What you are seeing in the above video may confuse you. Unless you are an advanced long pips player, you may absorb no idea from that demonstration.
The person in the video is testing various long pips rubbers that are available in the market. He targets the rubber which can generate maximum under-spin, also called backspin, against top spin. He has a good set up with a table tennis robot throwing top spin balls to him. His stroke against the top spin ball is chops which can reverse the top spin to under spin.
Carefully look at what happens when the demonstrator’s return ball hits the other side of the table. Does it go forward? No. It reverses and turns towards him. This reversal is because of the under-pin that the ball carries - after he reversed the top spin to under spin with his chop stroke.
I don’t like to endorse any specific long pips from that demonstration, but I ‘ve just tried to explain what happens when you play against a long pips player. The demonstrator has done a good job of comparing various long pips rubbers.
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Hey folks
I made this video to find out the right long pips rubber for me. So I play now with a red Neptune in OX and I’m very happy with it. Let me say that rubbers like Neptune or Curl P1-R are not the simplest rubber to play but the backspin is very great if your oponent loops with a lot of topspin. Long Pips rubbers like Feint III/II are easier to control but don’t generate as much backspin as Neptune or Curl.
On my table tennis video site you can watch many top longspips players. Go to http://com.martinspin.ch and choose from the box “pips table tennis players”.
Cheers, Martin