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Stefan Liew
Stefan Liew Asked 14 years ago

Hi Pingskills,

Whenever I watch table tennis matches, I always notice how those good players do a short cutting action and manage to serve with a heavy spin. But whenever I do it, I am not able to generate as heavy spin as the professional players do, and sometimes not even any spin. How am I supposed to practice/learn the brushing action that you always talk about? I can't generate much spin every time.


Alois Rosario
Member Badge Alois Rosario Answered 14 years ago

Hi Stefan,

You know my first advice is gooing to be, more practice.

This can be a frustrating thing to learn.  First try to do this away from the table by spinning the ball on the floor and seeing if you can get it to cme back to you or curve.  You can see this demonstrated in our Serving Secrets Revealed DVD.

By doing this you will start to get a better feel of the contact that you require to get spin.

If you can get a copy of Serving Secrets Revealed DVD because it will help you with other areas of serving as well.


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