Drills for spinny, high backspin balls?

[schrodingerskoalabear]

During recent match days, I faced difficulties confidently taking on popped up or high spinny balls at half-long and short lengths. Part of the identified problem is obviously lack of anticipation and adjusting to varied speed on my end.

I wanted to incorporate a drill or two related to this specifically to my upcoming training but am not completely sure. My idea is: multi-ball where my partner just spins up the ball but I am not sure that will give good quality training.

Any recommendations on a drill that you have used for this kind of problem?

 

[pong99]

I was taught this technique by Wei Wang, former US natl champ and olympian.

Open your racker past 90 degrees so when you contact the ball the ball cannot slip downwards.

Swing aggressively as you close the racket through contact.

The other thing to try is to hit on the side of the ball instead of the back. Use your body and fingers to wrap around the ball. There is a Heming Hu video on his channel on how to do this.

 

[blahness]

Learn the chiquita - these balls are super easily killed by someone with modern chiquita technique. With FH it is a lot harder and more technical if you wanna flick kill or loop kill it.

 

[pingpongpaddy]

Definitely use your FH if possible. Using Chiquita would be silly and Lazy.
Ask your multi ball partner to send over balls to 3 positions BH Center and FH randomly at killable heights so that you have to move to execute. !0 out of 10 should be the standard. Reduce the difficulty if you are missing..
once you can make 10 out 10 get feeder I to vary amount of Backspin.
50 years ago I had trouble with this shot seem to recall. My coach advised me to keep it simple and flat while trying to drive the ball OVER the Net. Visualise a line from centre of racket through the ball over the net to target at the other end of the table and try to swing your racket smoothly through the contact point towards the target. Its a power shot so make sure you are balanced and recover well
good luck

 

[Yuomay]

For the drill, serve long top or empty and ask your friend to chop. This should do the trick.

 

[Sherpa]

I play a friend who does this shot every now and then, unintentionally, and the ball looks easy enough to put away, but I find if I don't commit fully to driving/smashing the ball it very quickly goes into the net. The slightest hesitation and I will mess it up as it has a heap of backspin even though it sits up.

 

[Yuomay]

I play a friend who does this shot every now and then, unintentionally, and the ball looks easy enough to put away, but I find if I don't commit fully to driving/smashing the ball it very quickly goes into the net. The slightest hesitation and I will mess it up as it has a heap of backspin even though it sits up.

Yeah, I always try to picture the difference of a slap (flat hit) and a punch (full body rotation drive). I know I need to fully commit, advance and drive through the ball otherwise it's better to push.