Serving
Serving
Frank Hillier Asked 13 years ago
i notice on nearly all serving tutorials not enough information is given to the first bounce on the servers side of the table
Alois Rosario Answered 13 years ago
Hi Frank,
I think most serves you can bounce the ball close to you on your side of the table. For the fast serves it needs to be really close to your endline. For a short serve just inside your own endline.
Is this where you get the ball to bounce?
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Frank Hillier Posted 13 years ago
on your wonderfull serves on serving secrets revealed your first bounce looked further in which is more difficult especially if it has no backspin
Hi Frank,
It can be a little further in if the serve is slower but for a faster serve it needs to be closer to you.
Rory Scott Posted 12 years ago
I think of the table as a mirror in that the ball tends to bounce an equal distance away from the net on both sides of the table. If you want a long fast serve the ball needs to bounce near both ends of the table, if you want a very short serve (3 bounces or more), you need the ball to bounce near the net on both sides of the tables & if you want a short serve (2 bounces with 2nd bounce near the end of the table) or a half long serve (with the 2nd 'bounce' just missing the end of the table) the bounce is half way between the end of the table & the net on both sides of the table.
By the way Alois, what do you call the serve where the 2nd 'bounce' just misses the table? I know you use half long to mean a 2 bounce serve.