Welcome to the ask the coach show where PingSkills answers your table tennis questions!

This week the show consists of:

 * The Joke of the Week

 * Search the PingSkills website

 * Inner Belief

 * The Tip of the Week - Serving Practice Development

 * 4 Questions

 * And a fun fact

Good morning, Alois and Jeff, as I have limited opportunities to practice with someone who can return the balls as consistently or feed multi ball like you, I rely on my robot. Please let me know the type of ball you are sending to Jeff for the following: FH Counter hit: looks to me like a moderate topspin, FH topspin against block: does the block have just a bit of topspin? I should be able to work out the frequency from your videos. I can also vary the placement/flight by using the scatter function. I may also program 3-4 balls in the fh court and set at random. I'll start at 40 bpm, and then gradually to 60 bpm. I find that if the frequency setting is too high the stroke shortens too much. Thanking you for your assistance, as always.

I would like to adopt Jeff's forehand style of the shorter arm and the elbow bent at a 90 degree angle (and kept that way thoughout the swing). Do you have any suggestions on how to best practice this/put this style into play?

If someone were to do a roller shot from under the table and managed to make the ball roll perfectly without any bounces(not even a small bounce). Is that legal?

I started playing table tennis for over a month now, I have a coach but I'm currently having problems with serving because the serve I do is very basic and I really want to improve, is there any recommendations for a serve that is good for me to do?

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