What motivates someone to use short pips?

You can definitely see his opponent misreading the spin from his FH pips side. Also I get the impression that he is BH oriented player which is his inverted side. Is this so?

I think that the absolute amount of spin one gets with spinny SP is not that high compared to inverted, but relative to the speed of the ball it can be extremely high, and more importantly, it is very unpredictable and often more than people are expecting (or less).  Speaking from experience, I can often spin people off the table with my BH SP side--sometimes I am not expecting it myself, it just happens, especially when I hit down the line -- and sometimes when I try to do it on purpose my opponent overestimates the spin and blocks into the net. People who think that SP are only for fast flat hitting and blocking have never really played with the stuff for any length of time.  I have long since learned to ignore coaches who say I use SP "too much like inverted".  Watch Tang Peng for awhile and you will see he hits all kinds of shots, not just flat hitting or blocking.  And it can be effective on the forehand side too, as per the Swedish player in the clips above, or Li Jiawei.  It is always bad to be unidimensional on either side.  The one thing, though, I always think at least one side should be inverted if you are a shakehands player.

Speedplay wrote: I can now confirm that it is the Xtend PO that Mathias is using, as I got to look at his blade my self today. He uses his sp in a way I thought was impossible with sp...

what blade is mathias using?

Tinykin_2 wrote: You can definitely see his opponent misreading the spin from his FH pips side. Also I get the impression that he is BH oriented player which is his inverted side. Is this so? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvkn6IqQKZA Very nice rally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhDPE-AAKc

I think you are right that Mathias is a bh oriented player. I think I've read some where that he begun using sp on his fh since a coach told him that his fh was to weak to make it to the top level, and, his bh is really strong.

The thing that impressed me the most with his usage of his sp was his ability to get involved in mid distance rallies with it. I'm really crappy with sp, but trying to hit mid distance loops with it would be totally impossible for me.

@BBkon, sorry, I didn't look at his blade carefully enough to see which blade it was, all I know is that it was a Yasaka blade.

Mathias is currently 7-0 in the Swdish top division, which is pretty impressive.

Speedplay wrote: Tinykin_2 wrote: You can definitely see his opponent misreading the spin from his FH pips side. Also I get the impression that he is BH oriented player which is his inverted side. Is this so? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvkn6IqQKZA Very nice rally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhDPE-AAKc I think you are right that Mathias is a bh oriented player. I think I've read some where that he begun using sp on his fh since a coach told him that his fh was to weak to make it to the top level, and, his bh is really strong. The thing that impressed me the most with his usage of his sp was his ability to get involved in mid distance rallies with it. I'm really crappy with sp, but trying to hit mid distance loops with it would be totally impossible for me. @BBkon, sorry, I didn't look at his blade carefully enough to see which blade it was, all I know is that it was a Yasaka blade. pitty, but would  like to know something more about  SP players in sweden and their setups Mathias is currently 7-0 in the Swdish top division, which is pretty impressive.

I'm pretty sure He's using a Ma Lin Carbon.