First stroke for beginners
Strokes
Ardak . Asked 1 year ago
Hi, coach!
Which stroke must be teached firstly to a person who never hold racket in his life? Now I try to teach him holding the racket correctly and just touch the ball. Because he misses lot when I give him very slow balls. And when he touches the ball, he does very small movement. It looks like block. When he returns the ball flies very high. Does he need to do longer stroke? Id.est do bigger swing and move racket forward more? And how must he touch the ball? Flat or smooth?
Alois Rosario Answered 1 year ago
Hi Ardak,
It sounds like you are doing a good job with teaching.
I think the first thing is to develop control of the ball just with a push or flat controlled hit. Take a look at our tutorial on The Most Important Skill.
After this the 4 basic strokes can be learned... The Forehand Counterhit, Backhand Counterhit, Backhand Push and the Forehand Push.
Good luck with your teaching. Let us know how he progresses.
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Ardak . Posted 1 year ago
Thank you very much, coach! Ok, I will tell about progress, I hope he will do progress :)
Ardak . Posted 1 year ago
Hi, coach!
My students are progressing but very slowly. In a group sessions there are 7 students. I work with them only 2 hours in a week. It was decision of school administration. With 14-year old students we started FH and BH counterhits. 11-year old students are still learning flat slow strokes :)
That good Ardak. Progress is great. Are they enjoying the learning?
Ardak . Posted 1 year ago
Yes, they are enjoying the learning, even I work only 7 minutes with each student in 1 hour. Little students are forgetting learned strokes because of very short amount of traning and big interval between training sessions. Yes, progress is good for such training id est 14 minutes in a week with each student :)
Ardak . Posted 1 year ago
But it is very hard to teach 11-year old girls. I feel like they are starting learning for the first time at each training session. They forget all. They still can't do slow flat hits in a row, and it is really annoying :(.
Ardak . Posted 1 year ago
But 11-year old boys and 14-year old students are progressing very fast.
Great to hear your updates Ardak. Progress takes time and everyone progresses differently. Well done in persevering.
Ardak . Posted 1 year ago
Thank you, coach!
Ardak . Posted 4 months ago
Hi, coach! I didn't see your question. I accidentally see it just now :). Some of them are enjoying, some of them can not do the strokes that I show, those students leaved our club. Last year 4-5 students have learned topspins, backspins, reached higher levels that I didn't expect. Elder students won all teachers in our school. Our teachers are amateurs, they spent their free time by playing table tennis. But this year those good students didn't continue trainings because they have to study to university exam. Couple of talented little grade students have changed to different schools. This year I started to train new students. All of them are little grade. Progress is not good, because they are not interested in tennis, they were absend in many training sessions. But 3 students always come to train. Now they can do fh, bh topspins, push. Now I try to teach different types of topspins, receiving backspin, no spin and topspin serves.
Ardak . Posted 4 months ago
Hi coach!
Some students enjoying, some are not because they can't do the strokes that I show. I tried to teach them many times but they still did wrong movements even after 10 training sessions. So, such students left tennis club. Talented students learned in the first lesson. Now they are playing good. They use topspins in the game. They win our subject teachers in the school. But since the training sessions only 2 lessons (each 40 minutes) in a week, and 6-7 students in the group, progress is not big.
Ardak . Posted 4 months ago
Here I wrote several times but all of them are disappeared.