Kenta Matsudaira's Serve

Table Tennis Serving

Last updated 11 years ago

Dilena Kulasinghe

Dilena Kulasinghe Asked 11 years ago

Hi Alois I am Dilena and I want to know how to do the backhand/reverse tomahawk serve (kenta Matsudaira style).


Jeff Plumb

Jeff Plumb Answered 11 years ago

Hi Dilena,

Here is a great video of Matsudaira performing his serves in slow motion.

http://www.mytischtennis.de/public/panorama/2257/irrer-aufschlag-kenta-matsudaira-in-zeitlupe

From this you can see that you need to bend your knees and get down low. You need to keep your bat vertical and use your wrist as much as you can. On this serve you don't have a huge range of motion with your wrist.


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Dilena Kulasinghe

Dilena Kulasinghe Posted 11 years ago

Hi Jeff I've seen that video a lot of times before, but is it possible to upload a video of you and Alois  doing the serve.

thank you


Jeff Plumb

Jeff Plumb from PingSkills Posted 11 years ago

Hi Dilena,

We get our premium members to vote on questions and we film responses based on that. If enough people vote for it we may make a video.


Dilena Kulasinghe

Dilena Kulasinghe Posted 11 years ago

ok thankyou very much for your concern jeff

 


Rahul Kumar

Rahul Kumar Posted 11 years ago

Hi jeff,

I have problems doing the reverse tomahawk. I can do the tomahawk but just cant get the bat in correct position for reverse tomahawk, I always tend to keep the bat horizontal as soon as I see the ball coming down. I start with vertical bat position but later when the time comes to strike the ball, i naturally move the bat to horizontal position. Can you help me with any tips?


Alois Rosario

Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 11 years ago

Hi Rahul,

Do it a lot of times without the ball.  When you start to practice the serve with the ball only focus on the movement of the bat.  Forget anything else including hitting the ball.  If you miss the ball a lot of times that is fine.  Eventually you will start to get the two things to happen together, swinging correctly and hitting the ball correctly.

It is a really difficult serve to master and it will take time and training.



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