Chinese Players switching rubbers' side during rally !!! WoooW

[amr_tareef]

Hi guys ,

Did anyone notices that most of the Chinese shake hand ( grip ) stars like ( Ma Long , Zhang Jike & Fan Zehngdong ) are switching the blade side during the rally when they start smashing strokes !!!!


What an amazing skill they have ( in less than 0.25 second ) they switch the blade rubber to start smashing with their ( backhand Rubber ) to become the forehand side.


I think that because the forehand Chinese rubber they use ( blue sponge ) not suited to smash good . So, they put a tenergy ( 64 I think ) on the backhand side , then they switch sides in no time and start to smash much more harder.

You can check any of your previously downloaded video or any of youtube collection and see how fast they do it.


I just want to share this note with you.


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[amr_tareef]

Below is an Example

See

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[Alborz]

Chinese rubbers that are used as forehand rubber are very hard so they are not good for smashing. Most of Chinese players use a soft bouncy rubber, mostly Tenergy, on backhand. Their backhand rubbers are faster than forehand rubbers. So they "twiddle" for smashing. And the ball usually doesn't come back. And if it comes, they are fast enough to twiddle again and be ready for the next shots.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Yeah, its been like this for many years. Even Cpen like Ma Lin will twiddle to shakehand and use the BH rubber.

FH Chinese rubber is for spin
BH Tensor rubber is for speed

In the case of lob-smash, then yes.
Normal smash, they still use FH rubber

 

[Mr. RicharD]

Xu Xin like Wang Li Qin also smashes with the Hurricane. However this is because when they smash they prefer to sidespin the ball to make it more deceptive in trajectory. However they have been known to twiddle for smashes that are above the head.

Typically european and japanese rubbers are more bouncy in the flat hit so they catapult off the rubber much faster. Also flat hitting allows players to access the blade more which provides a bit more speed as well.

The technique here in the U.S. is called Twiddling as both Dan Seemiller and Eric Boggan were famous for having done it during the same color rubber era. The Chinese had much trouble dealing with the anti rubber loops because they had no idea which rubber was being used and having pips they needed a better idea of how to react to the spin or lack of. It is said that the Chinese later copied the technique very well in the late 80's and 90's. However with the red/black rubber rule it is definitely less effective.

Today it's more common to do this when smashing balls that are above head height. When it's above the head you are able to swing down into the table rather than forward or upward for lower balls. This allows you to use gravity along with the faster red side rubber.