Easiest Backspin Serve For a Rookie
Table Tennis Serving
Last updated 6 years ago
Royal Singh Asked 10 years ago
Hello,Sir I wanna learn the easiest backspin serve for a rookie.any ideas.
Alois Rosario Answered 10 years ago
Hi,
Start by focusing on brushing under the ball. This will get the ball spinning backwards with backspin. Once you understand this contact you will be able to learn a lot of backspin serves.
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Grenville Pereira Posted 10 years ago
Hi Alois
I noticed that when you do the backspin , the action looks like you are not putting a lot of backspin , yet the ball stops and comes back slightly.
When I do the backspin serve , the ball skids through. I would like to how to get the ball to stop , just to have another variation
to my serves and making the serve as short as possible.
Thanks
Regards
Grenville
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 10 years ago
One thing is to slow the ball down. This will help the ball to stop. Also contacting the ball finer and more at the base will help.
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 10 years ago
Try to brush the ball more at the bottom rather than between the back and base.
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
Thanks
Abhinav Upadhyay Posted 10 years ago
Hey Alois,
I think I get enough brushing on the ball, but I can't seem to get the ball to come back after it bounces the second time on the other side. Although if I try to do the same in a free space, without the table, it does. I see in the video that you are not even trying to do too much with the ball and yet it stops and comes back. Does the difference in the quality of bats can be a factor? I am using the PingSkills Rook at the moment.
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 10 years ago
Hi Abhinav,
The PingSkills Rook will allow you to get enough backspin.
Try tilting your bat even further back so it feels like it is facing behind you. It doesn’t require much effort at all, it is all about getting the angle right. Often when we swing through to hit the ball the angle of the bat changes to becoming more vertical. See if you can even film yourself doing it so that you can check this.
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
Hey Alois, I just have two last questions to ask about the backspin serve. How should I tilt my wrist when doing the backspin serve and how should I follow through?
Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 10 years ago
You need to turn your whole forearm backwards and keep you wrist relaxed. The relaxed wrist will allow your wrist to swing back and forward freely.
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
What do you mean turn your whole arm backwards?
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
And Alois, how should I follow through?
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
Please answer; I have a match coming up soon.
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
Should I follow through with my backspin serve? If yes, then how should I do it?
Ayesha Noon Posted 10 years ago
Oh. Now I see what you mean.
Dieter Verhofstadt Posted 8 years ago
Here's another one of your great comments that keep it simple and do away with popular myth. There's really no way to hit the ball twice in any legal fashion, so coming through in a curved line doesn't make any sense. Still there are coaches who suggest that you should move the bat up at the end of the stroke to generate extra backspin, whatever that may mean.
Straight lines, I like it!
kathy mckelvey Posted 6 years ago
Thank's for the video's!!