I’ve seen a few of your videos and keep at it, your club seems awesome and everyone seems super chill and kind and all of you guys are very skillful too!
Thank you for the kind words~ This club is great and people are very nice. We all try to improve and it’s not always going that great, but it’s been lots of fun in the process.
I don’t have rating. I used to be 1800 in 2014, didn’t compete in rated events since then and USATT voided it. How about you? Do you play with the UTD TT club?
@@sunjongyun5694 I see. I usually visit Dallas once or twice a year and on that occasion usually play both at UTD and Coach Kim’s place. Do you know Seewon?
You could probably increase the angle of the feed and decrease power to create a shorter shot that requires you to lean over the table to flick. Not that this isn't a flick, but shorter flicks may offer a different kind of challenge in finding the right angle for windup/follow-through.
The incoming ball was a backspin, the stroke was converting it into a topspin. We usually call this a flick stroke in table tennis. A backhand topspin practice would rather refer to looping a ball with some level of incoming topspin (if the incoming topspin is high, it’s sometimes called a counter spin).
@@jesseyu7790 Hey Jesse, I did not mean to sound confrontational, I was just describing the content in the video and referring to the common tt terminology. Obviously we both love ping pong and sharing some information here, there is no point in dominating the debate and hopefully our opinions are not necessarily biases, just different views. There is a lot of ambiguity in tt terminology - like you can always say you are 'looping' a backspin, there is nothing wrong about it. Sometimes people refer to a 'flick' only when you loop the backspin over the table, but I heard some ITTF commentators using the term flick also when looping the backspin even behind the table. I think it's fine as far as we understand each other. I am not sure if you are questioning the term 'flick' in this video because of the length of the ball trajectory? You can see the ball is looped over the table. Or if you are questioning whether the arriving ball was a backspin? I am the person in the video and the incoming balls were all backspin, I promise you that. Regarding the contact point with the ball, it is definitely easier to flick the ball when contacting it more from the bottom side, with the 'Chiquita' stroke. But in modern tt, it became really popular to flick the ball also by going directly over the ball (one player making it very popular is Morizono). If you match or exceed the speed of the backspin ball rotation with your paddle, you can still contact the ball towards its upper part and comfortably lift it over the net. Because if your paddle is contacting the ball with a faster speed than the backspin rotation, it is similar to looping a no spin ball. You will still put an arc on the ball and curve it on the table. That is exactly what I was practicing in the video. I hope this clear things up a bit. Glad to hear you like practicing with a robot too~
