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Table Tennis Forehand Flick Technique

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Forehand flick is a difficult technique to deal with the short ball on your forehand side. Some players tend to move further to the right side and perform a backhand flick. However, if you don't have a quick footwork, you can do the forehand flick to return the ball aggressively. This stroke is also called as the forehand flip . How to play the forehand flick technique in table tennis? First, you need to step your right foot forward the table. Your body should lean to the right side. Second, contact the ball when it is at the highest position (at its top bouncing position) . Depend on how much backspin on the ball, hit the ball at the position of 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock. Third, quickly come back to the neutral position. Prepare to attack the next shot, the ball returned will definitely a long ball. 3 tips to do the forehand flick Don't pull the racket behind your body. For the short ball, you must put your racket close to the ball. This stroke i...

How to Spin the Ball in Table Tennis

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Welcome to the channel of coach EmRatThich. Today, I talk about "How to increase Spin  in your table tennis shots: serve, loop, push, forehand topspin, backhand flip, etc. The Chinese philosophy says that there are 3 aspects of a table tennis shot: spin , speed, and power . Spin is the most important of these 3 terms. The spiny ball but slow is not powerful. The fastball without spin is not powerful. The powerful ball is the ball loaded of spin and speed. How to increase the spin in table tennis? The only and the one key point to spin the ball is ACCELERATION . Table tennis is not a tennis sport. The ball weight is only 2.7g. It's not how hard you hit the ball, but it's how fast you hit the ball in a short amount of time will decide the amount of spin. The contact occurs only in a fraction of a second. To spin the ball, you must apply force during this moment. All of these processes occurs very fast. So please remember, "spin" is the key...