Xu Xin backspin serve
Serving
Galen Corvan- Hughes Asked 13 years ago
Hi Alois, wondering how I would do the Xu Xin serve. I know its an underspin serve but you dont have any underspin lessons as far as I know. A video respone would be great.
Alois Rosario Answered 13 years ago
Hi Galen,
His backspin serve just comes straight under the ball to generate the spin. We have a lot about backspin serving in our lessons on Serving Secrets in our lessons section.
The basic principle is to contact the base of the ball and brush forward to get the ball spinning backwards. If you imagine the ball is a giant wheel and you need to get that wheel spinning backwards with your bat. You would brush the ball at he base and fast.
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Galen Corvan- Hughes Posted 12 years ago
Thanks a video response would really help because I've been trying to teach it to my cousin
Hi Galen,
We show this in our Serving Secrets Course which is available to you as a Premium Member. Take a look through it and let me know if it helps.
Galen Corvan- Hughes Posted 12 years ago
I will but It can still be difficult because xu xin very unique but your lessons are phenomenal by the way, flawless. To do a heavy backspin serve you need a spinny rubber am I right
You do need a rubber with grip. It doesn't have to be very spinny. Anything that has grip on its surface should allow you to generate enough backspin.
Galen Corvan- Hughes Posted 12 years ago
Thanks a lot Alois, I've ordered your pingskills touch bat, would it generate the backspin to come back to the net. By the way how long does it take to get here, I ordered it last Thursday
Hi Galen,
The Rook will give yo plenty of spin to make the ball come back to you. We just need to make sure the technique is good now. It usually take about 6 to 10 working days to be delivered. Hope yo enjoy it when it arrives.
Galen Corvan- Hughes Posted 12 years ago
Thanks Alois I'm sure I wil enjoy it, I forgot that it was called the rook :)
No worries.
nate s Posted 11 years ago
Xu Xins serve is odd...much easier to do with penhold. Look it up on YouTube and watch it over and over again.
Steve Soper Posted 11 years ago
Xu Xin has a strange backspin serve that I think most will find hard to emulate. His blade at point of contact almost looks flat (hitting behind the ball) and swinging downward towards the floor at high speed to get the spin. The tricky part of doing that is to keep that ball low and not float up high off the bounce. It's a tricky one.
I'd recommend following ping skills standard backspin serve tutorial where you'll most likely come more underneath the ball and hitting it thinly. Once you've mastered that, you can being to work on angling your blade even more almost hitting on the front side of the ball for some massive backspin (aka ghost serve). But again keep it low. A lot of ghost serve tutorials out there where people have high bouncing backspin serves which is a no no.