Training serves

Carlos Juan Asked 12 years ago

Dear Mr. Rosario and Mr. Plumb.

Last month I won second place at college table tennis championship in my city. This is a very humble tournament in a small college,   but it was very important for me.  Everybody told me that my service was the best one. This is thanks your great videos.   I won a lot of points with my serve  ( specially with my backhand serve, by disguising backspin / sidespin / topspin as you show me) and third ball attack by looping  long returns.

Now, how can I keep improving my serve?  Next summer I will practice it one hour, every day, every month.   But what should I practice?

1. Backhand serve adding long  and fast / short no spin serves? 

2. Pendulum serve   with windscreen movement to disguise sidespin direction?

3. Learning a new serve like Ma Lin ghost serve? 

4. No new serve, only the old ones,  placement  and passing the ball close to the net practicing? 

I know it´s difficult to advice me, the question is: How to use training time? I think the goals and objectives must be reasonably and accessible. This is about skills level and time to practicing. How much time takes to learn serves like ghost serve or   windscreen  pendulum  serve?. I´m worried because I supose that both  serves are very difficult and take a lot of time learning them.  May be It takes too much time, too much for me. 

Thank you very much.

Carlos.

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Carlos,