Hope your condition will improve. A coach summarise the level in tt below:

1) beginner/intermediate level: use hand
2) advance level: use wrist
3) professional level: use fingers

Not easy to master on wrist and fingers technique at all.

I started using short pips a few days ago. NOt easy to control cos it is pretty fast. SP can generate spins effectively too. SP is for fast players. NOt for slow players...as you have to hit the ball when it is at its highest point to put pressure on the opponent.

Traditionally SP is always for close table game. to master mid table your arm swing needs to be extremely powerful.
spin and speed goes hand in hand. further than mid table , a dead ball smash will never ever be faster(wind resistance) than a strong top spin hit(difference air pressure at top n bottom of spinning ball creates down force), with max power using modern carbon blade and tensor rubber.

The topspin dynamics curving down allows full power hitting and still be able to land on the table. This is already established scientifically, chinese player since 80s are all fast spinner(super tacky rubber) with powerful stroke.

In the modern era no one in right mind will use sp on FH in singles. You've already put yourself in handicap in mid to far table rally.

I don't like playing against SP, they are nasty.

We are lucky because there are not many good short pips player in the country. If you got a chance to play against a good short pips player, you will understand what I meant by "nasty".

The problem is short pips is that the strength of their return is hard to predict, they can choose to produce spin or not to produce spin.  For example if you do a strong bottom spin to them, they can flick it to produce more spin or produce a dead ball.  If you do a strong top or top side to them, they can spin it back to you or just "whack" a high speed dead ball back to you. After that, very difficult to estimate how much spin to put in to send the ball back because it could be a dead ball or a spinny ball and because it is so fast, we have very little time to figure out what to do, very often I just return it back by pure luck.

haha... hope I don't make it sounds like short pips is the best rubber out there. Actually short pips are very hard to master and not as deadly when they are away from the table. Most of the time they will refuse to move away from the table. So, I would normally play low deep ball placement try to push them away. Unfortunately some of them combine short-pips with another inverted rubber, they can still well play away from the table, soon they will try to find their way back to the table. Try see how Liu Guo Liang play with it or more recent player like Li Jia Wei of Singapore and Mima Ito of Japan.

thinking of buying table tennis for my house.. any brand you guys recommend? got a few brands at lazada.. nice to know got active community here ...

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40+ ball is definately slower and influence by spin greatly compare to 38mm, 40mm. For LP the spin are always reactive, you are already at the mercy of opponent spin controlled. its a new game since 38/40mm days.

Of course you can.

But responsible adults should know what to say and how to behave.

Another reason is the regulars there participate in local open novice/beginner prized tournaments.
Im joining for the 1st time team event(beginner/novice) this saturday at Kajang Prison MPH , total over 50+ teams. Huge event.

I found the top common reason most switched to LP backhand is for receiving serve 'advantage'. Another quick fix reason that does not address the main problem.
I see it as an easy way out because inverted rubber needs more skill set to return serve, but it also has greater advantage to gain attack advantage from returning serve using the flick.

Another reason why i see recent kids TT club is leaping over these LP players, They are drilled into flicking skill early and returning serve is so effortlessly.Of course modern rubber/blade helps a lot.

you can do sidespin with handshake bats, you will have to hold the bat with just 2 fingers. Thumb and second finger, that way you can be almost as flexible as the penholder. Actually its not that they cant return or cant read those spin, it is just that they are trying to do something that fails to work, so people think they cant return the serve. Alot of pro players dont really care what kind of serve, they just watch the flight of the ball to determine what kind of spin.

After my 1st local beginner/novice tournament im sticking to inverted both side. Not going to try LP.

it is not hard to predict. but need more practise.

1st scenario, when u see opponent at center close table position, any ball you return far angle to their BH LP they will only be able to return back to your FH half. The faster your ball and longer to their BH, the harder they can return sharp to your BH especially if it is a chop from you.

You can test by serving long quick underspin from your FH far angle to your opponent far BH LP, basically a straight fast underspin. If you find he cant control it beyond your center line. Then you are almost free to smash/drive/ or set up 5 balls.

vary your shots. i always prefer long dead center body balls and aim their long BH side with chop underspin. and keep in mind drive or smash center or to their FH. LP BH counter block from heavy drive is really devastating unless they r off position....

also there are 2 types of LP, sponge n without sponge. without sponge is the easiest to beat. sponge LP is quite challenging you will noticed their balls has 'power'. But power also mean they have much less control. Both side is pretty confused. but always keep a long ball distance, always chop their BH LP when you got the opportunity.

Not suggest to purchase.