Rights & Wrongs in technique

 

We were told what is rights and wrongs in technique.

 

- like while pushing (called chop in India) not to dig too much.. that's "WRONG"

 

- while looping (only called topspin in india) not to point the racquet head up... that's "WRONG"

 

- while chopping on loops (called "deep chop" in India) not to try side spin .. that's "GRAMATICALLY INCORRECT"

 

- in fact side-spin was a big "NO NO" except for playing pen grip or serving or away from table loop-on-loop.

 

 

After coming to US... i see everybody tries out everything .. which is GREAT .. and quite a few of them are in 2000 +

 

BUt it also makes me think... what was all that grammer for? :) 

 

Let get some advise from the forum... on the techniques that you consider "faulty".

 

 

they call pushing as "cut"

 

is that really bad name for pusing..?

 

would you be able to understand when some body say "cut" for pushing..?

 

 

 

  Sorry, but this was a serve I used all the time until about 5 years ago. And my rating still got to 1900 Canadian!  I did not send it to the exact same spot on the opponent's forehand side,  but it still went cross-court. Sometimes with moderate spin on it, most of the time with very little or no spin.

 

 But it's true that strong players will quickly pick up that serve after a few initial mishandlings. And that's partly the reason I changed to a more sensible/conventional serving position, from the backhand side.  I revert to the forehand-to-forehand serve only as a sudden variation, and it can be effective.  As a sub-variation of this, I serve down the line from the forehand side to the other player's backhand. This proved to be the winning point against two fairly high level players (over 2200) recently. But no, it is not a wise regular serving tactic.