Why use short pips

Butterfly Robots Practice Partner. Submit Question Archives. This blade will make drop shots easier with its low trajectory as well as providing high stability when blocking.

Innershield Layer ZLF For players who value chops with wide range of spin Innershield Layer ZLF is a blade for a chopper that requires less bounce and is recommended for the chopper who seeks a more defensive game.

The racket makes chops and pushes with a wide range of spin easier and will help you to play a safer game leading to your opponents to make more errors. It is a recommendation for the players who aim to achieve a hybrid game of both attack and defense close to the table using various spins and changes of rhythm.

Diode V For all-round choppers that play at variable distances Diode V is a blade for choppers and has high reaction properties. This is recommended for choppers that seek attacking play as well. The racket performs well during various defensive techniques and during defensive play at a variable distance. Dignics Innerforce Layer ZLC.

Powerful play close to the table and from mid-distance The combination of Innerforce Layer ZLC and Apolonia ZLC is recommended for the player who seeks powerful play close to the table or at a mid-distance.

Lin Gaoyuan ALC. Hadraw VR. And if you want to give it a try at a low price, go with the Adidas short pips that are currently on Sale in the Spring Cleaning section. Thank you for your good article and comments about short pips players. I saw many such cases in tournaments. Watch out for them, practice more with pips players.

Enjoy your TT! Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Using short pips to compensate for technical weakness may seem like a good idea and may sometimes work. However, the truth is that the use of short pips requires excellent timing, a technique without hesitation and therefore very good movement and very good use of the body.

We can furthermore consider that the margin of error may be even smaller than with that of normal rubber. It is more difficult to generate mid-range top spins or to lob effectively because short pips give the ball less rotation. On the other hand, other solutions exist; to hit from mid-distance or to chop from mid-distance or far from the table. It may be difficult to attack on some heavy underspin balls. If you tend to hit and block, short pips will compliment that style.

Perhaps you truly hate playing against long pips. Short pips can be incredibly effective against long pips blockers. Pips out are a great weapon. I have a sheet coming to me on Monday. Long pips on my backhand starts Tuesday.

I thought you were writing this to me — the chief pips complainer. Let it rip more often. Hi Jon Have you written about using short pips on both backhand and forehand.? Would this reduce looping and lunging forward, both of which are to be avoided as much as possible per medical advice on hernias. Hi Julia The movements with short pips on both sides are different. Unless you are chopping, you will need to stay pretty close to the table.

I have not found it to be any less physically strenuous. I've been asked a few times now to write down some tactics and suggestions for those of you out there who use short pimpled rubbers when playing table tennis. Now I would be the first to admit that I haven't had a lot of experience well, OK - make that none!

Normal rubber, speed glue, long and medium pips, and even antispin - been there and done that. But short pips - nope. I've never played a style that required the use of those little short and stubby protrusions. Now I cannot hope to give suggestions for every single type of short pips out there, and I'm not going to try.

So what I am going to do is talk about the average short pips rubber in use quite fast, 1. So without further ado, here are my own suggestions on how to get more out of your short pips. The first thing you had better know as a short pips user is the strengths and weaknesses of the particular type of short pips that you are using. Just like inverted rubbers, there is a whole range of different types out there, ranging from very fast to very slow, and from fairly spinny although not as spinny as most normal inverted rubbers to virtually spinless.

If you've got a spinless type of short pips, you can pretty much forget about trying to topspin balls from below table height over the net and into your opponent's court - it just isn't going to happen in your lifetime.

And if you are using something like the old Butterfly OX no sponge short pips, you are probably not going to be able to loop and hit as fast as someone with a glued up Bryce rubber.

You need to get a handle on what your own pips are capable of doing easily your standard shots , what they can do if your technique is almost perfect when you have more time to get ready or are in a desperate situation , and what they simply cannot do.

And here's a special tip - every now and again you will hit an amazing shot with the short pips - something extra special. Don't make the mistake of thinking it is something that you should be able to do all the time and start trying to do it in matches.

Just be thankful it went on, and get back to doing what you know you can do. Can you remember when your mother used to tell you to get to your appointments early just in case? Well, that is pretty good advice when using short pips as well. Most of the better short pip players that I have seen hit mainly on the rise or at the top of the bounce.