Improving my Play (Video)

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 shij421 wrote:

 pingpongpaddy wrote:

 shij421 wrote:

depending on your game, if you want to play as a mid-far distance chopper with occasion counterattacks, switching to a smooth rubber from LP is NOT a good idea.

The idea is to learn good basic technique, 

chopping,

hitting,

blocking,

pushing,

 on the bh 

THEN only Then choose whether to be an lp or sp defender

its about getting a good foundation

LP and smooth rubber are totally different in terms of spin, speed, and feel. Why not build the foundation on LP to begin with? Varghesep switched to Tackiness-C because it was the easy way to take, not because his idea was to build a good foundation. As I quote "I'm more agreesive than before because I'm confident of hitting from BH, which was impossible for me before because of the long pimples." 

Depends on your expectations too tho. If you just wanna have some fun in your club, then lp, sp, inverted, whatever, choose anything for chopping. I'm just saying that an inverted rubber will be too susceptible to spin and lack spin reversal for effective chopping at higher levels. So why not find a coach and build your chopping foundations.

Actually shij i have been an lp chopper in my time, and what I got from it is that chopping with Lp is not so difficult. What is difficult is being at home playing over the table chopping with lp or normal both sides. This is critical because to keep things tight you need to be able to push to a perfect length with either rubber. So you need good technique to achieve these things. So its a case of sacrificing some cheap wins with the lp this year, in the hope of big wins with lp later