Working on my FH Side Spin Loop Video

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 19, 2016

Hi guys, This video is from my last week practice. Since, they call me 'Jugaadu', I transitioned from floor to Wall hitting to innovate

. Unlike, my BH sidespin loop, this remains really high. I would like to know how to keep them short without compromising the sidespin and topspin in the ball. My focus again was to avoid upper arm extension as much as possible.

Archosaurus · Jul 19, 2016

You're probably not gonna want to keep these short: you probably mean low.

Have a friend feed a ball to you. It's easier that way, I've found. The way I practiced is getting a sidespin loop fed to me from crosscourt, and counterlooping it wider. It's easier if your partner is consistent so you only really have to worry about contact and not so much the reading of spin.

bobpuls · Jul 19, 2016

And this one you have to play from the ground or change angle of wrist and motion.

Boogar · Jul 19, 2016

Siva dont you want to make one overall Siva thread, instead of posting 10 new threads a day?

NextLevel · Jul 19, 2016

Siva Schopenhauer said:
Hi guys, This video is from my last week practice. Since, they call me 'Jugaadu', I transitioned from floor to Wall hitting to innovate . Unlike, my BH sidespin loop, this remains really high. I would like to know how to keep them short without compromising the sidespin and topspin in the ball. My focus again was to avoid upper arm extension as much as possible.

Just compare the strokes you use for both results and you will figure it out.

Ilia Minkin · Jul 19, 2016

Siva Schopenhauer said:
Unlike, my BH sidespin loop, this remains really high.

Because you hit it upwards. I'm not an expert on this stroke, but IMHO the true way is to start with your normal loop, then drop the wrist down a little bit, and go forward as usual. This way you will get almost the same shot but with a little bit of side kick, which is usually enough to drive your opponent wide or draw an error by throwing off his timing.

Ilia Minkin · Jul 19, 2016

I actually think that you generate some corkscrew spin on those shots because you brush vertically along the side, and that is why the ball jumps to the side like crazy after it hits the table.

Ilia Minkin · Jul 19, 2016

So compare your shot with the one from PingSkills. This one is like a normal loop but with funky wrist:

lyh · Jul 19, 2016

Maybe you can try different techniques and see the results, I suggest trying:
-try to close your blade more (it works well for penhold, which closes the bat more)
-hit forward more
-use thin brushing so the ball does not bounce off your racket
Or you can try and improve your touch. Actually practising this shot will help improving your touch.

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

Archosaurus said:
You're probably not gonna want to keep these short: you probably mean low.

Have a friend feed a ball to you. It's easier that way, I've found. The way I practiced is getting a sidespin loop fed to me from crosscourt, and counterlooping it wider. It's easier if your partner is consistent so you only really have to worry about contact and not so much the reading of spin.

I ll try next time. couldnt play this week though

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

bobpuls said:
And this one you have to play from the ground or change angle of wrist and motion.

Yeah it seems I have to go much lower to take the ball. I ll try changing the racket angle to see how it goes

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

Boogar said:
Siva dont you want to make one overall Siva thread, instead of posting 10 new threads a day?

Makes sense for practise sessions like these. But, not for separate topics in my opinion

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

NextLevel said:
Just compare the strokes you use for both results and you will figure it out.

Trying to do that. I ll do a session of these strokes in near future with the help of feedback from this thread

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

Ilia Minkin said:
Because you hit it upwards. I'm not an expert on this stroke, but IMHO the true way is to start with your normal loop, then drop the wrist down a little bit, and go forward as usual. This way you will get almost the same shot but with a little bit of side kick, which is usually enough to drive your opponent wide or draw an error by throwing off his timing.

Yeah, I kind of get that. But, in this video I was going for the hooked one. I was inspired by a youtube video called power of side spin loop, where some guys do a Ronaldinho free kick. By that I mean starting from the center of table the ball travels sideways outside of the net and comes back into opponents centre. But it failed miserably lol

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

Ilia Minkin said:
So compare your shot with the one from PingSkills. This one is like a normal loop but with funky wrist:

Cool stuff, i really like his side spin loop on the other direction. Will try these stuff in my next practice session.

Siva Schopenhauer · Jul 23, 2016

lyh said:
Maybe you can try different techniques and see the results, I suggest trying:
-try to close your blade more (it works well for penhold, which closes the bat more)
-hit forward more
-use thin brushing so the ball does not bounce off your racket
Or you can try and improve your touch. Actually practising this shot will help improving your touch.

Nice one, I think I am not moving forward in most of my strokes, bad for my loop. Yeah, the main idea behind these sensless practice sessions are mostly to built some aspects of the game. Here, it is touch as you rightly pointed out. Will try changing racket angle instead of the current one and will update in this thread how it goes.

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