There is no doubt that being able to put spin on the ball when serving is important. After all, if you can't put much spin on the ball, you can't vary your spin very much either, can you?
If you are not getting as much spin as you would like on your serve, you have many options to increase the spin you are generating. Here is a number of them.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: Indefinite
Here's How:
- Make sure that you are skimming the edge of the ball, rather than hitting towards the center of the ball. The closer to the edge contact is made, the more spin you will generate.
- Increase the amount of wrist snap or arm speed that you are using.
- Use the tip of the bat to make contact with the ball, since the tip moves faster when the wrist is snapped.
- Use a little extra height on your ball toss. The extra speed of the ball will be partly converted into extra spin as well as speed if you hit the ball with some brushing action.
- Avoid hitting the ball down into the table - this tends to kill some of the spin (which is actually quite nifty for producing a low spin ball that looks spinny!).
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