Tactics for choppers

Hey all 

I've seen many tactics to beat choppers Maybe because we are so scary so that people have to find ways to beat us Nah, just joking, I can also learn from that. But anyway, are there are any specific tactics for choppers ? I've heard '' varying spin on your chops '', this can be done on the FH side where normally people use inverted rubbers, although its not easy to change from heavy backspin to no spin all the time but it's not possible, at least you don't depend on the spin of the opponent. However on the BH, I think most choppers use Long pips, how are they able to vary the spin there ??? I mean, it's not hard to increase the spin, even the opponent just roll the ball ( nearly no spin + not much speed ), every time you chop back you can impart a little amount of backspin => everytime they loop back they will need to impart a bit more topspin so you use that topspin to increase further your amount of backspin that could be generated with your pips. But seriously, maybe you can get wobble balls with blocking and hard ox pips but spinny long pips like tsp curl then how ? Can even Joo or Matsush*ta do this ? Sometimes my opponent just loop outside some of my BH chops, I think those chops aren't spinny at all or carry very little amount of backspin but I don't really get how I did that ?

Please help me with the question.
Many thanks !

you can do a side swipe across the axis of the ball with your lp`s  that can throw your opponent off sometimes.

It depends on how fast you chop and the angle you use to chop with. A good chopper can easily create huge variation on his chops with a sponged LP, but it is a lot harder to do it with OX, since a lot of the spin comes from the sponge.

Yes ! This is exactly what I needed. Thanks guys. So basically, changing speed of your chops and the angle ? Or twiddle ( I know this but don't really want to do, it's hard to chop with fh with LP and chop with BH with inverted rubbers I dont know why :)) ) 

I just found the nice Butterfly video of the chopper. I am not sure if it has been posted. Hopefully, it would help.

TBS9x,

The Chopper is Shibutani,  he is a very famous chopper in Japan.  There is a Butterfly blade named after him that is a good chopper blade as well.

Kenny

Just to give some idea. The commentary was talking about the loop, loop drive. Moreover, how did Shibutani counter and move to keep his balance and getting ready for the next shot.

For those who are interested in see Shibutani in action, there is a video for Shibutani VERSUS Matsush*ta in Youtube somewhere. I need to search for it again. It was one of the greatest choppers battle I ever seen.

EDIT:
Found the videos
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvUDS9AOKKo

Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrw6TBe36c

I think I followed the advices and my game have improved quite a lot. But I would stick with spinny chops most of the time as it is much safer and then I just counter loop whenever its not a fast loop on my forehand or its only a slow loop or drop shop on my BH.