OOAK Table Tennis Forum

Been playing SPs for years, now switched to inverted and started looping. Question. For higher balls that I want to smash, should I spin a little or flat hit even if it's spinny?

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Smack dat a$$! Don't let your years of flat hitting skills go to waste, loop only when bounce is close to or under net height.

I'm on the fence about switching to inverted as well, but not willing to give up the spin and smash game. Inverted might just give me the attacking initiative but still keep a relatively "hitter" oriented game. Please let me know how you are adapting.

Topspin helps put the ball on the table - even a "flat" hit has some topspin. The really fast ones require more topspin to land, the logical extreme would be the loop kill (extreme speed, which requires extreme spin to land). Some of this topspin can some from the incoming topspin, of course, if you're using inverted you can get away with hitting pretty flat, since the incoming topspin gets "reflected" back. I imagine if you have short pips, you STILL have to have topspin on your hard hits, but you'd have to use a more upward stroke since the spin reflection would be a lot less.

Danny Seemiller told us to come over the ball (i.e. put a little topspin on it) when hitting against high lobs. And not to put 100% power into it (70% would be adequate). This was when we paid him to come down to our club for an evening of coaching. YMMV - other coaches might say different things.

Iskandar