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I should start putting up some videos of my hilarious confrontations but that will come shortly and other guys at the clubs will do that short of thing much better but anyways, I played my first penhold LP opponent today and it was to say the least, interesting.

About myself, I have no rating, but I have won my division during houseleague and I estimate that they are sub 1K. For comparison, my club's division 1 has many 2000+ CAN players, like day and night, so I would modestly put myself at 1K+...

The old guy plays a lot like one of our OOAK members in this video:



My question is about strategies to use against an aggressive LP penholder who attacks by hitting or aggressively pushes passive balls from my own lp on my backhand as I play pushblocker style like our own pushblocker.

I find that he successfully used a fast low serve to my weak area, the chicken wing bh corner. I ended up lifting them after several early netted balls.

Also i found that this LP penholder was able to take control of the nospin rallies by using quick pushes or hits. I believe he also stroked over the ball and had me going left and right, side to side. After losing several rallies I started getting used to the no spin rallies and get put the ball back into play which started getting me some points. Then other things I did were:

Playing with my pips on the fh and using my bh to loop. Not bad but kinda risky but I made most of my loops.
The other thing that was really effective was lifting the ball higher out of his comfort zone...that got me tonnes of points and really piz him off

So does anyone know of other strategies to use against LP penolders if you play pushblocker style?

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I should have added this as an edit...

As others have stated before, pips are unforgiving if you direct the ball away from the body. That worked pretty well as well as I served away from his fh and got him to start moving away from hiscomfort zone which was in the middle and leaning in...

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