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My son (10 years old) has been playing table tennis for about 18 months and receiving relatively regular coaching for about the last year. His game has come on a lot, but the main problem with his game is that he gives away too many points on unforced errors, especially because he has a real tendency to flat hit with his forehand rather than topspin. He's using inverted rubbers on both sides at the moment and the majority of the flat hits will go long off the end of the table. Its not that he physically can't topspin/loop the ball, it's just that in the heat of battle he tends to revert to more of a hitting motion on a lot of forehand shots.
My question (and dilemma) is about how best to proceed. Should he switch to a spinny short pips on the FH (Mattius Falck style) or should he stick with his current set up and just try and work through the issue? I feel that spinny short pips might be more of a "natural" match for him, but how are you supposed to know if its right to switch to a different type of rubber as opposed to just sticking with what you've got and trying to work through the problems? His coach has warned against switching to SP and to just stick with what he has at the moment, and I suppose they're probably right...but I remember reading that Mattius Falck switched to SP because he was having problems developing a FH loop, so clearly that's an option too.
My question (and dilemma) is about how best to proceed. Should he switch to a spinny short pips on the FH (Mattius Falck style) or should he stick with his current set up and just try and work through the issue? I feel that spinny short pips might be more of a "natural" match for him, but how are you supposed to know if its right to switch to a different type of rubber as opposed to just sticking with what you've got and trying to work through the problems? His coach has warned against switching to SP and to just stick with what he has at the moment, and I suppose they're probably right...but I remember reading that Mattius Falck switched to SP because he was having problems developing a FH loop, so clearly that's an option too.