Table Tennis Troubleshooting - Ep. 5. - Sidespin Serve Return

[useurcamera]

thanks so much for this :)

can u make a tutorial how to return a tomahawk serve? i know how to serve it and they have a hard time returning... but i would like to learn how to return a difficult serve like that myself. Cheers. God bless you

[tumharaghar]

thanx brian .....thnx>>>>

[TheHunting20]

thank you.very useful



[maliksjsu]

Thanks for this awesome tut, My question is how would you return a fast side-under spin, because when i try to loop is the side spin makes the ball to bounce too much and of the table it goes and when I try to do what you told me here it either goes to the net or it lobs up for my opponent to hit a winner, Help ?

[ImprovinMyGame]

All of you videos have been so helpful and have helped me improve my game quite a bit in the last several months. Thanks so much! Keep on posting these. Can't wait for the next one :)

Do you perhaps have videos about footwork or any more or game strategy (perhaps others like the Ep. 1 Shot Selection video)?

[sssllahhh19375123456]

Hey Brian I have two questions

what rubber are you using right now ?

can't you also return a side spin serve in the opposite direction of the spin ?

[DynamicTableTennisTV]

@sssllahhh19375123456 I am currently using my own brand of rubber that I can't talk about yet until it is approved by ITTF, but the rubber I am using is Tenergy05FX on the FH and BH.

[sssllahhh19375123456]

@DynamicTableTennisTV ok please answer me my 2 question please

[RupertGriffin1]

@DynamicTableTennisTV Woah badass, your own rubber :D

[DynamicTableTennisTV]

@sssllahhh19375123456 You can used the opposite direction, but your run the risk of the ball going off the sideline of the BH. The safer return we be to move the ball to the FH where you have more area to land the return on the table.

[sssllahhh19375123456]

@DynamicTableTennisTV thank you Brian so much you are pretty awesome man thank you so much

[DynamicTableTennisTV]

@sssllahhh19375123456 Thanks a bunch. Good Luck with your training and improving.

[watchmyshoes22]

@DynamicTableTennisTV Thank you

[GBtabletennis]

Ok this is very learn full, but now I get a problem. When the angle of the bat looks like a backspin service, there are people who can still make topspin services (oh just look at Waldner he can). That's so hard to see when it's topspin or underspin.

[haydonlee93]

@GBtabletennis theres a big difference in the bounce of the two ball. watch the angle they hit the ball and the timing

[DynamicTableTennisTV]

@haydonlee93 It is much easier to see on video. It is much more difficult to deal with that type of Serve when you are at a tournament, playing a player you don't know, the score is tight, and you are not sure if you they went up or down with the lateral movement.

[tabesamis]

@GBtabletennis Good table tennis players can make topspin with the same pendulum motion, but use a different timing to achieve this, no matter what in order to make that topspin they have to contact the ball coming upwards (this motion can be very small, which is why a good pendulum serve can be hard to read). When a player uses a reverse pendulum serve it can be confusing if you don't see them often, but either way I'm pretty sure Brian covered your concern in the video.

[Merrlol]

Could you do a video on how to return topspin serves with backspin?

[tabesamis]

@Merrlol Get some long pips:P lol