Ping Pong Equipment

Clips accompanying Wei Wang’s articles in USATT magazine – January 2008: The Inside-Out Serve

Here are some close ups from Wang Jian Jun’s serve. I will also go to the WTTC 2011 in Rotterdam, so I’ll hope to make also these kind of videos from other players. Table Tennis

In table tennis, your service can be a point in itself. You call this point as a service ace. But this can only happen when your opponent lacks the skill in receiving services. But when your opponent is not that type of player, your service still does not decline in its value. It can design the phase and the nature of a rally point. The stronger your services are, the harder it is for your opponent to control the rally point. You can predict the succeeding rally by putting a certain kind of spin on the ball upon service. When you put a certain spin on the ball, you are limiting the kind of return that your opponent can give to you. Hence, it is a necessary skill to know how to vary your service effectively so you can execute more game plans.

As your game phase leader, you must work on your service. You need to learn how to vary your service. More importantly, you ought to learn the techniques on how to bring more spin unto it. To do this, the big secret lies on your kind of service grips. In table tennis, your service grip can be your standard spinning grip. It can be two fingered grip only. Lastly, it can be a grip with the combination of all your fingers.

The paddling grip: This is the kind of grip that you use when you spin the ball. You don’t change your grip when you spin the ball and when you serve the ball. There are no changes. This is the most convenient grip to use. However convenient, this is the grip that is hardly being used by master table tennis players. This style does not allow a massive movement of the wrist. When you limit your wrist movement in serving, the spin that you can introduce to the ball is also limited.

Index-thumb grip: This is the most effective style when you want make your service stronger. This grip allows greater wrist movement. The wrist flexibility that you can make use in this kind of grip is also the grip’s disadvantage. But it is not a necessary disadvantage. It is a problem when you have a poor ability to control your wrist. Because of an opportunity for wrist flexibility, your hand can do a lot of movement. Some of them might be necessary ones and some of them might be erroneous ones. You call these erroneous movements as extra movements. These are the types of movements that are not standard in executing a skill. Then they appear to be additional movements. These movements cause errors. In the service line, erroneous wrist actions cause service errors. We must remember that table-tennis is a consistency game. Thus, most of the tine you must adhere to your standard form.

The unfastened grip: This grip is allows its user to have control and wrist movement at the same time. The grip has a room for more wrist movement than in the paddling grip. It also limits your wrist more than the index-thumb grip can. If you have a little to practice the index-thumb grip, this is highly recommendable.

Table tennis stunts and grips are best demonstrated in instructional ping pong videos. These instructional videos do not only aid your imaginations as they demonstrate the right kind of posture and stunts. They also try to make you understand the science of ping pong.

Part 2: length of serve, speed of serve and where the ball should land on the servers side of the table. Part 2 of a 4 part series. Serving today is an extremely complicated topic. This series of 4 videos explains and demonstrates 9 points which Jim Clegg feels all table tennis players should think about before they serve the ball.

Pt4 how to make your opponent return your serve to where you want them to. Part 4 of a 4 part series. Serving today is an extremely complicated topic. This series of 4 videos explains and demonstrates 9 points which Jim Clegg feels all table tennis players should think about before they serve the ball.

This online Table Tennis Lesson teaches you where to serve and why. Placement is crucial to an effective serve