THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION IS THAT IF A PLAYER WITH PIPS BEATS YOU EASILY AND YOU PRACTICE MORE AGAINST PIPS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BEAT THIS PLAYER.
IF A PLAYER WITH PIPS BEATS YOU EASILY HE WILL MOST LIKELY CONTINUE BEATING YOU EASILY NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU PLAY.
The biggest misconception is that if you practice more against pips you will enjoy table tennis more. It will only make your training sessions less fun.
I guess it takes all kinds and perhaps some people learn differently than others. But, then, at a certain point, some people just stop learning in general. So.....And since fun is really a subjective thing, what will be fun for one person will not be as fun for another.
But, it is possible that the skills to read what a LP or Anti player is doing, improving on reading spin, reading the the play and making intelligent choices in rallies vs those kinds of players do take a while so, can be frustrating at first.
And, if you are playing an opponent who is able to keep you from playing the way you want to, that can be frustrating. But any player who is higher level than you can do that to you in any number of ways if he wants to. I have played guys who were so much better than me that they just played nice because there really wasn't much I could do to pressure a 2500 level player. l have played 2 winged looping players who were maybe 2 levels higher than me and, because I could pressure them, they made playing against them torture because it made it so they could get more easy points.
When I play someone lower level than me, I make it so they can't figure out what is going on or why they keep popping the ball up to give me easy attacks, float the ball, or dump the ball into the net.
Talk to
@Der_Echte about grip pressure on return of serve and short game. Ask him how he can drive opponents crazy and have them look at his racket to see if he is using pips or anti because they can't figure out what he is doing.
At a certain point, your brain should start processing the information of what spin is on the ball faster. You should be able to start reading the spin on those balls better, not just from the contact but from the path, the arc, the flight of the ball and the bounce. If you only look at racket contact, you will get fooled by any good player. If you learn to watch the ball and read how much spin is on the ball from the ball, and which spin is on the ball from its flight pattern and bounce.....then dealing with different rubbers like LP and Anti becomes a much more interesting game in many ways. And if you know what you are doing against those guys, you can force them to give you balls you want by what you give them: provided you are actually a better player than them.
If you know what you are doing against LP and Anti and get good at playing vs those frustrating kinds of players, most people's return of serve and short game would also improve as a result.
However, it is okay to avoid playing them. You don't have to play that kind of player if you don't want to. Nothing wrong with doing what you do well and enjoying that part of the game. But that doesn't mean that players who don't give you balls you like should be banned. You just don't have to play vs them.
