Chopping in Table Tennis

Reviewer Starts simple, ends with real usable nuance.

Moderator Same expert, forehand side this time - turning away, weight transfer, contact point relative to opponent's topspin. On topic throughout.

Reviewer Expert-level detail, genuinely excellent teaching.

Moderator Real international-level defensive player walking through backhand chop technique in detail - squarely on topic.

Reviewer Clear, thorough, and it explains the why - excellent.

Moderator Full breakdown of the chop stroke - feet, waist rotation, swing path, contact - built entirely around chopping technique.

Reviewer Clean cues plus a real demo of why long pimples matter — no wasted words.

Moderator PingSkills isolating one stroke and teaching it cleanly. Entirely and only about the backhand chop: stance, start/finish position, adapting the stroke angle to incoming speed, and rubber choice. No padding, no tangents.

Reviewer Solid fundamentals, though lighter on extra detail than their backhand lesson.

Moderator Same PingSkills formula, this time the forehand chop — stance, start position at the ear, finish at the knee, and the speed-based angle adjustment. Squarely and only about the chop.

Reviewer Nails the #1 amateur chop mistake and gives you a drill to fix it.

Moderator Entirely about the mechanics of the backhand chop — footwork timing, syncing the arm to the leg drive, and a solo practice routine to groove it. Squarely inside the sub-skill.

Reviewer Actually tells you WHERE on the bat and HOW MUCH wrist changes the spin — genuinely useful.

Moderator Mostly and squarely about chopping (push covered alongside as the same principle on a different stroke) — specifically how to disguise a no-spin chop to look identical to a heavy backspin chop. Real chopping technique, just an advanced layer of it.

Reviewer The 'relaxed wrist as a cushion' cue alone is worth it for long-pimple players.

Moderator A specific but squarely-on-topic chop variant — the close-to-table chop block played with long pimples. Narrower slice of 'chopping' than the classic backhand/forehand chop, but still teaching a chopping stroke.

Reviewer Gets the emphasis right - footwork first, arm second. Credible source, clear delivery.

Moderator A national collegiate champion who plays defense describing exactly how she develops backhand chop - footwork, positioning, using legs and body rather than just the arm. This is squarely, credibly the subskill.

Reviewer Racket high, closed angle, brush down as the ball rises - that's a genuinely correct, specific technical cue, not just generic advice.

Moderator Covers the actual chop mechanics - racket high, closed angle, letting the ball rise before brushing down for the spin reversal - which is the real technique behind this shot.

Reviewer One clear fix, repeated until it sticks - does its one job well.

Moderator Squarely about the backhand chop, specifically the single most common amateur error - not lifting the arm - and how it kills the spin. Nothing else going on in this clip.

Reviewer Gets the basics right but doesn't go much beyond stating them.

Moderator Squarely the forehand chop again — side-on stance, start at the ear, finish at the knee, adjusting stroke angle for incoming speed. Same core content as the PingSkills version, different source.

Reviewer Clear recipe for adding side-spin to your chop.

Moderator Same as its companion video — every point (impact height, blade angle, swing direction) is about executing a specific chop variation. On-topic, scoped to long-pimple side-spin chops.

Reviewer Genuine technique, a bit buried in banter.

Moderator A professional chopper brought on specifically to demonstrate his stroke - racket angle, finger/wrist pressure, how backspin is generated off pips. This is about as squarely 'chopping' as this batch gets.

Moderator Same step-by-step chop breakdown as its TikTok twin -- contact point and racket angle for backspin, squarely on-skill.

Reviewer Same solid steps as its other posting, rough phrasing and all.

Reviewer Solid technical steps, if a little rough around the edges in delivery.

Moderator A direct step-by-step for executing the chop stroke -- contact under the ball, flat/closed racket face, forward arm path -- squarely on-skill, though it doesn't specifically mention playing it from away from the table.

Reviewer Solid, specific advice — just remember it's written for one rubber style.

Moderator The three points are all about executing the chop stroke itself against a powerful ball — swing path, distance/contact height, placement. It's scoped to long-pimple rubber specifically, which narrows it, but the shot being taught is the chop.

Reviewer Solid basics, same shallow template as their forehand-chop video.

Moderator Squarely the backhand chop -- ready position, grip, contact point at chest height, common mistakes (excess wrist, mistimed contact, over-hitting). Same skill family as the forehand chop video, on topic throughout.

Reviewer Gets the basics right but doesn't go very deep, and the ending is more confusing than helpful.

Moderator Exactly the named skill -- ready position, grip, contact under the ball for backspin, the two headline mistakes (too much wrist, standing upright). No digression.

Reviewer Solid quick tip, though even the coach tells you not to obsess over it.

Moderator This is literally an Ask-the-Coach clip answering 'how do I chop a smash.' Narrow scenario, but it's a chop stroke through and through: bat height, a more vertical downswing, dampening pace instead of adding it. Core content is the sub-skill, not padding around it.

Moderator The forehand chop: swing down and forward, brush under the ball around waist height to put backspin on it, and drive it from the shoulder and forearm rather than just the wrist. All chopping, nothing else.

Reviewer The brush-under, forearm-not-wrist cue is right, but 15 seconds leaves out stance, distance and footwork.

Reviewer Specific enough to actually go try on your backhand.

Moderator This walks through four backhand receive options for an in-table serve and gives the side-chop real, dedicated teaching time — contact point (slightly left of the ball), brushing sideways not forward, forearm-driven not wrist-driven, and placement (wideline/middle, never to the forehand). That's a genuine chop technique lesson, just packaged alongside the side-push and regular push as receive options rather than as a standalone chop video.

Reviewer Looks like solid, structured tips from a coach account, but it's a short clip.

Moderator Caption structure (grip, stance, racket angle, placement) and the coach handle both point squarely at the sub-skill; no transcript to fully confirm depth.

Reviewer Correct advice, but it's a quick checklist, not a deep lesson.

Moderator Directly about a chopper's approach in a specific, common matchup (facing pips), which is squarely part of playing the chopping style even though it's tactical rather than stroke-mechanical.

Reviewer Good tactical link between two strokes you already need to have.

Moderator Covers the chop/slice itself (keep it low and short) as the setup, but the real focus is the follow-up forehand loop attack once the opponent's return is weak. Chopping is the setup act here, not the main subject.

Reviewer Good technical depth, sales pitch at the end.

Moderator Side chop is a genuine chop variant and this goes deep on it - catching the ball at the bounce point vs. the rise, aligning with the incoming spin direction. Squarely on-skill, even though the presenter is upfront it's a niche 'show-off' shot rather than bread-and-butter.

Reviewer Good context, thin on actual technique detail - you'd need to already know the shot.

Moderator A real training clip with a national finalist, drilling backhand chop placement to both corners - squarely a chopping drill, credible source.

Reviewer Well-taught, but you're really learning a serve here, not the chop.

Moderator This is a backspin serve, not the in-rally chop stroke the rest of this skill's content is built around — a different shot in a match even though the paddle-angle-and-swing-direction mechanics for generating backspin genuinely overlap with the chop. Related, but not squarely the sub-skill.

Reviewer Good real coaching, better watched than read.

Moderator Live correction of a student's push/chop - the title itself parenthesizes 'chopping.' It's really coaching the backspin push more than a full mid-distance chop, so I won't call it a bullseye, but it's squarely in the same family of stroke.

Reviewer Transferable spin mechanics, even if the shot itself is the block variant.

Moderator This is really a blocking shot (played on the bounce, close to the table) that borrows chop spin, not the classic chopper's backspin defense this subskill is otherwise about. It does teach real chop-spin generation mechanics (shoulder angle, wrist snap for backspin) so it's not off-topic, just one step removed from the core skill.

Reviewer Looks like a nice example of the shot, but there isn't much actual instruction to go on here.

Moderator Billed around a chop that produces heavy curve, which is on-topic for the skill, though the caption doesn't get into specifics of grip, stance or timing.

Reviewer Real cues, but too fragmented to learn much from as text.

Moderator Title and drilling are explicitly backhand chop block, same family as item 19 - clearly on topic despite the broken narration.

Reviewer Real coaching happening, just hard to follow as text.

Moderator Broken English aside, this is a real chop-block lesson - forearm, wrist, contact point - a direct variant of chopping technique.

Reviewer Good definition, but 14 seconds isn't enough to actually teach the stroke.

Moderator The caption gives an accurate definition of the chop (downward slice returning topspin with backspin) — squarely on topic conceptually, no transcript to check depth.

Reviewer Short but genuinely useful explanation of what a chop is actually doing to the ball.

Moderator Most of this is the side-swipe push for short balls, but there's a real, distinct segment on the half-long ball where the coach explicitly tells you to treat it like a chop — brush the ball's surface, create a wrapping arc, 'soften' and absorb pace rather than push flat. He even notes good choppers are hard to serve against because of that long-contact-path brushing action. That's genuine chop teaching, just one part of a broader return-hacks video.

Reviewer Right general idea, but too generic to call it dedicated chopping instruction.

Moderator Same reasoning as the other chop-block-under-Chopping duplicates - it's fundamentally a block variant, but the cutting/absorbing motion taught here does overlap with real chopping mechanics, so it's not off-topic, just adjacent.

Reviewer Useful reminder, not a real breakdown.

Moderator Mostly about letting the ball come to you and lifting heavy backspin, but there's a real named segment on 'chopping down on side/top/dead serves' as a return, and he calls it the most commonly used return skill in modern top-level table tennis. That's a genuine slice of the sub-skill, just one ingredient among several receive tips.