This user has no status.
Hello, I am a basement/amateur table tennis penholder (I play outdoors mostly, but I am hoping to join an indoor club soon). I switched style a while ago from shake hand fh looper/bh chopper (which I was a reasonably solid amateur at) to penhold two winged looping, which I have a lot of fun with but find difficult. I play mainly against my brother, an amateur chopper.
I play with the Stiga Classic Allround Cpen and the DHS Neo Hurricane 3 on fh, TSP Ventus spin on bh.
I am having difficulty looping his backspin chops. I had no difficulty looping backspin as a shake hand player and was able to play both slow, spinny, bouncy loops and the fast, low, loopkill kind. I am having a lot of difficulty with penhold, because I find the body motion needed to produced the different loops is very different to shake hand. I contact my slow loops much too late, meaning they are very inconsistent in trajectory and my fast loops are equally inconsistent.
I find backhand rpb loops against backspin literally impossible, but considering it is a closed angle stroke and I usually have time to pivot to forehand, I am happy to concede that it is beyond my skill.
I want to continue with the style, can anyone give any advice on forehand technique, or know any good sources? Penhold stuff is hard to find. Thanks very much.
I play with the Stiga Classic Allround Cpen and the DHS Neo Hurricane 3 on fh, TSP Ventus spin on bh.
I am having difficulty looping his backspin chops. I had no difficulty looping backspin as a shake hand player and was able to play both slow, spinny, bouncy loops and the fast, low, loopkill kind. I am having a lot of difficulty with penhold, because I find the body motion needed to produced the different loops is very different to shake hand. I contact my slow loops much too late, meaning they are very inconsistent in trajectory and my fast loops are equally inconsistent.
I find backhand rpb loops against backspin literally impossible, but considering it is a closed angle stroke and I usually have time to pivot to forehand, I am happy to concede that it is beyond my skill.
I want to continue with the style, can anyone give any advice on forehand technique, or know any good sources? Penhold stuff is hard to find. Thanks very much.