Training serves

Table Tennis Serving

Last updated 11 years ago

Carlos Juan

Carlos Juan Asked 11 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

Alois Rosario Answered 11 years ago

Hi Carlos,

 
Congratulations on your greta result in the College Championships.  It is good to hear that you have improved your serves.  As you can see now it is such an important part of the game.
 
I would keep working on the Backhand serve and work on improving your Pendulum serve.  You don't really need too many more serves to have an effective game.  Just do as much service practice with good concentration as you can and you will find you will get even better with your serving and have more success.
 
Well done.

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Carlos Juan

Carlos Juan Posted 11 years ago

Hi Alois,
Haré lo que tú dices.
I want to ask you one more question but I ´m getting crazy trying to express myself in english, I´m sorry:
What´s about pendulum serve and fade sidespin? Windscreen movement is so difficult as it appears?
Thank you very much.
Best regards from Spain.
Carlos



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