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I watched a few tutorials lately which gave me a some ideas about the theory of going against and with the spin and how it affects the ball.
Going against the spin is the basic approach to dealing with spin for inverted players. This tends to be able to neutralise the incoming spin very well and control the return well.
From your perspective the incoming and outgoing balls are spinning exactly the opposite direction (note that the opponents backspin is spinning the same direction as your topspin from your perspective).
Examples would be pushing a backspin ball, looping against topspin, touching the ball on the right side going forward against FH pendulum and on the left side against BH pendulum. In terms of looping against sidespin for eg, this would be FH hooking the ball against a FH pendulum serve and FH fade loop against a BH pendulum serve.
However, this basic approach actually is not so great for active strokes where the intention is to make as much spin as possible rather than simply neutralising it. Similar to what long pips does we can continue and add to the existing spin rather than going against it.
From your perspective the incoming and outgoing balls are spinning the same direction. Some examples would be topspin against backspin, chopblocking a topspin. In terms of receiving sidespin serves, it's for eg using FH left to right push to deal with reverse pendulum serves, or FH right to left sideswipe to deal with FH pendulum serves.
The implications for chiquita is actually more important. I always wondered why my chiquita works best against FH pendulum sidebackspin serves, it's because the incoming spin is exactly in the same direction as the outgoing spin, I'm adding to the existing spin! This is also why I produce less chiquita spin against BH pendulum serves although it is easier to neutralise the spin. One video had me thinking about this and his idea was that it is better to do a BH fade version of the chiquita against BH pendulum (principle of spin continuation) because it produces more spin this way. In fact Lin Yun Ju and FZD already use this to great effect. From the short FH side against BH pendulum spin, they often fade chiquita it on the diagonal with sidespin that curves outwards which is often a devastating direct point winner. This is starkly in contrast with ZJK who doesn't really have this opposite sidespin chiquita.
Using the same concept of spin continuation for looping against sidespin serves yields interesting conclusions. It would be simply better to do FH hook loops against BH pendulum serves, and FH fade loops against FH pendulum serves (this is opposite to conventional wisdom which wants you to loop on the right side of the ball against FH pendulum and on the left side of the ball against BH pendulum).
I found this method of looping to be way more reliable and less error prone due to the extra spin generated/borrowed from the existing spin.
Going against the spin is the basic approach to dealing with spin for inverted players. This tends to be able to neutralise the incoming spin very well and control the return well.
From your perspective the incoming and outgoing balls are spinning exactly the opposite direction (note that the opponents backspin is spinning the same direction as your topspin from your perspective).
Examples would be pushing a backspin ball, looping against topspin, touching the ball on the right side going forward against FH pendulum and on the left side against BH pendulum. In terms of looping against sidespin for eg, this would be FH hooking the ball against a FH pendulum serve and FH fade loop against a BH pendulum serve.
However, this basic approach actually is not so great for active strokes where the intention is to make as much spin as possible rather than simply neutralising it. Similar to what long pips does we can continue and add to the existing spin rather than going against it.
From your perspective the incoming and outgoing balls are spinning the same direction. Some examples would be topspin against backspin, chopblocking a topspin. In terms of receiving sidespin serves, it's for eg using FH left to right push to deal with reverse pendulum serves, or FH right to left sideswipe to deal with FH pendulum serves.
The implications for chiquita is actually more important. I always wondered why my chiquita works best against FH pendulum sidebackspin serves, it's because the incoming spin is exactly in the same direction as the outgoing spin, I'm adding to the existing spin! This is also why I produce less chiquita spin against BH pendulum serves although it is easier to neutralise the spin. One video had me thinking about this and his idea was that it is better to do a BH fade version of the chiquita against BH pendulum (principle of spin continuation) because it produces more spin this way. In fact Lin Yun Ju and FZD already use this to great effect. From the short FH side against BH pendulum spin, they often fade chiquita it on the diagonal with sidespin that curves outwards which is often a devastating direct point winner. This is starkly in contrast with ZJK who doesn't really have this opposite sidespin chiquita.
Using the same concept of spin continuation for looping against sidespin serves yields interesting conclusions. It would be simply better to do FH hook loops against BH pendulum serves, and FH fade loops against FH pendulum serves (this is opposite to conventional wisdom which wants you to loop on the right side of the ball against FH pendulum and on the left side of the ball against BH pendulum).
I found this method of looping to be way more reliable and less error prone due to the extra spin generated/borrowed from the existing spin.
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