Table Tennis Backhand Chop

Let's have a look at the Backhand Chop. Jeff here is going to demonstrate the stroke for the backhand chop.

You will see that Jeff starts with his bat at his left ear and follows through down towards his right knee. His feet position go quite side on to the table. In table tennis, it isn't often that we have enough time to turn side on, but with the backhand chop you do have a bit more time as you are little bit further away from the table. As Jeff turns side on to the table, he will hit the ball in front of his body when he's side on to the table.

When you are defending, it's often best to use a long pimple rubber, the black side of just that now is a long pimple rubber. The long pimple gives you better control when you are defending. We will just have a look at the different effect that the ball has with the different types of rubber. If I top spin the ball to Jeff, you will see the effect that it has when it hits the red or the inverted pimple.

Now when the topspin hits the long pimple rubber, you will see the ball goes a lot lower. So the long pimple rubber gives you much better control. The other thing that the long pimple rubber does is it helps to reverse the spin. So the more topspin that I put on the ball the more backspin the ball can get back with the long pimple rubber.

With the normal rubber, you can get more variations because you are generating your own speed at your own spin. Whereas with the long pimple rubber, you are very reliant on the topspin that your opponent is giving you. So if they give you a heavy topspin, it's almost certain that your return will have heavy backspin on it, whereas with the inverted rubber, you can generate your own speed.

Backhand Chop

Main Points

1. Start with bat at head level
2. Finish with bat around knee level
3. Stand side on
4. Consider using long pimples

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