WE SELL IPONG V300 Table Tennis Robots, balls collecting nets and 100+ balls with TT Tables and all equipment for home, school or business use. Email info@nsttc.ca for more info
NEXT GENERATION OF ROBOTS we offer in our club
BUTTERFLY AMICUS PRIME
Table Tennis Robot with wireless Bluetooth control via tablet, iPad or your own iPhone. You can create your own exercises, drills before you come to train with Amicus.
NEWGY 3050 XL comes with 100+ pre-programmed drills to practice
Ball frequency: You can change the frequency the robot shoots the ball at you. Our club robots are capable of shooting 80 to 100 balls per minute. That’s a lot of balls!
Placement: You can choose where the robot shoots the balls. Y&T only shoot to two positions. But our Newgy 3050 XL and AMICUS PRIME robot can shoot balls to multiple positions and can switch between positions for each ball. Just like a game !
Speed: You can choose how fast the robot shoots the ball. All our robots can vary the speed of the ball. So you may get one slower ball and then one faster ball.
Spin variation: You can choose whether the robot shoots backspin, topspin, sidespin or float. Our top-of-the-range multi-spin robot Newgy 3050 XL and AMICUS PRIME can also change the spin with each ball, which gives a more realistic table tennis playing experience.
Random play: Our Newgy and AMICUS PRIME can shoot balls in a random order. This could be random placement, random speed or random spin or everything completely random.
Service: You can tilt the robot head downwards, so that the ball bounces on the other side of the table first, replicating a table tennis serve.
Pre-set training drills: Our Newgy 3050 XL and AMICUS PRIME come with pre-set training drills for beginners, intermediate and/or advanced players .
Programmable training drills: Newgy 3050 XL and AMICUS PRIME allow you to program your own training drills.
Ball recycling: Newgy 3050 XL and AMICUS PRIME come with a ball recycling facility, which is basically a collection net which funnels the ball back into the robot. This means that you don’t have to keep stopping to reload the robot. You can have continuous play. The Y&T robot you have to pick up the balls (100 at a time) after use.
Y&T V-981 Table Tennis Robot
Y&T used at WVS Table Tennis Academy and all youth training programs
Rental Fees : $20 members /$30 non members an hour (drop in after 4pm extra $5 )
Availability : Pre Book / email for availability to info@nsttc.ca
Ball Spin: 8 different spins
Serve Frequency: 25-80 balls/min
Serve Speed: 3-30 m/sec
Serve Ways: Fixed Course and 3/4 table Course
Serve Loop: Range of adjustable angle from 0 to 40 degree
It can definitely help with some areas of your game, such as:
Forehand and/or Backhand Topspin vs Backspin – This is a weak part of most of players game (always will be work in progress). But using with the robot gives loads of time to practice these shots. You can use it to feed backspin over and over and over again and just work on getting the technique right. Through huge amounts of repetition, the stroke action has been drilled into your brain. You don’t need to think about it anymore – it feels much more natural and automatic – and you have been able to start using it in competitive matches.
Footwork – Many players are sometimes guilty of being a bit lazy with their feet, so use the robot to do various footwork drills. It’s really helping to practice the footwork movement when making the transition from backhand to forehand strokes (or vice versa). The robot can send balls in a regular or irregular pattern and it has lots of pre-programmed drills, so there’s loads of different exercises to do.
Flicking – The robot can do an acceptable short backspin serve. This is great for flicking practice for both forehand and backhand. Before the robot, few of the club players ever really flicked, but now in matches, they are just as comfortable flicking short serves as they are pushing them.
Playing fast rallies close to the table – The robot can throw the balls very fast. When first started using it, players stroke actions were too long, which meant they couldn’t recover quick enough and the robot would just shoot balls past them. Gradually we have shortened their strokes, which has helped them recover quicker and now it’s much easier to keep up with the robot. This, again, has benefitted their match play, as they are able to dominate more rallies playing close to the table than before the robot.
Service – Just to be clear, a robot cannot return serves! But oddly, having a robot with ball collector has encouraged players to practice their serves more as they don’t have to go around picking up balls off the floor. Before we even switch the robot on, players spend 10-15 mins serving a box of balls into the ball collector. This has been great for improving existing serves and experimenting with new serves. We have been able to develop an effective reverse pendulum serve which can cause havoc with some opponents.
So there’s plenty of positives here – things we have been able to practice with the robot and then use in competitive matches.
But the robot hasn’t been able to help with everything, that’s why you rent our NEWGU 3050 XL and hire a TRAINER / COACH to maximize your game progress . In particular:
Reading spin – With the robot you have or select the type of spin before it starts throwing balls. So you know what spin is on the ball. A big part of playing table tennis is adapting your stroke to different levels of incoming spin. You make decisions based on your opponent’s bat angle, body movements, flight of the ball, rotation of the ball, sound of the ball etc. A robot can’t replicate a human being in this respect, so when playing with the robot your decision making is far simpler , that’s when COACH comes in place to help with that.
Reading your opponent – It can’t, it’s a static machine! So all the crucial information your opponent provides you about their game (body movements, stroke actions, stroke choice, position in relation to the table, etc), can’t be replicated by a robot but COACH helps with that …
Receiving – The robot head is quite high, which means the ball shoots down, resulting in a high-ish bounce. Obviously, good players don’t serve like this. Also a significant part of returning serves is reading your opponent’s body action, contact point and follow through. Again, hire the coach here..
Overall verdict
Our club robots have definitely helped with some areas of players game. We genuinely think you will improve by using incorporating robot practising in your games.We also find if players use the robot a day before a match, they generally feel a bit sharper during the match.
It’s also a great physical workout. During an hour’s session, you’ll probably hit around 3,000 balls and by the end of a session you’ll be dripping with sweat ..
It works best when you use the robot with our club coach to compliment practice with a real opponent. Another great example , one of our players noticed that other player kept attacking crosscourt with his forehand, which made him a bit too predictable. So we took this insight and used the robot to practice playing forehand attacks to the middle and down the line. Guess what? He is now much more confident playing forehand attacks anywhere on the table.
Our final recommendation : use the robot practises to work on specific areas of your game you want to improve, not aimless hitting. A robot alone isn’t going help you transform into the next Ma Long, but it can certainly help you make significant improvements to specific areas of your game.
