Mima Ito Smash Heavy Underspins

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Artictle says what i means. In last match, Mima Ito played against chopper (player from German). Ito just smash chopped ball with normal inverted fh rubber (Nittaku Fastarc-G1). How Ito do that?
 
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Artictle says what i means. In last match, Mima Ito played against chopper (player from German). Ito just smash chopped ball with normal inverted fh rubber (Nittaku Fastarc-G1). How Ito do that?

If the ball is above net height and there is a straight line from the ball to the end of the opponent's side of the table, then the ball is flat-hittable irrespective of what spin is on the ball, all you need to do is be in position and swing your arm fast enough. Which is not that easy to do as it sounds, especially for us amateurs.
 
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This is the moment when a chopper says to herself: "My coach put my career on a wrong track and now I am paying the price for that".
Even if you took the long pips benefits (heavy backspin, dead balls, wobble effect, etc) while you were competing against amateurs/beginners/intermediate/advanced players when you have reached this pro level where the people know how to play against long pips and they have the proper technique and physical training you are in trouble since you depend on the spin received from them.
In this example, more than playing against a pro player, the German player is playing against a pro player with short pips on the backhand side so she is doomed because she is looking for a ball with heavy topspin but guess what? That ball will never come since the ball from those short pips does not have a lot of topspin instead it is going more straight forward - you can check the disappointment on the German player face since she realizes that she cannot do anything against that spin.
Since there is not enough topspin, the ball will just float over the table because the long pips do not receive enough topspin to revert it into backspin and make the ball go down.
The smashes you were talking about are prepared by Ito before they were executed; it is not a smash against a heavy backspin ball as it happens when a long pips player is playing against a normal inverted rubber.
It is something like this: ball received from Ying Han, return the ball to Ying Han`s backhand (long pips) with short pips so you can generate less topspin on the ball, push back from Ying Han with less backspin since there was not a lot of topspin on the previous ball, the ball will not go down on the table because there is not enough topspin to reverse it so the ball will jump too high, smash performed by Ito on a high ball with less backspin - more like a dead ball.
Same behavior here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68c2x4DAbI
Check out this video for a game between long pips and normal inverted rubber.
After all it is still inverted rubber and this is why you are doomed against short pips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQ0RMJNUVU

 
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This is the moment when a chopper says to herself: "My coach put my career on a wrong track and now I am paying the price for that".
Even if you took the long pips benefits (heavy backspin, dead balls, wobble effect, etc) while you were competing against amateurs/beginners/intermediate/advanced players when you have reached this pro level where the people know how to play against long pips and they have the proper technique and physical training you are in trouble since you depend on the spin received from them.
In this example, more than playing against a pro player, the German player is playing against a pro player with short pips on the backhand side so she is doomed because she is looking for a ball with heavy topspin but guess what? That ball will never come since the ball from those short pips does not have a lot of topspin instead it is going more straight forward - you can check the disappointment on the German player face since she realizes that she cannot do anything against that spin.
Since there is not enough topspin, the ball will just float over the table because the long pips do not receive enough topspin to revert it into backspin and make the ball go down.
The smashes you were talking about are prepared by Ito before they were executed; it is not a smash against a heavy backspin ball as it happens when a long pips player is playing against a normal inverted rubber.
It is something like this: ball received from Ying Han, return the ball to Ying Han`s backhand (long pips) with short pips so you can generate less topspin on the ball, push back from Ying Han with less backspin since there was not a lot of topspin on the previous ball, the ball will not go down on the table because there is not enough topspin to reverse it so the ball will jump too high, smash performed by Ito on a high ball with less backspin - more like a dead ball.
Same behavior here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68c2x4DAbI
Check out this video for a game between long pips and normal inverted rubber.
After all it is still inverted rubber and this is why you are doomed against short pips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQ0RMJNUVU


Long pips do not reverse the spin, they keep the spin the same, it’s the direction of the ball that has changed!!!

For example, if you are practicing a ‘Ghost’ serve (Heavy backspin) as the ball moves away it has what the server sees as backspin. It then goes over the net, the Backspin kicks in and the ball changes direction and comes back towards the server, with what the server will see as topspin on the ball.

The ball is still spinning around its rotational axis in the same way but is moving in the opposite direction.

Totally agree that long pip players are totally reliant on the spin put on the ball by their opponent
also agree that because short pips generate less spin, then long pips return from a short pip shot will be easier to handle because less spin will be on the ball.

the rubbers that can change the spin on a ball are inverted and short pip rubbers.
 
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