HOW TO BACKHAND SLICE LIKE A PRO!

Oh, that's wild. I'm just going to go right into it. I hope you can learn something from this and improve your backhand slides at home. So that's just a regular backhand slide on a normal service. A side spinning pendulum service. And I think it's very important on this shot that you stay low with your body. And that you take the ball at a low point. If you take it up here, when the ball is jumping up, it's going to get a lot worse. And if you wait until the ball is rolling, it gives speed into the racket. And it helps you get more spin, even if you do a little bit less. So if you don't stop halfway through, you have to really go for it to get enough bounce. The things I think about when I do this is... I really try to make sure that I'm following the ball's motion. Almost as if I was just going to do a touch receive. But then when the ball is coming, I go back. I stay near. I want to stay focused on the ball. Then I go a little bit through it with the left leg also. Just to really rotate into the ball. I think that's a good way to make it more safe. And secure that you can manage to get a good touch. Of course, you cannot do this slice on every serve, in every situation. It's quite limited, because it requires a certain type of spin in the ball. But here are some of my favorite situations to use this type of slice. Against a right-handed player, or if you are right-handed yourself, doing the regular side-spin service. If the ball is rotating perfectly into your racket, you just go through the ball and you make a lot of spin, even without actually doing so much yourself. On down-spin serves, I believe it's easier to make a topspin. You can see I go through the ball. It makes it very, very good and secure. And then on topspin serves, you go down into the ball against the spin, and again you get a secure touch. If I try to, for example, make down-spin on down-spin, I got a very, very good touch there, but it doesn't stay in the racket the same way when you go on the same spin as the topspin. It's much, much easier and more safe to go against the spin. Another great situation to use this, I think, if you're a little bit too far from the table to spin on a half-court ball, you can do this. Again, it's a down-spin ball. You go against. It looks maybe a little bit weird, but it's really, really easy to do. It's very unorthodox stuff here, so how to deal with each other. And of course, the final step will be to do it two or three times in a row. This is where it gets difficult. To do it on your second ball, when they catch the first one, it's coming with a lot of spin. If you want to do this, it's very important that you go full. Otherwise, it will die on the racket. You need to make sure you do more. You really just have to go for it and pray to God that you get it out of the table. I will now show you the slides from a few different angles so you can look a little bit yourself and get a good idea of the timing and the technique. I hope this has been of help to you, and I hope I have given you some ideas and thoughts that you can try out yourself next time you play table tennis. See you next time.