There is a point at which attempting to hit the ball any harder means you will lose your good form, and make more mistakes, as your put too much strain on your muscles and nervous system. Speed glue allows you to hit harder with your best technique, which can be helpful in three ways:
- Imagine your best match play technique means that you hit 80% of your forehand loops on the table. With speed glue, you can keep the same technique, and you will be hitting harder and with more spin due to the glue, and you will probably get a increase in your consistency as well, to say maybe 85%, due to the extra control from the increased spin.
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Instead, because the speed glue increases your speed and spin, you could decide to slow down your stroke a fraction to allow better technique, up to the point where you are hitting just as fast as when you did not use speed glue. But now you are hitting with better technique, so your consistency should increase to somewhere more like 90%.
Of course, you could also steer a course somewhere in between these two examples, allowing slightly better technique and slightly quicker and spinnier shots.
- Because speed glue increases the speed and spin of your strokes, you can also use a shortened stroke to still attack with power and spin, even when you are unable to use your normal full swing. This can be a tremendous advantage when you do not have time to swing fully, such as when an opponent has made a strong attack to your playing elbow. A modern professional will simply sway his body to the side and use a shortened counterhit or loop to return the ball with an amazing amount of power and spin.
These are the major advantages of speed gluing. But surely there must be a downside? Well, yes there is, but it's certainly not as bad as the advantages are good. I'll discuss the downsides of speed gluing on the next page.
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