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I think this is the right time for me to post this and share with everyone (especially those who still have yet to discover their serves), the trick of serving a good underspin and nospin serves in conjunction with a thread by plasmalight titled http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?2061-Slow-Motion-Services-(NEW)
To be effective, your serves have to be deceptive enough to confuse your opponents. If he always has to "guess" rather than "judge" what spins your serves represent, then you are pretty much there. To achieve this, you combine a variety of spins and make them look identical from outside, but in actual fact, you know they're not.
Key points to producing strong underspin:
The contact point has to be at the lower part of the bat.
There should be more chopping action than hitting.
The action should be very very fast, regardless of long or short serve. The faster the better.
Loosen your wrist and grip until the moment of ball contact. Or you won't be able to accelerate the bat sufficiently.
Then we talk about
Key points in producing the no-spin serves.
The contact point is at the upper part of the bat.
Still exactly the same chopping action to start as shown in step 1 of Figure 2. But, at the very moment of ball contact, you slightly, appropriately, reasonably flat push the bat as in step 2. It's usually done with the fingers on the back. The action is adjusted right at the last moment and it's unlikely your opponent can pick up the subtle change provided it's shielded.
The follow-up move as in step 3 is purely to confuse the opponent and therefore must be exactly the same as you do in Figure 1.
The two, used at your disposal, can lift your game to a new height.
The most common error is that there is little difference between the two - the backspin one is not spinning enough and the no-spin one bears spin. There seems the only cure is more practice. For backspin, give the ball more frictional action; for no-spin, correctly push the bat at the right angle.
However, experienced players can still glimpse some information by watching the contact, the ball, the flight. That's why you should learn to move the bat very fast regardless of long or short serves. The noise made at the contact is another important source of info. Then your stamp of left foot at the contact point will drown it up.
Courtesy of Lynn's Table Tennis
To be effective, your serves have to be deceptive enough to confuse your opponents. If he always has to "guess" rather than "judge" what spins your serves represent, then you are pretty much there. To achieve this, you combine a variety of spins and make them look identical from outside, but in actual fact, you know they're not.
Key points to producing strong underspin:
The contact point has to be at the lower part of the bat.
There should be more chopping action than hitting.
The action should be very very fast, regardless of long or short serve. The faster the better.
Loosen your wrist and grip until the moment of ball contact. Or you won't be able to accelerate the bat sufficiently.
Then we talk about
Key points in producing the no-spin serves.
The contact point is at the upper part of the bat.
Still exactly the same chopping action to start as shown in step 1 of Figure 2. But, at the very moment of ball contact, you slightly, appropriately, reasonably flat push the bat as in step 2. It's usually done with the fingers on the back. The action is adjusted right at the last moment and it's unlikely your opponent can pick up the subtle change provided it's shielded.
The follow-up move as in step 3 is purely to confuse the opponent and therefore must be exactly the same as you do in Figure 1.
The two, used at your disposal, can lift your game to a new height.
The most common error is that there is little difference between the two - the backspin one is not spinning enough and the no-spin one bears spin. There seems the only cure is more practice. For backspin, give the ball more frictional action; for no-spin, correctly push the bat at the right angle.
However, experienced players can still glimpse some information by watching the contact, the ball, the flight. That's why you should learn to move the bat very fast regardless of long or short serves. The noise made at the contact is another important source of info. Then your stamp of left foot at the contact point will drown it up.
Courtesy of Lynn's Table Tennis