I have a video of me playing on my utube
I play like I play tennis though...
http://www.youtube.com/user/JustaNiceGuy333
I can tell your a tennis player using more arm then wrist.
I have a video of me playing on my utube
I play like I play tennis though...
http://www.youtube.com/user/JustaNiceGuy333
yes, i finished 2nd in my univ's tourny last year. I use a butterfly senshu paddle
i wish i had the amazing 1hbh i have in tabletennis in my real tennis game (2 hbh in real tennis)
Its fine I don't play ping pong tourneys. The fact that I use a two hand backhand and a semi western grip makes me very vulnerable. And yes I hate short balls in ping pong and I didn't whiff the ball it hit my hand.You do realize you're standing too tall, you only hit easy medium speed forehands, and you move back on lots of your easy forehands. Oh, YOUR forehand are fine, it's the incoming shot from your practice partner that is "medium" speed.
A smart player would slice short to your forehand, keeping it short of the table, and play your backhand much more often. He would test your slice forehand, and your defensive abilities by probing short to your forehand, then deep to your backhand, and it appears, hit lots of balls right into your right hip pocket, which you take too casually and seem to completely whiff on a few.
Not knocking your table tennis skills, as you would beat most players here, but have no chance against any of the tournament test players.
or rotation? don't want to be too wristy and hurt myself
But you still rally very well.
The goal in competitive table tennis is to force your opponent to give up a medium deep, 9" high ball so you can smash it, forcing him to move back and defend. Oh, that was the goal in 1964, the last tourney I played, semis in Men's Open, SanFrancisco Chinatown.
You do this by slicing a very short, spinny serve that bounces and dies 3" off the table, well INSIDE the table, forcing your opponent to slice upwards over the net, so you both keep slicing short until one of you gives up that deeper higher ball, which immediately get's whacked with topspin into the weaker side (of the opponent), then the smashes begin.
I think that's still the methodology today.
^^^lol luckily I haven't played that version of the game yet
Love TT... used to play a lot before getting the hang of tennis
One of the reasons I cant hit a true flat forehand is because of my loopy topspin from TT
okay.. question for all you ping pong fans...
we know how tennis has changed lately... string technology, modern strokes, player athleticism, etc..
now, how has ping pong changed lately (apart from player athleticism)?