Short heavy backspin backhand serve

Table Tennis Serving

Last updated 11 years ago

Lukasz Drazdzewski

Lukasz Drazdzewski Asked 11 years ago

I have trouble generating heavy backspin on my short backhand serve, ie getting ball to come back on the table. I can get decent topspin and side spin, and can generate heavy backspin on my FH serve, but cannot do this on BH. Any hints? A video would be great. 


Alois Rosario

Alois Rosario Answered 11 years ago

Hi Lukasz,

The backhand is harder to generate spin with because you are using your wrist in a sideways action.  You really need to flick your wrist through to get more spin on this and really brush under the ball.  

To get it to come back you can hit the ball will less forward momentum so it will grip the table easier and come back, but this is not really generating any more spin, it just looks better.


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Lukasz Drazdzewski

Lukasz Drazdzewski Posted 11 years ago

very helpful, especially the looking great bit


Alois Rosario

Alois Rosario from PingSkills Posted 11 years ago

No problems Lukasz.  Let me know how it progresses.



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