The dead balls.

[igorponger]

The dead balls. What good is it..?

These given hints on long pimps all come from our practical studies on the variety of long pimples we took from today's market over years. It is to sustain unofficial information we have learned from a factory rubber engineer --that is, none of manufacturers would take a risk of making low-friction rubbers close to or at the friction limit of 0.5, for fear of failure in the ITTF friction test. That's to say you can't get a sufficient "spin reversal" any more, unless you commit some damned illegality with your rubber, e.g. epoxy coating on pimples tips, etc.
Truth to say, many of commercial LPs (untreated) are good enough to enable you with so called "dead balls" (those voided of any sizeable amount of spin). The "dead balls" are vicious like hell , it is some nightmare to destroy opponents game flatly. Yes, the dead balls proved much more toxic than spin reversal, and it is untreated pimples that gonna to give you "dead balls" in plenty. Mind you don't shoot in your leg, don't listen to none-expert talks, be twice alert of the frictionless stuff.

Be happy.

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

On many occasions I have seen modern players just smack-down chopped balls when playing against chopper with long pips. It never fail to make me raise my eyebrow.

In my own experience, I too have smack-down chopped balls myself when playing against long-pips chopper. Hail to ITTF and its awesome decision to make 40++ mandatory. Hail ITTF!

@USDC, yes, I have been playing against long-pips player lately, a lot in fact.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

@USDC, yes, I have been playing against long-pips player lately, a lot in fact.

If you play vs LP players and learn to read what is coming back from them, you will improve at what you need most improvement on. So, that is good.

 

[brokenball]

The faster you hit the ball the less the effect the spin will have on the angle. This works if the chopper doesn't keep the ball low and deep so you don't have a light of site shot.

 

[blahness]

There's a stroke which I've seen people with tacky rubbers used, which completely kills the spin on the incoming loop safely. But I kinda never figured out how to do it unfortunately...

 

[brokenball]

There's a stroke which I've seen people with tacky rubbers used, which completely kills the spin on the incoming loop safely. But I kinda never figured out how to do it unfortunately...

Completely killing spin on a very heavy top spin difficult because the ball has a lot of rotational energy that must either be absorbed or converted to translational energy. The same goes for back spin balls. I know what needs to be done but now I must think about how to accomplish it. It seems my 802 SP does a pretty good job of killing spin or greatly reducing spin by just blocking.

One thing that helps is to have "soft hands" that wil absorb energy. Also if the ball has top spin you can block with a closed paddle without using any any forward motion. Normally when you block a top spin ball it tends to go high. That is because the spin, rotational energy, gets converted to translational energy. Just close the paddle enough so the ball goes over the net and not too high. Add extra energy only if it is necessary to get the ball over the net.

Always think about energy! What adds energy. The different types of energy and what absorbs energy. I know. I am a nerd, but energy is an important topic.