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Simon_plays
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Posted: 10/02/2017 at 3:37am |
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What short advice would you give to a beginner who hasn't played against long pips before that is about to face a relatively low level LP player for the first time?
My ideas were: 1 - Play to their LPs, they have LPs on that side because they're weaker on that side. Watch the ball closely as it comes back, your top spin will probably come back as weak back spin. Don't be afraid of the spin and make sure to still swing through the ball with good racket speed. Treat the game as a learning exercise and don't worry about missing. 2- Avoid their LPs as the spin will be confusing, when you do get a ball back from the LP side just remember that the spin will be the opposite of what you gave them. So after a top spin you'll get back spin which you can easily push back. If you push to their LP side you'll get back top spin which you can drive/ loop easily. 3- Don't think about the LPs, just watch the rotation of the ball and play normally.
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henningf
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Is this player twiddeling? I would say, If you hit into the long pips remember, topspin = spin reversal, underspin = no spin/weak topspin. And try to learn and play a «normal» game. Try to not get frustrated (many players loose their first match against weak lp users because they get frustrated.)
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Simon_plays
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I don't think they're twiddling but haven't actually seen the player. The not getting frustrated part seems sound
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if you are beginner, dont even think of looping. Open bat fully and play only with no spin.
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Serve as fast as you can topspin across court to his long pips corner, if weak, do it over and over until he learns how to handle it then stop doing it. |
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Everyone is different - what helped me was option 1. I spent a long time thinking about what was physically happening to the ball and I gained a lot of confidence for picking the right ball to attack. And of course, when you work out how to generate the type of return you know you can attack by playing into the pips, the confusion is over and they become a real weak point for the opponent.
But some players don't like to think too much about this - some would say that it's over-analysing, and a raw beginner won't grasp the basics of spin reversal without decent table time against it - so this doesn't work for everyone. So simpler strategy seems to work better for them when advising during a match. At my level, the worst habit to get in to is pushing "backspin" into the pips more than once. The first push comes back as empty or light topspin, the second push pops up, and the pips player is probably already moving around to hit with their reverse rubber. So don't push twice into pips, but be prepared to push a pips return off your loop because they can come back loaded with backspin (obvs). Once you grasp the basics of how individual points tend to go, you can start to plan ahead and work the pips to your advantage.
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+1 if your goal is to win. If you just want to learn what LP does then experiment and lose. |
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Unfortunately the best way to beat LP players is looping consistently, but as said, a beginner is not able to do that.
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Best advice for playing against LP?
Play against LP a lot! You will then figure out what you can and can't do. Just know that you will never get a ball with much topspin on it from that side.
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LPs cannot create spin, at best it can reverse it, with some players, they just take spin off the ball.
So if playing to the LPs - if you can play low spin, you will receive low spin or no spin in return. If you are getting better at reading spin, and the player has reversal capabilities, then, you can use spin to make a predictable come back (i.e. - if you push heavy, you will basically receive a topspin loop back, even though the player has a downward motion). However, with a skilled LP player, the heavy downspin ball is his favorite for attacking, because, if he reverses, he is hitting a ball that is pulling down to the table, so he can hit with impunity effectively. Lower skilled LP players just take spin off the ball, basically hitting change-ups, not fully utilizing capabilities. That can be challenging also, because the spin variation is great. Can be easy for an advanced player, can be a nightmare for a beginner. :)
Edited by in2spin - 10/02/2017 at 11:06am |
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Never serve sidespin into LP's. Serve heavy backspin into the pips and attack their return. Try to end the rallies as quick as you can. Long rallies favor the LP's.
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serve long no spin to the pips side deep backhand. Se what your opponent does with that. it will probably be something you can smash
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this is a good approach , if for example you want spin reversal then heavy back spin to my pimples and for me as a long pimple player i tend to push to return the ball which can then be attacked by my opponent note to myself roll the ball
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================= What you mean by "roll the ball"?
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good points
Edited by ssmilk - 10/02/2017 at 10:19pm |
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koshkin
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This sorta depends on how you like playing and whether the long pips player is a chopper or a pushblocker (and obviously, how good they are at that).
My best shot is loop off of underspin so against choppers I prefer to start with a topspin serve into the pips and a loop into the pips as as a third ball. The more underspin comes back the more topspin I can apply, so typically I want to loop once or twice into the pips and then loop the next shot into the inverted side. By that point, the ball is extremely heavy and it is hard to the combination player to control it with the inverted side. The same basic strategy typically works against pushblockers and choppers, but there is a difference in placement. Against a chopper, I move the ball in an out quite a bit. Against a pushblocker, I want to place everything very deep. Otherwise, you will be dealing with some crazy angles. With the pushblocker, I want to get him away from the table, while with a chopper I want him to move in and out. If that basic strategy (engineer a heavy underspin return and loop to the inverted side) does not work, I switch gears and serve heavy underspin, moving it along the table. Here things are trickier since the ball comes back as light topspin from frictionless pips, but can be anything from no-spin to top-spin from friction pips. I do not have a good FH hit or smash, but I can hit flat pretty well off of the BH side, so I try to maneuver the ball toward that. On the serve return, it really varies since everyone plays differently. Better combination players will try to immediately initiate with heavy sidespin and wide angles. In that case, I mostly try to return the ball deep to the center of the table. That takes angles away and I can try to get into one of the two strategies I outlines above. ILya
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A good pushblocker (such as The Pushblocker) can put the ball back very quickly, to uncomfortable locations. Looping repeatedly against those players is very difficult, even for strong players. A good strategy in that case is to alternate push-loop-push-loop. The most important thing about playing pips is not to get surprised. You want to feed them hits (top/dead/under spin) that give you something reliable back. You want to place the ball where they can't surprise you with the return placement. You want to have time to hit multiple shots in a row. Well, besides not getting surprised, the other "most important thing" is to be patient.
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koshkin
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I have played Pushblocker and he, predictably, wiped the floor with me. He is, however, a much higher rated player, so it should be no surprise.
With long pi players closer to my general playing level (1800ish or so) I usually do not have those issues as they can not place the ball as well as Oliver can. Most importantly, they usually do not have serves nearly as good as Oliver's. His serves gave me a lot of trouble since it was very difficult to control the placement of the return. Perhaps most importantly, in the years since I played Oliver, I spent a few months practicing almost exclusively against long pip and medium pip players. That was really helpful and I most definitely do not surprised by what I get back from combination players. I am sure Pushblocker will still beat me handily if we play again, but I will make him work harder than last time. ILya
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+1
I've only played him once, non-rated. My experience was that his serves bothered me a lot more than his pushblocking. |
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Make sure he reads and understand this article:
http://www.gregsttpages.com/articles3/53-articles/long-pimples/87-long-pimples-for-beginners Then just practise a lot against players with LP. Not all play the same.
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