Hi I'm Alois Rosario from PingSkills. In this lesson we're going to show you the
backhand chop. The backend chop is a stroke used by defensive players when
they're further away from the table. Because you have a bit more time you could turn
more side onto the table. Your start position with your bat is up around
your left ear and your finish position is down near your right knee.
So we turn ourselves side on if you've got time
start with your bat at your left ear and come straight through down towards your
right knee. At the end of your stroke you could even just put your hand on your
right knee to know that the bat is finishing in the correct position.
Because Jeff's turned side on you can see that he's still hitting the ball
from in front of his body when he's contacting the ball so the ball is
contacted right in front of his body and then he's swinging through.
Let's have a look now at the different angle of your stroke. If the ball is
coming really fast at you your stroke can be more vertical because you don't
need much forward momentum to get the ball back over the net but if the stroke
is slower then you can start a little bit further behind and finish further
forward so now you can see that Jeff is finishing in front of his knee to get
that ball to go forward because he now needs to generate the speed.
The next thing we need to think about is what type of rubber you're using. Long pimples can
really help you to be able to absorb the spin of the topspin player and also slow
down the ball. Let's have a look now if Jeff topspins the ball and I'm using
inverted rubber what happens. If I just put my bat to the ball the ball flies
off the end of the table. Now I'm going to use the long pimple rubber and let's
see what happens.
You can see that the long pimple absorbs the speed and allows me to control that
topspin back onto the table without having to do anything so for the chopper
when they're back away from the table if there's a lot of spin or a lot of speed
on the ball and they're using the inverted rubber the ball is going to
tend to fly off the end of the table but if they're using the long pimple rubber
it's much easier to control that topspin back onto the table. The stroke is
basically the same with the long pimples but now Jeff doesn't have to worry about
the speed and spin so much and can just control the ball back onto the table.