6 Korean Tips to Flick Any Spin With Your Forehand (Easy to Hard)

The flicks, checks and practice cards from this video, written out in order — The Complete Korean Senior Table Tennis Library: https://jintabletennispro.netlify.app... A short serve lands on your forehand, low and close to the net, and your flick goes into the net or off the end. Most of the time it isn't your hand, and it isn't your speed. Six small changes for club players over sixty, from easy to hard, that work with the paddle and the stroke you already have: 1. One early step: right foot in under the table, elbow bent, no lunging (and never your free hand on the table). 2. A small stroke: forearm and wrist, paddle tip low, finish at nose height — and a relaxed five-finger grip. 3. No-spin and topspin balls: a slightly closed face, contact higher on the ball, more forward than up. 4. Backspin balls: open the face a little and brush up — consistency before speed. 5. Sidespin balls: tilt the face against the spin, and let your first return tell you which way it goes. 6. The hard one — when NOT to flick: let the ball reach the top of its bounce; if it stays below the net with heavy backspin, push it back short. Also: a block for knees that won't step in, a shoulder that complains and a wrist that's sore, a kitchen-counter exercise for tonight, and what a Korean defender's patience has to do with the short ball. The book for this video is The Easy Flick: Forehand and Backhand Flicks Against Any Spin, for Players Over Sixty, only inside The Complete Korean Senior Table Tennis Library: https://jintabletennispro.netlify.app... Four books for table tennis players over sixty: Fix These First (the habits and mistakes to fix first), Serve Like a Korean Coach (serves you can make standing still), and, only in the complete Library, The Easy Flick and Outplay Anyone (tactics built on placement and patience). Large type, a source for every fact, 30-day money-back guarantee. Sources mentioned in the video: Larry Hodges, "How to Develop a Nasty Forehand Flip" (Butterfly, January 6, 2020) and "Should You Develop Your Forehand Push?" (tabletenniscoaching.com, August 17, 2020); Alois Rosario, PingSkills public forum ("To push or flick of a short backspin ball", "Two types of forehand flick", "Flick / Flip in detail", "How to return a sidespin"); Wikipedia, "Table tennis grips and playing styles"; the Laws of Table Tennis (ITTF Handbook); Kim Taek-soo on Ryu Seung-min (Megaspin); Ryu Seung-min (ITTF, November 13, 2016); Joo Se-hyuk and Hyun Jung-hwa (Wikipedia; ITTF, July 25, 2025). Player quotes from the PingSkills public forum. Jin is a digital, AI-generated presenter, not a certified coach, and Bev is a character in his story. Educational content: no wins, points, rating or result are promised, and nothing here is medical advice. If anything hurts — shoulder, elbow, wrist, back or knees — or your balance worries you, stop that movement and check with your doctor or physiotherapist before changing how you play. Which short ball do you miss most on your forehand? Write one word in the comments: backspin, topspin or sidespin. #tabletennis #pingpong #seniors #forehandflick #tabletennistips