I like your loop against backspin but a thing that works really well for me when I do it is to vary when you contact the ball to vary the spin/speed. If you contact it at top of the bounce it's fast but not as much speed but if u let it drop a bit it's slower and higher but a lot spinner. If you vary these two types of loop it will make it a lot harder for opponents to return them and if they do you will have a high ball to kill.
Guter Start, schöne feste Topspins gerade am Anfang. Da siehste auch direkt den Unterschied ob der erste direkt fest ist und der Gegner damit zwangsläufig Probleme hat wo er noch nah im Tisch steht vs wenn er die ersten leicht bekommt und dann schon etwas weiter hinten bereit steht wie Thomas und dann zumindest bei deiner aktuellen Härte dann die Topspins aus der Halbdistanz ganz gut bekommen kann. Mit Fabi am Ende sieht man was mit langen Angaben früher oder später passiert je höher man kommt. Sie müssen schon überraschend und unangenehm sein damit es keine Vorlagen sind. Andersherum sind seine Angaben oft auch "lang" und diese kannst du natürlich kaum kurzlegen, selbst wenn du sie gut liest geht dein Schupf dann rüber und gibt ihm immer einen 3rd Ball Attack. Da dann auch mal gucken die etwas fester anzugreifen um das zu unterbinden oder halt unangenehm platzieren. Oft haben Spieler mit solchen variablen Angaben auch mal weniger Unterschnitt drin und warten dann auch den hohen passiven Schupf, da dann auch mal drauf gehen und flicken wenn sie kurz sind damit sie es nicht zu leicht haben mit ihrem 3rd Ball.
You want to get BETTER, right? That's your whole goal overall, is it not? Well then, you NEED to stop serving long with topspin and sidespin all the time. Those serves should be MAYBE 10-15% of your serves overall. The rest need to be short, with varied underspin, sidespin, and even no spin. You will not get past a certain level, if you serve long with topspin all the time, like you do. I have said this multiple times before. It doesn't matter if you get everything else up to TOP professional level. If you serve like that, you're going to get SLAUGHTERED. If everything were top professional level and you served like that, your overall level would be midrange amateur. I promise you! That's how much damage you are doing to yourself. I don't know who told you to serve long like that all the time. But, they didn't have a clue about table tennis. I would LOVE to play a match against you just to show you what I mean. I am just a low-level professional. But, I will put you on the defensive on every single serve, if you serve like that. And I will probably outright win a lot of free points like that as well. And you will see that I don't even have to try in order to do so. And it's not because "I'm so good", or something like that. It's entirely because you're giving me the opportunity TO ATTACK FIRST over and over again. And even at the mid-to-higher levels of amateur play, attacking FIRST, regardless of how good the attack is, is extremely important, and you need to be the one attacking first more of the time, if you want to give yourself the best chance to win. Serving like that will have them attacking first way more often than you, and you will lose because of it. They're not going to serve it long to you like that over and over. They're going to serve it short, low, and with different variations of spins. And you're going to be having to push a lot, which means that they'll be getting to attack first on their serves most of the time. Then, when they're receiving you are just going to keep giving them the chance to attack on their receives. Doesn't that sound pretty stupid to you?
Wow, what a tone.... even if you're not entirely wrong about the content. But I would prefer half-long (2 table touches or the 2nd just behind the baseline). Much more difficult to flip. The most important thing is that the balls come low over the net.
@BigJ1510 Everybody prefers half-long serves. However, I am taking his level and his particular skills into account. If he were to skip right to trying half-long serves, he would find himself giving up serves that are too deep way too often and that becomes a meatball for opponents. That's why he should learn how to serve short, low, and with underspin on the ball first. Once he masters that, then he will already have a good grasp on controlling the distance and serving half-longs. Also, at his level, nobody is consistently serving half-longs anyway. At that level, being consistent with getting the first attack on his own service points will be a major advantage. And above all, just changing to serving short, low, and with underspin at least 80% of the time will DRAMATICALLY increase his level. It's currently holding him back in a big way. Most people will not realise this. But, any decent coach who has at least coached at the highest amateur levels will see this for sure. It is plain as day. And in my spare time I'm actually cutting together a supercut of how many points he has given away because of his long serves in just the past few weeks of videos or so. I need to demonstrate how detrimental it is to him. I'm also cutting together a supercut of him giving away points by playing forehand attacks right to where the opponent is standing and not to the far forehand corner (when playing a righty). In that supercut, I'm also showing the points he wins simply because he plays the forehand attack to that far forehand corner. It's just taking some time. I train 6 days a week for 6 hours per day, and I coach professionals as well as amateurs from mid-level to the highest level. So, time is difficult to find.
@@BiscoWho Maybe you shoul ask him if he want to have your demonstration before you give a non-asked advice / investigate a lot of time. Short serves often lead to short returns, and you have to be able to deal with that. For me, the most important thing is that the serves are flat. And as you see in this video he makes progression with the parallel serves.
