Unlock Your Table Tennis Serve: From Frustration to Domination

[@AlphaTennisinPittsburgh]

Tennis is a sport of a lifetime. This video will help keep the interest in a great sport of a lifetime.

[@deepakkapoor5697]

Craig wishing you all the success on your return plans. Your teaching style is excellent.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Thank you ☺️

[@jordanforever2345]

🙏 going to try it and show it to my son with this video too. I think we often mix those in our serve practice instead of separating the goal for the technique.

[@stevensutherland-fj2zz]

Always a joy to watch. Great stuff top man!

[@alexwatt9712]

Hi Craig, this is one of the best table tennis videos I've seen. Absolutely brilliant.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Wow. Thank for your comment 👍

[@lulujensen5746]

Amazing video! Thank you so much. I watched it 4 times already.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Brill. Keep watching 😃

[@Blackain66]

good service training One nice advice i can give u esp. for these serve videos is using a return-board to confirm and visualize the spin ! Just film some footage from the side serving against a return-board placed on the table so you and we can see where the ball is jumping (and can also see how much topspin is really in it by seeing how high the ball jumps). I use it at home to confirm my spin variations from time to time and sometimes im still surprised when it differes from my expectation beeing more floaty than topspins etc.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

My next one has lots of angles and I use the return board too! 👌

[@christopherojimaduonwuka5864]

Coach you are a great man so creative

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Thank you 🤩

[@rafalsasiak893]

Great video and tutorial, as usual. Nice systematic division of serving aspects, extremely useful in serve self practice and development.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Thank you Raf 👍

[@renatovella572]

Very useful advices and a lovely sense of humour. 😊

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

I’m glad you found it useful. We’ve all got to have a bit of fun now and again haven’t we 🙂

[@steelmaster56]

Great exercises, please more of them..

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Glad you enjoyed them. I will show more in future, for sure. However, feel free to use them as inspiration and change things up 👍

[@C-handle-r]

9:03 would almost argue that's a topspin service since the speed increases! Great video lots of helpful techniques and motivation.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

If it was topspin, the ball would still curl a little but it would travel more towards the camera. The speed increasing is a result of the amount of spin not necessarily the type of spin. Thank you for watching 😊

[@coiLz0r911]

I started with your video on Tom Lodzieks channel. I got some really annoying serves going. My dad couldn't handle them at all. Now he's also using them and we're both having trouble returning them 😅

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Glad you found them useful 🙂

[@christopherojimaduonwuka5864]

Coach this forehand cutting is very wonderful. But is very very difficult

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Yeah, a tricky skill to develop

[@briandemming7353]

Great video. Thanks much 🙏

[@ODowdEric]

very interesting as usual. THANKS !

[@AdrianJones-ud1im]

Hi Graig Great video Already shared at our club. Woodfield table tennis 🏓 in Wolverhampton

[@jean-paulvansteenkiste5965]

Great video Craig ! Many greets Jean-Paul !

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Hey JP, thanks very much. Hope you’re well.

[@joehughes3764]

Great content, well done

[@Thisonegoestoeleven666]

Top stuff Craig, I'm off downstairs to practice.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Have fun 🏓

[@6977202865]

amazing tips !! very good guidance and advice! thank you

[@danielrenaud4639]

Very interesting! Thank you😊

[@feszoj]

I liked very much this video, will watch it again, greetings from Peru

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

🇵🇪 🤝 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@АрнольдЧёрный]

Simply the best!

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

#TinaTurner 🎤

[@JimLangley1]

Thanks for awesome lesson Craig. If you have time for a question maybe some other have this happen too - but in serving backspin I probably hit the blade on the end of the table 10% of the time. I thought maybe you've seen this and have some tips on what's going wrong. I've shot video to try to figure it out but haven't caught it on film. When it happens it's distracting and does ding up the blade which I hate. Thanks again!

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

A few options: - Starting slightly further back - Slightly pivoting away, when you start - Trying to finish with your bat over the table Good luck 👌 if you need a new blade from too many dings, head to Bribar 😉

[@JimLangley1]

@@TheTableTennisServiceGuy thanks so much Craig! I will definitely give those a try. Appreciate it very much.

[@cyrax-vq5ur]

min 13:00 could be from a 3d glasses :D i played in 0,25 slowmo close to the same moves

[@cyberrode]

damn, so many tips, thanks always sire!

[@mmmmm35179]

Excellent video! Do you use your regular playing bat when practicing serves? You've taught us to position one or two fingers on the rubber for better wrist flexibility during the pendulum serve. I'm wondering, does this constant contact with the fingers, along with sweat and other residues, affect the performance of the rubber over time?

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Yes, my regular bat. It can have an effect over time, yes but it shouldn’t be significant

[@soldatschwejk1]

Great video. Thank you! The problem I face is jumping in position after the serve. If I am doing this, the quality of my serve strongly declines. As you can understand, this is not helpful in games :( Do you have any suggestion here?

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

I’ve done a video on recovering after serve, check it out. The issues can often be individual, so it’s hard to advise specifics without seeing what the issue is.

[@CASPTHEGHOST]

I appreciate the tips. I also like the way you left your mistakes in there. It would have been easy to re-do it. Showing you hitting 25 error free etc. Makes us average players realise everyone makes errors. Just gotta make less of them.

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Mistakes are a big part of the game. Thanks for watching 🙂

[@mmmmm35179]

Do you mind sharing why you're considering returning to competitive playing?

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

Yes, sure. I’m approaching 40 and I would like to enter my first year in a strong position

[@6977202865]

man i have you slow mo video on 0.25 speed. so even more slow mo an i pause it prery much in every frame. i still cant figure out the difference between back and top spin..... whn i play i can generate back spin but i dont get the difference with the top spin!!! looks sooo identical!!

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

😁 the contact point can have a big impact

[@DeepakPandey-mw1te]

These services in slow motion

[@MCh-pl8qi]

❤❤excellent

[@tnvol5331]

more slow motion

[@TheTableTennisServiceGuy]

This was more about training methods, rather than technical serving. So, I chose not to include so many slow motions shots. Next one will have lots of angles and slow motion.

[@PhantomGreyfire]

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