Serving
Hi PingSkills,
It is easy for me to serve a fast long ball and a short slow ball. What adjustments should be made in order to serve a slow long ball and a short fast ball?
Thanks in advance...
Hi Viki,
To serve a slow long ball you can slow down the contact on the ball and get the ball to bounce a little higher over the net.
To serve a short fast ball is a little trickier. You need a good fast contact on the ball but you also need a lot of spin. A lot of topspin will bring the ball down quickly as soon as it goes over the net. This does take a lot of practice.
The best way to do it is to set up a small target just over the net and try to serve the ball as fast as possible onto that target.
We cover this in one of our Premium lessons.
The pendulum serve is the most popular serve in all of Table Tennis. In this lesson we teach you the important principles and how to vary the serve between backspin, sidespin and topspin.
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