Great episode! The explanations on handling different spins with short pushes are super helpful. Thanks for the tips!

Are you tighten your grip when receive any serves?

Got 8/10 - misread the two first reverse pendulum serves, which fits into my usual problems with those because I've never had a practice partner who could perform them

is Belgium a weak table tennis country?

My flick is a lot more powerful with a focus on adding more hip rotation into the shot. This allows a more relaxed stroke.

Olav, hello from Dagestan) you say about short recieve against spin, but dont say about recieve by rotation

Some suggestions for serve videos: 1. Use balls with extra marks to see the spin 2. Perhaps postpone disguising to the next step. Like for me there is no point to disguise as I still struggle to add any significant backspin with reverse serve. Side or side-top is much easier to do. Thank you.

I can see you are wearing kneecaps in this match. Can you tell us more about it? I do personally struggle with knees due to table tennis, maybe you have more information how to cope with it.

I like keep a carbon blade around just to periodically try it out and convince myself once again that I definitely don't have the skills to play fast and hard material. That being said, using H3 on the forehand has been a net positive for me.

Great video! And only 2.6k views? Probably because viewers want to keep the secrets learned to themselves...

Great video - again. Thanks!

Superrrrr tips! ❤

thanks good vid

Great Content Olav. This is one of the least applied skills in table tennis among the none so-pro players. Whoever aims to receive like this can pad himself in the back that he is about to step up from a casual player to a much better player. M. Maze does this great but since he is a lefty, most people cannot learnfrom him much.

Can you make a video about how to recieve a fast long backhand service. As a lefty, my righthy opponents usually use this serve to put more pressure on me during 9-9 or deuce?

Pretty jacked for a table tennis player btw^^.

Thank you for the video. The explanations were nice, however it is hard for me to connect the explanations with your demonstrations, because of these two reasons: 1) The other player on the table is not shown. I see what you are doing, but I do not see what the other guy is doing. Therefore, it is hard for me to judge what exact spin is on the ball, when you receive it. I would include the other guy into the camera view, otherwise the demonstration is kind of incomplete. 2) For me, as a right-hander, it is quite difficult to apply what you demonstrate to my game because I need to mirror everything you show in my head. If you are showing how you receive a backspin pendulum serve with your forehand, I need to mirror it in my head and imagine where I should stand and how I should receive the same serve with a backhand. This is quite challenging to do and it makes your videos much harder to watch for me, and probably for the majority of right-handed players too. It would be great if you mirrored the video and showed the original version and the mirrored version for left- and right- handers at the same time. I know that the same type of spin can be produced by different serves and therefore I can just image a different type of serve for me as a righ-hander, however, it is just hard for my brain to do. The video would be much easier to watch if the mirroring was shown in the video directly.

stop talking about me ("you're going to lean forward.."), talk about your technique, it's enough.

I watched this twice. You mentioned the pure sidespin serve and then you went on about no spin, downspin and got away from the sidespin.Would be better if you showed a server serving a side spin serve then show how you counter. Too many words and not enough pictures.

These are some valuable jem

weer een goeie video Olav

Woohoo! New Olav Kosolosky upload!

Whoa! Glad I watched to the end... can't wait to try those receives. Thanks to you both.

Ben ik de enige Nederlander op dit kanaal?

Thanks for uploading 🎉🎉

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Hi Olav, did you see Ma Long Wang Chuqin game just now? Ma completely changed his game from banana flicks, reverse pendulum serves (harder to banana flick fast as lefty i think) and controlling from the BH a lot more, hitting that angle to wide FH was just fantastic. Would be a good one for an analysis video for you

Nice vid !

I agree with you generally that equipment should not be the focus for players in general. The blade should something that provides reasonable control and the rubbers should be good quality. After that you should learn how your equipment behaves during play and adapt to it. Maybe six months with the same rubber and blade and having made progress in your playing level you might consider changing something that is lacking in the equipment for your playing style; yet you should only change one thing at a time. Different blade? Stay with the same rubbers. Change rubber? Only one side of the rubber, fh or bh keep the same rubber on one side while changing rubber on the other and keeping the same blade. I started playing when there were only two real choices in high performance rubbers, Sriver or Mark V. I had Sriver yet when I joined a club every higher level player there was using Mark V, so I tried Mark V. Should have stuck with the Sriver as it suited me better than Mark V. What other people are playing with really doesn't matter.

here in our, there is a saying: that's in for Indians, not in his bow and arrow

It's better to pump 1000 bucks into a professional trainer and learning the techniques than wasting that money on blade/rubber experiments. Thank me later.

What about i completely end up missing the ball half the time lmao

I was with you until you said tacky rubbers wear out faster. They tend to stay stickier so do you mean sponge softening, delamination? I know decent players who use a tacky rubber a long time. I find they're better with a lot of breaking in.

I see you Olav today on 10 april 2024 match vs PW Diest quarter finals

Olav is so fine

first tip already changing my life ! Why every good channel i found is a lefty, make it harder to learn by watching for right handed as my self :(:(

Another concern for me is that weight has turned out to be a great issue for amateurs. We can't simple yield setups over 190grms otherwise we might end up being injured with such super heavily combos. Anything roughly 47 degree on FH and a couple of agrees less on BH should fit the bit for 95% amateurs/recreational players.

I’m done with my ej days, I think. But, I want to have 2 additional extra rackets with the same set up. 😂

Always insightful.Thx.

I really do enjoy playing Hybrid K3 (which probably is one of the rubbers you are referring to) on both sides despite being a hobby player. But indeed, they just don't last long enough and I don't want to put on new rubbers each month. So I am searching for new rubbers for next season...

Do you recommend to have something different between FH and BH ? For Exemple 42° FH and 40° BH ? Or for amateur it's better to have the same ?

I agree with your point. I used to try all kind of different rubbers and blades. Alot of them because they were used by pros. This caused me to be never satisfied with whatever I was playing with. Nowadays I don’t buy any of the pros equipment anymore. I go by the rule: “If a pro is playing with a rubber or blade, then its not for me”.