A few details:
Serve practice: you can practice a lot of the elements of a serve without a table: on a floor, a couch or a bed, you get immediate feedback about the amount of spin.
Serve and receive drills: There are several reasons why serve and receive drills are good to practice. One of them is that you are practicing in a way that mirrors game play, so you are more likely to cross those skills over into real matches. Another is that you get to practice the serve as the first part of every new round of the drill.
Spin and speed. While it is true that a fast ball does not have to be spinny and a spinny ball can be slow, this does not have to be the case. You can hit a ball that is both fast and spinny. I defy you to say Ma Long's loops are slow, or that they don't have a ton of spin.
If that is the case, you can also have a serve that is fast and spinny. And someone good at serving should actually be able to serve a fast spinny ball that is actually also short, and so, bounces more than 2x on the opponent's side. Serves like that are much more effective than slow spinny serves because serves that are spinny but slow give the opponent much more time to read the spin and adjust to ball placement. But if the ball is fast, spinny and short, it has to be low and this will give the opponent trouble with adjusting to spin and ball placement.
So, I would suggest that, even if IB66 was talking about racket speed for generating spin, the idea of making short, fast, spinny serves would be valuable. When the serve is short, fast and spinny, you can also, often get the ball to skid a little. That makes the serve that much harder to return and gives you even better setups.
So, I would say, keep working on the mechanics and the technique. Because if you think you know these details and you are needing to improve your serves, then your body does not know them and what your head knows is not as important as what your body knows with these kinds of techniques.
Based on that idea, it might be worth your while to video yourself serving and see what you are doing. It is likely that what the video shows will be different than what you think you are doing. And that could help you improve immensely.
I agree.
As I wrote Before, a lower ball can make the ball appear faster on a short serve. I practiced this a lot in the beginning of this season, Because it's so many years ago I last played tt, so it was dificult to get enough underspin on the serves. So instead I practice lower serves first, then I practiced them getting shorter to hit the other side twice and automatically putting more underspin in of course. People around my level hated my serves, because they had difficulty recieving. Getting into the ball to late.
I of course do other serves, like long, fast no spin serves into the stomach/pocket. Or with slight topspin. Sidespin underspin. But that's only as variations tactically to throw off the opponent, as you would commonly do.
I have videoed myself, and everytime I never get surprised. I always see what I already know. I'm generally quite aware of myself
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