Training check list

Alois,

I play with my Dad in our shop.  We mostly just hit the ball a little and then play games.  I noticed on one of your comments you said that you should be able to hit the ball 20 times in a row.  What are some other training goals that I should be able to do?  An intermediate player should be able to ......?

Thanks,

Weston 

Hi Weston,

It is great that you are getting in to hitting regularly.

Ideally it would be great if you could do some drills before you play games.  These drills would be designed to help you with a particular area of your game that you feel needs some work.

 An ideal session would be between 90 to 120 minutes.  You could start with some physical warm ups and then an on table warm up of about 10 minutes where you would do forehand and backhand consistency hitting.  This is where you could focus on getting a certain number of balls on the table.

Then you could go in to some training drills.  Mostly here you could focus on your movement  drills and combinations.  Then some match drills where you would start the drill with a serve and then set up the first few shots of the rally in a common pattern you would see repeating in your games.

After that you could spend about 20 minutes playing games and then finish with some service practice. 

For each of these areas and drills you could set up some goals.  For example how many shots you get on the table or getting the ball to hit a target on the table.

It is important to use the training time wisely. You will find even greater improvement in your game if you do.

The Training Secrets Revealed DVD shows you how to set up your training sessions and also shows you all of the drills that we would recommend and tells you what each drill is designed to do.