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you can't push a topspin serve, but with the correct technique, you can drop it short:Do pros push topspin serves?
i think its a semantics thing. when i think push...i think paddle flat (open) and pushing from your body to where you are aiming across the table.I cant believe all the answers. Yes they do it all the time. Even I can short or long push topspin serves if they are short. Watch Fang Bo and Yuya Oshima demonstrate this.
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are you a pro?no, because you can't. You have to flick it actively or hold the racket very lightly and do a block like move.
No, but you do not need to be to understand the laws of spin and the techniques most sensible to apply.are you a pro?
you obviously only know one way to pushNo, but you do not need to be to understand the laws of spin and the techniques most sensible to apply.
Of course you can PUSH a topspin serve, but if you do what most people would consider a push, then the ball will rise very high and be smashed by the opponent.
as outlined by others already, there are techniques to keep a topspin serve short, but a short touch is a touch shot and not a push. A push is done with an open blade (rubber facing to the ceiling) and applying a slight move not only forward, but also upward (because you usually want to lift a heavy backspin ball over the net).
Some techniques for dropping the ball short that are shown in the video use the method of actually only hitting the side of the ball, so that the "topspin" does not apply/affect the rubber that much, but again that is not a push. If you use that technique to play a backspin ball it will drop into the net anyways.
The "topspin" serves that i saw while having a quick glance at the videos were really more of kicker or no-spin serves. Real topspin would be generated differently than just hitting the ball flat. calling the very low forward rotation that is generated by these techniques "topspin" is really misleading. You can see the effect of real topspin when somebody tries to block a topspin ball with a somewhot closed bat angle and the ball still rises up due to the spin in the ball. With these "alleged" topspin serves you would not see that effect when somebody simply did the regular "block" motion, simply because there is not that much topspin to speak off.
You obviously don't know the difference between a push and a chopyou obviously only know one way to push
That’s a punch. A push is always going under the ball and one of my training partners returns servers like that often topspin or not. But it’s risky sometimes the ball pops up…No, but you do not need to be to understand the laws of spin and the techniques most sensible to apply.
Of course you can PUSH a topspin serve, but if you do what most people would consider a push, then the ball will rise very high and be smashed by the opponent.
as outlined by others already, there are techniques to keep a topspin serve short, but a short touch is a touch shot and not a push. A push is done with an open blade (rubber facing to the ceiling) and applying a slight move not only forward, but also upward (because you usually want to lift a heavy backspin ball over the net).
Some techniques for dropping the ball short that are shown in the video use the method of actually only hitting the side of the ball, so that the "topspin" does not apply/affect the rubber that much, but again that is not a push. If you use that technique to play a backspin ball it will drop into the net anyways.
The "topspin" serves that i saw while having a quick glance at the videos were really more of kicker or no-spin serves. Real topspin would be generated differently than just hitting the ball flat. calling the very low forward rotation that is generated by these techniques "topspin" is really misleading. You can see the effect of real topspin when somebody tries to block a topspin ball with a somewhot closed bat angle and the ball still rises up due to the spin in the ball. With these "alleged" topspin serves you would not see that effect when somebody simply did the regular "block" motion, simply because there is not that much topspin to speak off.
you obviously don't know much about table tennis - let alone posting silly stuff about spin and physicsYou obviously don't know the difference between a push and a chop
thinking of action of "push" to returnyou can't push a topspin serve, but with the correct technique, you can drop it short:
-soft hand
-lean in with chest
-catch the ball on the rise
-downward motion with paddle
-sometimes even slightly closed paddle
it's a technique i'm still working on mastering. i woudl say its one of the more advanced skills since you need to be able to recognize both the spin and the distance of the serve, and have the touch and technique to actual drop it short.
Yes, they do it all the time. The specific term in Chinese is 立短 (literally stand-short), which has slowly dropped out of use in recent years.I cant believe all the answers. Yes they do it all the time. Even I can short or long push topspin serves if they are short. Watch Fang Bo and Yuya Oshima demonstrate this.
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the master has spoken! haha.thinking of action of "push" to return
jslick has it correct on drop short.
another is push action, but side spin only to push long