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You obviously haven't read enough of his stuff to ignore him.

Here is Larry Hodges on the topic of serving combinations: http://www.tabletenniscoaching.com/node/2028

Sometimes, an opponent cannot return a serve. Some people fail to see that and want to be versatile. If an opponent can't return a serve, use it until they start returning it. If they do, they will usually be giving you something you can exploit if you have a serving combo designed take...

Light backspin and topspin will be attacked with the same motion by better players with high levels of success because most players will overpower such spins. The one thing that helps if you serve light spin is keeping the ball very low but that then means you have to be ready to rally...

OSPH said it best - both are important, though either in isolation can be effective at lower levels, the first requiring strong rally game and the second requiring an extremely good third ball game. The higher the level of opponent though, the higher the level of spin they can control and...

A lot of stuff also depends on the heaviness of the backspin and how similar the serves look. DerEchte has a really nasty combination of similar looking serves that are all heavier than they seem to be. I still can't read his topspin serve for the life of me and you can see it in my matches...

It really depends on the opponent's ability to read and adapt. What I will say is that backspin and no spin variations are just fundamentally hard to read unless you see the contact and take a good look at the ball. At the lower levels, if you have a decent backspin serve, most people will at...

I agree with Baal's conclusion but he is ignoring a lot of important and relevant evidence on the way to it. I also think that people who believe the final was fixed can reasonably believe it without incident, even if they are wrong. Was this match fixed?

Spinny serves are very good and important, but strategy and deception are even more important. What you use the spinny serve, especially if short, to do is to establish a few things. For example, in a match I didn't record today, I established my heavy backspin serve to the backhand. Then...

I could have told you that Boogar. USATT 2000+ is easily in your future if you stick with it. You just need to continue to get the right instruction.

Baal, you mean that there is no good reason for people to believe that the CNT fixes matches? Interesting...

Exhibit A:

Since everyone here is stumping for the Chinese rubbers, let me speak out and defend Euro rubbers. Those of us who have physical issues that affect our strokes and make us swing from the shoulder more than we should appreciate Euro rubbers, especially Tenergy. People who don't see anything...

Harimoto did not win the Asian Cadets.

The kid and I were both rated about 1900-2050 in the Lily TTC league at that time. Does that help, Archosaurus? This was two years ago. Back then, I was largely a blocker so it simplified my game much more. I probably was the same strength/rating then that I am now. My game was just much...

Three things: 1. Shadow strokes to make you sweat. 2. Improve your serves. 3. Feel free to just do general exercise as long as you sweat. Positive thinking is underestimated. The point is not that you will necessarily play better or that you even have to think positively. The point is that...

I can make the distinction. My point is how the distinction is made can be superficial. What would you estimate the ratings of these players as:

Mark Berg is 1800 and this was my first victory vs an 1800 player - before this tournament, I was about 1400-1500 I think, but I beat two 1800 players at this tournament. And no, my play is not threatening to you but I knew how to block and hit balls from 2000 players because I hit with them...

Many people here don't realize that I became a true looper only very recently, hence the transformation that DerEchte was referring to. It wasn't until I got to 1900 that I started forehand looping per se, and even then, mostly by preparation vs. backspin. Here are a couple of examples of how...

Nah. You just don't serve enough short no spin and backspin (a common issue with OSPHs like yourself). Your topspin game is fine but that guy likes to back off the table and you kept giving him the ball instead of taking advantage of your close to the table preference by bringing him in. It's...