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http://butterflyonline.com/the-power-of-a-low-short-no-spin-serve/

Given that the most common serve at the highest levels is the no-spin serve, don't you think this sounds pretty uninformed? The key thing about no-spin is the height. If it is low, then it is hard for the opponent to be aggressive.

I had to pull out of that tournament as I have a commitment I made months earlier that I thought would be cancelled but wasn't. I might be able to make it but will have to see how I feel on Saturday afternoon.

Yes, but some opponents can use the backspin against you because they can dig into the ball more (or at least enough) to make the light backspin heavy. That is much harder with real no spin. In the end, your customer matters a lot.

IT sometimes becomes light topspin, but the problem is that long serves are long and loopable. You need to serve that into the elbow or somewhere the person will just block - if the person gets a looping stroke on that ball, your counterloop or block had better be set. On the other hand...

Sometimes, you have to realize that part of the reason why an opponent can be deceptive with a ball is because relative to what he is used to, your ball isn't overwhelming him. For example, if you serve long to a chopper or defensive player, it is easier for them to float the ball or dig into...

Yes, you do. Initially, when you want to fake, it takes some practice because people can't believe that they need to control the ball and hit it flat. I used to serve with much more backspin on my serve than necessary until I started hitting the ball softly with my whipping motion. When you...

And there are many different ways to sell - in fact, you never know which sales jobs work best until you find the customer. I sometimes fail to fool people with my highest level deceptive serves, but I fool them with a very trivial fake that I couldn't fool my mother with and which Brett would...

Yes, but saying that you make it look "heavy until it is too late" makes it seem as if you can make the no-spin ball look heavy, when it is really the serve motion that looks heavy. I was making sure you weren't as confused as your description of what was happening was. You still seem to be...

Yes. Yes. The latter doesn't have to roll softy. What I mean is that the rotation is insignificant so if you look closely, you can see the label.

Never happened to me before. What has happened is that I either misread it as heavy backspin because of the serve motion, or I see the no spin but I don't use the right return. But I have never looked at a no-spin ball closely and thought it was a heavy backspin ball. Never.

I think it depends. For some people, and I count myself as one of them, my light spin serves are still heavy. Therefore, I really have to serve no spin for the opponent to pop up the ball. The difference is not insignificant as if the opponent digs into the light spin ball, they can produce...

No spin never looks heavy - its the serve motion that looks heavy. You are really relying on the opponent to not look closely at the ball or to just not know/accept that you are capable of the amount of deception with your serve motion. But if they serve you no spin and you don't have to...

I think when you mess around, this automatically happens. The problem though with playing around with grip is that the ball is light spin, not really really dead.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?14000-Reducing-Spin-on-Your-Serves&p=163153#post163153

While people want more and more spin on their serves, the truth is that when you have spin, there are advantages to making the serve have less spin than it does as people mostly want to borrow your spin when the spin is very heavy. Here are some good videos that discuss in some detail what the...

Look for a video where someone is teaching the technique. I may post a few links when I get to a PC. The Xkaboomx tutorial is decent and Brett might have a video.

There is an ITTF video with Marcos Freitas that shows the concept. Basically, you have to hit the edge of your paddle closest to the handle and hit the ball with a flatter motion whose sound may be detectable if the environment is quiet ( which is why some players stomp). I will see if I can...

OSPH, When you serve serves you haven't practiced playing behind, you will often lose points because you may not have practiced how to play behind the kinds of returns you are getting. So one has to take an attitude of doing it for a whole set or match if one wants to improve behind that...

I have only one pet peeve that drives me crazier than anything else. I am playing a point and in the middle of my shot, someone screams in celebration on anguish towards my table from the next table when I am about to hit the ball. COME ON!!!!!