Short Pimps (4)

Short Pimps
by Gaz 19 years ago

Re: Short Pimps
by BACKHAND 19 years ago

Re: Short Pimps
by Gaz 19 years ago

Re: Short Pimps
by BACKHAND 19 years ago

Re: Short Pimps
by ricardo 19 years ago

The following message (subject: Re: Short Pimps) was posted by BACKHAND, on 11/28/2005 6:57:18 PM:

If you are playing against a chopper who is chopping hard you need to loop. This is a different shot than the one you would play with reversed rubber. Take the ball as early as possible, on the up if poss. The earlier you take it the more backspin will still be on the ball, you are then using this backspin and turning it into loop. What you are really doing is controlling the ball and keeping the incoming spin and adding a little bit more with a slightly open or almost straight bat. You are actually lifting the spin back as topspin. Against a topspin ball you can either block it flat if it has a lot of spin again the earlier the shot the better using the incoming topspin. Or take it slightly later and hit through it flat letting the pimples kill the spin. As for chopping with pips it isn't anything like long pips as they turn incoming topspin into chop by doing nothing, just letting the ball hit the bat. Chopping with short pips can be done over the table to a short chopped ball as before chop early on the up the earlier you can take it the more backspin you can achieve, get right under the ball with a fast chopping shot. The other alternative is to chop against topspin but this needs to be done away from the table slightly, depending how much sponge you have it can be a hard chop with thin sponge or more of a soft controlled chop with thick sponge. Its difficult explaining in print I could show you alot easier.

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