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Hi I'm Alois Rosario and I'm Jeff Plumb from PingSkills.com and today we are going to talk
about the forehand topspin against block.
SO let us have a look at the 3 basic things we need to consider with the forehand topspin
stroke.
Firstly let us consider our leg position. We need to have our feet nice and wide apart,
you can either be quite square on to the table or because it is more of an aggressive stroke
you can turn a little bit more towards your forehand side.
The second thing we need to consider is your start position. You are starting with your
bat fairly flat you can turn it over, we will talk about that a little bit later, but your
starting position needs to be down and around knee high or between your hip and you knee.
The third thing to consider is we need to make a brushing contact and then finish with
your bat up nice and high above your head with a 90 degree angle here and a 90 degree
angle here.
When you are starting out you can start with a nice flat bat like Jeff is doing here. As
you can see he is still generating topspin on the ball by starting low and finishing
high and he is brushing up the back of the ball. But there will be a limit to how fast
you can hit this type of stroke with such a lifting action. Eventually the ball has
to go off the end of the end of the table. So how do we hit the ball faster? There are
two things, one we need to turn our bat forward and we need to get our stroke a little bit
more forward as well. So rather than the very lifting stroke now we are starting a little
bit further back with the angle down and coming forward.
If you have found this lesson on the forehand topspin useful, go to PingSkills.com where
you will find lots more information about the strokes of Table Tennis.