- #Best forehand loop in table tennis pro how to#
- #Best forehand loop in table tennis pro professional#
So you just get these super heavy back spin heavy balls going into your forehand and its going to be really difficult to spin those up.īut once you’ve got the hang of that, once you’re able to play a proper forehand loop and generate the topspin to turn that heavy back spin into top spin and get the ball back over the net, then you should be able to apply that to all the different shots in your game. Robots tend to, well the older fashioned ones, have only one level of spin – super spin. What you could do is if you’ve got a robot at home, or at your club, you could set it up just to feed heavy back spin balls into your forehand and you can practice trying to open those up with a forehand loop.
#Best forehand loop in table tennis pro how to#
The first one is to use heavy back spin balls to teach how to generate heavy topspin. I have got a couple here and I would like to share them with you. Now one way that you can learn to add more spin to your shots is to use different drills and different situations that coaches have up their sleeve that they like to bring out to teach the generation of spin. That’s why it’s better to have spin as the main thing you are thinking about. But if you’re going for power, you often forget to add the spin. So if you’re going for spin, it’s quite easy to add power.
Whereas if you focus on really heavy spin on your big shots, even on your forehand and smashes, you can quite easily add power AND spin to them. The focus is just “I want to cream this ball really hard”, and chances are you’re just going to end up hitting the ball flat. One thing to remember is that if in your mind you’re just thinking about hitting the ball as hard as possible all of the time, with all of your shots, you’re probably not going to get much spin. Once you’ve got it then you’re going to be able to apply that to all different areas of your game. It’s just about learning how to contact the ball correctly to maximize the spin. There’s loads of ways of going about it and that whole thing is not just about your forehand loop, its on all the strokes and all the serves. Some coaches will go for the “Relax the arm and use your arm like a whip” so that you’re able to generate more spin that way, instead of being all tense and hitting stiff and flat. So the idea is that you need to be brushing with fine contact on the ball instead of hitting through the ball and following through.
Technically if we are thinking about how spin is generated in table tennis you might hear things like “Brush the ball, don’t hit the ball”. The question that we really have is HOW? How can you add more spin? Its no good just constantly saying “You need to add more spin!” because players know they need to do it, but how can we do it? They see this as being one of the key problems causing people to have all these unforced errors and to miss shots they should be getting on the table. Sometimes we are just hitting the ball way too flat, without spin.Ĭoaches are able to pick up on this when they are watching us, so often you will hear them saying “More spin! You need to get down! You need to brush more! You need to get more spin on your shots!”. When it comes to the rest of us that’s not always the case.
#Best forehand loop in table tennis pro professional#
If you watch professional table tennis players practically every shot they play will be a heavy spin shot, even the hard and powerful ones. Loads of coaches tell their players they need to spin more. Do you have any suggestions to get spin on the forehand loop?” “My coach says I need to spin my forehand loop more. Today’s question comes from Bruce and is all about adding spin to your forehand loop. This is episode 24 of the Ask a Table Tennis Coach podcast.