Table Tennis Game Play Decision Making Drills

The collaborators on this video are Tom Lodziak and Craig Bryant, both listed in our "Top Table Tennis Resources".

This video is fantastic.

The drills are great to improve decision making that is imperative in good game play.

If you don't have a coach or playing partner who can feed you, but you have a ball-feeding robot, you're in luck... If you get some orange balls to contrast with your white ones.

In the photos below, there is a ratio of +/-50 orange balls to +/-150 white balls. As the robot feeds them, you pick which side to hit your "return"...

White ball = Primary target
Orange ball = Secondary target

At first, it's quite daunting since there is VERY little time to see the ball IN the ROBOT before it's fed to you... 

But within one series of +/- 100 balls, you'll feel (and see) your decision-making improve.

This is a BRILLIANT addition to robot-based training to keep things "FRESH" and can be applied to different strokes, serves and responses...

Thank you Tom and Craig!

Primary target to the left-hand side with the secondary target to the right.

Primary shot to the right-hand side with the secondary shot to the left.