Keeping Your Eye on the Ball in Table Tennis/Ping-Pong

Demonstration

For those of you yet unconvinced, or trying in vain to convince your students, try this little demonstration exercise. Stand at one end of the table and watch the net closely. Then have another person stand to your forehand side and randomly (but reasonably slowly) move their hand up and down. See how easy it is to tap their hand while still watching the net. Then try it while watching their hand and see the difference.