Overcome Your Competitor at Their Own Styles with These Killer Ping-Pong Styles
Posted on July 30, 2009
Filed Under Tennis
You should be prepared to play ping-pong just like you are mentally prepared for any other sport. Preparing early is a big step forward, and a good way to do this is to study how your opponent plays so you can understand where they are weak points are and what their strengths are. If he didn’t have time to prepare like this, it doesn’t really matter as you can find out what their weaknesses are by playing “The Explorer”.
An explorer’s tactic will normally feel the opponent out by giving him or her different kinds of shots. In order to be effective at the explorer tactic, you are going to have to make use of many different types of shots when the game starts, like counter drives, loops, drives, blocks, spins, pushes, and many other types of shots.
By doing this, you will be able to adjust quickly and determine what shots are your opponent’s weakness. Try varying the different speeds at which you get the ball, and used many different types of serves as well.
As mentioned before, you will be able to find out what your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses are with this method. This is going to allow you to be the aggressor and concentrate on sending your opponent balls and serves that they are weakest against.
For example, if you observed that your opponent is weak on his or her backhand, you should try and give him or her more backhands. Another strategy is by forcing your game to your opponent right at the start of the game and adjust your plays or tactics as you go. This form of gameplay is known as the “dominator” method for obvious reasons.
A dominator won’t show any mercy and they will come to the table throwing their best shots straightaway from the beginning of the game. By doing this, you will force your opponent to adjust to your shots and not the other way around. Although this can be advantageous for you, you have to remember that you also need to adjust to your opponent’s shots as you play. Not being able to adjust will mean losing the game and many errors.
If you are going to play the dominator, this means that you are going to need to start the game with your best shots and make adjustments that correspond to the responses of your opponent’s shots.
Now, try to figure out whether you are an explorer or a dominator. Really good ping-pong players are able to combine both methods and are able to make adjustments to their opponents shots very quickly.
So whichever type of ping-pong player you are, you need to take the time and learn how to make adjustments to your opponents play so you can defeat them at their own game.
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