From Table Tennis (Ping Pong) to Pickleball: Strengths and Weaknesses
What are the advantages and disadvantages of transitioning your skills from table tennis (ping pong) to pickleball? Find it out with coach Joe Gmuer. Watch today pickleball TIP in our Instructional series. Stay tuned for more pickleball lessons!
00:00 Coming from table tennis?
00:15 Your “table tennis” advantages in Pickleball
01:40 Ping pong weaknesses in Pickleball
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So you’re a really good table tennis player, and you’re coming to pickleball. What are you going to be really good at from the get-go, and what are you going to struggle with? I know enough about table tennis not to call ping pong. This is Clifford Joseph from Cliff Pickleball, our rival station. He is an incredible table tennis player, his reaction time is really good, because he’s coming from table tennis. He just played the PPA in Orlando for a pro pickleball. He is really good. Look at that backhand roll! How does that translate to pickleball? It translates perfectly. Look at that! It is so smooth, he’s going from low to high. This is why table tennis players transition so good to pickleball. Look at him hit that forehand in table tennis. Just beautiful! Let’s transition to pickleball. Let’s see, that beautiful. It’s the same motion. It is the same exact motion. He’s going from low to high, and it is silky smooth.
Table tennis players will have a very good concept of shaping the point dinking wars. You really want to set it up and this is such a good example. Octavio is in the blue shirt Cliff is in the near right-hand corner. They just set this point up so well. I get really excited, when I see a really good dinking war, because I’m not the best dinker. That is just beautiful: table tennis players have an innate ability to read the opponents. They are trained to do this. I believe innate is the right word it’s ingrained in them. Table tennis players will not have the best overhead they’re not used of the overhead motion. Mark’s rated 2150 in table tennis, and he’s developed a good overhead. But I like to teach this skyhug motion. That’s Lydia ,she lives in The Villages, very accomplished and in tournaments. That skyhook motions a lot easier on the shoulder. I teach that to table tennis players converted to pickleball. This is Patricio Pereira, he’s rated 2300 in table tennis. If you watch this tournament, he plays such a good match. Look how there’s so many similarities between table tennis and pickleball. There’s just so many similarities! This guy comes out of his socks. Look at all that spin! That’s why table tennis players really do good with those spinny paddles. This is Patricio playing pro against me and David Nel in Tampa. He can really read his opponents, he moves them around, very deceptive. He carves that point, and he makes me look like a pinata. It’s really tough doing these segments when you look really bad on camera. But I’m really good friend and Patricio, come back to Orlando. Table tennis players will have no outball concept they hit a lot of outs. If you look at Octavio, he’s in the near right hand corner in black. Let’s count how many outs he hits. I would say that’s one, that’s two. The reaction times are so good, but in ping pong or table tennis everything hits a table, so they have no outball concept. That’s me in the top right hand corner, and I’m just defeated. I have no idea how Octavio got so many of these balls back, but he could have let them go. He could have won the point earlier so if you’re playing a table tennis player in a tournament know, they’re going to hit pretty much every ball. Guys and ladies, thank you so much for watching! I’m going to keep the segments coming. These do take me a long time, so please subscribe! Have a good day!
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