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Changing the spin of the ball in the short game is really easy, since the ball is moving pretty slowly (you just have to have short ball skills). The light underspin that you mention actually happens a lot in game play. Because it's pretty common, players usually expect it. The first short...

If the chopper makes a bad chop, smashing the ball is definitely an option.

One of my friends died of a severe heart attack during a match. I saw him die in front of me. He had a wife and two kids. Don't push yourself. Don't risk it.

omg help me, I have sweaty hands too. Does a wrist band actually solve all the sweat problems?

Try practicing wherever the league is held. Play some practice points there before the league actually starts.

How do you know?

Today, I had a good day. I won all my matches for the seeding for my college team. It turns out, while asking him to join TableTennisDaily, that one of my teammates(Sho Miyazaki) played NextLevel at Westchester this August. Found the video! He's a chopper.

That's what moving your feet is for. You move after you serve to cover whatever angles are important. You don't have to stand where you served. That would be very inflexible. Always prepare for the cross court shot, since it is very likely. But don't ignore the other corner either.

As long as you can still serve down the line, it should still be fine

well, why would you be far away from the ball when you serve? that would be weird. I'm not even sure why you mentioned Chinese. Lots of players do this. There are probably a number of reasons, that I could guess. 1) it is easier do things consistently and controllably when they can be done...

I love playing against junk rubbers. They're so fun to play against. I love seeing their shocked faces as I perfectly read their 'confusing spins' and punish their shots. As for your question about the long pips sideways glide, it sort of depends on the player and the length of the pips. In...

Why isn't this post more popular? Something like this is amazing for studying how the professionals play using the internet.

Actually, this is how I started spinning the ball forward, and thus loop driving. I got really tired of looping so many balls out, and I just wanted to start smashing them. Then, I realized that I could put some spin on them, and I started to call them spin-smashes. Shoutout to Roy Li, if you...

I'e always sort of suspected this, since I do power loop drives consistently. All you have to do is learn how to spin the ball forward (which is pretty hard, though). After that, you can just start looping harder and harder, and the ball will just keep getting more speed and spin. It will still...

I'm not sure, I'll have to see what my college teams does first.

ehhhhhhhh, hard to say. Lower than 1800? I forgot what 1800 was like. Maybe 1600-1700 ish.

From what I see from your serve, is that your movement seems a kind of slow. For the pendulum serve, you should focus most of the power into the wrist. To me, it looks like you are treating the pendulum serve too much like a pendulum. Completely control and whip your wrist. Your forearm guides...

Wow I tried the hand towel trick in the first video, and my towel moved super fast, and I ended hitting myself pretty hard. DAMN YOU BRETT CLARKE

Oh yeah, raising the backswing is pretty important if you want to counter loop. The way I got the idea of raising my backswing was actually through comparing the forehand and the backhand. If the ball is fairly high on your backhand, assuming you'll hit it with your backhand, you wouldn't...

Can I give suggestions? From personal experience, I have always loved looping underspin. However, that has created a habit of looping easy high balls long. I fixed this by raising my backswing. That way, by changing the starting point of your swing, you can get to the ball more easily without...