What are the professionals' favourite footwork drills?



One of footwork's greats Ryu Seung Min, 2004 Olympic Champion









Around the time of the World Table Tennis Championships I pondered on what the most popular drills among professional players were, more specificially what drills they liked to repeat the most to improve their footwork. I decided to ask a few players what their favourite footwork drill is and why they think it is the best one that we should all be practicing! Here are their answers :)Middle FH, Wide Ball, because it is an irregular drill where you need good body position to play every shot.Three point forehand because it gives you good coordination between your footwork and hand movements.Two point forehand corner to corner, you have to be very fast and stay low on your legs all the time and it covers an extreme distance on the table with the forehand.Falkenberg, it is hard but you feel good after doing it!Falkenberg with a deep forehand ball. This drill is great because you get good speed, mobility and reaction and also get to improve on the movement around the pivot forehand which is very important for me!: Falkenberg, gives me good feeling after in matches to go around and play forehand more often.Middle, Wide a perfect drill to check my safety and quality.One short forehand, one long bh (chop), one short bh, one long fh (chop), full cover for the table.3 point forehand is the best way to improve forehand movement.3 point forehand, I am a forehand player and my game is based a lot on my forehand so with this exercise I can improve both technique and footwork and as well cardio system.Always changing exercises to try and work for as many different scenarios as possible, sometimes backhand random change, sometimes small random footwork, long footwork. Important to not always stay the same.So there are a handful of the favourite drills from some of the best players in the world! What is your favourite footwork drill?