How to Develop Any Skill

Alois Rosario Answered 5 months ago

Hi Philip,

I think the best way is to focus on these particular elements firstly with a very controlled situation, perhaps one ball being fed at a time.

The thing to do then is to find ways to progress this to make the challenge level higher for you. Here are some ideas:

• Move to continuous hitting at a slow pace still focusing on the action
• Speed up the feed slightly
• Try to play at normal speed and then work on accuracy of the stroke
• Add doing this from different positions on the table with some movement between each shot
• Vary the pace of the incoming ball
• Vary the placement of your shots
• Start to do this in a rally situation starting with a serve and opening ball and then when the situations presents itself see if you can execute the stroke that you are working on
• Work on executing the stroke in a practice game situation
• Work on executing the stroke in a match play situation

As you can see developing something new can be a time consuming exercise but it is worth the effort.