Should you use wrist in forehand topspin table tennis? 

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best coach. I have so much improved my forehand loop over the past 6 months thanks to his videos. The video about the forehand grip more open and letting the ball come, hit it later was a real breakthrough for me. Now I would love to see a video about foot work.

Thanks Coach, after watching the video I’ve managed to increase my quickness and accuracy of my hit. My forehand loops still suck though, but my archery has never been better.

I wish we had coaching where I am. Watching videos like this is my only coaching for a bloke who's 50 and been playing for about 15 years

you are a beautiful soul, thank you for your videos

Someone to recommend good video with forehand wrist -instruction? Surely EmRatThich knows

Best table tennis video that makes the different between advanced players and intermediate players Thank you

Thanks for the best video

Mantep tenan, mengajar berdasarkan fakta. Kamu setingkat dosen yang mengajar di universitas.

Exactly. I use wrist tu put the ball short the net and move my opponent to his right and worth it because almost all he can recover when I do a side spin return to his left, it is very effective. Cheers And your accent is getting better, nice

Best table tennis coach on RU-vid! Great job coach ERT!

Wow THAT WAS some advice. As a tt average player from India and NO stranger to ancient advice I fully applaud your video :) !!

Timo Boll uses a lot wrist and finger techniques! you could have mentioned him here.Anyways,great video!

fantastic explanation on an extremely important topic

Good pts. I like how you make us think, "Is this correct or not?" You ultimately said it depends on the person's lvl. The answer, unfortunately, always depends. I'm not quite at the lvl of using wrist on my FH. I just use it on my BH. But my Chinese coach does emphasize to me to stay relaxed, loose, and use a "cowboy whip" technique like you mentioned. This leads to my question: When doing FH loop, some say (pointing to a European style) that you should hit the ball in front of you at its peak height. Kind of like Timo Boll. My Chinese coach says no, that it's not necessarily a European style (Timo Boll, he says, uses the whip style), pointing to Samsonov as the prime example of a European who uses and derives power from the "whip" style. That's where my Chinese coach says to me to wait for the ball. So, rather than hitting the ball when it's in front of you, hit the ball when it's almost at your side and somewhat falling downward. You derive tons of power and spin that way, and it's the way all the pros do it. So, the question is: Which is the "correct" way of FH loop? The whip style, or the hitting-ball-in-front-of-you style that lots of non-Chinese coaches teach? (I've had 2 non-Chinese coaches and neither mentioned the whip style. Whereas the whip style is the 1st thing the Chinese coach taught me.) For me, interestingly, the answer lies in the answer to the next question: Which style has benefited me most? Strangely, it's the whip style. Still gotta refine the technique though.

Very well explained video! Love the use of different examples from pros to amateurs

Fantastic advice, as always! (PS: the emphasis in "detail" is on the first syllable :) )

Great insight in all of your videos! Thank you coach

Thanks for details coach!...shoulders, arms, wrist n fingers understood, hips, legs and tt bat for sure..great learnings!

Super! My coach Joe Low in Vancouver taught me to use the wrist right away. But one has to be careful as the wrist can compensate for body rotation and one can develop a bad habit. May I pls suggest (English is not my first languauge) but the word ADVICE does not have plural. There is no such word as ADVICES. I am a teacher and am saying it in the most educational and positive way. One question pls: short racket, body travel to accelerate in the serve for more spin. A video about just this aspect, if possible, Sir Merci et vos videos sont toujours attendues avec impatience!

When the legs, hips, and waist are used together, it doesn't matter if your arms are made out of rubber or steel, you can still generate a powerful stroke.

excellent advice

truly underrated channel

hello emrat thich This is syed jabir from pakistan,please upload video about shakehand grip of malong that how to hold shakehand grip without changing for backhand as well forehand

Really another excellent video of yours! I'm a brazilian amateur player I would like to know from you how you, in yours debut, got to maintain your hand definitelly bowed when you were with the paddle.

thank you coach

Good teacher

Excellent presentation! Thank you, Coach!

My questions would be if there is a little bit of wrist lag on the forehand like in tennis, i can see It on penholders like xu xin but dont know if shakehand players do It aswell

Great video! Thank you!

wrist in forehand add more spin to the ball. is this right?

Great stuff! Thanks for posting this video.

Exact, wrist then fingers help to have a good In Pai.

Good advices on the wrist usage thanks, but the cross reference to archery is not appropriate, it has to do with design of the bow used and the location of the arrow rest.

Hello Emrathich... yours videos about Asian players and their techniques is really good...I'm using Dhs rubber(FH) and stiga blade since 7years...mastered that Asian technique..but I have a question...as table tennis geting update.. in future will it be close to table play?..like hitting off the bounce...

I started to play table tennis at an advanced age (37). Used to play around one month in a year during summer vacation in our country. Now I am 47 and just two years back I started playing more frequently. Applying the technique as seen in the tt videos in you tube. However when i chanced upon your videos I have understood the intricacies of the game much better. What I have understood about the use of wrist is that when you keep your hands loose, and play with rotation of your body with no pressure on your arm, the resultant effect is an automatic slight moment of the wrist. I understood it as a natural moment when the hands are kept loose and not a deliberate act.

Hello Coach... What's the moviment that i should do with my wrist in forehand topspin ? BTW, Awesome as always.

Super stuff...Love your videos!!

great video, c'est genial ERT ! les détails sont importants

Is there anything wrong with extending the wrist back for the loop so you are more behind the ball instead of leaving wrist in line with the forearm?

So much to learn coach.

Hi coach, Thanks for the super helpful video! I stopped trying because it was less consistent but will have a go again and keep practising. But why not give a chopping with backhand tutorial? In depth like these videos. As defensive tutorials are lacking. Especially how to play styles like Gionis/Filus where they don't chop on forehand, as pure chopping tutorials are there.

okay, but what is the function of each element (shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers) in the execution of the forehand?

Thank you.

hey! thanks for another great vid! could you tel me, is holding the non playing hand like it's in a cast the optimum body attitude?

More documentaries? But I still like the video!

Who disliked this............well nvm gotta back to training hall lol

As a penholder when I use my wrist it causes my back fingers to move forward. Very annoying. How do you fix that?

Hey coach emrattich iam from lebanon i am using hurricane 3 neo on my forehand how can i contact you its important

Emratthich can u answer my question U said backhand players use reverse pendulum serve but fan zhangdon is a backhand player but he use pendulum why? And how much should I bend in Backhand stroke I saw Chinese players bending a lot in backhand strokes

Can you teach me the right timing to flick backhand????

So why timo boll is using wrist in forehand topspin. He said itself in one video that using the wrist can generate more power.

it's actually kind of a terrible/confused question (though a very crucial one to address), there's confusion in it with one coach saying to do it and another not to, 'cos to say "using the wrist" is ambiguous. Do they mean an actual wrist movement i.e. wrist bending.. Or do they mean forearm rotation or do they even mean including upper arm rotation. If they are talking about the wrist "turning", it's not actually the wrist , it's the forearm. The wrist is just attached. Like if you headbutt somebody, your head strikes theirs but it wasn't a head movement that did it. In badminton one coach could say use the wrist and another might say don't, but they mean different things 'cos neither of them are using the correct anatomical terms to be specific eough about what they are talking about. Sometimes they do a demonstration to say waht they mean so even if they lack the terminology they can demonstrate it. So the two might even mean the same thing but one saying to use the wrist and one saying not to! The same issues can exist in table tennis. It's not a bad idea to clarify the question. Your pics are good as they show wrist bending is meant by you. and that is actually an actual wrist movement. (What those coaches meant by using the wrist is another matter! and the student asking the question could press them on the specifics)

Nice!

Sir what should be are ready position? Should we bend to much or stand a little bend ? As I watched ma long stand a little bend however timo boll bend to much. Thank you.

thx a lot coach !!! love u

Hi Guys , coach mentioned that the master level is using finger with stroke , so which finger he mean ? and how we practise it ?

Great lesson. I recently started using the wrist in practice. I am curious, however, about your statement that using the fingers is the "Master" level. Can you explain this?

Hello EmRatThich , I asked this question from a few other people too but I wanted to get your advise on it ! Thanks for all the great videos and very helpful tips and has helped me quite a bit. I have played tt for a 4-5 yrs but not regularly so would say am around 6/10 ! I have a question on returning a heavy underspin especially a very low serve with topspin when the ball is very low and deep. I wanted to give an insight into what the situation is and then ask the question for THAT situation. The table we are playing is an average one. We were playing with a 3 star stiga ball with quite an even bounce (very rarely like 1 in a 50 it gets low bounce). I am using: Racket Assembly Yasaka Sweden Extra - Flared Handle, F/H: Yasaka Rakza 7 - Red 2.0, (for forehand) B/H: Yasaka Mark V - Black Max. My aim was to go with a bat which is a balanced one with good spin control. The other people are using just general racquets which are stiga entry level ones (not the worst) and have been used for a bit so are like 4/10 now. I find that when I am using those general racquets I am fine with the game. When I use mine and the opponent is using the general ones to play it is also fine. The other day the opponent was using his personal racquet and doing underspin and deep serves. I found that if I used the general racquet to return I can do it comfortably. However when I used my personal racquet I find the ball not THAT easy to control (my fault too coz I wasn't practicing with it :( ) for that serve. So here is the situation Situation: Deep and low underspin serve keeping very low and also bouncing low (ie 6 inches or less after SECOND bounce). When using my racquet to push it is fine. When I try to top spin or loop it is going out of the table. I was trying to USE low racquet speed (not High) to do the top spin. I believe HIGH speed is what is recommended in these cases but I just want to use low to see if I can do it rather than just powering through it. So here are my questions. 1). Is is possible to topspin for my case above with low racquet speed or do I HAVE to use high speed? I thought that since the ball already has a spin and I am merely adding to it INSTEAD of reversing it , hence low speed should have worked. Is this correct ? Please advice 2). Are the rubbers correct esp the FOREHAND one for such a low speed shot or should I have chosen something with MORE spin to it to do this ? I am sorry for the long winded question but hope you can advise. Thanks!

How does that relate to archery?

영상은 좋았는데 한글 자막이 매우 안타깝네요. see you가 당신을 참조하라고 번역을 하다니 대박!

Hey I am looking for some advice, I am looking for a hard table tennis rubber to go with the stiga infinity blade ... Any suggestions ?

Sir can you show yourself playing table tennis

wrist very vulnarable part of the hand..some get musclepain with block..i think wrist need warming up for tabletennes and maybe little powertraining too for pros

You said that using fingers is the master level could you please explain how to do it

Coach. I usually generate a lot of spin with my forehand loop but not enough speed. What can I do to remedy this

Is this a table tennis video or archery??

How to generate heavy side spin in your topspin

Play from you legs so true

Coach, you're the best! Thanks for the advice! :)

okay, so we know that we should use the wrist after we got the basics down. My question is how? how should we be using the wrist?

should we use the wrist in fore hand loop?

using wrist, OK will do.. but honestly using the waist in every single top spin is very very tiring to be played😁

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Do Ma Long and Fan Zhendong use their WRISTS in their forehand counter-topspins and counter-loops? On the RU-vid videos I've seen they do NOT appear to be using their wrists. What do you think?

您的教練是黃河嗎？

You instantly lost me when you tried referencing Lars' archery. A lot of it was poorly researched.

Why u share this. Its a secret technique

Has tabletennis 11 responded pls tell me as I am getting very scared because nationals is in just 2 months.

big bad bosses, i see you have fine taste as well

great stuff as always!!! thanks for another unique advice video, im gonna apply what you said in my training today. i have one question tho, how can you use your fingers in your strokes?

It’s two different things. The coach says to fix the read for the people who uses wrist to control the angle of the ball. That’s very dangerous (not literally!). It’s impossible to be consistent when your wrist is micro adjusting the bat angle messing up your strokes. It’s fine to use the wrist in the same angle as your strokes.

i didnt gets the word hit like the cowboy what is the meaning of these?

Pls tell me