Take your standard push game before someone opens up in a rally. When pushing back & forth (I want to know if this could also be done vs a backspin serve), I've always performed my pushes with inverted roughly the same. The same motion. The same bat angle. etc.

Is anybody here experienced in taking a standard backspin ball and pushing it back with either heavy backspin or very little? Almost killing the spin? If this could be accomplished, it's a factor in my game I'd like to practice.

I've seen an old, but very good, penholder at my club who can put on an extraordinary amount of backspin in his pushes. Always takes me a couple of strokes vs him to adapt it's that heavy. His stroke is short, aggressive and it looks like he's hitting the back to lower part of the ball pretty aggressively. These are typically long pushes. That much makes sense. 

But what about killing the spin? Is that possible? Would my blade be more flat (vs open) blade angle and with a forward and slightly downward movement? Would that work? Or would I just be more likely to push those balls in the net... I have a friend who claims to be able on pushes to slightly lift under the push (vs brushing under it & forward) almost like scouping it which he says varies the spin but I haven't tried myself. 

Okay enough rambling from me. Any tips or advice someone might have I would appreciate.

So suppose you serve heavy underspin short to the middle of the table. He always takes the ball very early after the bounce. (It's not a dropshot for those who are wondering.)  He can essentially remove the incoming spin.

You expect decent underspin because the ball stays low, slow and fairly short (may double bounce), but it's actually almost no spin. BUT, on the early push, he can also push long; however, now it can be very spinny. Or he can bump the ball into the corner, again no spin.

His push is effective because he takes the ball very early and sudden (very short stroke). Because it's a quick stroke, it's hard to spot. He can push long or short, heavy or no spin. It's nasty because he has the loop to follow it if you make a tentative or safe return.

So the other day I was asking a pro about this guy's push (vs.mine). And the pro confirmed this type of variation is very possible with the early push. But it's not easy to learn for adults. IMHO, timing is difficult; though he seems to have no trouble doing it (childhood professional training). His footwork is also clearly taught from childhood.

Yes.  I probably have at least three different kinds of "pushes".  I'm not sure that describing what I do would be particularly valuable since I play with hardbat.

I have some balls I've colored for service practice. They allow me to see the spin. Well they were great for this exercise. Put them in the robot vs backspin.

Practiced pushing hard or aggressively and those did produce a lot of backspin. Other times I would try to take the ball shortly after the bounce and almost try to scoup it or lift it. Basically hit under the ball without much forward punching momentum. Sometimes i would get a ball with very very little backspin (yes!) and other times I would say they would have more normal amount of backspin in what i'd expect from a push (?). I couldn't determine what I was doing differently in the two strokes. I suppose both versions would be less backspin from the aggressive push if that's anything. But I haven't figured it out yet.

Now this isn't available to duel inverted players but if I twiddle to my LPs and then push the ball, that absolutely kills the spin and it's pretty much knuckle.

This was a nice revelation as if you ever follow any penhold close to the table LP players, or any shakehand LP chop-blockers for example, they all pretty much always attack backspin balls with a very flat forward and slightly upward motion thus giving the opponent a topspin ball. I've tried to always follow this pattern with LPs. Chop-block topsin. Aggressive attack backspin balls... Now knowing I can push a backspin ball with the LPs to kill the spin (knuckle) will be a nice addition.