Hi Ding,
Referring to my BH loop video previously, I need to get that kind of pace in my club regular game with my club-mates. Those dudes, if I were to give them slow spinny loops with high arc, they can counter-loop back. So, I am forced to up my game tempo. Not that I want it, but circumstances dictates it. And if I push back to them, they can counter-loop back too. My options are limited. I am forced to adapt.
In another club which I rarely go now, where the players are of lower level, I can push a few balls and wait for opportunity to loop at my own pace.
These are the usual "good reasons" given by players who do not want to *learn* to spin slowly (or more accurately, with extremely heavy rotation, which usually means slowly if someone is not an extremely athletic player) for their decision. It has many analogies to the "good reasons" given by players who use fast blades to learn to play TT - the main thing to remember is that it is a decision, not a fact of reality. (Full confession: I was there, my coach told me that I didn't spin the ball even though I thought I did - it took some mental retraining to get what he meant and focus on rotation and my game took a jump pretty quickly after I embraced rotation).
The story: If my blade is slow, my balls will be slow so people will smack my ball.
True story: At the club two weekends ago, a guy who started playing maybe 18 months ago actually came up to me to complain that a couple of guys he struggles to beat at the club frustrate him because they play too slow. I know these guys, and these guys play extremely spinny balls (to the point that if I am not on my game, I struggle against them) so he hated playing with them since they mostly just spun the ball to him and let him mistime the ball over and over as he tried to block or smack it. I just told him that he hadn't gotten to the point where he understood what he needed to do to get better and he was still having fun getting better doing the things he enjoyed doing and that whenever he wanted to get better doing the things he didn't enjoy as much, he would appreciate the free coaching I gave him more.
This idea that one needs to smack the ball before one has maximized the limits of their spin potential is very common and it is almost always wrong. As blahness pointed out in his great post, being better at TT almost always comes down to being able to use spin more effectively than your opponent, usually by generating more of it. And contrary to naive understandings of TT, you don't get better at using spin by smacking the ball faster (trust me, I tried) - you get better at using spin by focusing on generating it, and then over time, learning to use that variation to produce a lot of different shots.
