How to improve your 3rd ball attack (table tennis)

In this video, I explain how to improve your 3rd ball attack.
This is where you serve, your opponent returns and you attack the next ball. Sometimes this may be a winner, but not necessarily.
Basically, it’s your opportunity put your opponent under pressure and take control of the rally.
If you can get good at 3rd ball attacks, you're going to win a lot more points.
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[@TyrionUnderhill]

Expect the ball to be returned, great advice!

[@sean2911]

I love all your table tennis videos Tom! Thank you for your tips and tricks,

[@alangoudie2299]

Another great video. Each lesson is very helpful.Instruction short ,clear & easily understood.

[@alkadeshmukh2404]

Excellent tips!

[@adindacakraningrat5613]

Thanks great coaching.

[@Fluirzinho]

Im from Brazil and I like a lot your tips! Great work!

[@quoteworld3375]

This is awesome.........such a great advice....thank you so much for sharing this...

[@susantogozali7584]

Nice, i am gaining the way of thinking while playing

[@nzrealpk7629]

Look at you raising the left leg when serving. Great vid.

[@mauriziotammaro8283]

thank you for your tips

[@gr637]

Another excellent video!

Thank you very much

[@kprasad20]

This is definitely my current problem. Tom, could you also please give us some tips on doubles play?

[@neverbeenfrustrated]

thanks a lot for your videos mr Lodziak, i like their format a lot! it's really hard to find good vids on table tennis here on YT, but yours are gold. a huge thumbs up

[@TomLodziak]

Thanks Edwin. Hope the videos help you in some way.

[@neverbeenfrustrated]

@@TomLodziak believe me they are helping already, I play table tennis every day and I try to implement the things you teach in your videos, and I've gotten a lot better already, I can tell cuz I'm winning people who seemed too good for me ha

[@varshasantosh4745]

Good tricks of table tennis serve

[@mohdjunaid1064]

Thanks coach for such an amazing video :)

[@TomLodziak]

Thanks. Glad you liked it!

[@Hin-yi6gw]

I think topspin serve is a lot easier to predict opponent's return. If you serve backspin, most players would push/chop return as backspin, or flick/loop return as topspin and the chance is about 50/50. But when serve topspin, people usually either just block or topspin it back to you, they rarely chop the ball to change it to backspin (unless you are facing chopper or long pimples/anti user), so against normal players it is almost 90% of the time they will return topspin back to you, and this can be very useful when you are confident at playing fast-paced. Please let me know what you think.

[@TomLodziak]

Yes, I completely agree. Topspin serves are almost always returned with topspin, unless playing a defensive player as you rightly say. As long as you keep your topspin serves low (so not too easy to attack) and you have good topspin rallying skills, it can be a very effective serve/3rd ball combination.

[@rishundola9526]

Correct, however if they read the serve or predict it then they wont block it rather attack it (flick loop etc). This is bad not because they are attacking the ball but because you have given up the opportunity to make the first offensive shot, losing the iniative of the rally making you worse off.

[@tinnyunt4924]

Thanks

[@kevmac6558]

Hmm.. back to basics, good recap

[@shivammishra9454]

Sir I will do shadow practice but I'm not able to implement in table while playing

[@1dwqdqwdadwa994]

Good

[@samithsrinivas7413]

Please make a video on chopping the ball

[@COomjiNX]

Coach,if I serve to their forehand side with a good side,back spin serve,they return with a good reversed side back spin(short push) near the net on backhand side..The third ball attack is not much of a help here,What would be best strategy to finish the point quicker in this? Also this can happen also in double match when I put spin on my serve,opponent returned it with reversed spin and where my partner is having a difficulty to play smash with short ball return like ball goes into net or fly over with much top spin,unless a long deep return where he can smash without any prob,ps my partner is a penhold,Im a shakehand

[@TomLodziak]

So I recommend two things... (1) Serve very long side-backspin (near the end of the table) - this is much harder to keep the return short. (2) Serve sidespin or side-topspin - again this is harder to keep short. Good luck!

[@thecbsestudent3324]

sir how is artengo FR990 racquet plz help me

[@TomLodziak]

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with this table tennis bat. See my website for my recommendations www.tabletenniscoach.me.uk/tips-on-buying-a-new-table-tennis-bat/

[@shrikantbarhanpurkar7321]

How to clean table and maintain it.How to clean new table.

[@hiennguyenvan9777]

good video, but too much reverb in sound.

[@TomLodziak]

Tell me about it!! Drives me crazy. But I've now found a way to reduce the reverb when filming and reduce some more when editing. So any new videos I do (from Sept 18) should be better. I'll still have some reverb, but much less than my older videos.

[@hiennguyenvan9777]

Tom Lodziak a lapel microphone wired to a recorder or some acoustic absorber on the walls could help : www.thomann.de/gb/standard_absorbers.html