Hey! Ok so firstly I think you are making this change for the right reasons, it’s important to enjoy what you are doing and play in a style which you feel is fun, this will also help you improve. I think it’s hard when other players argue against long pimples, but the best way is to just explain this is how I most enjoy the game and want to learn something new as you said.
For sure if I’m honest it won’t be easy to change to this style that’s the first thing, but that’s also a great challenge. We have a video on turning defence into a attack so definitely have a watch of that. Twiddling will be good to learn by playing pushing rallies and just getting used to swapping the bat around often.
You can then bring in topspins into this same exercise to help add this in as well as twiddling. A great drill for turning defence into attack is chopping with the long pimples against a topspin and then when the opposition pushes you have to attack with a topspin.
It’s definitely a fun style and of course footwork will be important for you when switching from the pimples to topspin attacks, so lots of footwork drills will be great!
Any other questions on this just let me know 🙂
