Master the Backhand Loop: Table Tennis Lesson [Subtitles Available]

Hello everyone, my name is Jin Young Joan. Welcome back to my table tennis tutorial channel. Today I'm going to show you how to do the backhand loop. The backhand loop is a short stroke and it happens in front of the body and because of that you have to maximize power through your wrist, your elbow, and your body. Using all three of these pieces together in unison to generate a beautiful and powerful backhand loop. Today I'll show you how to do that. Stay tuned. For starters, let's talk about the backstroke. Just like anything else, get in your stance. Feet shoulder width apart or a little more and a little bend in your knee. With the backhand loop you want to start with your bat in front of your body like this. So create this triangle in front of you, put your hands out like that with your fingers, create a triangle and your bat should be right there in the middle of it. As you begin your backstroke you can kind of use these legs to pull back a little bit, just a little bit. It doesn't have to be like that. It's not like the forehand. It's a much shorter stroke. So just a little bit, a little bit and pull back with your waist and then also your arm. As you can see my wrist is even pulled back as well. And the reason is because as you start to go forward right before the moment of contact with the ball your wrist is going to be responsible for generating a lot of power by snapping through like that. The angle of the bat depends on the kind of spin that you're receiving. If the ball has topspin you're going to contact the ball with your bat at a 45 degree angle. If the ball has backspin you can open your bat up to almost vertical and if the ball has heavy topspin keep your back closed. The timing of when you hit the ball with your backhand loop depends on the type of incoming spin that the ball has. If the ball has topspin, the topspin will actually make the ball drop very fast after the top of the bounce. Therefore you want to hit a topspin ball at the top of the bounce. If it has backspin, the backspin will make the ball float. It's tempting to hit it at the top of the bounce but the backspin is still strong enough to make you drop the ball into the net. So with a backspin let the ball drop a little bit after the top of the bounce and at that point the backspin has reduced quite a bit, giving you a better chance to clear the net. I think this is enough information for you guys to put together to make a strong backhand loop. So now what I'm going to do is show you this all put together in a demo. All right guys, that brings our backhand loop tutorial to an end. I hope this video was helpful to you. If you did find it helpful, if you found it entertaining, please like the video, comment below, and subscribe to the channel. Until next time, I'm Jin Joe. See ya. Thanks for watching.