Congratulations! Very good explanations and servers. Whatching u doing it seems so easy, but its very hard to do. Hope see more details about the correct wrist e forearm movement.
Greetings from the States. One of the best explanations of how to effectively do short and long serves I have every seen - I mean that. Explaining the height of the ball above the table and also more exact on place ball should bounce on server's side of table is all excellent information. I will be playing in about an hour with a friend and will use what I just learned from this video then (I know it will take practice to get it right). Thank you!
The Ti Long of England! These videos are extremely useful. It is virtually pointless going and playing at any club if these videos are not viewed, studied and the techniques implemented. More drills please, excercises, pre-cursor movements, paddle choices, moving, knee bending, posture, stance, serves, blocks, pushes pleeeeease! Can't wait!
I love your tuts on Tom's channel. Thank You for launching your own. It would be nice to see not only isolated serve technique but in conjunction with following second ball trajectories, spin, placement, proper using of your serve for planning a rally and taking initiative. Another topic - concentration, focus point, alertness and in the same time relaxation, stamina, mental stability during a game. btw there are some sound plugins for getting rid of reberberation/echo in postproduction. Hope that was readable
Hi Craig, super excited about your channel! Many folks have expressed my positive feelings for your video so I'd like to offer my constructive feedback on what I'd hope to see in future videos. For your camera angles shot from side of table, please consider framing more of the table. With you centered in the frame there is a bunch of wasted space to the left side of the frame, and most times the net is mostly or entirely unseen which reduces our sense of depth for your bounce. Might help to have more of a long shot so we can see where your serve lands on the other side of the net. Lastly, would also like to see simultaneous camera views; i.e. close up of your serve and a long shot of the table. Please keep up the good work. I am going to share your channel with my club members!
@@TheTableTennisServiceGuy Master - it sounds very mystical, since I need to guess most of things. So, basically as you are already aware, your mic is the issue. Also, please can you add some dimensions like, what kind of serves are good for very agile players and which ones are for Po (the dragon warrior) ? If you didn't catch that then watch Kung Fu Panda.
My favorite part of the sport, serving! I swear if I practiced my forehand as much as I do my serve, I would be a much better player. But seeing guys eat my serve is very satisfying
Hi Craig, please make a service compilation of videos. I would also like to hear your story with learning and practicing each type of serve. You showed long topspin service in this video, what do you think about long underspin? Would also like to see separate videos on service in doubles both basic and more advanced. I'm 59 years old American and have been working on my service game for the past 6 months finally seeing improvement recently. Any advice for senior players would be great. Cheers.
Thank you for finally deciding to post your own TH-cam videos! ... they are excellent. Your instructional approach is spot on as you break down the various aspects of the service. I now have the 3" cones for practicing serves. If you have time, I would appreicate a video on doubles service (we old folks play a lot more doubles than singles!). thanks
I loved the videos about killer serves ! These ones are even better ! I will follow you, would like to continue improving about tactics from one or another serve in order to optimize backhand topspin for example !
Yeah finally the Channel i waited for, watched your tut's on other Channels they were great, waiting for more Content but please keep it easy for beginners also ;) WE know youre good and some start at basics Like this, perfect
Really glad you have your own channel now. I've watched your other videos and love them. If you could make a video explaining the hook or shovel serve that would be awesome. I've got the basic serve down but can't seem to generate much spin, especially side/under. My better opponents usually kill it. I think there's a twist or jerk the wrist I am missing. Thanks again for the great instruction.
love your vids! I'm a penholder and find your content extremely useful, and i wonder if you have the capacity to demonstrate penhold versions along side shakehand versions of serves. i know the differences are often minor, but it would be helpful for me. that being said, carry on the amazing work!
Yes, I have done many clips on Instagram for penholders and I recorded one today actually. I’ll post some of those penhold clips on here as shorts too. Keep an eye out for them.
Thank you, i really needed today ...need help in twiddling game strategies with donic coppa gold fh & rebellion long pip bh ...wish u a happy day ahead!
Great to see you have your own channel Craig 👍 Really like the video with some useful tips, I was just wondering do you change your grip slightly between the long fast serve & short serve
Hi Craig, Thanks a lot for your help ! I'm a tall player 198 cm (6'4) and alway played since my 16 (first table). After a long life travelling at 39 I decided to settle in New Calédonia (French paradise Island in the pacific). Unfortunatly there is no coach around here and Im struglling to improve... Do you have some tips for tall players ? I think my best shot is my serve as I can do pendulum reverse pendulum hammer and many fast and short serves. My weakness been the forehand topspin (what an hell shot to master for me ! )... Thanks again for all your work.
I will suggest you watch a lot of the tall European players and copy them. One thing you might find is that they appear to be back dominant players. Nevertheless watch alot of their videos and matches and formulate your playing style
Hi Craig, great to see you doing well with your channel 👍😉 Really enjoying the videos. One thing I always wondered about is tension in the fingers on contact. For rallies , spinny open ups as well as for serves! My thoughts previously were that squeezing the racket at contact gives you more spin, but when I started doing the slow sidespin loops I found a very soft grip during contact more beneficial (as opposed to doing a slow top spinny open up). So what should we do for spinny serves? Grip at contact or keep it soft? What's the reasoning here?
I think there’ll be a natural squeezing on the point of contact. It’s hard to accelerate whilst being loose at the same time. However, if you’re squeezing as hard as you can (or too early) then yes, that can hinder spin.
About spin eg backspin serves: does the ball really roll along the racket when you get a lot of friction ? Or is this a myth ? I have heard that for more back backspin, contact on leading edge of racket as compared with the back edge (which produces less spin), because of this rolling explanation ( contact at back edge has no rubber to roll on). Thanks
Great question. I really cannot see how it’s possible for the ball to stay on the rubber and roll. The points on contact are correct (in my view) but not because of the “rolling”. The leading part of the bat is often the fastest moving, so it’s good to think about aiming for that leading edge. Contacting the back edge (or more in the middle) will help with a no spin effect but it’s also important to have less acceleration and you’ll often find that you subconsciously contact the ball thicker too. *As soon as the ball hits the bat, it’ll bounce off. Therefore, the ball cannot roll along the bat* 👍
Would you not want to bounce your serve at the same place on the table or at least don't always place backspin or topspin at a length where the opponent can read your serve simply by seeing where the first bounce is.
What do you think is more important for a low ranked player: variation within a serve motion or variation of serve motions? I am a player that rely a lot on my serves and on control via blocking and placement. It seems my game has started to turn into suprising my opponent with serves, but they are less suprised when they start to read my variation of serve motions in the second or third set, so I have to constantly keep switching it up and may run short of variation so that the quality is hard to maintain without risk. This depends on the level of my opponent though -- higher level players seem to get more often tricked by variation within a serve motion rather than variation of the serve motion. What would you focus on in serve training? I think this difference may be dependant on your opponents temperament as well. I know I hate it myself when someone do the same serve over and over again and I start to get an itch to try and switch up my return and do it differently. If you play someone who seems like someone that gets impatient, I suppose less variation overall is better. A trick I like to do some times is produce the same serve (the same action on the ball) with different serve motions. Some times it makes my opponent overthink things ;-D
I wish you had checked first the quality of your audio before continuing on. I'm sure you're topic would have been beneficial to me had your audio sounded clear and not echoeing.
thank you for your comment and your constructive criticism. I'm certain constructive criticism makes content creators much better at there craft. people (especially supporters) are so sensitive to anything that isnt gushing praise, and tend to react badly. ignore them. also, thank you to Craig for taking the comment in stride! well done, we're all better for it.
@@TheTableTennisServiceGuy I know but I mean with a better angle , because with the perspective it's not the best way in my point of view. Film the two parts of the table with a side and overhead angle maybe.
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Hey Craig, great video, you should really invest in some sound gear as its quite hard to listen to the echoing sound of your voice. All the best!
Thank you very much. I’m going to check out some audio equipment 👍
@@TheTableTennisServiceGuyAt least I can see the subtitle to substitute your echoing.
The mic didn’t connect properly but glad you found a solution 👍
Great content.
It seems that the 🎤 you had on you was not the one recording, it sounded like the one on the camera recorded the audio.
Believe it or not, it was on. Just not great at all. Going to look into some other equipment.
Yep, it wasn’t connect 🤦🏻♂️
Wow, we have seen your amazing videos on other channels. Good to see your channel. Congratulations 👏👏👏
Can you reupload this video with good audio?
Nice to see your own chanel Craig..
Your fan from Indonesia🇮🇩😊
Hey 👋
Congratulations!
Very good explanations and servers.
Whatching u doing it seems so easy, but its very hard to do.
Hope see more details about the correct wrist e forearm movement.
Greetings from the States. One of the best explanations of how to effectively do short and long serves I have every seen - I mean that. Explaining the height of the ball above the table and also more exact on place ball should bounce on server's side of table is all excellent information. I will be playing in about an hour with a friend and will use what I just learned from this video then (I know it will take practice to get it right). Thank you!
Have fun 👍
The Ti Long of England! These videos are extremely useful. It is virtually pointless going and playing at any club if these videos are not viewed, studied and the techniques implemented. More drills please, excercises, pre-cursor movements, paddle choices, moving, knee bending, posture, stance, serves, blocks, pushes pleeeeease! Can't wait!
💪💪💪
love ti long too, and hope to visit his club some day!
@@robertmartian yes, LOVE T'longs big stick there which he uses to manipulate his pupils sometimes. (Craig, take note LOL)
I love your tuts on Tom's channel. Thank You for launching your own. It would be nice to see not only isolated serve technique but in conjunction with following second ball trajectories, spin, placement, proper using of your serve for planning a rally and taking initiative. Another topic - concentration, focus point, alertness and in the same time relaxation, stamina, mental stability during a game. btw there are some sound plugins for getting rid of reberberation/echo in postproduction. Hope that was readable
Awesome content!
Thank you so much for sharing 👍
Hi Craig, super excited about your channel! Many folks have expressed my positive feelings for your video so I'd like to offer my constructive feedback on what I'd hope to see in future videos.
For your camera angles shot from side of table, please consider framing more of the table. With you centered in the frame there is a bunch of wasted space to the left side of the frame, and most times the net is mostly or entirely unseen which reduces our sense of depth for your bounce. Might help to have more of a long shot so we can see where your serve lands on the other side of the net. Lastly, would also like to see simultaneous camera views; i.e. close up of your serve and a long shot of the table.
Please keep up the good work. I am going to share your channel with my club members!
Thank you for your feedback. I’m sure I’ll get a little better each time. Thanks for following along and for the promo 👍
Hey Craig, great video but you need to do something about the sound. Get a little microphone or something like that. Keep on.
Greetings
Thank you. The microphone didn’t connect, next time it’ll work 🎤 👍
The Master himself. What more can mortals ask for?! It's a pity that I can only hit like and subscribe once.
😁😁😁
@@TheTableTennisServiceGuy Master - it sounds very mystical, since I need to guess most of things. So, basically as you are already aware, your mic is the issue. Also, please can you add some dimensions like, what kind of serves are good for very agile players and which ones are for Po (the dragon warrior) ? If you didn't catch that then watch Kung Fu Panda.
Thanks for your wonderful explanation Craig ❤❤❤
Hi Craig. Thank you very much for this tutorial. It's very impressive. I also love table tennis so much and I'm practicing it every day. Thanks again.
Hola, felicidades por el canal. Excelente contenido 👌
Thanks Craig
Glad to see that you finally have your own channel, looking forward to videos from the "Master"
Thank you, more to come
My favorite part of the sport, serving!
I swear if I practiced my forehand as much as I do my serve, I would be a much better player. But seeing guys eat my serve is very satisfying
There’s no feeling quite like it!
Very good explanation. I don't know you that well, but I will fully support you. I'm happy to have been able to follow this channel from the start
Great to see you with your own channel man. Looking forward to some great videos in the future!
Finally you started YT channel!
Great Content
So happy you have a channel! Immediately subscribed
Thanks for subbing
Hi Craig, please make a service compilation of videos. I would also like to hear your story with learning and practicing each type of serve.
You showed long topspin service in this video, what do you think about long underspin?
Would also like to see separate videos on service in doubles both basic and more advanced. I'm 59 years old American and have been working on my service game for the past 6 months finally seeing improvement recently. Any advice for senior players would be great. Cheers.
Thank you very much. I’ll try and cover as much as I can 👍
Thank you for finally deciding to post your own TH-cam videos! ... they are excellent. Your instructional approach is spot on as you break down the various aspects of the service. I now have the 3" cones for practicing serves. If you have time, I would appreicate a video on doubles service (we old folks play a lot more doubles than singles!). thanks
Thank you. Doubles serving is on my radar 👌
I loved the videos about killer serves ! These ones are even better ! I will follow you, would like to continue improving about tactics from one or another serve in order to optimize backhand topspin for example !
Lovely video. Hope to see more since service is such an important skill in TTennis
Hi Craig, congrats with your new channel and great first video!
Greetings from Berlaar. Danny (and Jules)
Hey Danny 👋
I hope all is well with you both 💪
Yeah finally the Channel i waited for, watched your tut's on other Channels they were great, waiting for more Content but please keep it easy for beginners also ;) WE know youre good and some start at basics Like this, perfect
Thanks for your comment. I shall do my best to try and cater for as many people as possible.
Really glad you have your own channel now. I've watched your other videos and love them. If you could make a video explaining the hook or shovel serve that would be awesome. I've got the basic serve down but can't seem to generate much spin, especially side/under. My better opponents usually kill it. I think there's a twist or jerk the wrist I am missing. Thanks again for the great instruction.
love your vids! I'm a penholder and find your content extremely useful, and i wonder if you have the capacity to demonstrate penhold versions along side shakehand versions of serves. i know the differences are often minor, but it would be helpful for me. that being said, carry on the amazing work!
Yes, I have done many clips on Instagram for penholders and I recorded one today actually. I’ll post some of those penhold clips on here as shorts too. Keep an eye out for them.
Thank you for sharing your expertise. I have a question could you also demonstrate serving in a doubles situation?
Very informative 👍
Glad you think so!
Thanks for these useful tips. Where do you serve for a topspin/side spin long serve? And for a backspin/side spin long serve?
You still want to keep the contact low and close to you…
This is great stuff....
great video
Thank you, i really needed today ...need help in twiddling game strategies with donic coppa gold fh & rebellion long pip bh ...wish u a happy day ahead!
Big fan of yours ❤
Thank you
Nice work 🏓
Thanks.
Good tips.. has to improve your sound system.. get an assistant to videotape?
I think the hall needs some sound padding
Great to see you have your own channel Craig 👍
Really like the video with some useful tips, I was just wondering do you change your grip slightly between the long fast serve & short serve
Thank you. Good question. I don’t believe I do, if so, it’s not significant 👍
sound too much echo, otherwise excellent
Always a pleasure to see you doing the serves, shame about the echoie voice!!
My mic didn’t connect 🤦🏻♂️
Good video Craig 😁
Thanks 👍
Nice post, but audio not ok. Pl redo the sound portion pl.
Tks
Hi Craig,
Thanks a lot for your help ! I'm a tall player 198 cm (6'4) and alway played since my 16 (first table). After a long life travelling at 39 I decided to settle in New Calédonia (French paradise Island in the pacific). Unfortunatly there is no coach around here and Im struglling to improve... Do you have some tips for tall players ?
I think my best shot is my serve as I can do pendulum reverse pendulum hammer and many fast and short serves. My weakness been the forehand topspin (what an hell shot to master for me ! )...
Thanks again for all your work.
I will suggest you watch a lot of the tall European players and copy them.
One thing you might find is that they appear to be back dominant players. Nevertheless watch alot of their videos and matches and formulate your playing style
Hi Craig, great to see you doing well with your channel 👍😉 Really enjoying the videos. One thing I always wondered about is tension in the fingers on contact. For rallies , spinny open ups as well as for serves! My thoughts previously were that squeezing the racket at contact gives you more spin, but when I started doing the slow sidespin loops I found a very soft grip during contact more beneficial (as opposed to doing a slow top spinny open up). So what should we do for spinny serves? Grip at contact or keep it soft? What's the reasoning here?
I think there’ll be a natural squeezing on the point of contact. It’s hard to accelerate whilst being loose at the same time. However, if you’re squeezing as hard as you can (or too early) then yes, that can hinder spin.
About spin eg backspin serves: does the ball really roll along the racket when you get a lot of friction ? Or is this a myth ? I have heard that for more back backspin, contact on leading edge of racket as compared with the back edge (which produces less spin), because of this rolling explanation ( contact at back edge has no rubber to roll on).
Thanks
Great question. I really cannot see how it’s possible for the ball to stay on the rubber and roll.
The points on contact are correct (in my view) but not because of the “rolling”. The leading part of the bat is often the fastest moving, so it’s good to think about aiming for that leading edge.
Contacting the back edge (or more in the middle) will help with a no spin effect but it’s also important to have less acceleration and you’ll often find that you subconsciously contact the ball thicker too.
*As soon as the ball hits the bat, it’ll bounce off. Therefore, the ball cannot roll along the bat* 👍
@@TheTableTennisServiceGuy thanks for the insight
Great video please fix your audio almost unwatchable because of sound
The mic didn’t connect 😔 Next one will be clearer
So glad you decided to make your own channel. I feel like I've already learned so much from you!
💪
Would you not want to bounce your serve at the same place on the table or at least don't always place backspin or topspin at a length where the opponent can read your serve simply by seeing where the first bounce is.
What do you think is more important for a low ranked player: variation within a serve motion or variation of serve motions? I am a player that rely a lot on my serves and on control via blocking and placement. It seems my game has started to turn into suprising my opponent with serves, but they are less suprised when they start to read my variation of serve motions in the second or third set, so I have to constantly keep switching it up and may run short of variation so that the quality is hard to maintain without risk. This depends on the level of my opponent though -- higher level players seem to get more often tricked by variation within a serve motion rather than variation of the serve motion. What would you focus on in serve training?
I think this difference may be dependant on your opponents temperament as well. I know I hate it myself when someone do the same serve over and over again and I start to get an itch to try and switch up my return and do it differently. If you play someone who seems like someone that gets impatient, I suppose less variation overall is better.
A trick I like to do some times is produce the same serve (the same action on the ball) with different serve motions. Some times it makes my opponent overthink things ;-D
thank you very much dear coach, Im from IRAN, please subtitle your voice or speak slowly that Iranian use your class❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏
Thanks! IMHO It would be better to open where and how balls are landing on opposite side of table
thanks for the video, but the sound it´s no good
I wish you had checked first the quality of your audio before continuing on. I'm sure you're topic would have been beneficial to me had your audio sounded clear and not echoeing.
I thought was a poor mic, didn’t realise it hadn’t connected. We live and learn and all future videos are sorted 👌
use CC. you can read what he's saying.
Its not that bad, just watch it and stop moaning
thank you for your comment and your constructive criticism. I'm certain constructive criticism makes content creators much better at there craft. people (especially supporters) are so sensitive to anything that isnt gushing praise, and tend to react badly. ignore them. also, thank you to Craig for taking the comment in stride! well done, we're all better for it.
good tips but too much echo
It could be better to see the two part of the table for short serves etc
I do show the short serves from the other angle too 👍
@@TheTableTennisServiceGuy I know but I mean with a better angle , because with the perspective it's not the best way in my point of view. Film the two parts of the table with a side and overhead angle maybe.
Dommage que le son soit inaudible 😢
seems logical, but could you not pick a worse sound environment? Environmental chambers feature square wall to enhance distortion and you have
i can barely hear you. kindly improve your sound recording.
My mic didn’t connect 😔
sound is ok, not the best, but not as bad as described @@TheTableTennisServiceGuy
You need to sort out a proper Mic. Awful sound.
Mic didn’t connect 😔
bad audio
Can't hear anything
What’s with all this nonsense of taking your coat off and fiddling with your bat 🤷♂️👎🤪🏴
thats his style mate. 🧔♂
@@StevesDataStore not very good is it. Its a turn off for me 🤷♂️👎
😂
That was my favourite part😂
@@sharpvidtube💪😂