Super 8s

SUPER 8s is a program designed by 888 Table Tennis coaches and leadership to teach children without any previous exposure to table tennis the principles of the sport and guide them through different levels until they have achieved the skill set of an intermediate level player (USATT ±250).

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How does Super 8s work?

Program consists of two components that help kids learn the game of table tennis: Behind the Table Skills and Coordination & Physical Conditioning.

It provides a comprehensive approach to developing both technical skills and physical fitness, ensuring that kids not only learn how to play table tennis but also improve their overall athletic abilities.

COORDINATION/ PHYSICAL CONDITIONING

Footwork Coordination: Improve your agility and movement with exercises like speed ladder drills, jump rope routines, and agility cone drills, all tailored to the footwork required in table tennis.
Hand-Eye Coordination Skills: Enhance your coordination by practicing balancing the ball on the paddle and walking with the paddle while maintaining balance.

BEHIND THE TABLE

Serving: Master the basics of delivering a controlled and effective serve.
Aiming the Ball: Develop precision in directing the ball to specific areas of the table.
Basic Strokes: Learn and practice the fundamental backhand and forehand strokes.
Spins: Understand and apply different types of spins to add variety to your game.
Attack and Blocking: Get to grips with attacking shots and blocking techniques to handle different styles of play.

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LEVEL 1: We work on basic hand-eye coordination skills that are necessary for table tennis and we start with the beginning: serving.

LEVEL 2: Students start learning a basic stroke upon which more advanced strokes are based: Backhand counter. We also level up with the skills while serving and focus on quicker hand eye-coordination and ball control.

LEVEL 3: We add on another foundational stroke, the forehand counter, and we will start working on moving the feet in combination to practicing the foundation strokes and our previously learned hand-eye coordination and ball control skills.

LEVEL 4: Students learn how to transition between Backhand and Forehand strokes, aim to a specific corner and how to
serve short and long on purpose.

LEVEL 5: Students will be introduced to one of the most played drills in table tennis that proves to be useful for beginners all the way up to professional players: the Falkenberg-drill. In addition the students learn 2 new strokes: Forehand drive and Backhand block.

LEVEL 6: Students are introduced to a new stroke and spin: the under spin push and serve. In addition, they learn how to counter that spin by looping the ball.

LEVEL 7: Students will add the skill of looping on under spin balls with Backhand in addition to knowing how to do it with Forehand. Also, side spin serves will be added to their arsenal of serves.

LEVEL 8: In the last level of the Super 8’s program we will guide the students through the last of the necessary skills before they will be intermediate students and we introduce two intermediate drills in the curriculum as well.