@TTmonster
This is agree with you. I merely said i dont think one should use it too much but rather in between serves.
@Nextlevel
Perhaps my wording was too harsh. A good float serve is indeed hard to attack effectively. The difficult part is making a good fast low and deceptive float serve. But I guess its because i value my 3rd ball attack so much that I misvalue the true worth of a float serve because it does not fit my style. I find that my opponents have more options in returning that serve in terms of placement relative to other serves. Now almost all serves can be returned almost anywhere on the table but RELATIVELY, I find float serves to have the most variation in terms of return and placement, making it hard to plan a proper 3rd ball attack with a decent probability of it happening. Also, my opponents are my club mates who are very capable in TT. Now I dont have any video yet as it is Examination period so all club activities are suspended but they are at a level where they have all the fundamentals down to clockwork (not me thou). We almost promoted ourselves to the Primeir division but lost the promotion match by score difference. If we won, we would be playing with other Universities like these
Most of my opponents and training mates are not as good as the players in the video but im using it as a benchmark or illustration if you will at the level of my opponents. 1 or 2 of them have fought and won against some of their players. So you can see my plight of why i dont like float serves as my opponents and partners are more than capable of giving a good return and denying me my 3rd ball.
I would like to stress that I am not as good as those players, but my training partners are pretty close. This is the basis of why i dont like using the float serve. Not that it is bad, it just is not my style and my opponents are capable and experience enough to do so.
Edit@: So as you can see NL, my partners and opponents have the necessary skill,touch and experience to read and attack or at least give a good return for float serves. At best it is used as a one trick pony that usually ends poorly based on my experience with such players. But this is because of the opponents I face. If the opponents skill sets were different, then perhaps I would reassess my opinion about float serves. But because my opponents are like this, I still stand by my opinion that one should not use floats serves TOO OFTEN. At best, use it a few times in a match to get cheap points but do not make it a main serve