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Transition Training
Two minute table tennis tips

By Greg Letts, About.com Guide




Are you an attacking player who finds it hard to play strong attacking loops and counterloops during a match, even though you are great at doing these in training?

Or are you a defensive player who is struggling with your first long range chop in matches, despite the fact that you can retrieve like a brick wall in practice?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, you are most likely making a simple mistake that most intermediate level players make on the way to becoming advanced players – you are forgetting to train your transitions.
Attackers and Transitions
Attackers, think for a moment about your training – I'd be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that you are doing lots of the following type of drills:

Loop to block
Loop to loop
Loop vs chop
Serve and serve return, short pushing

On the other hand, I'd guess that you are not doing very much of this type of drill at all:

Underspin serve – long push return – third ball opening attack – block return or counterattack – fifth ball loop/drive. (You are the server)
Underspin serve – short push return – long push return – fourth ball opening attack – block return or counterattack – sixth ball loop/drive. (You are the receiver)

As an attacker, one of the most important parts of table tennis is the transition from the short game phase (which is typically short backspin strokes) to the rallying phase (which is topspin strokes with longer swings).

In most cases during a match, this transition is achieved by a player opening the attack by topspinning a push from his opponent that goes off the end of the table, then continuing to attack his opponent's block or counterattack.

Take another look at the drills mentioned above – as you can see the first group of drills work the opening part of a rally (the short game), or the ending part of the rally (the away from the table longer attacking strokes), but not the process of moving from the short game to the long game.

This is why many intermediate players find themselves in the situation where they can achieve a high level of success with their away from the table play during training, but struggle to do the same thing in matches. They are forgetting to work on the ability to open their attack against a backspin push, then follow up with another attack against the block or counterattack from their opponent.

What is the point of doing tons of drills that train your away from the table attacking game, if you never train the skills that are necessary to get you to that point – the ability to attack a backspin push and follow up with another topspin attack?
Defenders and Transitions
As a defensive player myself, I know I have made this mistake in the past. Here's a sample of my typical training drills that I used to use, which I'd bet is similar to any other intermediate level defender having this problem.

Chop vs loop (starting with the defender standing well back from the table)
Loop vs block
Counterlooping after a heavy chop
Short game – serve, serve return, pushing/flicking.

The type of drill that I needed to work on, and which I added to my training routine, is this:

Underspin serve – short push return – long push and move back to long range defensive position – fourth ball attack – long range chop - sixth ball attack or drop shot. (You are the server)
Underspin serve – long push return and move to long range defensive position – third ball attack – long range chop - fifth ball attack or drop shot. (You are the receiver)

As a defender, a crucial part of your game is the ability to move quickly and smoothly from a close to the table short game position to a long range defensive position. The first group of drills mentioned above focus mainly on either short game play only, or long range play only. If you are mainly doing these types of drills, you will find your short game is great in training, and your long range defense is solid, but you can't seem to successfully get your long range defense started during matches – you will always feel off balance and under pressure when making that first long range chop.

The extra drills that I have added to my training routine focus on quickly moving from short range play to long range play, and back to short range play again (for dealing with drop shots etc).

Being able to quickly and smoothly move from the short game to the long range game and back again is vital for a defensive player. But the only way to be able to do this during matches is to perform the same movements in training. If you only train your chopping with drills that start with you standing far away from the table, you'll never learn how to successfully transition from close to the table pushing to long range chopping – your first long range chop will always be weak.
Conclusion
Mastering the basic stroke techniques is part of what separates beginners from intermediate players. Unfortunately, many intermediate players don't realize that getting to the advanced level involves more than just working on individual strokes in isolation. Intermediate players wanting to move to the next level need to pay proper attention to training their transitions from the short game to away from the table rallying. Otherwise they will be stuck with great away from the table techniques that they can't actually use in a real match.

So if your away from the table game is great in training and terrible in matches, add some transition drills to your routine, and you'll soon notice the difference – and so will your opponents!

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Jao kad vidim ovoliko teksta, ja se odmah smorim... Vladojice, prepričaj mi u dve rečenice, please

Pa prepricao sam ti u prethodnom postu, ne u dve recenice, nego jos krace - u dve reci: "Dobar tekst"

A u dve recenice: poenta je u tome da, ti serviras kratko u forhend, onda ja tebi odpimplam dugo u bekhend, pa ti meni udaris paralelu na forhend, pa ja tebi dijagonalu na forhend,pa ti meni dijagonalu na forhend, pa ja tebi paralelu na bekhend, pa... shvatio si poentu

BItna je tranzicija, jer lako je stajati u mestu na zagrevanju i udarati forhend na forhend, kad ti lopta uvek dolazi u istu tacku, ali u realnom scenariju razmene udaraca to nece ici tako jednostavno, vec mora da se vezba, pored osnovne tehnike udaraca, i tranzicija iz jednog udarca u drugi, sa radom nogu, namestanjem, planom, jer u realnosti tu dolazi do najvecih gresaka.

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