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).
This program is divided into eight levels of difficulty. Every month, in the last 30 min of the class, there will be a testing time where kids can prove that they have the necessary skills to move up a level and work to gain all eight badges.
The kids will have three attempts per level and will receive their badge sticker immediately when they pass!
Each level consists of 2 components, coordination/ball handling skills and behind the table.
With each completion of level the necessary skills become more and more advanced.
It starts simple with playing with the coach but after certain levels students will be required to play with each other in order to pass the exam.
The objective is to have our students complete to SUPER8’s program between 8-18 months. By this time even the most challenged learners should be able to complete the challenges that come with the highest difficulty level if they participate in enough hours and practice seriously enough during the lessons.
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.
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