Playing table tennis has many benefits. As parents and coaches help children get interested, first session is very important.

Which is better: a large class or a one-on-one table tennis lesson? The coach should teach first class well like this

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Pingpong.com Grassroots Junior Coach said he has over 10 enlightened kids who are all learning and no ball machine. Let them work out self-throws and self-playing movements, but students do not know how to do this, so I want to ask so many students how to teach children with one coach.

1. Enlightenment Education Offers

(1) Suggestions by Age Group and Enlightenment Education Number

There are relatively few professional coaches at grassroots level, and many of them have never taught children, they have little experience and methods. If teaching method is not suitable, children can get twice result with half effort.

During enlightenment, do not keep too many children in one class, because trainers have limited energy and cannot control so many children, and many children are relatively young and do not have ability to self-control.

A dozen students attend class together and it's a mess: if a child hits his head or hurts his eyes, he can't be held responsible.

There are two requirements for education, one of them is for same age group, and age difference should not exceed three years,

The number of students should not be too small, preferably 4-5 children. Firstly, child has limited physical strength, he will get tired if he cannot play for an hour, and too many coaches will not cope with this, and whole situation will be chaotic.

(2) How to intelligently organize teaching of an enlightenment class

Children are interested in games and will be very happy if they play some games and interact with each other. The time of one hour can be organized sensibly, and the time allotted to each child will be more balanced.

When children get tired of playing, there is an exchange. For example, when sending several balls, let's take 4 children as an example. One of them will play with coach, and other two children will swing with their bare hands in front of table. The children go to take ball so that they can manage their time well.

(3) Cultivate children's interest

How to conduct first enlightenment lesson is very important. What to do in first lesson is to form a sense of ball and develop a hobby in children, because biggest teacher of table tennis is interest. This sentence can be used anywhere, interest is best teacher.

For example, if a child is asked to do 500 freehand swings in first class, they may not want to come next time. If he is bored, he may have a rebellious mentality, he does not like it, so he will not be able to teach it in future.

In first lesson, you can develop hand sense. You can play juggling and ball throwing with kids. This is necessary for development of sense of hands. Tell him how to hold racket, what is a horizontal grip, as if it were a pistol, hold it.

(4) Use games to develop children's interest

1. Toss ball

Let's play together, put ping pong ball on racket, I can let ball stop on racket and not move, can you? It's like magic, child's attention will be drawn here.

Let children have a certain connection with racket and hand. He has certain knowledge about racket.

He stabilized racket to keep ball from falling, which shows that he has some control over racket. During games, four children hold ball together, and everyone comes to compete to see who can keep ball on racket the longest.

Perhaps some children have very good coordination, ball is in their hands, and they do not fall for a minute. You need to observe such a child who shows that he has good coordination. You can focus on growing it.

2. Ball game

Juggling. Now I make ball bounce on racket without hitting ground. The coach can throw it in any way, and child is very interested when he sees it. Just like playing numbers and acrobatics, children will also try.

A child can throw ball up, but ball will fall and not be able to bounce. He said why can't ball bounce? The coach will tell him: you have to shake it with your hand, let your racket touch ball and shake it, and ball will stop naturally if you don't move it at all, so you shake it a little.

This is content of first lesson of our enlightenment on how to develop baby touch, what you teach should be passed on to children in game, so that children have a lot of fun.

At first stage of enlightenment, 4 children, an hour and a half of classes, you can’t let them all jump on ball, parents will think that you are fooling me. I can't teach anything.

3. Base position

Once this process is complete, you can start talking to him about main stance and what stance on right is like.

Perhaps give him a swaying pose, and child will also look at it. The coach comes to play with a few balls, if there is no ball machine, then you just throw ball yourself.

4. Experience hitting ball on stage

The coach must lead young students to experience of playing on table, and children will definitely come to this experience. At this time, they are not required to perform standard movements.

People remember first action better. You just make a few movements and it will generate a subconscious memory.

Everyone hits a few balls on stage, and children will definitely throw them when they come up. It doesn't matter, no need to underline it at beginning.

The purpose of going on stage at beginning is to let him feel ball bounce off table, to let him know what it's like to hit ball after it hits table? It doesn't matter to his game whether he throws it or picks it up.

After all 4 children have experienced it, ask children if you want to play this ball as beautifully as coach? Do you want to study with me? The kids are sure to get excited!

5. Simulate actions

In meantime, let's teach kids how to prepare right posture and movement

In fact, a child's natural imitative ability is very strong, there is no need to tell him that his movements are wrong or that he took wrong picture. Needless to say, kids don't understand anything. All you have to do is make something for him to emulate.

After these several games, another 20 minutes have passed. After these 20 minutes, child will get bored again and will repeat same thing. The coach can say how about playing another game?

6. Push ball

Let's play a game of pushing ball, because game of pushing ball is about establishing a certain relationship between racket, ball and table. You push ball, let kids push it, and two people push it like this, which is also a way to play games.

Today, I'm going to talk briefly about enlightenment skills. If you extend lecture, you won't be able to finish lecture in two or three hours. In following, we will shoot a more complete "National Table Tennis Educational Film", which should teach everyone how to cultivate children's interest, how to teach children to play, how to find good seedlings, how to train, how to formulate teaching methods and teaching skills.

Ping-pong network organized by Liu Baosheng


November 24, 2023