how do you put a spin on a ping pong ball serve. I used to play a guy that when he served, i would hit a?
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u flip ur wrists...its hard to explain on here but basically its like throwing a cureball in baseball...its all in the wrist and it depends how hard/fast u flick ur wrists and the direction as well that determines how much or wut type of spin you use...its alot like putting spin on a tennis ball...if that helps
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Two people before me, Bella and Cruzer, have answered your question. Cruzer's answer was quite long and detailed while Bella's answer was very short and sweet.\n\nI'm a nationally certified Tennis instructor, and I can tell you that Cruzer's advice, though impressive in its detail and volume, is completely uninformed and incorrect.\n\nAlthough Bella's answer was quite short, she's completely correct. \n\nIndeed, taking PRIVATE Tennis lessons from a renowned Tennis instructor is the surest and shortest route to improvement. Rest assured that the only way to control the ball is by learning proper technique and spin, be it topspin or slice.\n\nYou might be tempted to take group lessons, but do yourself a favor and leave this to beginners. For sure, if you've been playing tennis for a while and have seen too little improvement, only PRIVATE tennis lessons will do.
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if ur only using 1 hand, use 2 first of all its easier for most people. Also, just know that foot placement and where u put your body weight is very important. before you hit the ball, your weight should be in your back leg ... when you swing it shifts to the front, so you rotate your body into the swing , and thats how a lot of people mess up their backhands. i cant really help u out man, i have no idea what your swing looks like, get advice from a tennis club pro or something. :)
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The vast majority of the time, the problem is the toss.  If a serve falls short and into the net, the server has usually tossed the ball too far in front of him/herself or not high enough.  If a serve goes long, the server has usually tossed the ball too far behind him/herself or too high.  Try practicing the service motion and toss without a racquet.  Then, when you practice serving with a racquet, try adjusting your toss when you miss either short or long.
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You can watch or go to a tennis competition and observe how the advance level players serve and just imitate and practice it. Try the underhand serve it will go over the net, but you got to adjust your strength (power) , so the ball wont go flying out of the court or lines.\nCheck out the link below, the videos on there teaches you the correct way to serve a tennis ball!!!
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ok where to start, the basics to a serve are basically the same for most people and even the pros.\n\nto start off, you want your back foot to behind your front foot. for example, if your right handed, youre left foot would be in front of your body and your right foot would almost be behind. if you watch all the pros, they basically all do this and it gives you a lot of body rotation. you can either choose to slide your feet in or keep them there, whichever is more comfortable. \n\nalso, you want to be hitting it with preferably a continental serve(you can look it up for pictures of it if you dont know what it is). you can easily kick serve with it or get a nice flat serve if you flick your wrists. pros already get a lot of speed just by their arm motion and the flick of their wrists, which is one of the hardest things to learn.\n\nlearn where to toss the serve so that it is comfortable for you and is best for whichever serve you are doing. \n\nthats all i can think of at the moment.... so good luck. if you can find videos of aggasi serving, it is a nice solid serve to learn off of, otherwise federer's is nice as well.
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When you throw the ball up for the serve make sure that when you make contact with the ball your arm is fully extended. Then when you can do that add a power by bending your wrist. That will add power and help control.
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When  I played baseline it was The Black Dahlia Murder. Since I've started playing a serve & volley game I've changed to  OK Go. Kinda calms me down which is what I need for net, smooth and solid.
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i answered a similar question on another post, i'll just copy and paste here.. =P\n\n1) don't use ur fist to overhand serve. that might seem easier to give the power but that's not good cuz u can't control ur serve.\n\n2) a good friend of mine who plays very well always says to keep ur fingers close when serving. that gives a good floater if done correctly. but for me, i like it w/ my hand wide open. if u get used to and good at it, u can also serve floaters w/ hand wide opened. so that i guess it's up to u, whichever u feel more comfortable with.\n\n3) toss the ball in front of u, not rite above ur head or behind. tossing is very important actually. no need to toss too high. grab the ball w/ ur serving hand and extend up, just slightly in front of u, but parallel to ur serving shoulder, that should be that point where u hit the ball.\n\n4) do not bend ur elbow. at the point where u contact with the ball, ur arm should be straight, reaching for it. (pretty much the highest point of ur swing) u r not hitting it rite by ur ears.\n\n5) follow thru ur arm swing. some ppl stop rite after hitting the ball w/o following thru. that might work, but follow thru will give more power.\n\n6) snap ur wrist. that doesn't mean to hit the ball down. ur wrist should be snapping down along w/ ur follow thru, that will give the ball a nice projectile. some ppl snap it hard enough to give a lot of spin on the ball. but please, don't break ur wrist!\n\nif u r male, u should hav enough arm strength the serve the ball over, so what u need to concentrate on is how ur palm contact the ball. also depend on ur height. if u r really tall, u don't wanna hit too bottom of the ball to give a high serve. (unless u mean to do it.) if u r shorter, then hit it more bottom. i'm guess between the horizon line to it's 45 degree down is good. (bottom doesn't mean right under.)\n\nlook at where u r serving to, imagine the line of how u want ur ball goes. then look at where ur hand is when making contact to the ball.\n\nthat works for female too, but a lot of female when they start overhand serve, they don't hav enough strength. one of the things they r missing is, using their body to help. this is how i started learning overhand serve in junior high (i served sideway and round house b4 that): 1st, say if u serve w/ ur right hand, the ready position will be, ur right leg in the back, left leg front, put the weight on ur right leg. as u toss and hit the ball, u r also changing ur weight from ur right leg to ur left, so u r like walking forward. u r actually throwing ur right side body to the front, ur right hand is only use to hit the ball, where the power is actually coming from ur body.\n\nHIT the ball, not pushing it.\n\nlastly, of cuz, a lot of practise! =P\n\noh yeah, as u r serving, think of it: "SMACK IT LIKE IT JUST SMACKED U!!"\n\nthat was what work for me, even thou it might not be "correct".  if u can't change certain habits u hav, instead of forcing urself to change, be good with what u've got then.\n\nu said vball season is over, do u mean beach vball, or skool season?  cuz indoor vball just started its spring season.  =)\n\nhappy vballing  ^ ^=
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What they are trying to tell you is to continue your stroke path so you maintain a full follow through.  This is important so as to maintain control and depth on your groundstrokes.  Otherwise your ball won't have the correct rotaion and will lack "bite" which would include topspin.  If you want to apply topspin look into proper grips, then step into the direction of your shot, imagine hitting through three balls in a line as you brush up the back of the ball and finish the shot with your racket over/around your opposite shoulder.  If you follow what I said intently you will be hitting topspin in no time.  Or go out to your public tennis courts and stop and watch the best player you can find.  You will see how its done and they might even be willing to show you if you are polite about it.  Hope this helps.
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place your ball exactly where it was and your buddy has to play his where it stops. i did that this year and my ball ended up in the hole.  what luck hey
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yep, fast and spin together such that your hands move the same way each time but not the ball.\n\nStart with spin first and then gain speed on the spins.
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7-10-1? three pins? that's much easier than just 7-10. take a 8 lb ball, go from left and aim at the right of the 1 pin. let the 1 bounce and hit the 7 while the ball will also bounce to hit the 10! Got it?
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Get one of those pitchback net things and practice throwing inside the square and work on your control first and then you can add some speed.
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i know how hard it is to be short and play vball. i'm 5'4" and i've ALWAYS been a DS or libero. really work on your serve and quick feet. i spent a whole summer just perfecting all my serves (jump, floater, top spin, EVERYTHING) because i'm usually a DS so i always serve. my coaches always trust me when it comes to serving and if it's an important serve, they trust me to take it because they're confident in me. i served 97.2% on my last season. also, footwork and ALWAYS being low helps. if you're fast and you can get to any ball, they'll definitely think more of you. just keep working hard and work on rolls/dives too! and getting off the floor REALLY quickly. \ntheres a drill where you lay on the ground and someone slams the ball against the ground, making it bounce back up, and as soon as the ball contacts the floor, you get up as fast as you can, get to the ball and pass to a target.then right where you ended up, you get back on the ground and do it over and over and over. i LOVE that drill.
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just click on the cue stick with your mouse and drag it, then release your click and your cue will send the ball flying, i am assuming you are talking about yahoo pool, since this is under the snooker and pool section. Cheers
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i'm not very good at underhand serving so i could offer a little tips on the overhand serve.  r u a male or female? \n \n1) don't use ur fist to overhand serve.  that might seem easier to give the power but that's not good cuz u can't control ur serve.\n\n2) a good friend of mine who plays very well always says to keep ur fingers close when serving.  that gives a good floater (a ball that has no spins causing a floating action that could drift off the direction sometimes) if done correctly.  but for me, i like it w/ my hand wide open.  if u get used to and good at it, u can also serve floaters w/ hand wide opened.  so that i guess it's up to u, whichever u feel more comfortable with.\n\n3) toss the ball in front of u, not rite above ur head or behind.  tossing is very important actually.  no need to toss too high.  grab the ball w/ ur serving hand and extend up, just slightly in front of u, but parallel to ur serving shoulder, that should be that point where u hit the ball.\n\n4) do not bend ur elbow.  at the point where u contact with the ball, ur arm should be straight, reaching for it. (pretty much the highest point of ur swing)  u r not hitting it rite by ur ears.\n\n5) follow thru ur arm swing.  some ppl stop rite after hitting the ball w/o following thru.  that might work, but follow thru will give more power.\n\n6) snap ur wrist.  that doesn't mean to hit the ball down.  ur wrist should be snapping down along w/ ur follow thru, that will give the ball a nice projectile.  some ppl snap it hard enough to give a lot of spin on the ball.  but please, don't break ur wrist!\n\nif u r male, u should hav enough arm strength the serve the ball over, so what u need to concentrate on is how ur palm contact the ball. also depend on ur height.  if u r really tall, u don't wanna hit too bottom of the ball to give a high serve.  (unless u mean to do it.)  if u r shorter, then hit it more bottom.  i'm guess between the horizon line to it's 45 degree down is good.  (bottom doesn't mean right under.)\n\nlook at where u r serving to, imagine the line of how u want ur ball goes.  then look at where ur hand is when making contact to the ball.\n\nthat works for female too, but a lot of female when they start overhand serve, they don't hav enough strength.  one of the things they r missing is, using their body to help.  this is how i started learning overhand serve in junior high (i served sideway and round house b4 that):  1st, say if u serve w/ ur right hand, the ready position will be, ur right leg in the back, left leg front, put the weight on ur right leg.  as u toss and hit the ball, u r also changing ur weight from ur right leg to ur left, so u r like walking forward.  u r actually throwing ur right side body to the front, ur right hand is only use to hit the ball, where the power is actually coming from ur body.\n\nHIT the ball, not pushing it.\n\nlastly, of cuz, a lot of practise!  =P\n\noh yeah, as u r serving, think of it: "SMACK IT LIKE IT JUST SMACKED U!!"\n\nthis is only my 2 cents, and everyone is different.  to be correct is important, but to be good at what u've got is even better.  i'm not very good in explaining in words, but i hope this will help.