In this video top coach, Lois Peake, shares some tactics for right-handed players to beat left-handed players.
Playing a lefty can be tricky. The angles are different. The patterns of play are different. And they usually have very strong forehands!
Lois explains some tactics which often work against left-handed players. These include attacking the wide forehand, using short pendulum serves and also serving sidespin to the backhand to set up your own forehand attack.
Lois has represented England and the junior and senior level. She has also coached at a high level, and crucially for this video, is a left-handed player!
This video was made in partnership with Table Tennis England www.tabletennisengland.co.uk/
In the video, Lois is using this equipment:
Blade: JOOLA Santoru KL-C Outer bribartt.co.uk/product/joola-...
Rubber (both forehand and backhand): JOOLA Dynaryz AGR bribartt.co.uk/product/joola-...
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As a left-handed player, I am going to learn to do all these to my right-handed opponents!
Right on! As a Lefty, I agree with you. Let’s us beat all the righty’s we encounter!
Excellent teaching, Tom. You've improved a lot, both as a player and as a coach...
As a leftie, this is going to destroy my game. Thanks a lot! I play mostly righties and they just need to deal with it. I play a few lefties too. This vid is reaching!
Thanks a lot for the video. It helps a lot and is smart as all the others.
I am lefty I just love it wide forehand cause I get I chance to get under the table and the sidespin u get from thst is friggin amazing Its a nighmare of a return almost a roller like motion
6:12 That's a good point to be mentioned. Whatever tactics a righty abuses, a lefty abuses it more often than a righty does. I would say to use uncommon serve would be easier to win, like standing in forehand position to serve like Dima does
I used to play with the right hand and switched to the left due injury. Also had a lefty coach for a while so I don't really pay attention. I love wide shots to my FH because I can respond even wider 😂
Great video! Could we also get a detailed one about positioning during rallies?
Hey tom, great video! I love your content and I'd very much like a video on the backhand serve you used at 6:00. Keep up the amazing work!
Take a look at this video I made last year. It has some good tips for wide BH serves kzhead.info/sun/fZ2uitRxpnt3nIU/bejne.html
@@TomLodziak thank you!
Tongue-in-cheek reply: really bad advice - don't do what he says - I am left-handed and he gave away all my secrets. Actually, if a right-handed player sets up to serve what should be wide to my forehand, I try to move slightly toward the middle of the table and then hit a return hard and wide to his backhand. Hard and wide to my backhand often gives me more problems. Right-handed players end up playing some left-handed players in most tournaments. But a left-handed player playing against another left-handed player gets interesting. Now THAT would be a cool video to follow this one. I try to take note before playing a left-handed player and change my game up some because my normal strengths are often their strengths too.
Watching two lefties that are around the same standard at tournaments is truly one of the most beautiful things to watch imo.
thank you!!!
Nice video, super tactic. Lois is super sympathic. Please more tipps from her as a likeable lefty. ;-)
as a leftie (used to be right handed) this is interesting
I don't think it's because it's wide so much as because she's a bit short. All the lefties I play are gangly giants and giving them any ball to the forehand is near suicide with the ammount of sidespin they hit to my backhand, making it nigh unreachable, since with my backhand I can't stretch to return it as I can with the forehand.
If you make a switch to the FH, it has to be really wide and fast. I have success with this even against taller left-handed players with strong FHs.
As a lefty myself, I think Lightzy is correct. None of those tactics work consistently against me. And I am only 6 ft tall, so I don't have an exceptional arm span. However, I have probably close to 1 foot more than Lois. That is the big difference.
I don't think any tactic will work every time. A player can always adapt. But it's useful to try out different tactics to see what works against each opponent. I have been having success using Lois's tactics against other left-handers. Doesn't work all the time. But definitely works when I get the placement spot on.
Yesterday hust played with leftie and can confirm everything or almost everything said in this video
Watching this as a left handed player to counterpoint possible counterpoints😂
Tom, what rubbers do you have?
I use JOOLA Dynaryz AGR on both FH and BH.
@@TomLodziak what do you think of the Rhyzen Fire and Ice? I play the Ice BH and FH on a Challenger All, as my first custom set up. I only play with friends, although it has become a bit more competitive in the last weeks.I want to start playing in a club now and I wonder if you think it is a good choice. I'm still getting used to it, but all in all it feels very good, I definitely unlocked some levels since I got it.
@@lupo3694 I've recently started using Rhyzen ICE on my BH, as I wanted something a little more controllable. It's a decent rubber - not too fast, but plenty of spin. I think your set-up is absolutely fine for joining a club. If you like it, no need to change anything for the time being.
@@tomsttacademy Thank you so much for your answer. I really enjoy your videos, they helped me improve more, than any other table tennis related channel on YT.
Ok what about a left handed defense player, I am a nuisance and need to be stopped.
As a Lefty, I say more power to you! I’m tired of being left out!
Yeah, and I am always Right 😀😀
@@josemontalvo4532 I would say people are left in the dark with how to deal with lefties. Also we tend to have a better backhand.
@@vivekpadmanabhan9599 if you always think your right soon you'll be left with no other options.
please do this tactics against me! ;)))))))
But this work to the lefty to beat the right handed, but inverse... 🤷♂
😱😣😩I would never left unattended balls on the floor, but that's just 🤓me I presume.
Ha! Well I always lose a few balls as they get squashed under foot. So maybe you are right.
@@TomLodziak It's not about wasting balls, although I wouldn't want to waste any ball for economical (I was not a rich spoiled child when I began TT) and eco-friendly obvious reasons, I thought it would be obvious that 1) It would unsettle and disturb players 2) It is a falling/slipping hazard. but that's just 🤓me I presume.