Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Self check on 3 point drills

After 2 months of the 3 point drills the following performance must be evaluate. They are footwork, consistency in deliveries. body posture on approach to strike zones and aerobics or physical competency.

If there are setbacks in any of the performance stated, the individual topic should be address.

Example : body posture on approach to strike zone

In this case you must condition your core stability. This will be done in the gym with resistance training.

As for your poor performance in footwork due to weak legs, conditioning on the lower body is necessary. Example of exercise are squats with resistance, lunges with resistance, working on the re bouncer etc....

If consistency in deliveries is the problem you may have to look back on your techniques and focusing.

Until then hope all of you will have a good time on the correctional approach to bring yourselves to the next platform.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Preparation for competitive rallies

After you have completed the basic technical skills required (back court deliveries/front court deliveries, etc...), we are now able to start the competitive drills.

There is no training secrets as claimed by different training centres around us. The only training secret is to trained diligently and follow the process till you are very satisfied with yourself. Put it to use in every game and see is there any areas of improvement after every victory or defeat.

From here we will start the rear court coverage. We will apply a 3 point method in every application of the drills.

Coverage of the back court drill begins with a minimum of 3 players. 1 player (The Trainee) will by herself covers both left and right of the back court and also the back hand of the front court. Leaving the forehand front court not covered.

The other 2 players (The Trainer) will be on the opposite of the court. 1 covers the complete front court while the other covers the complete back court.

Rallies begin with the trainer delivering into the 3 points of the trainee's court at random. While the trainee will try to return every shuttle diagonally opposite from the point of the delivery.

This training will be carried out in every training days till the athlete is able to send the shuttles with longer rally time. After which the drill will omit the front backhand and proceed with coverage on the front forehand.

When the whole back court training is completed, the same 3 point method will be applied on the front court coverage.

Hope all of you here will benefit from this 3 point method.