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Yes due to the stability of the receive. You have to adjust a lot more vs incoming spin with the chiquita / short push, whereas the LP pusher can read the spin wrong and still land the shot brainlessly. Landing %s is a huge thing in table tennis.

Obviously it takes some skill, but nowhere near the skill that inverted players have to acquire. I've used LPs before and yes it has a huge advantage there. At least with LPs you land the return on the table and won't miss it. With inverted it is way harder because you actually have to read...

Now you're tempting me to get D09c on my second Viscaria....

Hard disagree with LPs not superior to inverted in serve return. This is precisely the main reason why they are used, and the main advantage they give. Especially in short serves, LPs have a hard advantage there. With long serves I think it's equal because inverted players can develop very...

Not quite, you have to switch to D05 on FH to be considered as full Gozo mode ;)

Yes, but at the initial stages the pips can survive very well without investing the same amount of effort into stuff like body mechanics, footwork, actually reading service spin, etc... They get away with way too much at the lower levels that inverted players don't get to, this is where the...

I did a lot of multiball training today. I really regret not buying this earlier, this is such a huge timesaver! No need to go retrieve balls and bend down to pick them up. And it is so much more time efficient. Even without a partner, having a box of 30 balls means that you can train serves, or...

Sun Yingsha vs Ma Te is insane.... Go watch it if you haven't...

Unfortunately it takes real good serves, footwork, solid loops on both wings and quality pushing to have an advantage over close table long pips. It has some huge benefits at the lower level because many casual players never develop those skills. It's unfair because the long pips ppl don't need...

I finally bought a box of 100 balls and a ball picker. Multiball training here I come!

Tbh OP doesn't need to bend so low (only very tall players need to bend knees a lot). Only a slight knee bend, and maybe a little more forward bend (so that you're leaning a bit forwards) is sufficient. I would suggest OP to copy a bit of Koki Niwa for eg below: I like OP's compact strokes...

Played against my combination penholder opponent yesterday and pretty much lost all the deciding sets in all best of 5s ugh. At least i made it close. The funny thing is that he was afraid of my short receive especially chiquita and kept serving fast long. I was also afraid of his short receive...

Lol I might record a small clip next time

It's like a term from WRM describing the sideunderspin chiquita lol... it curves the same way as the chiquita except it has backspin on it. Previously I was doing it with the same body rotation as the chiquita, now I'm simply doing it the opposite way which I think is easier to control. But...

Lin Shidong used very smart tactics to shut down Wang Chuqin's very aggressive game - the heavy underspin / no spin straight serve to his FH. There was nothing WCQ could do to directly attack the serve or complicate the spin, so he was dragged into the short game and eventually into a rally...

Yes, the good pips player who can attack with the pips are really difficult to play against. So against normal pips players you can always afford to just lift the ball to them which is a ball they struggle quite a bit with especially if you disguise it like a loop, and also because there's no...

I might have accidentally discovered a way to execute the sideunderspin chiquita (nomuta?!) in a more controlled way. It's actually kinda simple, just think of it as the reverse action as a BH pendulum serve. So the key difference between the BH chiquita and this sideunderspin chiquita is that...

Agreed with this, the 1st team didn't try hard enough and the 2nd team is no joke either. LJK is a WTTC semi-finalist and one of the most dangerous players against his team mates. Lin Shidong and Lin Gaoyuan are both fast af top tier players who can upset anyone in the world on a good day. I...

Easiest would be just push using BH. Or like what you said just use FH short push and go towards the right but with a more open racket and a bit of lifting.

Everyone has their own way of dealing with it. But for me, deep fast pushes have to be taken early with an open blade angle, otherwise you'll have to retreat from the table if you use the same late timing on opening loops. You have to use close to 0 arm backswing, and power it directly with your...