Advantages of a right-handed player practice with his left-hand and vice-versa?

eduardo1995filipe · Nov 21, 2018

Hi all!

I would like to know the advantages of a right-handed player improving his table tennis with his left-hand(and vice-versa). Do someone here does that? Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,
Eduardo

Lightzy · Nov 22, 2018

There's an advantage in the fact that there is a disproportionate number of left-handed TT high level players, so you get used to this.
So you learn that some serves that are normally great for you actually help a left-handed player attack your serve, you learn to start aiming your topspins in a way that's more difficult for a left-hander to counter-attack (if you tend to attack the elbow or wide backhand of a right-hander opponent, for example, a left hander is going to really enjoy those balls you're feeding into his attacking pocket) etc.

yogi_bear · Nov 22, 2018

Probably just being familiar with a left handed or vice-versa. It still depends on the level.

Lula · Nov 22, 2018

Why would you Do this? For fun i can understand, But it feels like a waste of time

woodblade · Nov 22, 2018

Improves your backhand for sure.

eduardo1995filipe · Nov 22, 2018

Thank you for the responses! [emoji2] I thought that could help to make our brain work in a different way and improve also our coordination! And it's useful to know how the weaknesses and the strenghts of a left-hand player.

What kind of practice pros do about this? They to consistent pratice of the opposite hand they play?

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Lula · Nov 22, 2018

I feel that we have limited amount of time to practice, so it is better to practice with the stronger hand

Every ball we can play counts and makes us a better player.

FruitLoop · Nov 22, 2018

Maybe useful for a bit of fun and feel but I don't think Ma Long is spending hours playing as a lefty ...

eduardo1995filipe · Nov 22, 2018

Lula said:
I feel that we have limited amount of time to practice, so it is better to practice with the stronger hand Every ball we can play counts and makes us a better player.

True

eduardo1995filipe · Nov 22, 2018

FruitLoop said:
Maybe useful for a bit of fun and feel but I don't think Ma Long is spending hours playing as a lefty ...

Yeah probably, but his last point against Zhou Qihao... seemed a solid technique

Lula · Nov 22, 2018

eduardo1995filipe said:
Yeah probably, but his last point against Zhou Qihao... seemed a solid technique

Do you enjoy watching the chinese play? i do not find it so enjoyable. it is very fast but feel like almost everyone play the same, like robots. it is like they are mass producing tabletennisplayers. Xu Xin have some feeling so that is fun. I also think Wang Hao played and Ma lin played pretty fun. Waldner was like an alien compared to they chinese today, played a lot of different shots and with nice feeling.

eduardo1995filipe · Nov 22, 2018

Well, I think older gen chinese (Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Ma Wenge, Kong Linghui, etc...), They had each one their own playstyle. Nowadays I agree a bit with you, older gen players were all "artists", the chinese and the non-chinese players, I prefer Xu Xin, but Liu Dingshuo and Sun Wen have an amazing FH-oriented playstyle. Give it a check!

what a crazy match

Hope they and also zhou qihao, that plays more far from the table appear more, so we don't see only this BH dominated game!

But beside these chinese players, my favorite players nowadays are the three top KNT players and Koki Niwa!

FruitLoop · Nov 22, 2018

Lula said:
Do you enjoy watching the chinese play? i do not find it so enjoyable. it is very fast but feel like almost everyone play the same, like robots. it is like they are mass producing tabletennisplayers. Xu Xin have some feeling so that is fun. I also think Wang Hao played and Ma lin played pretty fun. Waldner was like an alien compared to they chinese today, played a lot of different shots and with nice feeling.

Xu Xin is so fun to watch. Hopefully some new Xu Xin's will come along. Something about those penholders.

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