu
Can i use these exericses to practice strokes? I have tried the loop and loop drive ones and their sort of good.
Hi Jonathan,
I had a quick look at the video. Anything you can do to help improve your strokes and coordination is good. It is always better to have a training partner though. If you can get someone to feed multi-ball it is much better as the ball comes through more like it would in a match and hence you are practicing strokes against balls you will get when you play a real game. With the exercises in that video the ball never has any forward momentum and so you'll never actually hit a ball like this in a game.
oh. but is it okay to practise them before i get the robot though?
Sure Jonathan, as I said anything you can do that helps you build some coordination will be helpful.
Thanks Jeff! :)
I practice serves alone,its really good to improve them,try different spins etc.
if you want to practice forehand topspin put your table tennis table 2 and 1/2 inches in front of a wall and try to do forehand topspin, the wall will bring the ball back to you. it really works i did it and it develop my forehand topspin.
but if your practice did not work there is some problem in the wall or in what size you put the table in front of the wall.
Get a ball shooter I recommend( I pong ) I got one for a present
