shifting weight

ok for fh:
start with weight on back foot and finish with weight on front foot. Try it hitting gently against a block at first. Its that simple.

pingpongpaddy wrote: ok for fh: start with weight on back foot and finish with weight on front foot. Try it hitting gently against a block at first. Its that simple.

uhm no, you should never ever have your weight on back foot. Have the weight on middle of the foot (not deadcentre, but slightly frontwards), then shift it to front foot as make contact.

well, I'm more or less fluent in english, but I have no idea what the different terms are for TT, since I havent really talked about TT in english much before.

The only thing I was trying to point out was, that I interpreted what pingpongpaddy said, as if he said that weight should be on the back of the foot, aka the heels, which is wrong.

But I dunno, im not good at explaining in english, since im used to either visualizing in practise, or talking about it in either my native language or in Danish (which is where our national coach is from)....

http://tabletennis.about.com/od/basicstrokes/a/basicstrokes_ov.htm

Would rather comment, then be corrected if im wrong, than having to read long articles telling me what I already know how to do + explain in my own language.

@axis
For backhand you need to have your feet parallel, but if you are looping cross court from BH corner, you need to be facing in the direction you are shooting, so your left foot should be a bit infront of the right one.
So in principle your feet should be parallel, but you need to be facing in the direction you are shooting.
When looping BH, its crucial that you bend in your knees, and your upper body should be leaning a bit forwards, then as you execute the loop you "stretch out" the legs (not to fully stretched obviously), and open up your body. Be careful that you dont end the loop leaning backwards tho

I practically never chop in matches, so cant tell you the correct technique for that

ok Axis

I am deliberately trying to keep this explanation to the minimum because really using words to explain something
thats best best understood by watching is difficult.

For both forehand attack and forehand chop for a righthander:

open stance (means one foot advanced, but you should only be partially sideways to the incoming ball)

Start with the weight on the backfoot and move your body and arm forward as you make the stroke. Contact with the ball should be at highest point when attacking, but you should let it fall a bit when chopping.
When chopping as well as going forward your weight should be going downward as you bend your knees.
Similarly for topspin the weight may need to go up as well as forward, again assisted by the knees.
Its important to emphasize that correct technique means using your entire body no matter how gentle your stroke.
If you watch a good player just playing gently you cansee the weight moving from back to front and back again,all the time even though it may only be a tiny amount.