your eyes when you serve

Atwood · May 24, 2014

Ok so while working on my serve the other day it occurred to me for the first time that I don't know exactly where to look when i'm serving. It didnt bother me before but now that ive thought of it, its driving me nuts. I play tennis, and obviously on serve you look at the ball the whole way through and do so on every ground stroke as well- you know where the court is, no reason to look at anything but the ball or the racquet. But with the precision needed for a table tennis serve, when I tunnel vision on the ball I often lose track of my paddle and whiff it when I go for a particularly spinny short backspin serve (basically my shitty knockoff of ma lin's

). My eyes generally tend to roam back and forth to try and encompass the paddle and the ball and I can position myself to where im looking down at the ball and see the whole action but it feels awkward and deception is more difficult. Just curious to hear you guys' thoughts on this, thanks!

mahomedy13 · May 24, 2014

look at the ball,and practice serves-that might solve your problem.

agold · May 25, 2014

I look at the ball until it passes my eyes. At the point it passes my eyes I know to make contact

Alborz · May 25, 2014

Just look at the ball. You will be able to hit it with the racket. But if you want to play some reverse serves it will be harder to do. Still it's not hard to do.

mahomedy13 · May 25, 2014

The most important thing is plenty of practice.with practice comes perfection.when perfection is there,youll know exactly where the ball is.But start of by looking at the ball the whole time,from throw until contact.

Alborz · May 25, 2014

mahomedy13 said:
The most important thing is plenty of practice.with practice comes perfection.when perfection is there,youll know exactly where the ball is.But start of by looking at the ball the whole time,from throw until contact.

Agree with you. Practicing is the most important. Some month ago i practice serves nearly 1 hour per day and after than and until know i'm able to serve simple down spin services with eyes closed.

agold · May 25, 2014

Alborz said:
Agree with you. Practicing is the most important. Some month ago i practice serves nearly 1 hour per day and after than and until know i'm able to serve simple down spin services with eyes closed.

Wow! And we all know abt Der Echte and what he did in he army.

EDIT: I realize my post was off topic. This is about the eyes. So I think the point is that if you practice enough that you can get your good serve nearly 100%, then it doesn't matter where you are. Alborz, is this what you mean? If so, I agree haha

mahomedy13 · May 25, 2014

Alborz said:
Agree with you. Practicing is the most important. Some month ago i practice serves nearly 1 hour per day and after than and until know i'm able to serve simple down spin services with eyes closed.

A real master of serve was Jan-ove Waldner(there are others too).look at videos of him a see how many a time he aint even looking at the ball when serving.Instead he looking at the opponents side of the table.

Alborz · May 25, 2014

mahomedy13 said:
A real master of serve was Jan-ove Waldner(there are others too).look at videos of him a see how many a time he aint even looking at the ball when serving.Instead he looking at the opponents side of the table.

Yes, he is the master of service. I also love ZJK and ML services. Almost all of the time the contact of the ball and bat is under their head and shoulder so they can not see it but still their serves are pretty damn short and spiny. TT gods!

Der_Echte · May 25, 2014

agold said:
Wow! And we all know abt Der Echte and what he did in he army.

EDIT: I realize my post was off topic. This is about the eyes. So I think the point is that if you practice enough that you can get your good serve nearly 100%, then it doesn't matter where you are. Alborz, is this what you mean? If so, I agree haha

I could only practice a few minutes a day in Iraq in the same trailer where everyone uses IP phone to call home. 3-5 balls bouncing makes a loud racket, so I practiced just a few minutes for a compromise.

Here is a serve sequence a club ower took of me from a visit to his club in 2011. I look like I is in a trance watching the ball haha.

http://cafe438.daum.net/_c21_/bbs_s...enc=&q=&nil_profile=cafetop&nil_menu=sch_updw

Unrelated is BH topspin sequence. Looking at the ball is important, so is being in position.

I am the dude in purple uniform onn the bottom two sequences.

http://cluster1.cafe.daum.net/_c21_...nArticle=true&docid=1NO8nCS1I6220120319234118

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