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Table tennis is less about tips and more about practice. 1. Have you practiced good looping technique? 2. If the answer to (1) is yes, have you practiced using it on a variety of long spinny serves? If not, it is no surprise that you are struggling to do it and the bottom line is that you...

As qvolizz pointed out, changing handles is not only about sponsorship. It is also about what you like in your hand. I do agree it is a stretch to think that someone would put a butterfly handle on a non-butterfly blade. The winners of the event used ESN rubbers - Cornilleau and Tibhar. It...

This is why I tell people that the identified blades say more with certainty about the handle than they do about the blade. People could also move a handle onto another blade.

So I played on Friday night and played some good table tennis. I think I have finally come to grips with my best forehand and I have committed to using it as best and as long as I can. I just have to integrate it with my backhand. I can loop just about any ball with it, I can counterloop...

I have had many players in my club do this on many occasions, including possibly myself, when we are playing each other and getting lucky. In fact, I sometimes find it more honest and easier to digest than the false apologies when people win on nets and edges. People say thank you when you...

Fake follow-throughs are powerful when you have fast wrist action. Like I said, you are a master server, you just don't fully realize it yet. When Brett was trying to fix my punch, he said, "You need more of Carl's drum stick approach". Brett's analogy is hammering in a nail. I need to...

Baal made a comment about the serve being really slow making people misread it even more. To be honest, I am not even sure that the ones you think are light won't be misread by people. In the end, what matters is making the serve appear heavier or lighter than it actually is. In the absolute...

IT's your technique. Post video if you want real help. Otherwise, go back to work.

I am happy you signed up. Try to play people widely, start with weaker opponents as their balls will have less spin and they will be more predictable so you can attack them as confidently as you want to. The focus is on playing a quality shot, either heavy spin when low, or heavy spin and/or...

I wouldn't fully agree with Mark's explanation based on my experience. And since I have had two 2500+ players from China call my my serves extremely spinny in two different states 6 months apart, not during coaching but comments made during rated matches, I think I do have something reasonable...

That's the real problem

First of all, what you need to realize is that most of the balls you are seeing are not heavy balls. If you close your racket and loop those balls with a full body stroke, you will kill most of them. Part of the problem is that you are trying to use touch to control the balls that have no spin...

Boogar, You gotta swing from the body more. You are getting about 20% of your true power. And you are pushing too many balls. You have to do service falkenberg. Do falkenberg drill with the feeder serving. Loop even the balls that you think will break your racket and loop the high balls...

Thanks for making that clear.

Here is the latest footage of my pendulum serve. When I serve it long and fast (not shown here per se), I have actually gotten players to go into a trance wondering what the heck is up with the backspin version as it swerves through the air.

Pop ball up, block you down, That's the way I get around town!

That's why he is on my ignore list - so I don't feel compelled to respond to such stuff anymore.

Look for videos of Dickie Fleisher. You may have already but that is where to start, I think. The style you are playing requires great touch. Good luck with it. For lower rated players, and in general, the solution is spinnier serves with inverted. Doing everything with the pips puts too...

Slow is a relative term. The main thing is that your emphasis is on spin, not pace. If I just roll a serve, sometimes, I am trying to put more into the spin than the pace. It might not be super slow, but it is not a power loop. The contact is more thin brush than thick brush or drive...

Ah, you are supposed to use hard sponge rubbers on both sides if you are a pro who hits the ball hard - except for Emmanuel Lebesson who uses FX-P on both sides and hits the ball just about as fast and hard as anyone out there. You are supposed to to use the harder rubber on the forehand -...