Practice your Table Tennis / Ping Pong Serves Anywhere
The pictures talk well
enough don't they? the 4th corner is stuck in the left of your shorts (righties).
You'll surprise yourself as you'll be able to apply the result of
that workout on the table right away. I cannot provide tips here as I am afraid
to screw up your game. So read a lot about it around the net. I can still tell you a
few obvious things though:
0) What it is about in this basic workout is
touch and feel:
Learn more about your paddle, learn more about your rubber.
1) When practicing side-topspin serves, the ball goes up and
draws a C (righties). When it comes back it follows the same path; the heavier
the spin the flatter and wider that C. The goal is to do the exact same
stroke varying the shape of that C.
2) Underspin balls comes back
faster. The heavier underspin the faster the ball comes back at
you.
3) Dead balls will climb the blanket and it's funny to
control your stroke having the ball staying still for a 1/4 second up there...:)
4) I have heard and read so many times that a serious serve
practice session does make you sweat. Also (but this is personal) I have best
results when I do the same serve a very long time and very slowly, thinking of
free arm, toss and watching the ball all the time; the mistake to go fast and
change serves often is easy to do and will frustrate you after 10
minutes.
Enjoy!
