Archive for October, 2007

A challenge for you all

Posted by Jeff Plumb on Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Serving Short with Backspin

Can you serve the ball short with backspin making it bounce twice on the table? That is step 1 of our challenge. The next step is to serve with enough backspin so the ball rolls back into the net. Check out this amazing video of Ma Lin practising his serve. If you […]

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Serve Long

Posted by Jeff Plumb on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

What we are taught
Photo courtesy of ITTF

Early on in our Table Tennis lives, we are taught to serve short so that we can stop the opponent playing an aggressive return. We are then instructed to “get in” and play a big attacking topspin ourselves. Now this is really solid advice and worth following so make […]

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