How to Play a Table Tennis Backhand Drive - Stage 4 Posture

All Levels: Upper body posture is key to being able to play the backhand drive.
Part 4 of a 4 part series: Jim Clegg a Level 4 Coach with the English Table Tennis Association and Head Coach of the Preston Table Tennis Association explains and demonstrates how your upper body posture affects your ability to play a backhand drive.

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[elviondark77]

i am 11 and i play and i beat an 18 yr old with a backhand drive in a tourn to claim 1st

[PathfinderPro]

your youtube profile page says you are 21 not 11. Which do we believe?

[abed83a]

Thank you very much. I have watched (several times and will watch many more) this backhand seris. This is the most detailed one. I play only for recreation purpose and have no proper coaching. So this kind of lessons are very helpful for me. I am recently trying to reconstruct my 'sometimes excellent sometimes erratic' backhand. Hope it will solve my problem. Any tips to unlearning old bad habits? Thanx in advance.

[PathfinderPro]

Very interesting question abed83a. I have plenty of bad habits,some from playing other racket sports. I'll ask Jim and post his reply here. Thanks for the feedback.

[PathfinderPro]

Jim says this is not an easy one to answer as it depends on the age of the person and how long they have been playing however, his reply is below.

[PathfinderPro]

Choose the stroke you are going to try to change.

Get someone to feed the ball to you, play it back trying the new style and then stop the rally.

Discuss the result with your partner.

Do this with every stroke you want to change, over and over again.

Once you are happy with the new style of one stroke, then play a rally to your partner using that one stroke only.

Do this with every new style of stroke, then move into playing rallies playing all the new style strokes together. Jim C.

[GhoZtRiDeR21]

@drthmstrbtr most people pick up table tennis at 5 (China) :)

[manudehanoi]

This guy looks like a drunk but he's got great elocution, and his teaching is very structured and plain smart. We need more from him !!!

[manudehanoi]

very interesting, never thought that the head position could have so muc h influence

[hawkfish88]

@liddleman12 They're having a knock, not playing a game.

[liddleman12]

0:28 U have to throw up the bal 14 centimeters before U hit it :D

[drthmstrbtr]

most people pick up table tennis in College ( USA )

like age 19 is when i started & im pretty good for a rec player

[liger357]

watched from....part 1 to this.... coach is good

[abed83a]

Sometimes taking an intentional break worked for me to get rid of a bad habit. I use plenty of wrist, so when it works it is quite handful and deceptive and my main point earner. But I am ready to start fresh. My far from the board with slight topspin returns are working, problem is close to the table shots, I am dropping my wrist too early. Thank u so much for taking time to discuss it with Jim and providing me the ans.