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LTT77 is great! What I notice is that at club level even if the ball is genuinely short, it is often high enough to be forehand-loopable. However, often during the first matches of a tournament I am seriously afraid of looping the long serves due to possible spin misreading mistakes. I have to constantly hammer my mind to change this attitude and usually relax in next games/matches.

LTT71 also makes a great advice for coaching friends during the tournaments. I saw momentum shifting in matches when people started looping half-long serves. And watch the last point of this match (15:47). Ok, I am done with posting videos of pros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyHGtcIHGZw

Being aggressive against serves is an important step. If you get good enough at it, you'll move up to play opponents who can actually serve short sometimes.

This video demonstrates the importance of having a coach/multiball feeder/flexible training partner.

In China, for example, they have lots of coaches and trainers feeding balls to current players. This makes an enormous difference as you can practice the things you really need to win matches. If NL had someone feeding high, slow, spinny topspins all day, we wouldn't be having this conversation. It's just super difficult to find this type of training in a club environment. Then it suddenly becomes a technical question rather than a training issue.

Say we make a DTT video with the trainer spinning up high loops and the player countering them, who is going to do this for you in the club?

Need a video and drills on how to attack high slow spinny topspins. I keep hitting them long if I take them late and I am almost compelled to take them late.

After tonight's league I notice one thing. I often struggle to loop long (or half long serves) because it takes me a lot of time to figure out the spin. What happens: the opponent serves, I am confused by the spin, I take a closer look at the ball, look and look again, then realize what is on the ball. After that I decide to loop, but it is too late, I am in panic, so I decide to push/chop the serve which inevitably goes long (most of the time on the table though). Maybe I should let the ball drop more and spin the falling ball. Or it will just get better with time.

What kind of serve pattern of the four from LTT75 it is?

. Can I make an ETTS video with your footage to show you exactly what I mean?

Go ahead. Just one question: is it the amount of effort I should put in the serve in a match under pressure? I feel like I need to slow it down by at least to 30% to keep the ball low. If I use the same effort, the ball usually bounces too high that gives my opponent an opportunity for a very sharp push that I hate.