As a national sport, table tennis has a wide audience in China, and people of all ages can play multiple throws. So what is basis of table tennis? How to train to play table tennis well?
Olympic champion, table tennis world champion and Vice Chairman of Chinese Table Tennis Association Wang Liqin believes that charm of table tennis lies in its many changes. In competition, athletes overwhelm each other's strengths and unleash their strengths in a battle of wits and courage between two sides to win competition.
In "Physical Education Lesson with a Gold Medal", Wang Liqin gave everyone an introductory table tennis lesson. There were also 6 students who formed blue and white teams to compete against each other. The content is great, let's take a look in more detail↓
Warm-up
Before formal training began, teacher Wang Liqin led students through a warm-up session. When professional athletes train, warm-up usually lasts about an hour. Teenagers can do following before playing table tennis. Warm-up is very important, don't be lazy!
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Wrist movement
Movement requires rotation of wrist in different directions.
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Activate your ankle
Raise your right and left fingers respectively to turn around.
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Shoulder movement
Rotate shoulder along elbow joint.
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Mobile knee
After semi-squat, rotate knee joints to right and left, respectively.
Then squat up and down to relax your knee joint.
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Disclaimer
Teacher Wang Liqin told us that while studying table tennis, he polished base using a sequence of grips, swings and juggling.
After demonstrating how to hold and swing racket, Mr. Wang Liqin demonstrated how to juggle ball.
The first game begins. The white team enters field first.
The two students of white team who played first were fast and stable in their skills.
When it was turn of third student from white team, she insisted on finishing game even though she made mistakes one after another. As a result, white team finished game with a total time of 3 minutes 18 seconds.
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Three students from blue team finished competition smoothly and brilliantly. In this round, blue team won with a time of 56 seconds.
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Returning ball
As powerful as technology is, it cannot be separated from supporting basic skills. Basic table tennis skills can be divided into vision skills, hand skills and foot skills. Returning ball to table is a test of three skills of six students at a frequency of 40 balls per minute.
Before game, Mr. Wang Liqin demonstrated basics of returning ball to table. After receiving ball, ball must be returned and hit opposite surface of table for ball to be considered valid.
The blue team that won last round plays first.
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Because difference between ball sent by machine and ball played by a human is still small, this has caused many difficulties for students in competition. But they overcome difficulties. In end, blue team got 75 goals.
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Three students from white team, who played later, were more stable, they beat blue team by an absolute advantage of 15 goals.
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Three rounds of confrontation
After laying foundation, you need to test and accept results in real combat. In men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles, six pupils of blue and white teams will play, 10 goals in each game, and winner of team will be determined by final total score.
Although Li Zhengyang of white team said that he did not fully use his strength in competition, he still won men's singles competition with a score of 11:6. Yuan Genyi, losing blue team, said he would work harder and strive to play better in future.
In women's singles, strength of blue team is even higher. As a result, she easily won with a score of 11:2. Zhang Fangqian of white team, who lost game, expressed her fearlessness that she would continue to strengthen real martial training.
In mixed doubles, two students on blue team held racket with one right hand and other with their left, respectively. Not only did they silently cooperate, but they also had upper hand in movement of racquet. game, and finally won.
Finally, Wang Liqin presented gold sports medal with a green leaf to blue team that won team victory.
In addition to blue team, Wang Liqin also presented gold medal to Zhou Zihan from white team. Her relentless sportsmanship won her award after she kept going despite repeated first-round losses.
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Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, Shanghai Educational TV Channel and Jiushi Sports co-produced a series of excellent physical education micro-classes, Gold Medal Physical Education Class officially launched, with special invitations from Wang Liqin and Zhu Yunying, Wang Yihang, Luo Hanchen, Sun Ji and other famous athletes became guests of program and acted as "sports coaches with gold medals." We wish you an active winter!
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