Heading: Long-Pip training lesson

Close to table skills

The biggest advantage for Long Pips is how it chops the ball. It has a bigger advantage compared with inverted rubbers, where  you would need to control the ball and add your own spin to successfully control and  return a spinning ball.  And with your pip out rubber, it help talks away the spin, even though it doesn’t take away all the spin but it has a huge advantage over inverted rubbers. So all we need to do is to focus the control on the angle and placements of the ball.

Regarding no spin balls, the Chinese rubbers cannot add spin to a no spin ball, unlike Japanese long pips, where you can make a return a no spin ball and make it under spin. The advantage for Chinese is when the ball comes to you very spinning, it will go back more spin too, like a heavy top spin comes to you, you can return and the ball will be heavy under spin. But with Japanese and European long pips, you would need to do more to control a heavy top spin in order to return it back successfully.

This is the biggest differences with Chinese long pips and Japanese and European ones.

Back hand Flip Return

As we look at inverted rubbers, if would need to first take out the spin before returning. But with long pips, you can just aim for your angle and placement and go for the contact on the ball. That is why we will see more down the line returns. So overall there is a bigger advantage for flip returns both forehand and backhand compared to inverted.

Dropping short (short game)

Again, inverted you will need to take out the spin, add your own spin, and placement. With long pip, we just need to control the ball and aim for our desired placement as the taking out of spin is done automatically. A lot of time the disadvantage here with long pips is that it is a no spin return.

Forehand slide

The main different compared to a forehand flip is with a slide you are going from right to left and using the slide motion to overcome the underspin ball. It provides the same to a flip but a more difficult for your opponent as your placement option is more.

I am happy to show you the different ways of using long pips. This Saturday, there is a China vs Canada match, and I am happy to participate, so I wish to show you some pip outs action as you can add some variation when using pip outs

Success of LP offense close to the table relies on speed of execution (not necessarily also speed of shot, at least not at lower levels), placement, and confusing your opponent. The user has the advantage of disregarding the intensity of the incoming spin to an extent.