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I'm going to say something outrageous and claim that we should really just relax serve rules. Everyone is gonna hide it anyway, at the higher levels.

They're probably not as fast as you're envisioning them. For topspin serves, they'd be pretty subpar speed, but they're somewhat fast for backspin serves. I will just serve my actual good serves. Once they stop working, I will improve my serve. The serve I'm talking about is essentially...

Today I found out that one of the most effective serves against low level players is just fairly high, fairly fast, heavy and long backspin to their weaker corner, usually backhand. I'm not talking about quality serves either: just trash but with some spin on it. Is this actually legit or...

They look illegal, but the ball is always in view if you freeze frame it or just look close enough. Technically, the contact is as well. Even though it's hidden like a mother****er, you can still read it because the racket is visible at contact. I believe this is different from all the blatant...

I knew what the inspiration comes from, but I'm asking WHY the handle is cut that way. Style, or an actual benefit?

Why is the handle cut like that?

Yes, sorry about that. I re-read my post a few times, and I didn't express it quite clearly enough. I wasn't meaning to start an argument about technical terms: I was just pointing it out. However I mistakenly expressed it as "X is always called X" and not "X is sometimes called X". The...

Yes, because I said that the Japanese won't call it a loop or a topspin. :rolleyes: I said that the Japanese commonly say "drive" but they don't always mean drive in the sense that we do. I think it's an older generation thing, because I'm starting to hear it less and less, at least online. You...

Also, bear in mind that the Japanese, and possibly other nationalities, will call the loop a drive. "Duraibu" in Japanese just means loop, or topspin.

This is the first thing that came up when I googled "Table tennis slow motion". It's not extremely visible, but try to see the large arc the ball takes, and the acceleration after it hits the table. You won't see that too much in a drive, because drives don't have enough spin to cause those...

You can only understand it when you do it. Like's been said, a loop is a stroke with a lot of spin upwards/forwards. You don't hit into the ball as much as you grab it and make it spin. However, you could be doing what you think is a loop when it's not. Hence why I think you really need to...

@OldschoolPenholder Those sound like viable options. A lot of stuff like this was in "Ultimate Speed Secrets" by Ross Bentley. For some reason, I had only considered physical options, like simply using the muscles to warm them up. Mental options are more efficient, in my experience. While...

Today, I was playing like shit. Seems to be a trend now. :p I captured video of me playing someone, but I don't know if he would want me to post it anywhere, so I won't. In fact, I can't: I looked at it, took notes, then deleted it for space. I can literally fill up my old phone's memory in one...

Jeff, I'll probably get around to it some day. Once I do actually get myself a regular club with players who can kick my ass, I'll make sure to film everything. The NL method of essentially posting something from every session, and extensive amounts too, is not only transparent, but it's good...

You do have a point there: lifting weights before playing. He said light weights, so I don't really think so. Depending on what he did, it could have a positive effect on relaxation. The testosterone boost from lifting weights might help athletic abilities too. But of course, if you do a...

Quite the contrary. Where did you get the notion that weight training will negatively affect your touch? Top players must have pretty awful touch, then.

Well, most of the sport is played during the first few strokes. There it'd benefit to be in a mostly low stance, like in the number 2 described here. If the rally drags out, assuming it's a counterlooping/blocking rally and both players are consistent and stay around mid distance as close as...

I'm inclined to believe that if I were to have to, say, travel 100m as fast as I can moving laterally, I would opt for 3. I feel that 3 is best for keeping up momentum in the most effective way over a longer distance. This is probably how you want to move when very far from the table, and then...

1 is the winner when it comes to strain and ineffectiveness. 2 is fastest, because I can set off and stop just a little bit faster and more stable than 3, enough to notice. However 3 is the easiest, with 2 in the middle: but it's not particularly straining. So, 2 for close to table, 3...

Well, Carl has a point: sprinting would be the fastest way to move from one side of the table to the other, for sure. However, I think we can see the problem in that. We want to just be able to move a certain amount in a certain time, then recover as fast as possible to play the shot, right...