5 ways to make your serves much stronger (with Craig Bryant)

In the final video of our service secrets series, top coach Craig Bryant shares some more tips on how to do awesome serves. Tips include keeping the ball low over the net, serving with more spin, service variations, quick recovery and lots and lots of practice!
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[@TIEWCINDY]

Awesome. Now we need a video on how to improve the receives. :)

[@TomLodziak]

Yes!!! Definitely. I will speak to Craig about making some receiving videos.

[@washnery]

I agree!!!

[@Nikita-qv8vk]

I'm taking advantage of this video

[@92SMIF]

Wow, serve with more spin? What a genius tip...

[@gubbimaatu]

Great sir.

[@marleiserashford396]

Great video. Thank you.

[@spikew8673]

Craig Bryant is truely amazing, Hoping to see more of him, thx.

[@d1st0rt3dsan1ty]

Such great tips. If there's any one thing I could encourage others to practice, it's serving. Serving is one of the few aspects of table tennis that you can effectively practice completely solo. Grab a box of balls and go to town

[@Franky_1974]

I am always happy about new videos from you. You always have very valuable tips that improve my own technique. Thank you so much! Keep it up! 😊

[@qomarqomarudin7307]

Great video as always .. thank you coach

[@idrivearttabletennis]

Great video - and timely for me too. Thanks!

[@yaypingpong4275]

Thanks Coach ! This is very useful 🙏🏼

[@samuelmignot]

Once again, a great video Tom. Service is soooo much under-practised in some level (not pro, obviously). I especially like Mike reminding how to make the best use of a service. Being a right hand player, if I do a long fast bomb service into the BH of another right hand player, there is 80% chance he will return in diagonal, exactly in the position I served. So I just have to arm my FH and make the point!

[@abquintin]

Great tips! Thank you 🙏🏻 😊

[@SteveFirefly777]

Great advice, gents. Keep it coming.

[@martapurakalsel2455]

Mantap penjelasannya, sukses selalu.

[@stephenphoenix-roberts9447]

Serving is I think the most important part of the game to set you up to win the point. My serves are good. Wish the rest of my game was as consistent.

[@thiagovianavargas3996]

Your videos are really good

[@DaggersAura.]

Ayyyyee go on craig😂 much love 😂❤️

[@eloimumford5247]

Massive lessons from Craig ...how important is the pointing finger in serve ?

[@aminkaz]

CONGRATS ON 100K

[@Matthew-es8zp]

I love your vids

[@anandlele7433]

Nice tips....thanks for upload...

[@ReyMendozaJr]

a little bit advanced for me but good to know!

[@ramjichamling7363]

Its great .Can you make a video on improving on reading opponents moves beacause i will be participating in small tournament very soon

[@TomLodziak]

I have a video on reading opponent's spin coming in 2020. Probably a bit too late for you though :(

[@sharadnaran5697]

Please make a video on how to do a short spinnny service focus on the short location and method of doing it Many thanks

[@xTheRadioStar]

This video comes with great timing. My rally game has been improving recently, and I need to start pushing my serves to the next level. I would like to know how often you change serves in your games. I feel like I sort of pick a serve and use it for a few points, varying the placement and spin, and then I try to pick a very different serve to keep my opponent from getting comfortable. Is this advisable? My other thought is maybe using a single serve until it's no longer effective and only then change serves.

[@TomLodziak]

This is a big, huge topic. There is no definite answer. It completely depends on the situation. This is how I approach it... In the first game, I try a few different serves to see what my opponent likes doesn't like. Second game, I may focus more on the serves which have proved more difficult to return, with occasional variation to keep opponent from getting comfortable. And then from this point on, it really does depend on what is happening in the match. If a serve is proving particularly effective, I may use it a bit more. If my serves are getting attacked, I may need to keep them tighter. In general it is good to vary spin, speed, placement. But if you have a serve which is working very well against a particular opponent, then use it a bit more. I think I'll write a longer blog post about this topic on my website. Thanks for the great question!

[@dnomdelopez1921]

Tyvm

[@janagan3284]

Awesome

[@tabletenniswithabp3468]

Great video now how to improve serve receive with Craig

[@TomLodziak]

Yes, I think that would be popular. I have some more videos coming out with Craig on different topics. We filmed these in the summer. But when I next film with Craig, I'll do some more on returning serves.

[@tabletenniswithabp3468]

@@TomLodziak thanks tom for replying

[@risdarputra9471]

Can you make a video on how to serve or serve variations for doubles? Thank's before 🙏

[@TomLodziak]

Yes, I've had a few requests for doubles tactics. It will take a bit more planning, but I do hope to do videos on doubles in the future.

[@changeyourlife1253]

Excellent , need vedio to become Master in Return different Serves , How Many ways 1 serve Can be return

[@kylejensen2409]

Question: where should you serve on the table? Craig was serving from the very corner, but is that because of his playing style? Or is the corner the ideal place to serve for most styles?

[@babababaahmadi6408]

Nice

[@user-lq6mq6uu4h]

Good

[@chm2]

Good video. Would have been even better if the camera was set up on the left side of the table instead so we could see Craig's contact more easily when he's serving from the far side.

[@aminnamawi9258]

orena sports terus beri trik dlm menyerang maupun bertahan.

[@puberunkalita482]

Give also the video on the rules of table tennis match

[@Mquil_IPS]

How do you time your serve

[@chavalaprahlad3458]

Hi Tom! Could you tell me what rubbers you use for your bat?

[@TomLodziak]

I use JOOLA Rhyzer 48 (BH), JOOLA Rhyzer 43 (FH) and JOOLA Fever blade.

[@superchoco80]

How block really strong smashes

[@rationalttanalysis]

Congratulations on getting 100k sub!

[@TomLodziak]

Thanks! Just feel a bit sorry for all these people who have to listen to my nonsense!

[@zakariyyacr7878]

Do u need a professional racket to do these because I dont have one and on my serve I cant put too much spin?

[@dan43544911]

10 Euro Racket is enough for the beginning. To many people buy too early expensive equipment.

[@brendenlim2158]

As Long as the rubber is complete ass and slippery, it should be fine

[@TomLodziak]

Technique is the most important part. With a cheap racket you will be able to generate spin. With a better quality racket, you will be able to generate more spin.

[@dickn.ormous1064]

Just get a 30-50 euro blade by yasaka, donic or stiga and some tacky rubbers.

[@stefan3344]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@emirthepianist]

This man use very hard serve.

[@jejakirpanpapandayangarut7800]

Mantap

[@user-zj1fs3kb5h]

すごく参考になります‼️👍👍できれば日本語の補助字幕を入れてくれたら助かりますけどね‼️😉

[@bluemotion4575]

Slow motion please or zoom in could be useful. Thank you

[@Trybbe]

Almost 100k subs

[@TomLodziak]

Finally made it! Hooray!

[@PAVEXDPL]

2:13 how to do this serve?

[@TomLodziak]

This is the kicker. Craig explains how to do it in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6a7fHuuh8iFmLM

[@tomriddle9740]

looks so easy when you do it. lol

[@spongebob1849]

Tom Riddle Yep, Eyes: that’s easy hands: That’s impossible

[@ruffianeo3418]

With my 10€ racket on a stone table which functions as a random number generator (rough surface), I just might not be able to reproduce that :) But try, I will.

[@mingip0310]

First!

[@sharad539]

Doron in his free time plays table tennis

[@Arh_City]

Как он это делает?)))

[@kamleshmali9533]

Sir i want to play with you

[@alexanderkochetov8443]

I think that your videos watch many people from Russia and Ukraine, it will be very good if you create russian subtitles 🙏🙏🙏

[@dan43544911]

Aren't the serves illegal, because he is tossing the ball not only vertical but towards his body?

[@jackman4004]

He is really good at serving. The serves (hand movement) all look the same -__-

[@MrBarrynicholas]

Why do you throw the ball up in a loop towards you, isn't that illegal. I thought the ball was meant to go virtually up?

[@craigyb22]

barry nicholas Near vertical is the rule. Very natural to throw the ball back slightly.

[@MrBarrynicholas]

Craig Bryant Not when I do it, maybe that’s where I go wrong.

[@muttaharbilal6014]

Whole video craig bullying tom

[@rickr2029]

Man, I am a good recreation player. Illegal serve, hit flat react to opponents hitting flat often. And also, I am left-handed. The reason for all this is that I want to transition to the table tennis game. So for example, I need a left hander to serve and get a side view so I can see where the paddle is from the back line at point of contact. A multi view SLOW Motion video might be great also. Anyone want to help an aspiring guy out? Thanks in advance

[@cHAOs9]

Watch this video in a mirror

[@injextion1584]

No me

[@itsastrozx2822]

ok wom lonzak