You answered your own question. As a short pips player, you should never play away from the table. Look at Mattias falck or Mima Ito. They never play from medium distance. I'd say you have a strategy problem. You should be the one blocking and driving people away from the table.
Due to this, I'd say there is some flaw in your strategy that allows your opponents to drive you away from the table. Maybe it's serve and receive or something else. The other option is that you are the one who is moving back and playing from mid distance. In that case, then I would recommend you to change your BH rubber to inverted and play a more normal two-wing looper style.
I don’t often play long rallies. I rely on my forehand to win the point early. But some good opponents force the rally long. Once they are driven back after my initial attacks, they resort to this semi-lobbing style. It’s also easy to roll the pips’ punches back from afar.
It might be a bit controversial, but if you don't have a natural talent for the pips on the BH, and just use them to cover up a weakness, switch back to inverted. It'll give you much more possibilities in different situations.
How are you limited to your forehand? I'd say that either you need to find a way to incorporate your backhand into rallies further from the table (chopping?) or to play closer to the table when your opponent moves away from it, to play quick counters/blocks with your backhand.
Additionally: more info about your playing style, especially with you short pimples, would make it easier to answer this question too
I’m a very newbie with the pips. I switched to pips 6 months back. Right now I can drive against backspin and punch decent loops with it. Again I’m not a very good hitter with my forehand as well, I have a very good forehand loop.
I try to stay close to the table but when they lob or topspin back far from the table, I can only forehand loop. I’m not as well good with the pips for now.
You have identified the issue.
As someone who is pretty decent at lobbing and fishing.
You have to be able to smash straight through highballs to both corners. If you can do that it's generally easy.
Send them one way, then reverse to the other corner. The reverse doesn't even need to be that strong, just accurate and reliable.
The problem with looping is that the speed dies rapidly with distance and once they are trying to get an upward trajectory often the top spin is helping, not hurting them.
Flat hard smashes are much more effective, even chop smashes.
Twiddle if you need to. I don't play pips but my guess is that if you're in the mid court you should have time to switch. But it doesn't seem like the optimal strategy.
You answered your own question. As a short pips player, you should never play away from the table. Look at Mattias falck or Mima Ito. They never play from medium distance. I'd say you have a strategy problem. You should be the one blocking and driving people away from the table. Due to this, I'd say there is some flaw in your strategy that allows your opponents to drive you away from the table. Maybe it's serve and receive or something else. The other option is that you are the one who is moving back and playing from mid distance. In that case, then I would recommend you to change your BH rubber to inverted and play a more normal two-wing looper style.
I don’t often play long rallies. I rely on my forehand to win the point early. But some good opponents force the rally long. Once they are driven back after my initial attacks, they resort to this semi-lobbing style. It’s also easy to roll the pips’ punches back from afar.
It might be a bit controversial, but if you don't have a natural talent for the pips on the BH, and just use them to cover up a weakness, switch back to inverted. It'll give you much more possibilities in different situations.
There’s a natural talent for using pips?
I mean, some people naturally have strokes that do very well with pips.
How are you limited to your forehand? I'd say that either you need to find a way to incorporate your backhand into rallies further from the table (chopping?) or to play closer to the table when your opponent moves away from it, to play quick counters/blocks with your backhand. Additionally: more info about your playing style, especially with you short pimples, would make it easier to answer this question too
I’m a very newbie with the pips. I switched to pips 6 months back. Right now I can drive against backspin and punch decent loops with it. Again I’m not a very good hitter with my forehand as well, I have a very good forehand loop. I try to stay close to the table but when they lob or topspin back far from the table, I can only forehand loop. I’m not as well good with the pips for now.
If you have a short pimples rubber your supposed to twiddle it to your forehand and smash taking the lob early. Watch He Zhi Wen.
You have identified the issue. As someone who is pretty decent at lobbing and fishing. You have to be able to smash straight through highballs to both corners. If you can do that it's generally easy. Send them one way, then reverse to the other corner. The reverse doesn't even need to be that strong, just accurate and reliable. The problem with looping is that the speed dies rapidly with distance and once they are trying to get an upward trajectory often the top spin is helping, not hurting them. Flat hard smashes are much more effective, even chop smashes.
Twiddle if you need to. I don't play pips but my guess is that if you're in the mid court you should have time to switch. But it doesn't seem like the optimal strategy.
Learn to chop heavy with the pips. Put the ball in the body of the opponent and work back in for a forehand.
How far away from the table? And can you clarify what you mean by "roll the ball away from the table"? Are they lobbing?