The teaching of table tennis footwork is an indispens-able part in university table tennis teaching. Single footwork teaching is the basis and compound footwork is the key, therefore, this paper analyzed the basic methods of footwork teaching from the two kinds of footwork, and based on the analysis, proposed several suggestions on carrying out the teaching and training of table tennis footwork in order to improve the effect of table tennis footwork teaching and training, that is, the cultivation of students'' awareness of table tennis footwork, the emphasis on the teaching and training of preparation gesture, and the attention on new trends of table tennis.