Power of the push

In this video, top coach Emma Harradine teaches us how to use our push shots more effectively.
The push is usually considered a safety shot. But if used with lots of backspin and placed well, it can be a hugely effective weapon.
Emma gives some tips on generating more backspin, placement, timing and variation. And there is plenty of footage, as usual, of me messing up!
Emma Harradine is a Level 3 coach. She has won English national titles in the over 40s and over 50s women's category. You can find out more about Emma and her coaching services on her website. www.emmattcoach.co.uk/
In the video, Emma is using this equipment:
Blade: JOOLA Fever
Rubber (both forehand and backhand): JOOLA Dynaryz ACC bribartt.co.uk/product/joola-...
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[@fergieweather]

Thanks Tom! It gives me some sense of relief to see a player of *your* abilities suffering at the end of Emma's pushes & shots...as I do virtually weekly during her amazing one-to-one coaching 😂😂 Great video, as always. Looking forward to the next ones! 👍🏓

[@voberle]

Very often, a good push is preferable to an average top-spin. This is especially true against players with proper technique and training: They tend to be very comfortable counter-looping a clean top-spin, but will get confused by a heavy well placed push, especially if you can add some no-spin ones as well.

[@828nikolay]

Most convincing! However, Tom, why no advice on the angle of the pad while pushing?

[@pnachtwey]

My first coach taught me to push like that. It is like a mini chop using a lot of wrist.

[@Blackain66]

exactly, its not a normal push its more like a chop over the table its one of my strong weapons too since many players have a really hard to looping it at least on one side, making it safe for me to chop-push there to open up myself next ball or watching them trying and looping into the net also u can vary the backspin while pushing giving it a really wiiide range from low to heavy backspin further destroying the confidence of ur opponent trying to loop, once they adapted to heavy backspin u push rather low spin and watch them overshoot the table

[@MarcelSM01]

Thank you Tom, very interesting!

[@SM-kp6px]

Tom, love your videos. Thanks Danbury

[@MrPDTaylor]

Tom is the GOAT!

[@blueheart9873]

I am playing a woman tomorrow who pushes like this. She usually pushes to my BH but I don't really struggle playing against it. She struggles with short push to FH

[@LightVieweMute]

Pushers are the worst!

[@MrPDTaylor]

First

[@bencedobroczi4860]

Excuse me, but they are far from being real coaches. But they are enthusiastic amateurs.