Playing a chopper

I am lucky,  I have a practice partner that will chop for 15 to 30 minutes every time we play.   After a while you get pretty good getting balls back with either hand.  One thing my practice partner says is very effective is hitting the ball with a lot of spin so that it practically falls low off the opponent's side of the table.   Couple this with side to side placement and the chopper gets tired quickly.  Of course a few good strong returns helps but I find that I must put a lot of my swing in to upwards motion rather than forward motion.

Hitting the ball so it lands near the edge of the table on your opponent side.  So it will bounce 'deeper' into their territory and they have to move away from the table to get the ball.

Loop the crap out of them and give them short balls sometimes and also place the ball in different places.

One to the right one to the left and down to the line is not the most ideal tactic.

If you power loop one down the line (regardless of direction) you can almost certain a faster return with more possibility of heavy spin. Changing direction become incredibly difficult. It can create more mistake from attacker's point of view.

If you don't power loop down the line (trying to spin loop it down the line) it's almost certain the ball is gonna run high for a chance of counter loop smash.

Neither is good idea.

What you really should be doing is loop the same side and force chopper stick on one side longer and wait for a slight mistake from them and power drive the totally opposite direction.

Or

loop toward the body of the chopper creates more problem for chopper, especially if it is very close to the end of the table.

personally, one shot kill the point is better way!  

Of course killing it in 1 shot works!

Edited by longreachlooper - 08/16/2013 at 9:27am

When playing a chopper variation is key. Choppers like to get into a rhythm. Make sure you always loop the ball into different areas and mix pushes. If the chopper doesn't attack give him long topspin serves which when returned give you a long ball which can be looped. When playing a chopper its all about being more consistent then him. 

If a two winged chopper, then x the table with slow loops and mix in pushes, until you can put one away.

First, return the choppers serve !

asifgunz wrote: how I play is loop, (let the person chop), push, they either push back or add a lil wrist action to cut it back, loop again and switch between loop and push. Pushing is super underrated. a well placed push puts your opponent into loosing balance, leads to your advantage.

I generally give choppers a short float/topspin serve though it must be hard to read to fool them. They'll try to give a heavy chop push back and if I gave them float, they send off the end of the table and if I gave them topspin the ball pops up and bam I can smash it. But you do have to mix this up with the odd fast serve either into their body or wide so it's hard for them to chop it. If you find yourself stuck in a loop to chop to loop to chop rally, give them the best angles you can, mix it up. If they're in a rhythm or far back from the table give them a short push and if they manage to get that back, it will generally be a weak return so you can either repeat the process - giving them angles until they break down - or you can take a risk and try to drive/loop the ball past them to finish the point.

LOFTY ARCHED LOOPS...

XuXin versus JooSeHyuk,
2014 Asian Games men's single SF,

THIS is to prove in all evidence that no defender, however good he may be, could combat against topspin play.
The lofty arched loops, as Xuxin have succesfully used in the match so oftentimes is the best effective play to destroy chopper.

Doing those 'Lofty Arched Loops' will take you a lot of skill and may exhaust your breath entirely, be aware!!

+1 APW46 

Relax.......take it easy....don't over do it.

Edited by longreachlooper - 01/22/2015 at 11:00am

A small point: the more spin you give, the more spin youll get back. Alter it constantly if you can, kill the ones.