Quickness or Power?

By Carl Danner

Top players are both quick and powerful. Which is a more important focus for a developing player?

At high levels, things happen very quickly in points. Fast hands and feet are almost a given. Powerful shots are useful, of course, but only when you can get into position to hit one against a suitable ball. If your hands and feet are sluggish, that perfect positioning may not occur very often. As well, swinging too hard leads to tight muscles that impair quick movement.

Rather than repetitive power-looping, use some practice time to refine your quick strokes and movements, Relax your grip to make fast counters and opening shots. And instead of patterned drills, try some random shot sequences where you react to the ball's placement more than anticipate it. Speeding up your play in this manner can pay big dividends in matches.

Both of them! If you are pro they cant one without second

I agree that being quick is a must, if your not in the correct position, then power does not help.  If your quick with your stroke, then it will also be powerful.  So there are many aspects in being quick, movement to the ball (usually feet), adjusting to the ball for the stroke (feet, body and arm) and executing the shot (quick arm movement = powerful stroke.

Quickness

I agree. Power needs fast movements of your feet and arm. I can train with the robot and hit Max speed but train to be quick with your foot and then return with consistency and accuracy that's makes you go to the next level. It's hard

consistency; precision; power; quickness; variation; spin;
6 elements of pp, you rank them.

oh yes good point easyfiji, i just watched the ECL between zhao peng and chuan chi yuan. and yes u r  ABOSULTELY correct, even tohugh say zhao was backed away from the table, he had no troubles lobbing, cause the power from chuan was more spinny loops than anything else. hence y peng came back from a  2-0 deficit, to win 3--2

easyfiji wrote: Chen Qi vs Chuan Chi-Yuan is a classic example of this. Chen is young and powerful, and as fast as Chuan. Chuan has no chance of beating him because Chuan's quickness means nothing.