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Archo - he said axis, not equator. Listen to the man. IT's easy to fight over meaningless stuff.

They should be trying to make the ball go to their target. They should be trying to produce a ball they can reliable read. How they produce that ball is up to them. IT's more likely to be pure topspin because they will not be facing heavy spin when starting out and that need to be able to aim...

He gave that clinic in Philly once. Here's my take. I know people who hook the ball. IT's all about their stroke. You don't want your base stroke to be a hook. But a hook is not a corkscrew.

IT's all about tradeoffs. The problem with pure topspin contact is where you make it and how to produce it when dealing with incoming heavy spin already on the ball. It's all semantics anyway. I just hope the posts are helping anyone understand spin avoidance.

Shuki, these things are sometimes semantics. I posted two videos on the thread in a post, one with my corkscrew demo and the other with two higher level players. Are those two players hitting top or cork? Either is right, depending on what you are focusing on. Danny Seemiller Sr once said...

There are a couple of things I think you are missing. First of all, corkscrew makes the ball dip just like topspin. It gives the ball a tight arc just like topspin does (see American football, with its relatively low level of spin). The main difference is that Topspin propels the ball forward...

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You've received some good general advice from some great coaches, but as a rule, you need to provide some video to get proper feedback and advice. Especially if you are going to ask about something like contact point.

Yes, it is a good swing and 2000 is not that high a level anyways. IT doesn't mean you can use it properly in a match or you know how to time the ball with it and it doesn't mean it is a world class swing with 100% efficiency. IT just means that it is a swing that has nothing majorly wrong...

The paddle is probably starting much too low to loop a topspin ball but it looks like a good swing.

Archo, We play this game at a subconscious level, so even when we know what we are supposed to do, it takes forever to do it. And then when we practice a lot against a certain level of ball, we get shown up by a different kind or level of ball. IF you do a magic trick in slow motion, everyone...

It's a prank. That's why I built in other absurd elements that you didn't pick up on. So that even if you thought that was plausible, there was enough silly stuff in there that my targets did pick up on. But it's okay. You don't have to like the joke.

Yes, in practice, most proper loops that have good and complete form will end up as corkscrew if the right contact is made. Nothing extra needs to be done. Of course, sometimes, for amateurs who hit too hard into the back of the ball, it might help for them to be made conscious of the fact...

Like I said, the ball spins in only one way. If you continue to hang over how much of this or that the ball has, you will miss the practical point and get hung up on things that will not help your TT. IF you mean that you can treat the ball like a topspin ball and have few problems if any at...

The most basic and obvious form of corkscrew in a TT stroke is called the "snake" or "wiggly" when people make the ball kick sideways by brushing the bottom of it.

IT's not high level technique. IT's just logic. Look at my loops in this video. The ball kicks sideways when it hits the table That's corkscrew. If it was sidespin, it would be curving in the air massively and that is not what the ball is doing. A true hook is sidespin. Most pros...

Carl, Archo, In practical terms in table tennis, all corkscrew means is that the ball kicks sideways when it hits the table because of how it is spinning. What sidespin means is that the ball curves in flight in the air sideways. Getting too technical about it is what causes you to think...

Like I said, that's how I know you are just being who you are. :p

Archo, You are often just being who you are. Kowa (or Sebas Aguirre) tries to agitate people. I know he gets it. He is just looking for a way to get under my skin.

Yes, and NextLevel going to the 2020 Olympics and wanting to break 2500 and getting dropped by all his coaches? Lighten up buddy!