This guy is completely amazing, the way he teaches it and the perfectly timed edits of the video, showing what he is just saying whit a real game on the screen. 10/10
Even 6 year old ones are starting to disguise their servers and use the same movement for top, side and underspin. Just the moment of impact will differ, while the movement can stay the same, so the expansion her was really very good. I like how he add more options for the return at the end of video, but it felt quite a bit oversimplifying first. just to give options in the end. Still, you are right over all pretty good and straight forward explanation.
This is brilliant. Many newer players don't realize that sidespin has to be combined with another spin to be truly effective off the bounce. You can spin a basketball on your finger and it will go nowhere, yeah? The same reason why you need to put sidespin on an "axis" of sorts. Pay more attention to what kind of sidespin than the actual sidespin, and your life will be much easier.
I've not played TT in decades, but these vids are motivating me to get back into the swing (as it were!). Great advice, can't understand why anyone would give it a thumbs down! Many thanks. 👍
Returning spin serves is really hard and tough job to do. You never know what direction your opponent spin serves. I think it is all about playing more with pro athletes. I lost most of my important games only because of not properly returning the spin serves and it caused me lots of trouble and confusion. Cheers for sharing the secrets. I asked most of the best players and even coaches on how to return spin serves properly and smoothly. They never shared it and always reluctant towards it. Now I have cleared all my confusion and start practicing tips you have just mentioned. I hope it works out. I appreciate that. Welldone!
What's harder is returning them well with offensive push, an offensive drive, a lift or a top spin. It is so important to prevent the 3 rd shot finisher.
You need to return the serve on the table in a way the opponent cannot finish the point on the 3 rd shot which is exactly what a good player is trying to do. The goal of the serve is not exactly to win without a return even though it's great, it's actually to take the opponent off guard and return the ball in the center of the table or very high so the opponent can finish up with a top spin. The serve, the return and the third shot are extremely important in table tennis. More important than the spin.
Thank you Tom. I have started playing again, after a 30 year hiatus. Love playing the Chinese at Ping pong parlor in Cambridge. They are all so much fun and great rallies. Today, however, an English guy appeared today who was a bit annoying and full of himself. He had some very difficult serves and wanted to play games rather than rally and practice - which is fine. Anywho, your video has provided some great, clear and concise solution for when I meet Kevin again! 😂 Thanks again❤️🙏👍👌
Picking up a serve is truly a nightmare for most beginners and intermediate players. This video guides us to pick up many more serves, which effectively lifts the mental pressure off the game. As we start lifting the serves, it kind of gives a spike in confidence and allows our neuromuscular coordination to be at ease. Then we can play our game comfortably as now we have a chance to rally around a point. Unfortunately, if we lose a point straight while lifting a serve, we not only lose a point, but tend to have a diminished performance in the remaining game. So picking the service goes a long way in helping us perform better at the rest of the game. A lot of thanks to Tom for giving a detailed and precise description of lifting all kinds of serves.
Thank you so much for this video. I could not return topspin serve, watched this video a couple times and figured it out. Your simplified approach made all the difference. I played in a small work fun tournament and halfway through used this when I could not return serves and ended up winning! I contribute it to your video 100%😀
Top notch ! just started TT on a local club, only played when i was 10 to 13 yo at school, and a bit of school competiton. Yesterday Old TT players were giving me a hard time only on serves, and effects everywhere... was hard to engage an exchange, when i did , i could develope my game, but boy thoses serves.... grrrr! Thankfully the coach took me appart and showed me some things at the end of the session, and your video is awsome, cant wait to return serves!
Great lesson and thank you. After watching this yesterday I was finally able to return my son's new well-honed tricky serves with consistency, bothering him no end. Very satisfying it was! Cheers from Sydney - Dave
Ohhh I lost my first competition last week because I didn't this video. Now I am sure I could handle my returning service problem after watching this video, thanks a lot Tom. Warm regards from Jakarta City. Doni
I've been playing table tennis at the office for years, and I feel silly for not watching these videos sooner. That section on sidespin was eye opening for me. I learned through experience that sidespin with topspin could be returned with a drive, but my brain didn't put 2 and 2 together for sidespin with backspin.
This has been the best video about receiving serves by far. I was really struggling to understand how to read the opponents moves and what to return their serve with. Thank you
@Tom Lodziak. You are my hero! Every time I watch one of your videos my game improves slightly. I drunk agreed to a challenge with a mate with some money on the line and I dont really know how good he is so I need my game to be at it's best!
I am from Pakistan but I understand all ur techniques very well. I am getting better day by day after watching ur videos. I didn't know the same thing to return topspin serves. Thank u 😃
I am a player who has great forehand and decent backhand, moving and positioning and change of pace are my forte, but my serves are below par, and my return of advanced serves is even worse. So, this video was just perfect for me, and I can't thank you enough for explaining things so well. I wish you lived in Belgrade, so I could take lessons from you. Anyway, these video lessons are the second best thing. Thanks a million, Tom!
Actually I struggle lot while receiving. Many matches I am loosing bcoz of weakness in receiving. This video really boosted my confidence in service receiving. Very well explained. Hope I ll perform better in coming matches. Thanks a lot sir 🏓🙏
Another excellent,clear,helpful video which definitely will help players of different abilities. Tom has the ability of giving very clear straightforward advice.Many thanks.
One of the best videos ever I have came across. It helped me in my initial days . Lot of credit to U TOM for my improvement. Thank u very much and keep the good work going 👍
my colleague pulled me into table tennis after office hour recently , ive been able to really play the game just recently too! (beginner serve and beginner receive ) like a kindergarden learnt how to walk lol.. the thing is , now they keep bullying me with their wicked serve! they aint teaching me things and i kept wondering why does all my return goes way off.. and here i am trying to return back the debt! i hope ill be able to return it soon! in that regards i am very thankful for the guide you have made!
You are not alone. Returning serves is often the hardest part for beginner players. When you are able to read the spin, then it does become easier. Good luck!
@@TomLodziak indeed! well as easy it it seems in the video , it's actually harder to apply it in the game without continuously putting an effort.. i failed for like hundreds of times untill i finally got to actually return it to the odds of 1 in every 3 serve given. like people said you need to actually walk the walk for you to get better.. one at a time! thank you for the encouragement !
Best video I ever seen about how to return serves......wow ...what a master of techniques thanks brother!! I subscribed to your channel because of this video
I'm taking private lessons from a coach. You're right the side spin doesn't matter much, it's the back spin and top spin added to it that is important because when you hit the ball you should position yourself and the racket on the opposite side the ball is going and then you can set a target where you seek to return with either a push, a drive, a lift or a powerful top spin depending on how good and what type of service it is.
Amazing teacher! So ludicrous but, at the same time, instructive! I've just discovered your channel and already seeing all of your videos. Thx for all the good advices!
Marvelous. Such a great help. Do you happen to have a video on the type of bat (or bat linings) to chose for advanced beginners (still quite at the start of the learning curve). Thanks!
@@TomLodziak Just wanted to follow up. I started practicing the push. My friend would normally give me 15 points in a 21 point match (I have a ways to go). Because I was able to use the push effectively, he started only giving me 11 points! Watching more of your videos in hopes that I will have to give HIM some points xD
@@robertloop4181 That's good improvement. Keep practising regularly and you will soon get this handicap score even lower. It will be a very nice feeling when you finally win starting from 0-0.
Wow tats really very nice approach. A suggestion to you. let your opponent serve and you hit the ball ,in the manner you explain. Also pls position the camera in such a way that it's easily viewable.
Hi Tom, useful tips. I think that your strengths & weaknesses of play also depends on your opponents play. I struggle with strong "blocker" who is also good and returning using wide angles. My strength is forehand and backhand topspin returns but would like to get more spin on these returns so I'm not relying on speed and position. I can get points from my serve variation too. Hope this comment is useful. Martin
Great instructions 👍🏼😊🙏🏼 An idea: do some serves and stop the video before hitting the opponent's table for us to check if we can see if what spin is in the serve...
And you've now destroyed my point winning armoury of variety of serves!!! Grrrrr! Hopefully everybody I play won't watch this utube! I can but hope so. Nice utube Tom.
İ will try to win a cup tomorrow in a race. There will be 50 or 55 person and im looking for videos how can i be better. Very useful tips in this video thank you sir👏
Thank you for the video. It’s obviously helped a lot of people. One thing I don’t understand though is how to know what kind of serve is coming toward you. I guess experienced players will recognize the server’s movement, but I’ve watched this video a bunch of times, and the backspin serve and topspin serve still look the same to me (when they’re being served). And side spin looks the same too! The only way I can tell the difference is by what happens after the return, and by then it’s too late. What am I missing?
Have a watch of this video. It has some close up slow motion footage of the serves. It might help you see the difference: ruclips.net/video/EU9VCpiPk6M/видео.html
This guy is completely amazing, the way he teaches it and the perfectly timed edits of the video, showing what he is just saying whit a real game on the screen.
10/10
Lo
Even 6 year old ones are starting to disguise their servers and use the same movement for top, side and underspin. Just the moment of impact will differ, while the movement can stay the same, so the expansion her was really very good.
I like how he add more options for the return at the end of video, but it felt quite a bit oversimplifying first. just to give options in the end.
Still, you are right over all pretty good and straight forward explanation.
This is brilliant. Many newer players don't realize that sidespin has to be combined with another spin to be truly effective off the bounce. You can spin a basketball on your finger and it will go nowhere, yeah? The same reason why you need to put sidespin on an "axis" of sorts. Pay more attention to what kind of sidespin than the actual sidespin, and your life will be much easier.
I've not played TT in decades, but these vids are motivating me to get back into the swing (as it were!).
Great advice, can't understand why anyone would give it a thumbs down!
Many thanks. 👍
Thanks. Hope you are enjoying playing again after such a long break
Same here!
Did you ever go? I didn't play for 23 years, and just started a couple of months ago. Do it!
Last time I played was on 2001
Returning spin serves is really hard and tough job to do. You never know what direction your opponent spin serves. I think it is all about playing more with pro athletes. I lost most of my important games only because of not properly returning the spin serves and it caused me lots of trouble and confusion. Cheers for sharing the secrets. I asked most of the best players and even coaches on how to return spin serves properly and smoothly. They never shared it and always reluctant towards it.
Now I have cleared all my confusion and start practicing tips you have just mentioned. I hope it works out. I appreciate that. Welldone!
What's harder is returning them well with offensive push, an offensive drive, a lift or a top spin.
It is so important to prevent the 3 rd shot finisher.
It’s basically just: return backspin with backspin. Return top spin with top spin return side spin with down spin or top spin
You need to return the serve on the table in a way the opponent cannot finish the point on the 3 rd shot which is exactly what a good player is trying to do.
The goal of the serve is not exactly to win without a return even though it's great, it's actually to take the opponent off guard and return the ball in the center of the table or very high so the opponent can finish up with a top spin.
The serve, the return and the third shot are extremely important in table tennis.
More important than the spin.
just re-started after 45-year break. I need all the help I can get to restore my techniques. This is a great instruction video.
For my reference
01:40 - returning backspin serves
03:54 - returning topspin serves
05:40 - returning sidespin serves
08:15 - reading spin
09:28 - watching the server
10:38 - progression
Thx
❤️❤️
@@iamafoodie9058 no problem
@@madaraplayzzz7294 👍
@@phillipernesto2658 nice
Tom , Ive just tried this out - my goodness me, BUT MY GOODNESS IT WORKS!!!! Yay!!!
Great! Happy to help.
Well explained, word by word. My confidence level of receiving all these types of services increased a lot now. Thank you sir 🤝🏓
Yes services 😂
Who needs a coach when you have Tom!
Literally better than what any beginner coach would teach me, thanks a lot
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thank you Tom. I have started playing again, after a 30 year hiatus. Love playing the Chinese at Ping pong parlor in Cambridge. They are all so much fun and great rallies. Today, however, an English guy appeared today who was a bit annoying and full of himself. He had some very difficult serves and wanted to play games rather than rally and practice - which is fine. Anywho, your video has provided some great, clear and concise solution for when I meet Kevin again! 😂
Thanks again❤️🙏👍👌
Picking up a serve is truly a nightmare for most beginners and intermediate players. This video guides us to pick up many more serves, which effectively lifts the mental pressure off the game. As we start lifting the serves, it kind of gives a spike in confidence and allows our neuromuscular coordination to be at ease. Then we can play our game comfortably as now we have a chance to rally around a point. Unfortunately, if we lose a point straight while lifting a serve, we not only lose a point, but tend to have a diminished performance in the remaining game. So picking the service goes a long way in helping us perform better at the rest of the game.
A lot of thanks to Tom for giving a detailed and precise description of lifting all kinds of serves.
Thank you so much for this video. I could not return topspin serve, watched this video a couple times and figured it out. Your simplified approach made all the difference. I played in a small work fun tournament and halfway through used this when I could not return serves and ended up winning! I contribute it to your video 100%😀
Thank you so much for this! This is my biggest weakness when playing higher ranked players.
Same like I always go for the strike but that’s not it .
Me too
Top notch ! just started TT on a local club, only played when i was 10 to 13 yo at school, and a bit of school competiton. Yesterday Old TT players were giving me a hard time only on serves, and effects everywhere... was hard to engage an exchange, when i did , i could develope my game, but boy thoses serves.... grrrr! Thankfully the coach took me appart and showed me some things at the end of the session, and your video is awsome, cant wait to return serves!
Top notch video, even 5 yrs later ! Well doen sir
Great lesson and thank you. After watching this yesterday I was finally able to return my son's new well-honed tricky serves with consistency, bothering him no end. Very satisfying it was! Cheers from Sydney - Dave
Ohhh I lost my first competition last week because I didn't this video. Now I am sure I could handle my returning service problem after watching this video, thanks a lot Tom. Warm regards from Jakarta City.
Doni
I've been playing table tennis at the office for years, and I feel silly for not watching these videos sooner. That section on sidespin was eye opening for me. I learned through experience that sidespin with topspin could be returned with a drive, but my brain didn't put 2 and 2 together for sidespin with backspin.
This has been the best video about receiving serves by far. I was really struggling to understand how to read the opponents moves and what to return their serve with. Thank you
@Tom Lodziak. You are my hero! Every time I watch one of your videos my game improves slightly. I drunk agreed to a challenge with a mate with some money on the line and I dont really know how good he is so I need my game to be at it's best!
Lmao how that turn out
The sidespin advice is gold 👍
An awful lot of very useful tips on returning spin. 10/10 Tom!
Thanks Roy!
Nice
I am from Pakistan but I understand all ur techniques very well. I am getting better day by day after watching ur videos. I didn't know the same thing to return topspin serves. Thank u 😃
You are welcome!
I am a player who has great forehand and decent backhand, moving and positioning and change of pace are my forte, but my serves are below par, and my return of advanced serves is even worse. So, this video was just perfect for me, and I can't thank you enough for explaining things so well. I wish you lived in Belgrade, so I could take lessons from you. Anyway, these video lessons are the second best thing. Thanks a million, Tom!
Thanks for watching and kind comments. I hope my tips help you in a small way to improve returning serves.
These are some really good Stuff. Thank you❤️
Gracias Tom. Excelente vídeo. Saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. La Legión Tenis de Mesa.
Well explained Serve Reading and Playing guide...Really👍👍.
Might just become the BIBLE for Table Tennis Beginners and Intermediates.😁😁
So true
I learnt something of high value today. Serves are really tricky. I'm gonna watch this over and over
Thanks for watching. Hope it helps!
Best&helpful TT video ever. These notions are the bases of our sport to easily face a match.
Many thanks Tom - I am going to make a real effort hereon to respond to long backspin serves with a loop rather than a stabby push
Actually I struggle lot while receiving. Many matches I am loosing bcoz of weakness in receiving. This video really boosted my confidence in service receiving. Very well explained. Hope I ll perform better in coming matches. Thanks a lot sir 🏓🙏
Don’t underestimate reading the flight of the ball, or the direction change of the ball after the bounce.
It improves judgement as well.
I always love to come back to your channel, thank you very much🤩 Jörg from Augsburg
Very much useful. Precise information without any extra talk. Great work ❤️
Another excellent,clear,helpful video which definitely will help players of different abilities.
Tom has the ability of giving very clear straightforward advice.Many thanks.
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One of the best videos ever I have came across. It helped me in my initial days . Lot of credit to U TOM for my improvement. Thank u very much and keep the good work going 👍
Keep the stroke short and simple ! Thanks Tom
Quel bon professeur, ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement...L'anglais est très compréhensible aussi, très agréable. Realy...
Watched again. I am learning a lot. Don't have an official coach at my club so I use you tube videos. Thank you. Simple clear instructions.
So valuable this video! Thanks for the step by step breakdown and demo
Excellent guidance for a beginner and intermediate player…Kudos Tom 👍
Thank you coach ... you have solve my long time problem ... now its easy to paly with logic
my colleague pulled me into table tennis after office hour recently , ive been able to really play the game just recently too! (beginner serve and beginner receive ) like a kindergarden learnt how to walk lol.. the thing is , now they keep bullying me with their wicked serve! they aint teaching me things and i kept wondering why does all my return goes way off.. and here i am trying to return back the debt! i hope ill be able to return it soon! in that regards i am very thankful for the guide you have made!
You are not alone. Returning serves is often the hardest part for beginner players. When you are able to read the spin, then it does become easier. Good luck!
@@TomLodziak indeed! well as easy it it seems in the video , it's actually harder to apply it in the game without continuously putting an effort.. i failed for like hundreds of times untill i finally got to actually return it to the odds of 1 in every 3 serve given. like people said you need to actually walk the walk for you to get better.. one at a time! thank you for the encouragement !
One of the coolest tennis coaching ❤
For me the most accessible explanations I've seen so far. Thanks! 💯
your explaining is very clear - Thanx for simplifying this
I love this video.
I am a beginner pingpong player, it's hard to receive opponent serve without know he's serve type.
Thanks for your explanation.
🏓🏓
I see this video a lot, to know how to returning opponent's serve.
i have to see this video much earlier. great and easy way to learn returning serves. thank you so much
Best video I ever seen about how to return serves......wow ...what a master of techniques thanks brother!! I subscribed to your channel because of this video
I'm taking private lessons from a coach.
You're right the side spin doesn't matter much, it's the back spin and top spin added to it that is important because when you hit the ball you should position yourself and the racket on the opposite side the ball is going and then you can set a target where you seek to return with either a push, a drive, a lift or a powerful top spin depending on how good and what type of service it is.
Amazing teacher! So ludicrous but, at the same time, instructive! I've just discovered your channel and already seeing all of your videos. Thx for all the good advices!
Thanks Tom very clear your video help me a lot
Thanks sir , for giving insight of handling spin serves
I am a beginner, it's a good class the way you demonstrate is very useful. Thank you very much.
same
Excellent guidelines for beginner and intermediate players
Thank u definitely going to try and incorporate this into my game
Good video. Very clear explanation and easy to understand! Thank you.
Marvelous. Such a great help. Do you happen to have a video on the type of bat (or bat linings) to chose for advanced beginners (still quite at the start of the learning curve). Thanks!
I cant wait to start playing again. Wish i knew this way back. Awesome content
The video has answered my exact problem. Now time to try it out
Thanks
Thanks tom. Good video. Easy way to read and handle opponent serve..for beginner..
Thx very much.
I really needed this lesson
Amazingly illuminating vid. Thanks a lot, Tom!
Thank you !!! I won because of return hard serves easily
Wonderful Video. For Beginners its a boon . Thanks a lot TOM 😊
Thank you coach! Ill try those next time.
Been watching a lot of your lessons. Been helping a lot. Thank you, from the bottom of my...sorry I don't have a table tennis pun...heart.
Happy to be of help in some small way. Thanks for watching.
@@TomLodziak Just wanted to follow up. I started practicing the push. My friend would normally give me 15 points in a 21 point match (I have a ways to go). Because I was able to use the push effectively, he started only giving me 11 points! Watching more of your videos in hopes that I will have to give HIM some points xD
@@robertloop4181 That's good improvement. Keep practising regularly and you will soon get this handicap score even lower. It will be a very nice feeling when you finally win starting from 0-0.
Thanks coach Tom ur video help me out to improve my return serves and overall thanx
Wow tats really very nice approach. A suggestion to you. let your opponent serve and you hit the ball ,in the manner you explain. Also pls position the camera in such a way that it's easily viewable.
Hi Tom, i'm a big fan of your lessons, can you tell me which rubber you use on your FH and BH? Thanks!
Thanks! I use JOOLA Rhyzer 48 on FH and JOOLA Rhyzer 43 on BH.
Countering serves
Backspin 1:48
Topspin 4:00
Sidespin 5:58
So informative & useful for me as a beginner player!! Thank you so much!!😊
~From Malaysia
Thank you, simple tips for beginner. We need it
Hi Tom, useful tips. I think that your strengths & weaknesses of play also depends on your opponents play. I struggle with strong "blocker" who is also good and returning using wide angles. My strength is forehand and backhand topspin returns but would like to get more spin on these returns so I'm not relying on speed and position. I can get points from my serve variation too. Hope this comment is useful. Martin
Thanks for very thing! am a mature player, fairly late to the game and am learning heaps! Denise from Sydney
Love when he looks at his paddle like, did it just hit a rock.
1:28 HOWEVA!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Smga first timer Dyan mag practice lng kau.
ruclips.net/video/GR3xaeE7oLc/видео.html
BEST RUclips LINE IN 2020
Very useful teaching. Thanks
Great instructions 👍🏼😊🙏🏼 An idea: do some serves and stop the video before hitting the opponent's table for us to check if we can see if what spin is in the serve...
Amazing and very easy explanation. 👍🏻
And you've now destroyed my point winning armoury of variety of serves!!! Grrrrr! Hopefully everybody I play won't watch this utube! I can but hope so. Nice utube Tom.
Really nice explanation, thanks coach!
The way taught to us is really excellent , thank you i
Fantastic return serves explanations
Thank you very much for demonstration. 🏓
I, say thank´s to you, making this kind of Videos, very helpfull. (Now need to practice them)
Well structured and very helpful video. Thanks.
İ will try to win a cup tomorrow in a race. There will be 50 or 55 person and im looking for videos how can i be better. Very useful tips in this video thank you sir👏
Helpfull thanks coach Tom... Terimakasih🐎😃
thanks a lot coach Tom .. been away from table tennis more than 20years and this sport has evolved tremendously
Thanks Tom.... It was very informative video
Really well structured video. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. It’s obviously helped a lot of people. One thing I don’t understand though is how to know what kind of serve is coming toward you. I guess experienced players will recognize the server’s movement, but I’ve watched this video a bunch of times, and the backspin serve and topspin serve still look the same to me (when they’re being served). And side spin looks the same too! The only way I can tell the difference is by what happens after the return, and by then it’s too late. What am I missing?
Have a watch of this video. It has some close up slow motion footage of the serves. It might help you see the difference: ruclips.net/video/EU9VCpiPk6M/видео.html
This video is very helpful fir the intermediate players
Really clear, here goes to put it into practice!!!
Thanks Tom, another gr8 video, well explained.
Incredible lesson!
Back to very basics, superb
very nice tutorial!!!really help me.