ah, meant to say lobbing game. I just have no idea where and how to hit the ball using the TPB. Usually, my attempts at lobbing on the BH side drift left (as a right handed player)
Ah ok on lobbing then.
By "TPB" you mean traditional penhold backhand, as in an actual backhand stroke (opposite of FH stroke) or do you mean a block or a 'punch' (aka "push-block")? The natural BH stroke is crosscourt... for a righty, starting the BH stroke on your left, you aim to your right. The natural FH stroke is also cross-court, for righty, hitting from their right to their left.
Slightyly higher level skill is to not hit cross-court.
One general idea, and a core part of my game: hit/place the ball where the opponent is not. Strategy in warfare as well as sports ... attack opponent's weakest point. If the opponent is not there, in general that is a weak point. However, most player's FH are stronger than their BH, so generally most players hit to their opponent's BH side.
One downside of missing TPB that I felt was, that the backhand push, which is played with the FH side, doesn't come as intuitively and often I have the bat angled too much towards me when trying to do a BH push. Same with the BH serve with the FH side, I can't quite find a good timing and bat angle to do it right,
Like anything, if you devote time to training BH pushing with the FH side, you will get this in time.
and resort to the reverse pendulum instead, which is much closer to the RPB motion.
I don't understand this part.
Anyways, I love the deceptiveness of the PH grip when it comes to serves, the FH potential, RPB is nice for reducing footwork a little.
Me too on the serves and FH. i have no RPB as i play one-sided, will add that i love punching.
Recently I started experimenting with short pips on the FH on my spare bat for playing doubles, with the idea being that it allows me to stay close to the table and do more controlled blocks and smashes. Still getting used to the technique, it's a much smaller and explosive motion that I can't quite time right yet.
Ages ago, i started off as PH pips. After maybe a year, frustrated i couldn't get a BH smash, i went to inverted and have been plyaying that for sometime
By the way, anyone know any good sources to learn twiddling?
I don't have a good source yet. But you can start with watching some of these vids on member suds79's playlist ... all PH twiddlers. I started watching this playlist.
Also, I made this video of me twiddling... only my 2nd time trying to twiddle... at the time of making this video, i didn't really watch other twiddlers. With brief experimentation, this seems to work for me, using my middle finger to facilitate the twiddling.
As the blade is pointing downward, gravity is helping. Didn't try to twiddle since the video. Will watch more of PH twiddlers in action first. At some point, will see if i can twiddle with the blade horizontal instead of vertical. This will be challenging.
Thank you 101010 and HTH!