tennis player who has been competing internationally since 1995. I am here today to speak to you

about the intermediate and beginner aspects of the Olympic sport of table tennis. Right

now I'm going to demonstrate the backhand drop shot. It's really important in the sport

of table tennis, uh to be able to sometimes play passive, and not only aggressive. What

this means is that you have to sort of slow your body down, and a lot of times you have

your opponent, they put a high ball because they are in a little bit of trouble and no

matter how hard you smash the ball, they keep returning it. So with the drop shot, what

we do is we try to hit a little bit of the side of the ball and we just touch it. So

we have a law with the drop shot, we just touch the ball, just like that. And we have

a high ball, so we sorta just touch it to drop it. Like that, that's a good drop shot.

Now the second is a drop shot against underspin. You have a lot of players that are defensive

and they push the ball. And what you need to do with that is you need to really just

touch the ball, go underneath, and just touch the ball with the backhand drop shot. That's

a good drop shot. A couple more. See I'm just sorta really just touching the ball. It takes

a little feeling on the back hand but its very important to drop the ball. Very low

and over the net, so that's the back hand drop shot.