Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

[latej]

Footwork

;-) I know I've already posted this, but the sound of his steps (and the way) is simply the most impressive moment of the whole movie ;-)

 

[blahness]

So I'm trying to switch to a BH dominant style to really work on my BH. As mentioned before, service receives with the BH has been my biggest issue, so I looking for some advice.

I think I'm better with BH pushes and BH receives of fast long services, but I seem to be having more trouble with the half long and surprisingly, also the loose ones. You know, the ones that are kinda high, clearly long, but not particularly fast. Thats the kind of stuff I usually kill with my FH, but I make a lot of mistakes when trying to do the same with my BH. Should I perhaps just not try to kill it? Or should I work on my footwork so I can give myself a bit more space to kill it?

The short ones you need to step in with the right foot and then rotate the body clockwise through the ball to kill them. Without the body rotation i find it super difficult to do it. It might also be easier to mentally treat half long and short ones as 'chiquita' balls rather than full on BH topspin balls, this kind of mindset actually helped me quite a lot. Because chiquita works for short and half long balls pretty well.