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Don't be worried - there are different punch serves and what you are doing with the turning action is a legit one. The whip action on all serves to create high level spin is the same though and that is what you combine with the turning motion. Watch William Henzell's bottle turning exercise...

That is what I hate about playing good players. Never recycle your tricks back to back and even if you ever recycle them, you aren't going to get the same result every time unless you are just really lucky and you have found some amazing gap from their childhood.

What Carl is telling you is a couple of things - first of all, it isn't always the absolute spin that matters, but the amount of spin generated relative to the appearance of what the motion is capable of generating. Do I really have the heaviest backspin serve in PA? Maybe not, but when you...

He just has a bad attitude - don't take what he says seriously.

IT's become one of my highest scoring serves and I have four versions of it, 2 for backspin, two for topspin/sidespin, inspired by a combination of all the three servers in the app. I might post some of video sometime to show my current status of it. The turning looks good but I can't always...

If you have video of your swing or the swing of someone that demonstrates what you are talking about, please post it. He is hitting the ball with good power where his body is rotating. How you backswing might affect that for you. But we have video of him. We just have words from you. Maybe...

Aruna 11-2.

It is nice to discuss technique, but it is also nice to know the level of the player who you are discussing technique of. I remember someone looking at a video of Xu Xin's forehand and saying that Xu Xin was taking the ball too late. At which point, I said that this is essentially the best...

This guy was world top 50 in his prime and had wins over people like Ovtcharov and Zhang Chao. Whatever you think of his technique, he is a (former) pro who enjoys coaching and making amateurs play better. IT's worth just listening to such people and noting any disagreements as not being about...

Sure, Carl. When someone asks what blade to use, you often ask questions or make comments that try to discern what they are talking about. I could have asked the OP what level he plays at etc. And of course, there is a benefit from being fitter in table tennis or life in general. But like I...

I have never run or done an agility drill or even a core drill in the last 4 years ever since my arthritis got worse. The most athletic things I have done are the pivot and the cross step and various multiball drills and TT rallies. Yet I have improved more than many players who spend more...

You will be, you just have to be around the right people (you already have one) and change your approach to how you hit the ball. I used to wonder myself how I would ever get good at table tennis and what miracle would be required for me to break 2000. Keep that in mind when you are saying...

I can't see the disagreement. I made very specific points and you are agreeing with many of them, but using different words to describe them. OVer 75% of your post discusses the pro level and that is far higher than the 2250+ level at which the article I posted a link to says footwork is...

No, it is not. If you have the right background in the basics of statistical variation, it is not. And it is fair for all the footwork that those guys have been through, or we would see Ma Long and Wang Liqin having Fan Zhendong thighs and Zhang Jike thighs, and they clearly do not. But I...

What you just wrote brings to mind an important thing my national coach friend (I am referring to Brett, if it isn't obvious) said: "Good coaches can disagree." So it is possible to get another coach with a different perspective on the same issue talking sense. But the problem is when everyone...

Happy you got it, instead of assuming I was posting it because I can only move one arm and half a leg.

SugaD is obviously in a grumpy mood today. At this level, it makes the most difference because what they struggle with the most is not what kind of spin is on the ball, but how much spin is on the ball. And this two-toned ball reduces the effectiveness of no-spin and backspin high toss serves...

Why the assumption that I am trying to view things from my own perspective, especially when I am the only one who posted a paper from an expert in table tennis to substantiate his view? And maybe others can talk about the national level coaches they have discussed this with? Or because maybe...

Two toned ball kills service advantage. That explains a lot...

Usually, the level of player who needs to work out to improve in table tennis has players around him who can give good advice on such stuff. Most players asking these questions are better off just getting better at table tennis. The shadow drills you presented are pretty important and are...