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Basquests ![]() Super Member ![]() Joined: 08/29/2016 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 325 |
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Yep. Attaining good quality backspin on a topspin/sidetopspin is the ultimate test of whether your technique is resilient. If you can overpower the topspin, you can make a heavy push out of backspin / no spin. From many experiments not only have I experimented on my self, but on opponents. In push to push drills, many players even if you tell them you are serving no spin or topspin, do not do anything but a soft push that results in the ball popping up. With these players, unless they are receptive to being taught, you have to serve decently spinny backspin in order to practice your pushing. Now using FH Short pips, I can push with no spin or heavy backspin, but it requires good technique, bat angle and good acceleration in order to do the latter - I am glad to have learned the right fundamentals with receiving all sorts of spins with a push, because with FH pips, now you have so much control. If your technique is very solid, I find the demands on timing become less. With short pips, this benefit of having good technique and being firm is even greater.
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blahness ![]() Premier Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 10/18/2009 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 4074 |
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+1. I would add something I recently learnt which increased the quality of my push immensely - treating the push as a whole body movement. Rather than using your forearm/wrist to spin the ball, you rotate into it and throw your body weight at the ball. It's a very subtle movement, but if you look at the best pros they all do it. Same goes for the FH flick, and all serves. If you do this well, most players who do not use their body well would not be able to loop your pushes.
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Basquests ![]() Super Member ![]() Joined: 08/29/2016 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 325 |
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Yeah for sure, I personally started doing that when I looked at a tennis slice / pros slicing in tennis, and looked to that for inspiration in vastly improving my pushing technique. You can also just look at a long pimple defender and how they 'chop.' Both of these subsets of players put a big chunk of their body's levers into their pushes, just like any good player will put a lot of their body into generating more racquet head speed for their loop. Any shot intent on generating high amounts of spin will benefit from generating racquet head speed, which is then converted into either spin or speed in some ratio. To generate more racquet head speed, you must use more than just your arm/wrist. |
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icontek ![]() Premier Member ![]() ![]() This is FPS Doug Joined: 10/31/2006 Location: Maine, US Status: Offline Points: 5172 |
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So you're recommending developing an advanced push technique.
If you have decent footwork, and the push is coming from your feet and core, this might not be a huge stretch. But the push is still best learned as reversing underspin, before you moving on to develop the touch to continue topspin...
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blahness ![]() Premier Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 10/18/2009 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 4074 |
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OP is an advanced player, and a more advanced push technique would probably have huge benefits for his game. I wish I had OPs speed and reactions and defense, he is such a fast player! Edited by blahness - 12/27/2020 at 7:48am |
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bars ![]() Super Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 04/07/2017 Location: EZ Status: Offline Points: 154 |
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take a step back when hes opening. it would be easier to return
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tommyzai ![]() Premier Member ![]() ![]() Senior Animator Joined: 02/17/2007 Location: Prescott AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 9184 |
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Don't let him/her play back . . . keep 'em close to the table . . . can't power loop over table. ;-)
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