Do you play table tennis?
We guess you’ve heard about the game before or might have seen a table tennis video, since it’s a very popular game? It requires quite a bit of skill and agility and fast reflexes apart from a keen eye and a couple of quick decisions in order to dominate over your opponent! Most lay people think it’s an easy game, but that’s just at the surface level. When you try and hit or paddle the ball traveling at high speeds over the net to your opponent, you’ll realize how hard it actually is to play this game.
This particular game is very addictive and the more you play the better you get at learning the tricks of the trade. So how can you learn the game and also improve your style and choice of shots? There’s no need to pay for a trainer and join a camp to learn how to play this game - just go online and you’ll find table tennis videos that will give you all you need!
Now even beginners can learn to play this game like some of the world champions just by watching different kinds of videos which are available for different types of players.
These table tennis videos are for novices who have to get used to the various grips one needs to know in order to play this game. If you don’t know how to hold the table tennis racquet properly, you are sure to lose out on the advantages while playing a game. The most flexible and popular grip is the ‘hand shakes grip’ since it is comfortable and as simple as it can get. The ‘pen hold grip’ on the other hand is not suitable for beginners since it’s uncomfortable and gauche. Professional players too prefer the shake hands grip.
The rules of the game are simple as well.
If you’re viewing professional video clips one is bound to notice the techniques of hitting or driving the ball with or without spin to perplex the adversary, serving with spin and ways to control and guide the ball to parts of the opponent’s side of the board where you want them to be placed exactly and win it for your advantage.
Instructional table tennis videos come in all shapes and sizes and cover almost everything: how to recover a ball that dips below the height of the board, how to react when a person is driving the ball, how to smash the ball, how to develop a topspin while serving and driving and how to deal with under spin.
Table tennis is the game for the quick minded, since lightning fast decisions can help you win the game in your favor. The better your ability to read your opponent’s moves, the better chances of you making the right decision and winning the game.
So, do you want to improve your strike? Do you want to take up the challenge and show your friends that you too can play table tennis? Want them to go green with envy? Watch table tennis videos and get a hang of the various kinds of services and dictate your terms to the ping pong ball next time you play a real game. With a lot of practice and determination, you can easily win some more table tennis matches and who knows, you might be able to win a championship someday!
Mario Churchill is a freelance author who writes on a wide variety of subjects. For more information on table tennis video checkout his recommended websites
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Table tennis A Little Bit of its History
This game is extremely popular, and though it is hard, it is certainly a lot of fun, since the difficulty in playing this game is itself a challenge. And who doesn't like a challenge? If you are a little interested in history, you will find this quite interesting.
- No one can actually pin point a date and state that "this is when the game actually began." No one knows how it did, exactly, but common knowledge gives its opinion: let us say that around the end of 1800, a well off family called their friends for a tennis party, and they even started out on the game in the tennis lawn. They hit a few rounds, and when they thought that a little ice lemonade would do well to their parched throats, -as it is inevitable in England- it started to rain.
So maybe, just one of them took up a paper, crunched it up into a ball and with something to pass off as a bat, started to fling and hit it to the other side of the dinner table. The others, having nothing to do, were mesmerized at the view, and they eventually joined in. And lo! Table Tennis was born.
- The game has certain rules which are pretty easy to understand. The server has to rest the ball on his palm before flinging it up. Then he hits it, and lets it bounce before it clears the net. Then, on the other side, the ball has to bounce off again before the opponent could hit it. This time, the opponent would strike directly, and the ball should not bounce on his side. Thus the game is extremely fast and one needs to have a very sharp reflex to play this game.
- If one player makes a wrong hit, his opponent scores. And the one to score 21 first is the winner! This game became less popular within a few years, until a group of interested people decided to resuscitate the game in the 1920s. And in 1926, the International Table Tennis Association was formed.
- This game found a lot of support in the Asian countries, and in Japan it is quite a raging sport. They dominated the game in the 50s and the 60s, but the Chinese beat them soon enough and now they play, neck to neck.
The game has evolved only a little in the last many years, and the vellum bats have been replaced with ping pong paddles. Table Tennis is not only a fun and hard game to play, but it is also quite enjoyable to watch.
Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For more information on table tennis checkout his recommended websites.
- No one can actually pin point a date and state that "this is when the game actually began." No one knows how it did, exactly, but common knowledge gives its opinion: let us say that around the end of 1800, a well off family called their friends for a tennis party, and they even started out on the game in the tennis lawn. They hit a few rounds, and when they thought that a little ice lemonade would do well to their parched throats, -as it is inevitable in England- it started to rain.
So maybe, just one of them took up a paper, crunched it up into a ball and with something to pass off as a bat, started to fling and hit it to the other side of the dinner table. The others, having nothing to do, were mesmerized at the view, and they eventually joined in. And lo! Table Tennis was born.
- The game has certain rules which are pretty easy to understand. The server has to rest the ball on his palm before flinging it up. Then he hits it, and lets it bounce before it clears the net. Then, on the other side, the ball has to bounce off again before the opponent could hit it. This time, the opponent would strike directly, and the ball should not bounce on his side. Thus the game is extremely fast and one needs to have a very sharp reflex to play this game.
- If one player makes a wrong hit, his opponent scores. And the one to score 21 first is the winner! This game became less popular within a few years, until a group of interested people decided to resuscitate the game in the 1920s. And in 1926, the International Table Tennis Association was formed.
- This game found a lot of support in the Asian countries, and in Japan it is quite a raging sport. They dominated the game in the 50s and the 60s, but the Chinese beat them soon enough and now they play, neck to neck.
The game has evolved only a little in the last many years, and the vellum bats have been replaced with ping pong paddles. Table Tennis is not only a fun and hard game to play, but it is also quite enjoyable to watch.
Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For more information on table tennis checkout his recommended websites.
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