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Welcome to Table Tennis Doctor. Let's look at a post from Pingpong.com, a golfer named Ping-Pong. The coach also asked me to learn horizontal shooting, but I don't know why I can only use forehand to pull in an arc when playing horizontal shooting, and backhand has no attack power at all (can't pull ball. I can hit thirty or forty boards) , but I don't have a backhand when I shoot horizontally, what should I do? Many people have a strong backhand when shooting horizontally, but I have a strong forehand. Should I go back to pen shooting?

1. Let muscles form memory

(1) Don't change grip lightly

First of all, I want to tell you one thing, let's not change your grip lightly. If you have been playing feather grip for many years, there is no need to change the horizontal grip.

(2) There is a big difference between pen grip and left horizontal strokes

Now you don't feel so smooth shooting horizontally, pretty much reason is that you used to play pen style and now you change it to a horizontal grip, forehand is not a problem, no. no matter if you shoot pen or horizontally all time. Trouble but when it comes time to switch back and forth there is a big difference between a traditional pen push and a horizontal backhand in whole movement transformation so you don't adapt all your brain thinks your muscles Reactions can't keep up so you can't in time handle a lot of balls with a backhand, or you don't have mind to use a backhand to handle them (you can't switch them).

(3) Intense Muscle Memory Training

Be sure to practice a combination of right and left punching skills, and do switch training often, such as practicing a fixed left push and right attack first, and then you can practice this kind of fixed point after training, for example, left board goes straight through two boards, left side is three boards and right board is one board This is a vague left push and right attack so you can think about free transitions and how to make quick adjustments This is what we call muscle memory building.

Second, learncenter of gravityplay

(1) Center of gravity transformation

Get a good habit of shifting your center of gravity. When a lot of people play their center of gravity is on forehand and they always play with their center of gravity on forehand but they can't change backhand so when you play your foot position can't be adjusted Stay dead on ground.

(2) Adjusting tempo

The same is true for shift in center of gravity and pace of legs. The pace must be flexible. This flexibility means that you should always use small steps and steps to accommodate your legs so that your legs are in a flexible state to better switch from forehand to backhand.

(3) Learn how to move your feet first

When you approach ball, you must learn to move your feet first and then dribble, rather than dribble first and then move your feet. Only then will you be able to complete connection and transformation of right and left strokes of technique more flexibly. This is my advice to you.

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November 29, 2023